BREW HA HA

New York Beer Project in Horizon West goes big on space, beer and grub

BY FAIYAZ KARA

The Big Apple-esque branding of New York Beer Project, a bonkers 24,500-square-foot beer house and gastropub in Winter Garden, belies its upstate roots — Western New York roots, to be exact. Like the 17,500-square-foot original just outside Buffalo in Lockport, New York, and the 16,000-square-foot NYBP in Victor, New York, the bricked behemoth in Horizon West is built to resemble an old New York City brewing warehouse. There’s MTA subway lettering, a melonshaped chandelier resembling the one in Grand Central Station, and big Scrabble tiles above the doors spelling out things like “Hell’s Kitchen” and “I Hate Tourists.” OK, the latter doesn’t appear anywhere, but the point I’m trying to make is that all this Manhattanalia sure beats an interior filled with more geographically correct images of missed field goals, abandoned factories, winter blizzards and Irv Weinstein. (Kidding, Buffalo, just kidding. Laugh a little. And RIP, Irv.)

9230 Miley Drive, Winter Garden 407-798-8304 nybeerproject.com

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