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| - I had an overall good first experience at BeerHive. The food was much better than I would have expected for "bar food." I ordered the chicken fingers and they had a delicious sweet potato breading- amazing! My friend tried a burger and also had nothing but good things to say about it. Fries were ok, nothing special. Fairly limited menu, but everything we ordered was good.
The on tap beer selection was nothing to rave about, which I found surprising for a specialty beer bar. I would have expected more than 8-10 beers on tap. It was a good variety of more unusual beers, however. My main complaint was that the type of beer (ie. wheat, stout, IPA) was not listed anywhere. Our waitress was new, so she was unable to answer any of our questions about the beer selection. They did seem to have an extensive bottle beer selection, however.
Ambience: average. It looks like a typical sports bar. The downstairs bar area is fairly small with only a few tables and a counter along the wall, but there is additional seating upstairs. Menus were shabby looking and could definitely use a makeover. The restaurant itself was clean, at least. Local artwork on walls for purchase.
Service: somewhat slow, as I would expect for a new establishment. It took a while for the bartenders and waitress to notice us, even though it wasn't at all busy. Once we ordered, it was quick. We had to ask for glasses- our beers were handed to us in bottles, which seemed weird for a "beer" bar.
I would come back again for a drink and a meal, but I wouldn't recommend it to any beer connoisseurs. There are other bars with a more extensive draft list catering to that crowd. Might be a good place to watch sports. There was a Steelers preseason game on TV as we were leaving and most of the people in the bar were there to watch it (complete with yelling at the TV).
Prices were very reasonable.
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