Check Out Kevin Gillespie’s New Beer Garden at Revival, Which Opens This Friday
Decatur Metro | April 12, 2016 | 11:28 am
Kevin Gillespie’s new Decatur Beer Garden, “Communion”, in Revival’s side/backyard will dust off the picnic table benches and open this Friday at 4pm, according to a release from Gillespie’s PR team.
Here’s the food situation according to the release…
This latest creative culinary brainstorm includes a food truck where guests can sample executive chef Andreas Müller’s inspired takes on classic German beer garden snacks, including grilled rye with Kartoffelkäse, Bavarian-style pretzels with hot mustard and Obatzda and grilled sausages with sauerkraut, mustard and beef fat-fried potatoes.
And the drinks?
The drink list offers a selection of European-style draft and bottled session beers, Old World-style wines, punches and batched cocktails.
Also, interestingly, you will pay for food and beverage with tokens, instead of cash, which you will purchase at entry. From the release…
Backyard revelers won’t have to worry about keeping track of a tab, either. Upon arrival, guests purchase tokens – $5 each – from the Communion cashier and spend them on drinks and food truck purchases. Any unused tokens can be used on future visits. Most food truck snacks and drinks are 1-3 tokens, with server and bartender gratuities already factored into the price of each.
The release also notes that there will plenty of cornhole and horseshoes goin’ on as well.
Photo courtesy of Melissa Libby & Associates via Eater
It’s gonna be all fun & games till a wandering toddler gets whanged with an errant horseshoe.
Wow. I hope the new tenants at the Arlo can stay up as late as the beer garden revelers.
I’m sensing some “Hey You Kids Get Off My Lawn!” in these comments… How about a new slogan “Decatur: A Foodie Town With a Curmudgeon Problem” ?
Were you around for the famous posts about stroller-friendly vs. adult-friendly restaurants?
“Decatur: A Curmudgeon Town with a Foodie Problem.”
Beers better just be one token. Stick with that and everything else will be fine.
So we buy tokens to pay for drinks, then we go out and order drinks, and then we pay for the drinks with the tokens, and then we tip the servers/bartenders with cash/card? Great plan. Paying the old way was working fine. Kevin Gillespie: fixing things that ain’t broke since 2016.
If you read the article it states gratuity is factored into costs.
“Most food truck snacks and drinks are 1-3 tokens, with server and bartender gratuities already factored into the price of each.”
Server and bartender gratuities are included in the tokens’ value.
I admire Kevin for bringing his beer garden to Decatur.
Rumor has it that there will be quite the motley assortment of local curmudgeons and curmudegeonettes for the grand opening this afternoon.
$10.00 for a half liter beer is a bit high. Had hoped to sit and throw back a few but too expensive.
The Weiss wurst was excellent and reasonably priced. Food worth it beer not so much. Need a $3.00 coin so beer could be 3, 6 or $9.00 not 5, 10 or $15.00.