Firestone Walker Brewery Store

No idea about that restaurant, but yes it's worth stopping by if you want those beers. They had all of them as of three days ago, as well as some of the older anniversary beers if you have a bunch of extra money laying around

 

After this past weekend, they may be running low or cleaned out, but if you are coming in a couple of weeks they might restock shelves. When I was there at noon yesterday they still had bottles of stickee monkee, parabola, sucaba, anniversary XVII, Ol' Leghorn, Lil Opal, and some other stuff.

We ate at the taproom restaurant on Friday night and found the food to be quite good! Definitely a step above the regular crap you get at chain restaurants like Applebees, Red Robin, etc.

Hope this helps!

 

The brewery store fridge is like heaven, they had almost all there beers and vintages, although after this passed weekend it might be a bit thinner.

Fw is one of my favorite breweries, highly recommend

 

As of sun paso was out of stickee monkey and rose...but buellton had a ton of everything. I would recommend buellton just for the barrelworks experience.

 

The only issue is it's weekend only

 

Another issue, Barrelworks is 2 hours south of the main brewery. Depending on how far south the OP is going on the trip down the coast it might be way out of the way.

I'd also speculate and say that there will be ample BA beers in stock. Also, depending on when your trip is there might be a new sour or two on the shelf. They have released a new one every month and a half or so since February so you never know.

 

If your wife wants good food, stop at bistro laurent in paso. If she is adventurous you can get the tasting menu, i think its like $60 or 70 with wine parings. Kitchen brings out courses of whats fresh/in season. Great meal.

 

if you like food your better off going to the other firestone in downtown slo, best tri tip sandwich ive had to date. Do affiliation with the brewery tho

 

The brewery is great and all and those beers are nice but it's not worth missing the drive through Big Sur over, if that's what you mean by "detour". In twenty years you're not going to remember some random burger/beer you had but if this is one of the only opportunities you have to venture through Big Sur, you'd be crazy to skip it.

 

I think the better detour is to miss Hwy 1 between SLO and Cambria, and take 101 for that. It's not that bad of a detour and you don't miss much scenery.

 

True. You can still hit Sebastian's Store for sandwiches when you get back to 1 that way too.

 

Skip Paso for dinner and head down to either San Luis Obispo or Avila Beach.

 

is the store open on the weekend only?

 

FYI there are two stores at the Paso brewery. One across from the restaurant where the tasting room is and one further in back (diwn the street and to the left)

Both are epic

 

Food at taproom is okay, service is always bad there. Check yelp reviews...plenty of other great restaurants in paso if you plan on staying nearby. BM if you need more info..