Syracuse’s first self-serve beer hall is now open.
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SYDNEY STAPLES: While it’s chilly outside, you may want to come in here for some beer. Welcome to Syracuse’s first self-serve beer hall with vines hanging from the walls.
RYAN SAHM: There’s been facilities that have had rent kegs, rent your own kind of like tap system before, but nothing where the consumer can actually walk up to the wall and, like, pour 24 different taps on their own.
STAPLES: To get a drink, start a tab at the register and check the back of the card they give you. Grab yourself a glass, place your card on the monitor and get to pouring. Harvey’s is family friendly with an open concept as a gathering spot for anyone and everyone. General manager Ryan Sahm says it’s truly one of a kind.
SAHM: There’s just really nothing like that in the area. And then to pair it with something with like a new concept idea and then as well as a place for a food trucks to come park. It was just like a blend of two different concepts that needed a large space.”
STAPLES: While Harvey’s has a lot of alcohol to choose from inside, you can come outside for some food too.
PATT ORR: We are here at Harvey’s because it’s a food truck and beer garden.
STAPLES: P.B. and J’s Lunchbox is just one of the many food trucks that Harvey’s partners with from the Syracuse Food Truck Association.
ORR: We have a pretty wide menu, so we appeal to different people. It’s successful, and people eat. They like the novelty of food trucks. We have multiple food trucks come here, so they’re all different food so they can get they can get pretty much different stuff every time they come here.
STAPLES: No matter the weather, these lights will stay on all year long. In Syracuse, Sydney Staples, NCC News.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) — Syracuse has welcomed its first self-serve beer hall, Harvey’s Garden.
A vacant warehouse turned family friendly gathering spot was designed in memory of Syracuse’s first mayor, Harvey Baldwin. Over 100 years ago, he saw the city of Syracuse covered in “hanging gardens,” and a beer hall and food truck park has been created in honor of it.
While there have been facilities that have had rent kegs and rent your own tap systems before, general manager Ryan Sahm said there’s no where for a customer can walk up to a wall and pour 24 different taps on their own.
Until now.
To get a drink, start a tab at the register and check the back of the card they give you. After you grab a glass, place your card into the card reader. Angle your glass at a 45 degree angle, open the tap all the way and pay for what you pour.
“There’s just really nothing like that in the area,” Sahm said. “And then to pair it with something with like a new concept idea and then as well as a place for a food trucks to come park. It was just like a blend of two different concepts that needed a large space.”
While Harvey’s has a lot of alcohol to choose from inside, you can go outside for some food too. P.B. and J’s Lunchbox is just one of the many food trucks that Harvey’s partners with from the Syracuse Food Truck Association.
Pat Orr, a food truck owner, said her food trucks appeal to many different people.
“It’s successful, and people eat,” Orr said. “They like the novelty of food trucks. We have multiple food trucks come here, so they’re all different food so they can get they can get pretty much different stuff every time they come here.”
Although its winter, Harvey’s is prepared and looking forward to warmer months to come.