{"id":47,"date":"2022-04-30T14:33:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T14:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/west-albany-patio-wings-basket-included\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:30:02","slug":"west-albany-patio-wings-basket-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/west-albany-patio-wings-basket-included\/","title":{"rendered":"West Albany Patio Wings, Basket Included"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5046.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feedmittens.com\/justwingit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5048.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n<p>A wooden bowl lined with pink parchment paper, a pink-tinted dipping sauce that means business, an outdoor patio, and an Allagash beer (a Maine brewery, several states from where I was actually sitting, but that&#8217;s craft beer distribution for you). This is one of the more visually distinctive presentations in the whole archive and I still can&#8217;t tell you what the place was called.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re in the area anyway:<\/strong> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albany.org\/listing\/albany-corning-preserve-jennings-landing\/1954\/\">Corning Preserve along the Albany riverfront<\/a> is a nice patio-adjacent walk, or there&#8217;s always <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/business\/crossgates-mall-58\/\">Crossgates Mall<\/a> if the weather turns.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Update: Probably Wolff&#8217;s Biergarten<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Best guess is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolffsbiergarten.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolff&#8217;s Biergarten<\/a>, 895 Broadway, Albany \u2014 a few blocks from Corning Preserve, with a real patio and Belgian\/German beer focus (explains the Allagash). Not certain \u2014 the exact wooden-bowl-and-pink-parchment presentation couldn&#8217;t be confirmed against current menus, so treat this as a leading theory, not a fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"220\" style=\"border:1px solid #f0d9b8;border-radius:10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/export\/embed.html?bbox=-73.7506219%2C42.6573815%2C-73.7386219%2C42.664381500000005&#038;layer=mapnik&#038;marker=42.6608815%2C-73.7446219\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.8rem;margin-top:0.3em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/?mlat=42.6608815&#038;mlon=-73.7446219#map=17\/42.6608815\/-73.7446219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View on OpenStreetMap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wooden bowl lined with pink parchment paper, a pink-tinted dipping sauce that means business, an outdoor patio, and an Allagash beer (a Maine brewery, several states from where I was actually sitting, but that&#8217;s craft beer distribution for you). 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