5 Seasons Brewing   

This pub, featuring fine craft-brews, holds some culinary surprises in addition to its intriguing array of bottled and tap beers. Not your standard pub fare here, with a menu that offers a pizza of house-cured salmon with avocado and cilantro and an entree known as Duck Both Ways, with a spicy grape demi-glace, arugula and pickled shallots. The roomy lodge allows a view of the brewing vats and a bar that competes with the food in imaginative servings. On tap, choose from among golden lagers, pale ales and the Belgian Witbier, brewed of unmalted wheat. Bottled choices include Five Seasons' signature Seven Sisters Munchner and Velvet Heaven Oatmeal Stout. (The bar stays open each evening for two hours after the kitchen closes.) When the weather permits, ask to be seated in the covered Biergarten, which also may be reserved for parties up to 40. Five Seasons offers live jazz on Sundays. -- Edna McCown