page_title: Gastropub
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Gastropub / History
caption_attribution_description: Looking towards the door of this gastropub. (View of exterior.)
context_page_description: A gastropub is a hybrid pub, bar and restaurant, notable for serving alcoholic drinks and food. The term was coined in the 1990s, although similar brewpubs existed during the 1980s.
context_section_description: In 1984 Spinnakers Brew Pub opened in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The first ever custom-built brewpub in Canada, it heralded a new wave of brewpubs and craft breweries in British Columbia that followed a major deregulation of the brewing industry in that province.  Spinnakers served inventive cuisine, and Joseph Blake of Eat magazine claims it as the world's oldest gastropub.
  The gastropub phenomenon took off in the United States in the early 1990s at gastropubs such as Dhillons by Chef Matt Dhillon in Las Vegas. Later, there were such places as Dev Dugal's The Redwood Bar in downtown Los Angeles;  Red Table in Huntington Beach, California; and restaurateur and chef Sang Yoon's Father's Office, which had what Esquire magazine called one of the best burgers in the world. Other gastropubs include Ford's Filling Station in Culver City, a gastropub run by actor Harrison Ford's son Ben Ford; Brickyard; The Spotted Pig in Manhattan; The Wobbly Olive in Long Island, New York; Serena Sicilian-influenced Gastropub in Durham, North Carolina; and The Monk's Kettle in San Francisco.
  There are several gastropubs in Norway: Kick Malt & Mat, The Crossroad Club in Oslo, Grünerløkka Brygghus in Oslo, Montys Gastropub in St Catharines, and the chain Heim,
  with open pubs in Lillehammer and Oslo, and a third location in Gjøvik in planning.
caption: The Fox in Dalston, London
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