John Rubbo's team Impresses Greenwich Food And Beverage Critic.

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GREENWICH FREE PRESS >>> Frenchy’s Wine Road: A Review of Two Nearby Breweries

Yonkers Brewing Co. (YBC) has a big space in a well-traveled neighborhood of a city larger than White Plains.

And one of its beers has a tie to Connecticut!

#Yonkers’ staff is surprisingly welcoming and attentive for such a bustling joint.

#YBC is obviously the neighborhood pub in these parts, yet it opens its arms to all passersby.

At 5 PM on a Saturday, it was hopping. I had a full view of the kitchen, the bar, and the table area; and the staff was – if not out of breath – moving quite purposefully at all times.

One incident in particular made me smile.

I had not noticed that YBC offered flights, since this was not stated on the menu.

Flights are my preferred manner of tasting, since I can take a limited number of sips and get out without worrying about after-effects.

Here, I was about to order a third beer – necessitating a long walk before getting in my car later – when Nora the Bartender said “maybe you’d like a taste of the other beers on the menu?”

It was a preventative step that was quite unnecessary, but it offered an elegant way out of my dilemma.

Bartender Ethics 101, if you will, delivered in an incredibly diplomatic fashion.

Nora is now my hero.

Still, she wasn’t the only YBC staff member I would put on a pedestal.

There was the chatty waitress who filled me in on questions about the menu, the kitchen staff that executes an appealing menu instead of just going through the motions, and the Owner’s brother, Joe, whom I happened to sit next to and who – unprompted – informed me about the history of YBC.

YBC is as much restaurant as brewery. Food here is Irish-pub-plus, befitting Yonkers’s emerald roots....

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