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| - The beer is tasty, the building is beautiful, the service isn't bad. The rooftop bar is gorgeous. My major issue with Lone Girl though is with their food and how management has handled a pretty severe customer complaint. I am a chef, and am food safety certified. My certification is based off of the 2013 Health Code. Almost every food item on the menu contains something fried, and most of those items are crab cakes. This includes their desserts, both of which incorporate fried food, like a cookie dough egg roll that is fried in the same oil as crab cakes. Shellfish/seafood are part of the big 8 allergens. It is a larger part of food safety certification that it is neither business smart nor safe to have one fryer for literally all of your fried food, due to the large variety and prevalence of food allergies. There was a complaint made to Lone Girl via their Facebook page, saying that the menu is inaccessible to those with allergies, especially shellfish. The management simply said they hoped the patron would return to try a "burger, soup, or salad." There is one salad that is available for those with this allergy. How management disregarded the severity of the complaint, losing not just one customer completely, but losing an entire community of customers, is not ok. As someone with a shellfish/fish allergy, and speaking for the patron with the deathly shellfish allergy, this is unacceptable. I still return for the beer, but cannot have more than one without needing to eat, which will make returning more difficult.
I will say, the beers that they made, when they first opened, were pretty tasty. I thoroughly enjoyed their sweet stout. They also did a great job at bringing in local breweries, and quality ones at that, for guest taps.
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