So after drinking Mill Street ales for a while now I figured I should make a visit to the Brew Pub for dinner because for some reason I associated quite good (maybe close to great but still quite good) beer with the possibility of quite good food.
I'm not going to waste your time reviewing the beers. I had a sample platter of beers just to confirm that the beer is still quite good. Rumour is their brew-master left a while back and opened Duggan's Brewery which I'll review later. And yes the beer was as expected.
The menu was Kelsey's like as someone else mentioned. Nothing too challenging or creative - just a breadth of items. So I ordered breadth - sampled 2 apps and a lobster grilled cheese sandwich.
Grilled cheese ($16 by the way) had a fair bit of "lobster" and a fair bit of cheese which was good - however Restaurant Trick 1: use thin slice multigrain bread and everything in-between looks bigger. One of the slices of bread was more from the butt end of the loaf which means the sandwich didn't fit together perfectly. This can be messy with a grilled cheese. Restaurant Trick 2: use the ends for croutons people!
Sweet potato fries could have been more crisp but creamy dipping sauce was interesting - I think they used some beer in it a la Beer Bistro.
Short ribs appetizer served with cold onion filled coleslaw on a cold plate... Needless to say the ribs were cold in places but still reasonably tasty....after all it is pork.
Shrimp tacos were very good and an interesting mix of flavour. The use of breaded shrimp makes me think that they are also used on other bar platters but still it tasted good.
There are another 10 or so apps and on Mondays they are $5 each. Two apps could make a light dinner and $10 is all I'd really be willing to pay for dinner again here - especially since each beer will run you $7+ after the 3 taxes. Save your money for the beer and save yourself the wait, the beer belching Kelsey's patrons and the 30 min wait for a table.