I was just a kid and I heard about it from my grandparents who lived a few miles down the road. Rossotti's figures prominently in my childhood imagination as "a dangerous place". I always paid close attention when we drove by.
By the 1980s, it got cleaned up and became the Alpine Inn. Now it's a Stanford hangout and a beer garden for Silicon Valley types. Inside there are still signs of its former self.
The long tables are carved with graffiti going back to who knows when.
You come for the ambiance, not the food. But the burgers are not bad, imo.
The beer selection is fairly routine. Root beer is A&W (my beverage selection today).
I have heard the chili is excellent, but I can't remember who told me that.
You can sit out back.
A stream runs through it.
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As a child in the cleaned-up '80s, we used to ride our horses to Rosotti's and tie them up out front to go in and have lunch. I think the rail is still there and occasionally used.
Looks like my kind of place!
It looks like an old west saloon.
Would be too chicken to go to a "notorious biker bar", Chuck, but since it's now tame enough to offer veggie burgers guess I'd be brave enough to stop there now.
There's something like this near some of my Illinois family - being supposedly once owned by Al Capone adds luster to a joint with time.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
It was never a "notorious biker bar" with drug dealing and all that. I have been a regular since 1954 (when I was a Stanford freshman). Sometimes there are bikers and all, but it was just a regular joint.
I spent a lot of time there in the mid80's and tho it was a bar frequented by bikers, it was a Stanford U hangout since prohibition, and has always had a unique mix of students,hippies,yuppies,rich,poor, old and young.
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