Williams is known as the last town on Rte 66 to be bypassed, and so my family dropped by along our road trip. After riding the zip line, visiting the "Poozeum" and browsing for souvenirs, we sought a place to eat and drink and found...
Read MoreWilliams is known as the last town on Rte 66 to be bypassed, and so my family dropped by along our road trip. After riding the zip line, visiting the "Poozeum" and browsing for souvenirs, we sought a place to eat and drink and found Historic Brewing. Does it deserve its name as much as the town does?
As you enter, you take a menu, wait on line and order both food and drinks at the bar. The bar guy will take your order and give you a number for your table. If you want to keep your tab open and order more drinks later, you can bypass the line and go straight to the bar guy.
The atmosphere at Historic is rustic cool. Lots of seating within and picnic tables with umbrellas outside. Kill some time waiting for your food by playing a couple of old-timey arcade games, skeeball for $1 and and a wild west shooting game with an infrared rifle and targets for $2.
I gave my family the choice of what kind of wood-fired pizza to order. They ordered the BBQ Pork Pizza (BBQ sauce, mozzarella, pulled pork, onions, pineapple, cilantro). It definitely wasn't my first choice because I'm not crazy about the idea of pineapple on pizza, but parenthood is about sacrifice, right? I would have preferred The Hog (tomato sauce, mozzarella, pepperoni, Italian sausage, salami).
However, when I tried it, the sweet and savory ingredients worked REALLY well together. In fact, I think it was the touch of cilantro that pulled it all together. I can't believe I'm writing this, but I recommend it! The crust was amazing: thinnish, slightly chewy and just the right amount of crisp char. I later find out from the bar guy that they import their flour for the dough from ITALY and is 99% gluten free. We did find ourselves waiting for about 25 minutes for our pizza, but I kind of don't blame them as they were pretty busy that afternoon.
As for drinks, I had a pour of the Prickly Pear Cider (6.3%) and the Mango Waves of Grain (wheat beer, ?%). The sangria-tinted cider was delicious, fruity and easy to drink -very dangerous! The Mango was great too: slightly hoppy in the beginning, then BAM, the mango hits you at the end. My wife who doesn't usually drink beer took a sip and liked it very much. I highly recommend both refreshing libations. I believe the Blue & Gold (IPA, 7%) is their signature drink as the Blue & Gold logo is on much of their merch. I didn't get to taste it so hopefully I'll get to next time.
Speaking of merch, I did buy a cool T-shirt that I saw a server wearing. See my pics for the shirt. As a homebrewer, I appreciated it.
Sit outside long enough on a sunny evening and part of 2nd Street will be blocked off for some cowboy comedy theater. Plug your little kids' ears because their six-shooters sound real! Have your kids drop a dollar in their strong box at the end.
I don't have anything bad to say about Historic Brewing. The food is delicious as are its drinks. Staff were friendly and chatty, the atmosphere was nice with copious amounts of comfortable seating and tables for you and family. High marks all around - don't hesitate to visit Historic Brewing when tooling around historic Williams
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