History
HopMonk opened '08 Sebastopol, CA. Historic stone and timber building and beautiful beer garden location features The Abbey, an intimate 250 capacity live-music venue. Abbey shows by Shawn Hayes, Bob Schneider, Jackie Greene, Leon Russell, Les Claypool, David Grisman, Citizen Cope, Michael Rose, Elvin Bishop, Cracker, The Meat Puppets, The Motherhips, Tea Leaf Green, Jefferson Starship, English Beat, New Mastersounds. Proud home to WBLK Dancehall Massive (12 years running every Monday night), Open Mic (Tuesdays) and Brainstorm EDM/Base (Wednesdays). HopMonk has hosted beer dinners with Fritz Maytag/Anchor Steam, Greg Koch/Stone, Matt Brynildson/Firestone, Dan Gordon/Gordon Biersch, Bryan Hunt/Moonlight, Ken Allen/Anderson Valley, Vinnie + Natalie Cilurzo/Russian River. Sonoma Location '10. 1888 farmhouse, deck and beer garden, free live music w/e evening from indoor and beer garden stages. Novato Location '12. Session Room (250 cap) venue and 150 seat beer garden with stage.
Specialties
The original HopMonk, a rustic 115 year old stone and timber tavern with outdoor beergarden and Abbey for live music. In addition to the great beer (and wine, and even some hard cider), HopMonk is also serving up an eclectic menu with anything form burgers to fresh house beer-battered fish and chips to curry samosas and sweet potato fries or slice of chocolate cake the size of Sonoma County! We offer free live music in our beergarden Thursday - Sunday. Our Kitchen stays open til 9 on weeknights and 10 pm on Fri and Sat nights. The bar is open later. You will surely want to join us for Sunday Brunch, served 10:30-1:00. Take-out is always available or if you prefer delivery, we are partnered with Doordash, Uber Eates and GrubHub. If you are planning a large event, we also offer group events and catering!