North Rock Brewing Company

Description:

• Although beer is brewed by other enterprises in Bermuda, this is the only brewery on the island that serves most, if not all, of its product on the premises. The setting is a sometimes rowdy replica of an English pub, complete with ceiling beams and paneling, plus a casually upscale dining room outfitted in shades of burgundy and forest green. Most patrons tend to gravitate to the dining room, but dyed-in-the-wool locals sometimes opt to spend their entire time, meal and all, in the pub section. Until recently, at least five kinds of beer were brewed within the premises here. However, a few years ago brewing operations were moved to the Dockyard. Fresh beer, however, is still hauled over in barrels at frequent intervals.

  If you come here to drink the local brew, that's fine, but we suggest you stick around for the cuisine too. This is not the typical pub grub dished up at one of those Front Street drinking emporiums in the City of Hamilton. Dishes here have flair, such as the Brewmaster's veal chop, grilled and served with grain and Dijon mustard sauce. You can also order pub classics such as steak-and-ale pie, or perhaps beef and mushrooms simmered in porter ale. The fish and chips aren't bad either, and we like the luscious pork tenderloin and the codfish cakes. Unless you order expensive shellfish, most dishes are inexpensively priced.

• © Frommer's 2013

Awards:

Frommer's

•  Recommended 2010