After closing 20 months ago for remodeling, Emeryville’s Honor Kitchen & Cocktails is back online in a ritzy-yet-familiar way. The gastropub celebrated its soft opening this week with a vastly reimagined dining room and an outdoor lounging space with comfy furniture and fire pits. The food-and-drink program features upscale Northern California tavern fare, limited-release library wines and beers from San Francisco’s Beach Chalet Brewery & Restaurant, with which Honor shares owners.
The restaurant’s website is asking people to think of the redone restaurant as a “speakeasy-style swanky cool hang place.” Related Articles Restaurants, Food and Drink | San Jose: Not one but two Shake Shacks coming to town Restaurants, Food and Drink | 7 amazing Bay Area things to do this weekend Restaurants, Food and Drink | The largest vegan food fest in NorCal arrives in Berkeley Restaurants, Food and Drink | Crush’d, Danville’s newest wine bar and kitchen, opens Friday Restaurants, Food and Drink | Angkor Chef’s journey from sauce ‘engineer’ to San Jose restaurant owner Opened in 2011, Honor was embraced by neighborhood folks for its velvety, cave-darkened interior and elevated comfort food. Gone is the murkiness: The remodel has left the interior filled with natural light, with leather furniture and a small stage for unspecified performances.
There are new roll-down glass walls, swanky chandeliers, fresh murals and big TVs for all-important game days. The old Honor had an .