{"id":40894,"date":"2019-06-07T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/half-lion-public-house-opens-at-kents-riverbend-golf-complex\/"},"modified":"2019-06-07T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T19:02:00","slug":"half-lion-public-house-opens-at-kents-riverbend-golf-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/half-lion-public-house-opens-at-kents-riverbend-golf-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Lion Public House opens at Kent&#8217;s Riverbend Golf Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Half Lion Public House is open for business at the city of Kent&rsquo;s Riverbend Golf Complex.<\/p>\n<p>Sumner-based Half Lion Brewing Co., opened the restaurant\/bar on Wednesday at 2019 W. Meeker St. It offers American pub fare along with Half Lion&rsquo;s handcrafted beers. Half Lion also offers a beverage cart for service on the 18-hole course.<\/p>\n<p>The company opened in Sumner in February 2016. Half Lion beer is on tap at more than 200 locations from Tukwila to Olympia.<\/p>\n<p>The name comes not from a lion, but a Great Dane, which owners Jason Nelson, David Westby and Adam Shay explain on the company&rsquo;s website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.halflion.com\/about-us\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\">halflion.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Kent City Council unanimously approved a 10-year lease agreement in January with Half Lion. The lease has three, five-year options. No restaurant has operated at the facility since March 2017 when Scotch and Vine closed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Half Lion Public House hours: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monday through Thursday: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Friday: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday: 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company also has Sumner brewery <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":40895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-40894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40894"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}