Bridger’s Bottle Shop is now open in Westport
The headline up there kinda tells you all you need to know, but, yeah – Bridger’s officially opened for business this afternoon, at 510 Westport Road. Not quite all of the bottle shop’s 600 beers are in stock quite yet, co-owner Eric Flanagan told us when we popped in earlier today, but a good chunk of them are, plus eight taps.
Bridger’s also serves food, via the Preservation Market, a new venture from East Bottoms butcher shop Local Pig. The lunch menu includes six salads and six sandwiches. We tried the No. 6 salad (marinated tofu, warm mushrooms, feta, arugula, almond spice crumble and red wine vinaigrette) and the No. 8 sandwich (citrus-herb pork roast, pulled pork, Swiss, spicy pickles, cilantro, raisin relish, cumin aioli). Sides include barley salad, cornbread and chips. Come dinnertime, the menu switches over to mostly cheese-and-charcuterie small plates. Beers can be consumed inside or taken to go. (They’re cheaper to-go.)
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Bridger’s Bottle Shop hours:
From 11 a.m. to 1 a.m., Monday through Saturday.
