Below , Bartender Pete Postewait, offers customers a wide varitey of brews. Writer A mere three blocks away from campus, the Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant bursts upon the senses. Last week, I ambled my way under its black wrought iron gate. The courtyard, or beer garden, seats more than 100. It is replete with trees and shrubs in ceramic planters.
Banners hang from the walls and from archways.
Jazz bands usually play Thursdays through Saturday nights in one of the patio's corners. I plunked myself down at one of the tables set out in the patio area. Much of the patio was laid with brick cobblestone, although parts of the floor were merely cement. Sitting in the open air, looking at the old red brick walls and cracking plaster, gives a refreshing ambiance. My waitress gave me a menu with its descriptions of food.