Guess what? Bertola’s, the yellow restaurant next to the beaver dam, is closing down. Yesterday’s Martinez Gazette tells us that a new owner will open a pub on site with three levels of dining. Jim Blair is a longtime Martinez attorney, interested in the history and local color of the town. He wants to draw on its strengths and unique flavor. So of course he’s going to name the Brewery after the most famous residents of Alhambra Creek.
No, not those residents, silly. Not the ones on national news that people still come from out of state to see. Not the ones you can reliably watch every evening from the property’s back fence. Not the ones that have a yearly festival in their honor and that thousands of people associate with the name of Martinez. Apparently, Mr. Blair’s looking for a more apocryphal hero to draw customers to his establishment. Go figure. Worth A Dam wishes him well but we cannot recommend highly enough that he considers offering one of these dam fine beers:
Or there’s always this…
