Thursday, October 25, 2018

Modern Times restaurant opens downtown

San Diego Eater:
Modern Times Beer, which expanded up the West Coast this year with brewery restaurants in Los Angeles and Portland that both feature vegan cuisine, has returned to its home base to debut a new North County venue that’s also its first in the San Diego area to serve food. Rolled out over the weekend, The Far West Lounge lands on Highway 101 in downtown Encinitas where the space is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

Decked out like a grandma’s living room circa the 1970s, the company spent hundreds of hours handcrafting design details that range from felted recreations of TV dinners to knotted macrame plant hangers and a bar facade made from 2,000 dominoes and Modern Times coffee-stained wood. There’s wall of stadium-style seating, a mini mart area that retails beer, coffee, and brewery merch, and a 40-seat, 34-tap bar that will pour Modern Times Beer from all of its brewery locations; a special Hazy IPA, called Totally Open in Encinitas, will be released here soon.

14 comments:

  1. The San Diego Eater forgot to tell us that in addition to all the above there's NO PARKING!!

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    1. Maybe it's not a bad thing to discourage driving to a BREWERY.

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  2. 11:17 Haven't you heard? There's no need for parking because everybody has abandoned cars for walking and biking.

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    1. Hop on your $3,000 electric bike and you're there!

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  3. Went on Sunday. Was packed inside. Parked in the enci station commuter lot behind the Bazaar. Plenty of parking.

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    1. Parking available in the commuter lots only on weekends - maybe.

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  4. Clearly your beer is half empty........

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    1. At $14/mug, it is non-existent!

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    2. I wanted to check it out, but the lack of parking made me go elsewhere.

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    3. Walk a block or two or three. It's good for your BMI.

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  5. I'm afraid I can't eat there, I'm vegan food intolerant.

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    1. That's why your dukes are all irregular and you have all those script meds. Eat some veggies once in a while, Bob.

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  6. Gone are the days when you could park in front of the bar and walk right in.

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  7. .... and stumble right out and kill people in your car.

    Uber home people and stop the killing!!!

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