Press & Archive
Written up,
on and off.
Three decades of a downtown brewpub, as the papers and the trade press recorded it — the founding, the second room in San Jose, and the day the keys changed hands.
Coverage
In the press
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Chef Diego to host a culinary experience in Los Gatos
The Lisbon-based chef brings the private-dinner format west — menu planning, shopping, cooking, table service and clean-up, built around the occasion rather than a fixed card. Dates to be announced; enquiries through Private Chef Lisbon.
Los Gatos Brewing Company sold to Youkilis brothers
The sale of the North Santa Cruz Avenue brewpub to Kevin and Scott Youkilis — the former major-league infielder and his restaurateur brother — who took on the building with plans to run it as a brewpub of their own.
Jim Stump — Los Gatos Brewing Company, The Table & Stumpy's
A profile of co-founder Jim Stump: a Utah kid who started in kitchens at fifteen, trained at the California Culinary Academy, cooked at Fleur de Lys and Le Mouton Noir, then opened the brewpub with Andy Pavicich Jr. — and later A.P. Stump's, The Table and Stumpy's across San Jose.
Los Gatos Brewing Company at San Pedro Square
The city listing for the second room, at 163 W. Santa Clara Street in downtown San Jose. It recorded the house microbrews, the California menu and the banquet spaces — and now records the closure.
The Short Version
What the clippings add up to
Two founders, a room downtown and a cellar full of kettles. It worked well enough to open a second dining room in San Jose, well enough to keep a kitchen busy for more than twenty years, and it ended the way most long runs end — with a sale rather than a scandal.
The building on North Santa Cruz Avenue kept brewing under its new owners. The name went quiet.