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East West Brewing Company, 1400 Lake Dr SE, Grand Rapids ~ 4/11/17 & 10/11/21

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(Brewery Visits #1 - #49  can be found here) East West opened in December of 2016 and we first visited in April of 2017. Here are a few photos from that visit. Today there are fewer tables and they are in less communal spacing, naturally. Otherwise, the lighting and bar look the same and the live wall has grown. In 2017, it was counter service only and this was the menu. We were reluctantly helped by the one person in the place. Our two biggest disappointments back then were that it was counter service only and there was no Indian food available in the brewery. We could smell it but would have to move to the attached Bombay Palace in order to have it. That has all changed. We were greeted by our server, Vlad, who handed us the full Bombay Palace menu, which contained no sandwiches. And instead of unmarked flights like before, today's were marked. 2017 2021 We ordered the appetizer plate: vegetable samosa, onion bhaaji, and vegetable pakoras, and some delicious naan. We followed tha...
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Guardian Brewing Company, 3657 63rd St, Saugatuck ~ 9/13/21

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October 2023 update:  The brewery owners have announced that the brewery will be closing in March of 2024 or before if it sells. The asking price is $1.25 million. There are 12,000 SF indoors and a 3500 SF outdoor patio on 4 acres. They've been in business 5 years. Good luck to the owners and here's hoping new owners keep this cool place going! (Brewery Visits #1-#49  can be found here ) We didn't know anything about this place beforehand and were so impressed with it by the time we left. We were mystified by the buildings at first until our server told us it was the old Red Barn theater property. The barn was built as a horse barn in 1912 and became a theater in 1948. The Guardian Brewery owner purchased the 3 acre site in 2017 and opened the brewery in December of 2018. Apparently there are plans to eventually renovate the barn. Here's the old silo and the back of the barn as seen from the patio. The 6000 square foot pole barn built in 2005 is the current location of ...
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