I had high hopes for this place from what others have said. But I think the view and patio must be blinding the positive reviews.
We arrived as a group of 11 to a mostly empty front patio. There were others sitting so we rearranged a couple tables to fit our group and were told it was closed. Only later did we realize it was only closed because the server wanted to go home early.
Inside we saw a great spacious and mostly empty place. We were told the back patio didn't have space for us and they used their touch screen computer to try and find us a place. We all looked at each other and chuckled since it was quite obvious there was plenty of space for us. Instead of giving us a nice booth they assembled a table under a dripping set of overhead pipes. By now we were more annoyed by the service so we said nothing of the dripping.
We were then told that as a large group we would be charged mandatory gratuity of 18% and that we could not have separate bills. So we're paying an automatic service charge for less service. Nice. Three of our group were so frustrated by this, they left the table and headed for the bar.
It comes time to order and probably 30%+ of what we wanted to order was not available. On a Saturday night. Did they not expect any customers for the weekend? Cheesecake - sorry, not available. Signature beer - sorry not available. Sampler of beer - sorry two not available of the four in the pre-defined sampler.
Thankfully the beer at least was good. The waitress must have realized by the end that we did not have a terribly good experience and only stayed for one beer, so she split our bills anyway.
Although I'm sure I will end up here again to have a drink on the patio, it won't be my choice. I look forward to some real competition in the area.