Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing — Restaurant in Santa Cruz

Wanted to visit this place forever and finally was able to visit it over the weekend with bunch of buddies

Parking - There are some spots but it can get tricky at busy day and time. So plan to park on the street or Wait a bit patiently in the lot.

Surrounds - This is fun place to hang out and you might have some good music with local bands and its certainly fun to hop around other places nearby where u have more vineries and brewery to try and awesome food place in front of this brewery

Coming to this place- You can go in climb few stairs and order the beer.Very small seating inside maybe two tables.There are few tables outside but its hard to find any during a busy day and when we went there half the place was closed for private event so if its cold outside, this might get tricky so keep that in mind and look at tables and get a beer maybe.

There isnt much food here but order chips n salsa and chips were in a packet but tasty and salsa was awesome.

Coming to beer, tasted a few and were out of this world. Liked em so much , forgot to take a pic. Loved hazy IPA and Pilsner and my MVP was Porter. u should not miss this one.

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Disgusting. I saw the server bus tables then with his bare hands grab potato’s chips and put them on a tray with my sandwich without washing them. Super rude service. Read the other reviews about them. Really regret spending our money here when all the other places are so great. Since it has had new ownership this place has gone downhill. Never again.

UPDATE: in response to business. Sounds like you have multiple unhappy customers. Shame on you for defending hostile and disgusting behaviors. Read other unhappy reviews it all seems to be about the same guy.

request for time of day: Sunday midday. Server was blonde man with baseball hat on. When asked about his behavior, he responded with hostility and sarcasm ( as other reviews has stated similar experiences). Said "he could have been more aggressive" when asked if that is a good way to treat customers. I suspect he must be a family member or friend of owners since he was pretty arrogant and not concerned about recourse. For a place that prides itself on being "women owned" and "celebrating diversity" maybe you shouldn't have a man with anger issues working...

Our party of six was refused service by a rude and sarcastic server. He said we were “cut off” after we had just come in from a long bike ride…not sure what his impression was.

Edit: based on the owner's identical copy-paste responses to every negative review, I now understand that any complaint about rude service is automatically met with "You brought your own alcohol." Must be nice to have a universal excuse.

Apparently, if you find the staff hostile, sarcastic, or just plain unprofessional? You smuggled in booze. Didn't enjoy your visit? That's because you were sneaking drinks. Complained about someone berating you? Ah, but did you BYOB?

Genuinely impressive that they manage to protect their liquor license while completely deflecting all responsibility for bad customer service. At least be original with the...