Do yourself a favor and enjoy a good meal BEFORE you arrive. The restaurant is lovely. Great lighting - loads of warm wood. The staff s super friendly and nice. The beers are fantastic. but the food? pretty awful.
My husband opted for the steak frites - the fries were excellent but the steak? greasy and about as flavorful and tender as chewing on an old leather shoe. I ordered the Sauerbraten with kraut and german potato salad. what arrived was two slabs of hard, grey meat that lacked any flavor (hello? season your food, please) and was dry and tough. i was so hungry that i forced down half of it but just could not manage to talk myself into choking down the other piece. The potato salad was pretty good but the kraut was awful - no flavor. ugh. the plate was a mess.
at the end of the meal we were comped dessert due to table shuffling and big parties arriving etc... the chocolate raspberry cake was excellent, I suspect brought in and they make a good cup of coffee.
All in all, come for the beer but pack a sandwich. I would be hard pressed to every find myself inside Penn Brewery otherwise.