St. Petersburg’s Green Bench Brewing was announced as a semifinalist for a James Beard Award (the Oscars of the food world) in the Outstanding Bar Category for their Webb’s City Cellar.
Webb’s City Cellar sits next door to Green Bench Brewing Company’s Tasting Room and according to its website “is where we go to escape and explore. It’s where we head when we need a break from dizzying heat and our rapid lives. This is the place that we slow down, consider, and breathe.”
The facility is named as an homage to St. Petersburg attraction Webb’s City Drug Store, the World’s Most Unusual Drug Store, which opened in the 1920s and took up seven city blocks.
The facility is Green Bench’s barrel-aging facility which also acts as a second tasting room. Webb’s City Cellar stands across the beer garden from Green Bench’s original tasting room and keeps limited hours. Notably, Webb’s City Cellar keeps many Green Bench Brewing beers on tap and in bottles and cans, but in its mission and dedication to quality beer and exploration, the facility also offers bottles from other notable breweries across the world from “parallel breweries with similar programs.”
According to the James Bear Foundation, final nominees will be announced on Wednesday, April 3, and winners will be announced at the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards Ceremony on Monday, June 10 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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