Alpine Tavern and Grill anchors Alpine's commercial spine on Alpine Boulevard with a sports-bar kitchen built around ground Angus burgers, beer-battered jalapeño poppers, and a rotating roster of San Diego County craft drafts. The tap wall highlights regional breweries, channeling the same hop-forward production that fuels the tasting room at Mcilhenney Brewing Co. one block west on Alpine Boulevard. Kitchen specials rotate through Blue Corn Chicken Taquitos, a Blackbird blackened-chicken wrap with roasted red peppers and feta, and a sliced filet mignon ciabatta dressed with roasted tomato and garlic aioli. The San Diego County Department of Environmental Health assigned the kitchen a 97-out-of-100 inspection score, reflecting compliance across cold-holding, hot-holding, and cross-contamination control points. Outdoor patio seating and a weekend live-music schedule pull the post-hike crowd from El Cajon Mountain trailhead, extending the same Alpine Boulevard foot pattern that fills Janet's Montana Cafe for morning service next door. The kitchen fires a goat-cheese vegetable panini layered with artichoke hearts, zucchini, sundried tomato, portobello mushroom, and basil on herb-pressed sourdough with garlic aioli, a multi-component press that demonstrates the line's capacity beyond standard pub builds.