A review of the restaurant- not the beer.
We in Madison are fortunate to have a wide variety of quality eateries, so if you open a restaurant here you'd better have your act together. Rockhound has been open for 10 months but on a recent visit it seemed to be shaking off the cobwebs as if they'd just opened. I get the sense these are newbies. In any case, this place doesn't deserve a long run.
After they finally added a kids menu, we gave it a try early on a Friday night. It was full but we got a table right away. If you care about such things the decor is new but bland.
To cut to the chase: The food is just okay and too expensive for the quality, and service was uneven and filled with mistakes. The menu is full of trendy things like 'grown-up grilled cheese'. I tried three different beers which were all fine- this review is about the restaurant side of things. The poutine fries were okay (there's that word again). The kids' menu items were too expensive for what was served, not too mention they screwed up one of the orders. My elementary school-aged kids eat out all the time and gave the food a grade of 'meh'. They are not picky eaters.
In many cities you would put up with the flaws here, but in Madison we don't have to.