GROWING ROOM
Bosque Brewing expands its Nob Hill Public House
Bosque Brewing Co. is giving patrons more elbow room and more options to eat at its Nob Hill Public House by expanding into a space formerly occupied by WisePies Pizza & Salad.
“We’re renting this building, so when our landlord let us know that the space was going to become available, we jumped at the chance to grab it because we need all the room that we can get over here,” said Jotham Michnovicz, director of operations at Bosque Brewing Co. “(It added) approximately 2,900 square feet.” The expansion was overdue. “This other area was so tight and crowded that people would tell us, ‘Oh, I don’t go there, because I can’t get a table’ and so when we opened up (the expanded area), people already have been kind of flooding in,” Michnovicz said. “I think it’s a lot more comfortable now, because it’s a lot more spread out.”
The expansion also extended into the kitchen.
“When we first started Bosque Brewing Co., we were only offering food for our patrons just because they needed something to eat while they were drinking, but our menu has grown and developed over the years so much so that we launched a full kitchen at our San Mateo location back in July of 2016, and then we re-created a very similar menu to that down in Las Cruces and then this store was still operating on panini presses, and it didn’t have the same abilities we had in our other kitchens,” Michnovicz said. “As soon as we got the opportunity to install a full commercial kitchen over here and implement the same menu, we jumped at the chance. This is now our biggest kitchen, and … really there are no restrictions here. We can do whatever we want here.”
Michnovicz refers to the new menu as “bar food elevated” or “five-star pub food.” The menu no longer offers panini pressed sandwiches and instead has taken things up a few notches with offerings such as a green chile falafel, duck egg rolls, green chile chicken poutine, a variety of sandwiches and burgers, as well as Thai- and Belgianstyle mussels.
It is hard to tell where the original part of Public House ends and where the expanded area begins.
“A lot of times, you go to an expanded area and it feels like you’ve got to go into another room or it was an afterthought or, ‘Oh, I’m just getting sent to the kids room’ or something, you know what I mean?” Michnovicz said. “We really wanted to make sure the spaces tied together.”
The expanded space has been transformed to fit the Bosque aesthetic of uniform color patterns, built-in benches, unique cushion designs, paint colors and photography.
“We really wanted to make sure that all our taprooms have the same kind of aesthetic and feel on the inside, and so this one was probably the most different than any of the other taprooms, so we really wanted to tie all of the vibes, ambiance and decor together,” Michnovicz said. “This spot now feels so much more like the Bosque aesthetic that we’ve really been working on for the last couple years.”