Met a work colleague in Downtown Mountain View for lunch and decided to pop into the new Steins Beer Garden for Lunch.. Steins was formerly a Chinese Restaurant named Golden Wok, and for a brief time a buffet place named Villa 8 that failed to gain traction as well.
The lunch menu consists of various sandwiches, salads, and smaller entrees. After ordering, a jar of pickled veggies came to the table.
I opted for the Rueben sandwich and my colleague Mark opted for the beet salad.
Beet salad was well presented and fresh, but as Mark noted, was not very substantial, and he was expecting more given the price. Rueben was decent, made with good quality pastrami, but nothing outstanding and average among the ruebens I have. The service was still getting settled, and our server was not particularly familiar with the menu. Since it was lunch on a work day, did not try any of the beers. I think I will revisit after Steins has ironed out its operations and for dinner rather than lunch.
