Helmsman Ale House Brings Brews & California Cuisine To Newport Beach

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• California Nachos $11
• Orange County high school Artist of the Year 2024 winners announced
• Crispy Chicken Wings GF $15
• Former Newport Beach Brewing Company space will be 15-barrel Helmsman Ale House
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Marovic and Gabriel opened up the space a bit by removing service and storage areas. Nautical touches like ship’s wheel accents have been added, along with driftwood paneling. Preppy plaids in mix matched patterns cover the chairs and banquettes. Don’t beer taste in an industrial dump with no atmosphere and sketchy food trucks.

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More than just Newport Beach’s best craft beer brewery, Helmsman Ale House is a full service, family-friendly restaurant and pub, proudly serving Newport Beach with great lunch, dinner and weekend brunch. Opening in August, Helmsman Ale House is going to be the new restaurant to visit in Newport Beach, California. With seafood driven dishes and mouth-watering beers handcrafted on location, this new spot is sure to become a favorite! Restaurateurs and owners, Mario Marovic and Andrew Gabriel are just one of the few geniuses behind the opening of Helmsman. After many years of hard work and friendship, the two decided to open up a restaurant. Helmsman features California cuisine theme that includes two bars, a dining area, and an outdoor patio.

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All guests to our tap house are seated upon a first come, first served basis so no reservations needed. A better use for the fries was to soak up the white-wine broth of the steamed mussels. And you’ll do exactly that when you realize the tiny piece of toasted bread they give you to dip into the soup isn’t nearly enough.

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The new owners are building a 15-barrel brew house with the capacity to create a dozen or so small-batch beers at a time. There will be 14 beers on tap with house signature styles, rotating seasonal offerings and popular guest brewery selections. There will also be a full bar with signature cocktails and a wine list. Dine and drink in full view of our brewhouse, while taking in the fragrant aroma of brewing hops from our locally-brewed Newport Beach craft beers. The casual atmosphere, replete with seafaring décor, is perfect for all occasions and celebrations with varied types of seating from comfy booths, communal tables and traditional high tops. There’s also not one, but two large bars to quench your thirst from on some of the best mixed-drinks, wine, and craft beer in the Newport Beach area.

He has provided Helmsman’s opening with four beers including The Blonde Ale, Juicy/Easy IPA, a Fruited Berliner Weisse with prickly pear passion fruit guava, and an Imperial Oyster Stout. To create their Oyster Stout they actually boil 20 pounds of oysters in the kettle for about an hour. This provides minerality for the shelves which seeps into every sip.

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Starters include avocado toast ($9) with pepitas, zaatar, marinated tomatoes and pickled red onion. For brunch there’s chicken and waffles ($14) with black pepper stout maple syrup or  a mound of chilaquiles ($13) in housemade guajillo sauce with fried eggs, cotija cheese and avocado mash. More than a brewery, Helmsman Ale House is a full service, family-friendly restaurant, proudly serving lunch, dinner and weekend brunch.

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Both new customers and Newport Beach Brewing’s regulars can feel at ease. This is a place where you play a round of darts, then eat a burger or fish and chips, all with a frosty glass of beer in hand. In fact, you can still get an oversized pretzel just as you could at the old place.

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And when you’re feeling nostalgic for pickled eggs—the most iconic bar food of all—there’s not just one way to take it, but two. For the reasonable price of $4, Helmsman offers them deviled, an idea whose time has come, with the halved whites pink-hued and acting as rafts for a piped-in yolk that’s bright and spicy. But the old Newport Beach Brewing space—with 4,200 square feet and the capacity to produce about a dozen craft beers—represents something new for the company. Here, Marovic and crew are not only serving alcohol, but they’re also creating it. To do the job at the 15-barrel facility, Marovic and Gabriel hired brewmaster Dylan Mobley, who was previously at Stone Brewing Co., Angel City Brewery and Bottle Logic Brewing.

At the light next to Helmsman Ale House, I yelled, “Long live BrewCo! Stay connected to receive updates on upcoming events and special offers. You can find Dylan’s creations on our list of mainstays and weekly variants, all a perfect match to Helmsman’s elevated pub grub.

In addition to our flagship and wide-ranging seasonal house beer, we offer a full bar with cocktails, wine, and curated list of guest brewery selections. Artfully inspired, the menu by Executive Chef, Zach Scherer, is a refreshing extension of classic pub fare with vibrant California and coastal flavors. The burger, however, was just another bar burger, kind of forgettable despite the fancy bibb lettuce, grilled onions, house sauce, tomato and American cheese. It’s all tucked inside a glossy brioche bun that’s labeled as vegan. And if you opt to have the dry-aged beef patty cooked any degree above medium, you might even say it’s tough. Light and reedy, they’re the best part of not only the burger plate, but also the chicken schnitzel.

Long a local hangout for watching games and noshing on weekends, Newport Beach Brewing Company had its fans and even won awards at the Great American Beer Festival. Mario Marovic’s Lounge Group has acquired the place and will turn it into a snazzy new brewery and gastropub with family-friendly dining slated to open this summer. The first Miller’s Ale House opened in 1988 in Jupiter, Florida, as a local place to be enjoyed by all walks of life. We are a sports-themed casual dining restaurant with a wide variety of entrees for a great value.

The latter—a giant, flattened piece of chicken breast breaded and unevenly pan-fried—reminded me of chicken nuggets, but not fondly. To helm the kitchen, Lounge Group brought in Zach Scherer, the chef from the Country Club. His menu should not surprise anyone who has been to a microbrewery in the past decade or a pub in the past half-century.