For the beer connoisseur, this is the place to be. The beer cicerone (equivalent to a wine sommelier) can help you chose from more than 200 beers to pair with any meal. Choose from herb roasted chicken, tuna poke, pork belly, fish, and steaks. There is also a wide selection of wines, whiskeys, scotches, and bourbons.
This restaurant was reviewed in the March 2012 LVA; some of the information contained in the review may no longer be accurate. This one’s exciting. While not billed as a small-plates place, we found the appetizers at Public House more compelling than just about any tapas-style restaurant we’ve tried over the past couple years. Selections like potted farm egg, endive Waldorf salad, veal sweetbreads, Bouchet mussels, octopus with white bean salad, and roasted bone marrow run $10.50 to $16. There’s a selection of “bar snacks” (Welsh rarebit, pork rinds, spiced nuts) for $3.5-$5; a “cheese shop” with seasonal selections beginning at $6; and a “butcher block” with the likes of duck rillettes and Finocchiona salumi beginning at $9.50. The play here is to pull up at the bar, maybe order a Cerdo Picante (“spicy pig”) Bloody Mary for $10, and go at it. It shouldn’t run you more than about $50 per person, even after the tip.