Pizzeria Uno Chicago Bar and Grill

Type: Brewpub

Location: 61 US Highway #1

Metuchen, NJ 08840

United States

Phone: (732) 548-7979

Website: http://www.unos.com/

Cost: Reasonably priced beers, $50 Beer Dinners 

Visit Date: 12/03/07 and many times after

Beers:         Bootlegger Blonde

                    Station House Red Ale

                    32 Inning Ale

                    Ike's India Pale Ale

                    Gust-N-Gale POrter

                    Seasonals:

                         ESB

                         Weizenbock

                         Scotch

Notes: Yes, this is Pizzeria Uno the chain, the Metuchen, NJ location has an onsite brewery with some of the finest session ales I have had.  All of the brews are solid and consistent if a bit predictable.   The food is Unos food, and not why I go there.

The best reason to come to Uno is the beer dinners.  Supposedly they aren't having them anymore, but they were a great night.  For $50, the chef went nuts with a multi course meal completely of his own imagining.  Each course was served with a different beer, from Unos as well as other breweries.  One month, Dave Hoffmann, my favorite brewer :) came as a guest brewery.  The Pubscout, Kurt Epps http://thepubscout.blogspot.com/ ran the night, introducing each course and running trivia contests, and Lenny always made sure, I, the lone vegetarian in the crowd was taken care of.  All in all a great time, I'm sad it's no more.