Skewers & Brew — Restaurant in San Jose

The lamb skewers tasted much better here than the stewed lamb at Punjab Cafe, Curry On, and Tandoori Oven.

Garlic fries were excellent! Much better than Flames on 4th St, and also better than City Fish. But not as good as Gordon Biersch was before they moved away.

With the continuing surge in alternative restaurant options luring people away from downtown (the new eateries in Japantown to the north, the new microbreweries open in the south, all the new San Jose State University food court expansions to the east, and the new Whole Foods cluster of eateries on the Alameda to the west) more lower-end eateries downtown are closing, and more upscale restaurants are coming in, to cater to the people in the new hotel expansions and all the new condo towers that keep popping up.

It is against this backdrop that my menu items were found to be wanting: For example, the lamb skewer was only $2.50. But though the tongue finds the lamb to be awesome, the stomach declares the hunger hasn't subsided enough. One of the possible ways to address this might be to up the $2.50 price to $3.75, and add a mini-potato and/or other root vegetable onto the skewer, to increase the feeling of fullness.

Because parking is such a hassle downtown, patrons will often have to walk past other bars and restaurants to get to the one they want. The garlic fries are great, but IMO, could use a bit more of a tweak, to turn it into a culinary version of a "killer app." See photo:

To be fair, this might be more of a place to drink and eat, than just to eat. But I haven't drank enough...

I really wanted to like this place. I have been wanting to try this place for weeks now. It was suggested to me by Yelp. I love beer and skewers so it's a no-brainer that I would like this place, so I thought. Poor beer selection - they only carry 7 JP Das Brew beers, the beef and lamb skewers were chewy and the dumpling were below average. Nothing bad to say about the staff but probably wont go back based on the...

Sorry really wanted to like this place, but had to wait an hour for the skewered meats because they ran out of food. Owners clearly doesn’t know anything about craft beer either and only carries JP Das Brew because they gave them the cheapest beer prices. I will give them a year before they...