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| - Visited on 7/23/16 - Being in Surprise, anything new is worth a try since everything else is a drive.
Love the idea of State 48 (local brew, local food), and I think I had too high of an expectation for the recently opened restaurant.
Decent crowd for 8pm on a Saturday night, when we walked in the noise level is what you would expect from a brewery/Americana pub. The layout of the restaurant is divided between where bar area and seats are, and what feels like a secondary seating area where the pizza oven and cooking station is.
We didn't wait at all to get seated, though we did get seated in the significantly less busy pizza oven side. Given the high walls of the booth, it really made it seem like we were isolated moreso than we were.
Our waitress was very nice, though she didn't make any sort of menu recommendations or beer suggestions.
Even though we're at a brewery, my wife isn't a beer drinker, we were both a little surprised there weren't any well/mixed drinks on the drink menu. (Could've missed it but I'm pretty sure there was nothing). Now the wife could've asked, but instead she defaulted to her coke and I went with the Grand Canyon Ale (had it before, always enjoy it).
Food: Beer ketchup is different, can't say one way or another if either of us liked it. I got the Beer Cheese burger, and the wife got the fish and chips. My burger was great. I can see this being a great place to go for a burger and beer.
The fish and chips unfortunately weren't good. The batter seemed to have heavy flakes of what we are thinking was rosemary (you could see the flakes in outside, fried batter). That taste was very overpowering and left pretty much my wife's whole plate untouched. $15 unfortunately wasted.
Our waitress did offer to get something else, but in truth by that time we had decided to finish our night elsewhere.
A beer, coke and two meals was about $40 after tip. The sad thing is, I had walked in expecting to spend more time and more money there. From the seating in the quieter side, lack of simple house drinks for none beer drinkers(or at least being aware of them), to the strike out on the fish and chips, the little things added up . So instead of a few more drinks, and some desert, we had those elsewhere.
Unrelated note but I've typed too much and I'm not going back: I was really hoping to see some sort of mini-beer sampler on the menu.
Overall: Will I return? Yes, the burger was good and the beer is beer. Will it be soon? Probably in a few months. Still a little bit of growing pains it seems, and as they continue to work out the menu I'll give them a little more time before I go on again.
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