Banks Taphouse cuts ribbon on downtown spot

Banks Taphouse celebrated its grand opening Friday evening, Nov. 6, with a ribbon cutting held by the Banks Chamber of Commerce at the new family-run taphouse on Main Street in downtown Banks. Brent VanLoo held a megaphone and addressed the crowd, and with a snip of a very large pair of scissors, the Banks Taphouse ceremonially joined the downtown Banks business community. Banks Taphouse opened on Halloween after a friends-and-family soft opening, and the ribbon cutting kicked off a grand opening weekend that ran through Sunday, Nov. 8, according to its Facebook page and website. "We're just doing this as a family," VanLoo, a Gales Creek resident who runs the taphouse, said in an interview the day before the ribbon cutting. "My daughter's been a cook and a chef for years." His daughter Nikki VanLoo has had her own food truck, the Nacho Witch, and some of the taphouse's fusion tacos and nachos are inspired by it, VanLoo said.

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