Sophie’s Place in Redondo Beach: not your typical gastro pub
Sophie’s Place, located in the heart of the Riviera Village in Redondo Beach, looks more like a French café than a gastro pub. Photo Sophie’s Place, in the heart of Redondo Beach’s Riviera Village, looks more like a French café than one of the South Bay’s heavy hitting gastro pubs. Small tables dot the outside patio. Inside, behind large French doors, large black chandeliers dominate the room. Covering the wall near the bar is a large chalkboard. The middle is circled with red chalk. The white words inside the circle are smeared and dusty. “Red Barn,” one says. “Hoptonic, Unbroue Ephemere, Mischief, Stone IPA,” others say. According to one of the four owners, Keon Nayebdadash, the messy middle box of draft beers used to be on the top of the board, but they changed them so often they had to move the box to a more accessible area of the board so they didn’t have to pull out a ladder every time they changed a keg. The top and bottom of the board feature different types of beers, including Pales, IPA’s Ciders, Sours, Belgian and their Reserve list with Chainbreaker, Trade Winds and Mo Betta Bretta. Sophie’s Place features at least 60-plus beers. “We put a lot of time and effort into…
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