Cool restaurant and jazz joint opens at former Gordon Biersch brewery site.
Meyhouse, a new restaurant and club in Palo Alto serving up live jazz, has taken residence in what was a Gordon Biersch brewery.Walking through the shuttered downtown Palo Alto brewery that once housed the original Gordon Biersch, chef Omer Artun experienced a eureka flash of inspiration.
Veteran pianist Larry Vuckovich, a key player on the Bay Area jazz scene since the late 1950s, inaugurated the back room on November with a sold-out show featuring Palo Alto-reared drum great Akira Tana and bassist Ken Okada. He’s been making the trip down from his home in Calistoga for weekend engagements ever since, showcasing Bay Area stars like powerhouse vocalist Kim Nalley and ebullient blues guitarist and vocalist Alvon Johnson .
Some of Artun’s most vivid childhood memories growing up in Istanbul come from concerts at the Açıkhava Tiyatrosu amphitheater, where he experienced a procession of jazz legends, including Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Stephane Grappelli, and Sarah Vaughan. He moved to the Bay Area in 2010 to grow his customer data platform company AgilOne. By the time he sold it to Acquia at the end of 2019, Artun had already parlayed a series of pop-up dinners into launching the first Meyhouse in Sunnyvale with Koray Altinsoy, the restaurant’s co-owner.
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