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Walk into a new German-inspired taproom in El Granada and you’ll find a menu of German and local craft beers, sausages in hard-to-find varieties and other bites like soft pretzels.
Its name? Your Mom’s Haus.
“It’s the funniest name ever,” said co-owner Casey Plemons.
The name might be tongue-in-cheek, but the menu is no joke. Located in a bright blue-and-yellow Victorian-style home that most recently housed Breakwater Barbecue, Your Mom’s Haus offers 12 rotating taps of German and local craft beer, as well as an abundant selection of sausages. Find classic sausages like bratwurst, hot Italian and smoked andouille ($12), as well as more unique varieties like antelope and rabbit, elk with cheddar or kangaroo ($14). Alligator and rattlesnake sausages will soon be available as well.
Plemons and business partner Paul Watson, who are in punk rock band The Koffs together, opened Your Mom’s Haus May 16, inspired in part by a lack of German food on the San Mateo County coast.
“Everybody loves a good sausage and wienerschnitzel,” Plemons said.
Denise D’Amico – Plemons’ wife and a chef at Imagine Culinary Group, which provides catering services to Meta – developed the menu for Your Mom’s Haus. It features sausage on a roll, giant Bavarian pretzels with “haus-made” beer cheese and pickled red onions, beer cheese fries with bacon, German potato salad and currywurst, a German street food featuring a basket of fries topped with sliced bratwurst and smothered in curry ketchup ($6-$14).
Giant Bavarian pretzel with haus-made beer cheese and haus-made pickled red onion ($14) at Your Mom’s Haus in El Granada. Courtesy Your Mom’s Haus. 
Your Mom’a Haus in El Granada serves a variety of German street food, including currywurst, which is a basket of fries with sliced bratwurst smothered in curry ketchup ($14). Courtesy Your Mom’s Haus. 
Sausage on a roll with sauerkraut and grilled bell peppers ($13) at Your Mom’s Haus in El Granada. Sausage options include bratwurst, hot Italian, chicken tequila habanero, smoked andouille, bacon-wrapped beef dog, smoked duck and pork, Beyond vegan bratwurst and Beyond vegan hot Italian. Courtesy Your Mom’s Haus. 
Beer cheese fries with bacon ($10) at Your Mom’s Haus in El Granada. Courtesy Your Mom’s Haus.
Your Mom’s Haus doesn’t have the space to make their sausages on-site, Plemons said, so they source their game sausage from House of Smoke in Colorado and other sausages locally. (For example, butcher Sergio Covarrubias from nearby Spangler’s Market creates their signature bratwurst.) Vegetarian sausages are also available, including Beyond bratwurst and Beyond hot Italian sausage.
About half of the taplist features German beers, and the other half includes rotating local craft beers ($8 for a half liter and $15 for a liter). Current local beer options include Alpha Acid in Belmont and Hop Dogma in Half Moon Bay, whose first taproom was in the space now occupied by Your Mom’s Haus. Plemons hopes to eventually serve beer from Rockaway Beach Brewery in Pacifica and Half Moon Bay Brewery.
Plemons is a Redwood City native who was a bartender for more than a decade at Coastside spots like the San Gregorio General Store, Old Princeton Landing Public House and Grill and Longboard Bar and Venue. His grandfather built the oceanside Taco Bell Cantina in Pacifica, and his mom, uncle and aunt now own the property. Watson lives on a boat at Pillar Point Harbor and was a manager at Old Princeton Landing for nearly a decade and owner of now-closed Glow in San Mateo.
Plemons said he had been searching for the perfect location for his bar for years. When Breakwater Barbecue decided to expand to a larger location less than a mile away, Plemons knew he had found the perfect spot.
“It’s very cozy inside; it’s small, it’s intimate,” he said. “You can have 20 people in here, and it feels like it’s a packed house. It’s got a really good vibe (and) ocean views.”
Your Mom’s Haus takes up about half of the first floor of the Victorian house and seats 50, with a mix of bar seating, two-tops and long, sharable beer garden tables. A clothing store will soon be opening on the other side of the first floor, and office spaces for multiple companies take up the second floor. At the moment, there is no outdoor seating for Your Mom’s Haus, but “that might be coming in the future,” Plemons said.
But don’t expect any performances from The Koffs at Your Mom’s Haus – the space is too small and there would be noise issues.
The bar top at Your Mom’s Haus is from a 1906 San Francisco saloon and had been in storage since Prohibition. Plemons acquired it from the owner of American Cyclery, a bicycle shop in San Francisco that had the bar top in the store’s basement (Plemons also owns a toe clip straps business for cyclists and sells his products to the shop.)
“We went over there, and it’s like a bunch of cement tunnels underneath the building,” Plemons said. “We had to go through all these rock and cement tunnels and found it…it was in decent condition. We just refinished it. Crazy part is, it fit perfectly in. We didn’t have to cut it down or anything.”
Another notable design element at Your Mom’s Haus is “The Mom’s Wall,” a bulletin board on the wall where customers can pin photos of an important mother figure in their life.
Plemons hopes Your Mom’s Haus is a comfortable community gathering spot for a moderate price.
“We’re not really trying to have the $30 hot dog thing that people do around here,” Plemons said.
Your Mom’s Haus, 30 Portola Ave., El Granada; Instagram: @your_moms_haus. Open Thursday to Monday from noon to 10 p.m. (kitchen open from noon to 8 p.m.), Tuesday and Wednesday from 4-10 p.m. (kitchen closed).
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