OK, it’s not the French Laundry restaurant in Napa Valley ($240 tasting menu, hard-to-get reservations, $50 corkage fee if you bring your own wine), but French Laundry Café & Market in Fenton, Michigan, has announced it will pour only Michigan beers.
In a press release, bartender Jon Foley says the restaurants’s nine handles will offer “the spectrum of styles, coming from a variety of Michigan breweries including Arbor Brewing, Arcadia Ales, Atwater, Bell’s, Darkhorse, Dragonmead, Founders, Frog Island (Michigan Brewing Company), King’s, New Holland, Sherwood, Short’s and The Livery.” Featured selections will be posted each week at the restaurant as well as online.
“This marks a major triumph for us as a business, especially in our solidarity with the Michigan brewing industry,” says owner Mark Hamel. “We believe Michigan makes the best beer in the country and now there’s finally going to be a place to get consistent Michigan draft in Genesse County.”
Looks like a place to head for American Craft Beer Week.
I was about to say, when I saw that headline… Considering Thomas Keller has only tapped Garrett Oliver to make a beer for him thus far, we still have to wait for a local French Laundry brew.
Argh! Foiled again! I assumed you meant local (to me) French Laundry. While I have yet to pony up and eat there, but my daughter did play in their garden.
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Who knows, Don Barkley is brewing nearby, maybe they’ll tap him to brew a special brew. Too bad the best beer in wine country is the next county over.