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In article <40980@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, tmarvan@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Thomas
Marvan) writes:
|> Went to the new (a month old or so) restaurant/bar at UTC called
|> Hops.  It was OK, although I think slightly expensive for the food
|> qaulity and service.  It was kind of a cross between a swanky bar
|> and posh restaurant, so the atmosphere was unusual.  Both the kick
|> your shoes off scene you'd expect at a bar, and the intimacy of an
|> expensive restaurant were indeed lacking.

It is more expensive than the typical brew-pub, but you do not have to spend
alot.  Their pizza's are good and under $10.  The appetizers are also large
and you can make a meal of one or two of them.  However, like most brew-pubs
you do not go there for the food but to sample their brew.  My wife has been
there a couple of times and likes the unfiltered wheat beer.  My first
time last night, I tried the wheat beer and their rasberry beer. 
Yes, rasberry beer!  They throw some rasberries into the beer at some time
in the process.  With a litle residual sugar content, it has a fruity
taste, not for the die-hard bitter drinker, but good for a change.  The
wheat beer is very Bavarian, and I recommend it.  

Some of my wife's freinds like the five samples that they put together 
for $5.50.  A little larger than the usual samplers.

Hops, is a high end brew-pub trying to be a little too trendy, but I must
confess I liked the modern atmosphere and the service was excellent.
San Diego is rapidly getting quite a selection of brew-pubs.  I have tried 
three of them, and I would like to hear other opinions.

!Keith L. McLaughlin (scatter)
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