Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery is a place for bold American cuisine and fresh, handcrafted beer. Rock Bottom s menu features hearty favorites, prepared with an innovative twist. Dishes like Alder Smoked Salmon Fish & Chips and Smoked Chicken Enchiladas are favorites.
The atmosphere of Rock Bottom is warm and friendly, yet exciting and entertaining. Each location has its own personality, with an overall feeling that is inviting. Warm wood booths are fitted with richly-colored fabrics. Copper and brass fixtures enhance the ambiance. Guests can view the beer making process right from their seats through large windows.
Beer
Brewed on premises, Rock Bottom s beers are mostly ales and range from Light American Style to Stout. Each location has its own brewmaster who instills his personal recipe personality into the beers. Throughout the year, specialty brews are featured as well. Rock Bottom's brews are designed to be "quaffable" and refreshing. They appeal to all beer drinkers, from the novice to those with the most experienced of palates. Each Rock Bottom location offers free brewery tours because, to quote one of our brewmasters, "We don't just want to make great beers, we want to make great drinkers."
Merchandise
Each Rock Bottom location offers a great line of T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats and assorted souvenirs. Since each location has their own beer logos, it's fun to collect the various colorful pieces. A few favorites are "Hoosier Ma Stout" from Indianapolis and "Peashooter Pale Ale" from Seattle.
History
Presently there are 13 Rock Bottom brewpubs across America, with another five scheduled to open in 1997. Rock Bottom's first location, known as the Walnut Brewery, was opened in 1990. In 1994, Rock Bottom Restaurants, Inc. became a publicly-held company and is now traded on NASDAQ under the symbol "BREW."
This casual, family-oriented restaurant & bar features Chicago-style deep dish pizza, pasta, sandwiches and salads. Old Chicago is the perfect place to play a game of pool, watch a favorite team play on TV or just hang out with good friends.
Beer
Old Chicago is famous for its extensive beer selection. Customers can enjoy more than 110 brews from around the world, including the most popular microbrews. Old Chicago is the home to the original "World Beer Tour" which invites members (anyone with proper ID can join) to sample each of the 110 selections. Members receive gifts along the way; and, when the tour is completed, the member has his/her name put on a plaque and mounted on the "Hall of Foam"!
History
The first Old Chicago opened in 1976 in Boulder, Colorado. By 1990 there were six locations. In 1994, Old Chicago became a division of Rock Bottom Restaurants, Inc. At the end of 1996, twenty years after the first location, there were 35 Old Chicago restaurants in nine states, with eight new locations scheduled to open in 1997.
