Quick Bites: Top sausage shop closes, new bar on the way, new tasting room and more.

Nuernberger’s German Sausages was as tasty as it was unique to Monterey, dishing authentic old-world bratwursts, delicious schnitzel and earthy potato salad.

It was good enough to earn a place on my best new Monterey County restaurants for 2016, placing fifth.

But the bottom line wasn't enough for Rainer Nuerenberger to justify hanging in there, particularly when he can make several day's restaurant profits with one farmers market appearance.

So he's relocating to the Bay Area to focus on that.

More food news nibbles appear here:

• Los Angeles Food & Wine, run by Monterey-based Coastal Luxury Management and starring a range of star Monterey County chefs, happens Aug. 25-28.

• Part of Ventana Inn & Spa's reinvention as Ventana Big Sur—which hosts the opening party of Big Sur Food & Wine for the first time in November—is a new outdoor/poolside bar overlooking the Pacific informally called The Edge.

• Bloomberg is among those catching onto the possibilities aquaculture presents for sustainable fish farming with the piece "How We’ll Eat Fish in the Future: Aquaculture is drawing entrepreneurs and investors, in an overfished world with a growing appetite for the healthy protein."

• Jim and Judy Schultze of Windy Oaks Estate (out of Corralitos) have added a second tasting room. Their original Carmel spot nestled next to Cultura Comida y Bebida in Carmel off Dolores will remain open, but now they have a Carmel Valley presence in the old Joyce Tasting Room at 19 E. Carmel Valley Road. The soft opening happened late last month. A grand opening event is scheduled for Aug. 27.

• Ben Spungin, Yulanda Santos and Ron Mendoza do their edible art thing to benefit Youth Arts Collective Sunday, Aug. 27, at lilify in New Monterey with Pierce Ranch Vineyards ($150, 207-1380, limited to 30).

• Chesebro's Wines of Summer Celebration flows 4-6pm Sunday, Aug. 13, with fresh new releases including Grenache Rosé, Grenache Blanc and Chesebro Cider.

• Executive Chef Brandon Miller's era at Alvarado Street Brewing Company (655-2337) has officially begun. His enticing specials include a roasted eggplant-bacon flatbread and an IPA-cumin-fennel beer sausage over smoked potatoes that is out of this world.

• Award-winning mixologist Josh Perry, formerly of Restaurant 1833, is in negotiations with at least two potential Monterey landlords on the location for his Nick and Nora craft cocktail bar. “We want to set a new standard for drinks in the area," he says.