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Stone Brewing's founders take back the Escondido World Bistro & Gardens; it will reopen under a new name
Greg Koch and Steve Wagner are taking over the Citracado Parkway restaurant, which serves its last day under the Stone name on Nov. 13. The new name and reopening date have not been announced.
Stone Brewing co-founders Greg Koch and Steve Wagner have taken back control of Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens at 1999 Citracado Parkway in Escondido, San Diego Magazine and SanDiegoVille reported Oct. 14.
The restaurant's last day under the Stone name will be Friday, Nov. 13. It will then reopen as an independent restaurant with a new name. Neither the name nor the reopening date has been announced.
The move is not a buyback of the Stone brand. Sapporo, which bought Stone in 2022, sold the brand earlier this year to Firestone Walker and Duvel Moortgat USA, and that deal did not include the Escondido brewery and bistro. Sapporo had said in August it would close the bistro in November unless it found the right operator.
The founders say the beer list will feature the wider craft brewing community. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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