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What Happened to Cannery Row Brewing Company? (Monterey, CA)

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 20 Monterey, California Closed 2019

Current status

Closed

As of October 2026, Cannery Row Brewing Company has closed — confirmed via montereycountynow.com, November 11, 2019.

What the source shows: Monterey County Now reported on 2019-11-11 that Cannery Row Brewing Company had shut down, citing lease expiration and unaffordable ADA repairs, in an article that included a direct quote from the owner. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Cannery Row Brewing Company in Monterey, California, highlighting the brewery's Parmesan pretzel with beer cheese dip and its short rib grilled cheese. Cannery Row Brewing Company was a beer-focused restaurant on Cannery Row that opened in 2009 inside a converted sardine-reduction plant and grew to offer more than 70 taps. Monterey County Now reported on 2019-11-11 that the business closed abruptly as its ten-year lease expired and the building needed ADA-required elevator repairs the owners could not afford at the time.

According to Monterey County Now, founder David Bernahl said, "We can't really afford to fix it right now," and Edible Monterey Bay reported the closure separately on 2019-11-12. According to Monterey County Now, Bernahl said a reopening remained possible if new investment emerged, but no reopening has been confirmed since.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 20

Episode 3
Aired
Title: Old Standards, New Styles · What was featured: the brewery's Parmesan pretzel and short rib grilled cheese
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. montereycountynow.com https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/food_blog/cannery-row-brewing-company-shuts-down-amid-cash-flow-challenges/article_e27de674-04bd-11ea-9df9-1f6e9628e15b.html
  2. ediblemontereybay.com https://ediblemontereybay.com/blog/cannery-row-brewing-closes/
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