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| - When you visit a restaurant in its opening days, it's expected that things will be a little uneven. That said, this place shows lots of promise.
The negative straight up: Service was extremely slow. Our server was pleasant, but trying to be multiple places at once; communications with the bar weren't flowing well. I saw our beer flight sitting on the bar for over five minutes (I timed it) before our server went to fetch it.
However, there are bountiful positives. My husband loves craft beer and there's not much available on the west side, much less places that offer growler fills. We ordered the beer flight. My husband found them all drinkable and had to really debate which of his new favorites to get as a growler.
We were visiting mid-afternoon on Sunday and didn't need a full meal. We ordered the pretzel appetizer. Now, I'm a bread snob; I make all my bread at home. These are exceptionally good pretzel sticks--perfect chewy texture with proper pretzel salt on top. The cheese dip was what really made this awesome. It had real body and complex flavor--cheese and some kind of ale, and it was thick so it actually stayed on the pretzel bread. (Applebees serves nasty, watery cheese dip--bleh!)
I watched all the other food that passed by. The pizzas here looked and smelled good, too.
We will definitely be back! Here's hoping they get lots of business and attention, and the service issues are resolved with time and experience. We certainly need more good, local places like this.
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