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| - The short: This place was so bad that at 1st place in trivia, we didn't want to win again so we wouldn't feel forced to return with a $25 gift certificate.
The Long: I looked at this place and saw 2 $$ signs, 48 reviews and an average of 3 stars. I thought, "either this place is on the verge of falling apart, or Yelpers have been really mean". Well, Yelpers don't lie- after arriving there and seeing a huge place nicely decorated and with an interesting menu, I was like "pshh no way this is a 3 star average, it looks GREAT!". By the end of the night, I was ready to run out the door.
What sucked so much? Oh, let me count the ways!
The Service: Bless your heart, Ryan the line cook. The waitress assigned to our area was so overwhelmed by a full house that it looked like her brain was going through a short circuit. Either the restaurant didn't get enough servers to cover all tables during trivia hour or this girl was new at her job. Either way, she was so blank-faced when I asked her for extra chairs that I knew she might not be the best to serve us. Eventually the line cook came to let us know that he would be helping to serve our table because the other lady had lost her last brain cell. He asked us to repeat our orders about 3 times because he kept forgetting to write them down. But that's ok, Ryan the line cook, your job isn't to serve, so you did the best you could.
The Food: (1) The pretzel bites were not made out of pretzel dough but pizza dough instead. Its side order of beer cheese was pretty tasty but a little side of mustard would've been needed for actual pretzels. (2) The nachos were a disappointing plate of cold flaccid tortillas with congealed cheese and a cold topping of olives, tomatoes and jalapeno slices. It had basically been made hours in advance and left to cool off and then topped with veggies in the last minute, very un-nacho worthy. (3) the sausage plate was the most disgusting piece of meat i've ever shoved in my mouth. I couldn't tell which one was the brat, the Italian sausage and the spicy sausage, they all tasted different shades of gross and gave me a gag reflex at $8.50. (4) The chicken tenders were not fully identified as chicken, as we discovered a weird piece of over-fried meat that very much tasted like FISH. Something tells me they fry them together in the same basket, which sucks for us non-fish lovers, or even those that are actually allergic. Their fries were double fried, once hours/days before and the other one right before, to kill all remaining flavor of potato. (5) Their beer. Sorry yo, the oatmeal stout had no flavor.
The Space: Good for you for filling the place up on trivia night, but if people are there to participate at trivia, you might want to improve your sound system. Placed to sit in the patio (as no other spot was available) we couldn't hear a single thing, while the sound indoors was absolutely BLASTING. An extra cheapo speaker in the patio would have been wonderful, because every time the bus or tram passed by, we couldn't even hear our own thoughts, let alone the trivia questions.
So at the end, it IS in fact true that those Yelpers were wrong about their 3 star average. Electric Brewpub isn't more than 2 stars. I came, I saw, I ate, and I regretted all the above. Sorry Yelp, I thought it would be better, I really really reaaaaaaally did.
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