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| - This place has the potential to be a great downtown dining spot. There are a couple of big concerns that need to be addressed before this can happen.
First the good:
The Beer Wall: This self-service beer station is such a cool concept. You obtain a beer card that you then use to pour yourself a pint. Along the wall are a number of spouts with a number above them. At the top of the wall is a list that describes what each number is. There is an array of cheap beer, craft beer, cider, and wine.
What's cool is that if you just want a sample, you can pour whatever amount you want and you get charged by the oz.
Issues begin:
Beer: depending on what beer you pour, there's a heavy head of foam.
Food: we ordered two dishes- the street tacos and the spinach dip. The street tacos were pretty good, but pricey for what they are. The spinach dip was more cream than spinach. I'd pass on that. Overall I was less than impressed with the food.
Service: a mix of good and bad. You can tell that the general manager who is walking around and talking to people is trying his best to keep the place running smoothly. But when it takes almost ten minutes for a host to take you to your seat in a relatively quiet restaurant, it leaves a questionable impression.
The waitress was pretty good, but lacked the intuition that makes for great service. Menus were down, eye contact was made. Nevertheless, she had to be waved down a few minutes later from where she was chatting to a coworker in order for us to place an order.
With all the other restaurants in the area, it'll be some time before I try this place out. Maybe by then, they'll have fixed a couple of the kinks.
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