Norms Restaurant begins beer and wine service in Ontario and Rialto – Orange County Register

Wine and beer, together with a signature Michelada El Normando, is served at Norms Restaurant in Ontario, Thursday, June 20, 2024. (Photograph by Fielding Buck, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

It’s now doable to get a mimosa together with your steak and eggs at Norms Restaurant in Ontario and Rialto.

The Bellflower-based chain of diners is rolling out an alcoholic beverage menu, starting within the Inland Empire. It consists of beer, wine, mimosas and micheladas, priced $5.50-$11.

The eating places are at 4551 Mills Circle, Ontario, close to Ontario Mills, and 325 W. Renaissance Parkway, Rialto, in Renaissance Market, the one two areas that presently have licenses to promote wine and beer from the California Division of Alcoholic Beverage Management.

A number of different areas have lapsed licenses and two, Bellflower and Los Angeles, have licenses which are pending, in line with the division’s web site.

Norms stopped serving beer and wine in 2015, when the chain was sold to an investment firm by the household of founder Norm Roybark, in line with David Cox, company government chef and vice chairman of meals and beverage.

Attitudes towards alcohol have modified within the final 9 years and individuals are fascinated by a brunch expertise that features mimosas and glowing wine, he mentioned in a telephone interview.

In creating the menu, he labored with native businsses reminiscent of Common Space Brewery in Hawthorne, I Love Micheladas and San Antonio Winery, each in Los Angeles.

To create a signature michelada, referred to as El Normando, he labored with Widespread Sense to create an India Pale Ale to his style, which he mentioned the brewery went on to can.

“We chosen the hops and every thing,” he mentioned. “We brewed a 900-gallon batch, and it bought out in three or 4 weeks.”