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| - This really deserves 2*, but I'm giving it 3 to give the benefit of the doubt and to account for some positive aspects. Overall, to me, the place is just latching onto the craft beer movement without really knowing enough about it to justify their "TapHouse" name, kind of a like if a wine bar didn't know much about wine.
Positives: decent happy hour; nice, clean, modern interior; easy to get a table on a Friday night; good wings (esp. on happy hour); and decent selection of beers. The bartender (when I finally left our table and went to the bar) was helpful, seemed to know her beers, and gave me some samples while I was deciding.
Negatives: they haven't trained their servers enough about the beers, and the information on the beer menu is inadequate. For example, I asked our server for the name of the brewer of a beer listed on the menu as "Nitro 5 Barrel Pale Ale," and he said "Nitro." It went like that all night. (Nitro is the name of the gas, and the brewer is Odell.) We had a big problem with the bill at the end of the night; we couldn't tell which beers had been rung up on happy hour and which hadn't (since there's just a deduction at the bottom of the bill), and they had to fix it. Then they overcharged by about $36 when did did a cash/credit card split; luckily our math skills weren't that impaired, but then it took a good 15-20 more minutes to fix it. Overall service was slow considering that the place wasn't that busy, but I felt bad for our waiter, who really seemed to be trying. I wasn't impressed with the pretzels (more doughy than pretzely); pizza was just ok.
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