Some friends took me to Willibees in Santa Rosa. It’s a liquor store with a deli and a bar that serves wine and beer. It occurred to me that I’d never seen such a combination before. Seems odd that it’s so rare given the obvious synergy, but maybe it’s because in California you can get a license like that only if the bar is part of a restaurant, and how many liquor stores want to deal with that?
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Related (but not exactly the same, of course), Top Hops, which sells food and draft beer, and also growlers and sixpacks. Anything like that in your area?
There’s this place:
And there’s a place in town (sacramento) called Pangea Biergarten that has lots of local drafts on the menu and is a full pub/restaurant (great burgers and fried chicken sandwiches) AND an extensive and fairly diverse bottle shop right off the main room.
Oh, yes, it occurs to me that this exists: https://greatjonesdistillingco.com/
And this: https://www.uniongrovedistillery.com/
And that’s just the ones I’ve been to.
But those only sell liquor from one manufacturer, obviously.
There are a few places like Cork’ Bottle Liquor (Fremont), The Good Hop Bar & Bottle Shop (Oakland), City Beer Store (Mission)
Jon and Vinny’s does that worth Helen’s wine shop in the two locations
I have been to many restaurant/bars with off sale licenses, seems to be common in rural areas.
In San Jose, Grand view on Alum Rock had/has an off sale license.
In California, restaurant beer and wine licenses (type 41) and beer-only tavern licenses (type 40) allow off-sale, so that’s common.
It’s the combination of off-sale liquor (type 21) and on-sale beer and wine that I haven’t seen before.
They have a type 47. Like type 41 except they can also sell hard liquor for consumption on the premises.
In the 70’s, one could buy a 6-pack to go from Rancho Grandview, maybe after the fire they stopped, or maybe they were not allowed to, but I purchased many 6-pls of Löwenstein to take home after dinner.
There were restaurants in Willows, Maxwell and Williams that sold beer to go.
I do not if it legal, but I knew places that sold off sale.
Like I said, in California, restaurant liquor licenses include off-sale beer and wine.
Most wine bars with bottle shops are licensed as restaurants (type 41). That’s why they can allow minors.