Calaveras Wine & Beer Company

Wonderful wine, pizza, shrimp salads, staff, atmosphere, even a dog friendly in the tasting room!
We hope you can get your license soon. You are a fantastic addition to Murphys!

We stopped here on the way back from Arnold with our 2 small kids. Being called the Calveras Wine and Beer company, we expected to have a nice lunch and a drink — but they were unable to serve wine on the patio and beer was unavailable to order.
The caprese salad had totally unripe and hard tomatoes — more than half of the tomatoes in the order were inedible. There is no kids menu so we ordered plain spaghetti and thought they would split the adult order between the kids aged 2 &4. But they charged us $ 10 each for 2 small bowls of plain spaghetti. When we asked our server about it, she gave us a small discount for not having sauce. Just ridiculous.
The owner was walking around and seemed friendly but the food, was sub-​par and the pricing on kids plates was absurd. Skip this place if you are traveling with small kids.

We’ve stopped here twice on our way to our Arnold cabin. The pizzas and paninis are perfectly prepared… add a glass of their local wine and you’ll be extremely satisfied! This chef knows what he’s doing. He even took the time to share some balsamic reductions he has perfected. Yum! Looking forward to doing some beer tasting once they get their license.

The food and ambiance are worth 5 stars. Only thing that kept me from the 5 stars was it seemed a little unusual for a restaurant with the name «Calaveras Wine and Beer Company» to not have a license to serve beer or wine-​I assume they will get a license and look forward to a nice glass of beer or wine with their excellent food. The tomato mozzarella salad was very good, and the pizza is clearly the best in the Murphys/​Arnold area. Very well prepared!