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| - Oh, Yelp, when will you allow fractional star ratings? I so want to give this place 3.5 stars, but alas, my hands are tied with your outdated single star system. You see, for it is not the fault of Brew House that they are being robbed of this half star, oh no, it is Yelp who has stolen this from them. Allow me to preface with this, I have bestowed upon thee oh Brew House Bar & Grill, the rating of 3 and one half stars. You are definitely better than average yet just shy of winning my fandom. But why? Why not four? You were so close...
About 6:30pm, just your average Wednesday. There was visible construction happening on the outside deck, a sign of progress and better things to come, no doubt, but being our inaugural visit we opted to experience what the innards had to offer. High ceilings, ample light from large windows that line the front of the building and flat screens hanging from just about everywhere they could be hung - 2 behind the bar, 2 above the bar, 4 massive screens flanking every side of the mammoth, square fireplace centerpiece, a few more dotting the walls of the dining room for good measure. Clearly catering to the sports bar crowd.
I found the seating arrangement to be a bit curious. Very large, vinyl-clad banquette style booths surround the fireplace but the tables they service are small, two-tops. Not sure why you'd wand a bench that could handle 5 asses surrounding a table built for two. I thing regular tables would have made for a better use of the space, but I'm no interior designer. Sorry, getting tangential on you.
Empty. That's the first word that came to mind when we walked in. There were only two people in the whole place. Probably just felt extra vacant because of how big the space is to begin with. The restaurant staff was huddled at the far end of the bar having a conversation. Employee meeting, maybe. Anyway, we were greeted by the bartender who told us to sit anywhere and took one of the hightops by the bar. Our server broke off from the pack and wandered over menus in hand smile on her face. She was pleasant and gave us some time to peruse.
With a name like Brew House you'd expect them to know their way around a beer tap. You'd be right. While the draught beer selection is large, 36 taps, it is populated in large part by a great deal of "ho hum". I get it, they are trying to cater to a very broad demographic, not just beer geeks. I bet the locals aren't exactly a crowd big on sour ales and barrel-aged imperial stouts. That being said, there were a few gems among the rocks including several local beers from the likes of Fat Head's, Great Lakes, Buckeye, Thirsty Dog and Black Box. Check out their bottles list, too, and you just might find something you've never had before. Kudos to the staff for serving my Goose Island in a sparkling clean hefe glass and for bringing my bottled Dark Horse Crooked Tree IPA with an equally clean pint glass.
Gripe - No prices or pour sizes are listed on the beer menu.
The menu here is pretty large with the usual bar food staples (wings, quesadillas, wraps, nachos - along with sandwiches, pizza, salads, burgers and some larger dinner-sized entrees. We weren't all that hungry so we opted to split a house salad and turkey club sandwich with tots. The salad was good (not like too many salads really blow my mind though), chopped Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, red onions, cukes, croutons, shredded cheddar. Fresh, crispy, good balsamic vinaigrette. The turkey club was very good with turkey, ham, bacon, LTO. The toasted white bread was a disappointment, however, and the sandwich could have been elevated with some ciabatta or thick-cut whole grain. The tots were perfect, crispy, crunch, golden nuggest of cylindrical tater goodness. Just what one wants in a tot.
I guess I'm a bit on the fence with this place. They do have a very good beer selection, the service was good and delivery was well-paced, and the food was tasty. The atmosphere even feels nice and open (aside from the annoying boom-pish dance music that was playing nearly the entire time we were there - just strange) and I bet the fireplace feature is great during the winter, I just can't think of something that was all that memorable about our visit. Maybe we'll give them another shot sometime.
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