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| - My boyfriend and I went here for just a casual night out to celebrate a year and a half together. We are both beer lovers so we were excited at the prospect of over 20 draught beers. We were a little disappointed after the promise of a focus on microbrews, we were hoping to see some new ones, and getting Stella Artois and Guinness on draught. Not really what I would consider unique microbrews. Sure, Dogfish Head might have been new and exciting 7 years ago, and not that there's anything wrong with it, but I think any casual beer enthusiast has heard of it, and had it by now. That being said, it was nice to have a place offering more than just Bud Light and Miller Lite.
Moving on, the decor was nice, what you would expect for a pub. It seemed to be pretty clean. The silverware was clean, that's one of my big tests for restaurants. We arrived during happy hour, for which they have some pretty good specials. We both had the soup of the day which was French Onion. It was pretty good. A little on the peppery side and the bread was like a scali bread, a sesame seeded white bread, which was a little weird, but overall the flavor was good. For dinner he had their burger, which he said was good, especially the sauce on the bacon. I had the BBQ Pork Sandwich. The pork itself was quite good. The bread kind of looked like it was the last one in the bag. It was a bit mangled and maybe a bit chewy. It was also.....heavily toasted....very heavily toasted. I almost would have preferred just to just eat the meat plain. The fries were very similar to Red Robin and they were hot and crispy. Finally, our server was decent, prompt and there when we needed her, nothing outstanding, nothing terrible.
We decided we'd probably go again and maybe catch a Cardinals game, try out some of their sliders and enjoy a beer. The food was not as imaginitive as we'd hoped for a gastropub, and the beer selection was not as extensive, but overall, not a bad place.
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