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The family-owned company serves fast food restaurant, fast food made with locally-sourced ingredients cooked to order, including hamburgers and yellowfin tuna, Ahi burgers, salads, French fries, and milkshakes, plus seasonal specials like the “Seoul” pork burger with kimchi and the BLT, B.L.T. with heirloom tomatoes. On July 25, 2017, Gott's started serving the vegan Impossible Foods, Impossible burger. Food & Wine magazine has labeled it as an “idealized version of the American roadside stand”.History
When the owners of Taylor's Refresher burger shack in St. Helena, California, St. Helena decided to lease out their 50-year-old property, brothers Joel and Duncan Gott signed. The restaurant became Taylor's Automatic Refresher when the first location re-opened in St. Helena in 1999, and, in the aftermath of a trademark dispute and the protests of the Taylor family, was renamed in 2010 as Gott's Roadside. The restaurants embrace a California-casual cooking style, featuring microbrewery, microbrewed beer and wines alongside chili cheese dogs and mini corn dogs. In 2004, a second Gott's opened in the San Francisco Ferry Building, Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco, and in 2007, a third opened in the Oxbow Public Market of Napa, California, Napa. The St. Helena spot is a drive-in, with seating at red picnic tables on the lawn, while the other two locations are built in an urban, retro diner-style. In 2013, a fourth location opened in Palo Alto, California, Palo Alto. The newest Gott's Roadside location is now open in Greenbrae, California, Greenbrae in Marin County, California, Marin County. The company remains privately owned. In 2006 Taylor's received the James Beard Foundation Award designating them as one of List of James Beard America's Classics, America's Classics. In addition to New York Times, ''The New York Times'' and ''Food & Wine'', Taylor's/Gott's has been featured in ''USA Today'', ''Bon Appétit'', Gourmet magazine, ''Gourmet'', Travel & Leisure, ''Travel + Leisure'', Robert M. Parker Jr.'s ''The Wine Advocate''. and Season 1, Episode 9 of Food Network's ''Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives''.Gallery
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* {{authority control Restaurants established in 1999 Regional restaurant chains in the United States Restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area St. Helena, California 1999 establishments in California America's Classics winners