Hello, Summer: Griffith Park Beer Garden

Sip some suds while near the trees, at The Roosevelt Cafe.

No spoiler alerts required here, or lengthy explanations needed: A beer garden, we'd like to point out, has the word "garden" in its very name.

That doesn't mean that an alfresco set-up of tables and taps needs to be placed among a plot of petals and shrubs; beer gardens can, and do, charmingly show up in brewery-adjacent alleys, in parking lots, and, yes, even occasionally indoors.

But finding a beer garden that happens to be adjacent to nature, and located in one of the world's greatest urban parks, is a true find, even if it happens to be a pop-up, and even if it'll be a Saturdays-in-the-summertime kind of thing.

The Roosevelt Cafe, sitting, as it does, tucked just inside Griffith Park off Vermont Avenue, is pretty much an ideal place to stage a beer garden, and so it shall for the spring-into-summer season, every Saturday, beginning on Saturday, May 13.

The name? This'll be a snap to remember. You won't even need to jot it down, seriously, as it is 100% memorizable: Griffith Park Beer Garden.

There shall be top-notch suds, and eats, too — the garden's Facebook page features a tempting sausage and a flight of four beers for twenty bucks — making it a true beer garden in character, too. (There should be sausage-y noshes at an authentic garden, or at least beer-complementary noshes.)

LA Weekly reveals that a DJ'll be in the house, or rather garden, when the sun dips down, and that the "beer menu will be expanded."

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Oh, and the Saturday hours shall grow, too, along with the warmer temps and longer days.

If you've been to the Roosevelt before, maybe while playing a few holes at the Roosevelt Municipal Golf Course, you might have enjoyed a burger or some eggs and bacon. It's a pleasant setting, and even a touch bucolic, bringing the country right into the city, and, for a series of special spring and summer Saturdays, a beer garden, too.

This isn't to say that beer gardens shouldn't charmingly show up in parking lots, alleys, and other un-shrub-laden spaces that could be improved by some song, suds, and socializing, but getting one in a green place, at least for awhile, holds up the "garden" bargain in the name.

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