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| - I have been looking forward to some more craft beer options in Fort Mill, so when Carolina Ale House opened I had to try it out.
The restaurant is located in the new Kingsley development across from the Brixx Wood Fired Pizza, and beside the amphitheater. The design is similar to most other CAH locations; open concept with the bar in the middle of the space. I have been here a couple of times and each time the place was fairly packed, with about a 45 minute wait.
The food was decent, nothing spectacular, but not bad either. The wings were good, the pulled pork nachos were good. Unfortunately, the burgers left something to be desired.
On to the beer; the place has roughly 80 taps, 10-15 of which were dedicated to your typical mega-brewery offerings (bud, bud light, miller, blue moon, etc...), the rest were standard offerings from more well known regional/national craft breweries, and some local breweries. All in all it was a very safe, uninspired beer menu. No special releases, big imperial IPA's or imperial stouts, sours, etc... Don't get me wrong, there were a few solid beers in there, but nothing that would make me want to plan a special trip there to get it.
The service was another low point for me. Our waitress was missing in action for most of our visit, brought the wrong beer at least once, and was clueless about the beer menu. At one point I had to go up to the bar to get another beer for myself, and a refill of sweet tea for another member of our group. When I got to the bar, I noticed that there were about 6-7 beers sitting up there presumably waiting on a server to come pick them up, with the ticket floating in the top of the beer...
All in all, both times I have visited this location have been quite disappointing. I would say that the rating should be 2 - 2.5 stars, but I rounded up to 3 since they have only been open a couple of months, and probably haven't found their groove yet... I will give them a while and update this rating
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