Harry’s Hofbrau, the cavernous, 42-year-old cafeteria and bar in West San Jose, will permanently close its doors to the public later today, to make way for new housing.
The 16,000-square-foot restaurant in San Jose was part of a family-owned chain that first opened in the 1950s in Redwood City and helped pioneer the “hofbrau” concept: Big, pseudo-German-style beer halls that offered a hot cafeteria line with carved meats and comfort food. By the 1970s, competing hofbraus had sprung up across…
