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| - This place is just solid. Nice place and great location right on the water. It can get crazy busy in the summer (naturally) but the staff and managers still do their damnedest to meet the demand. Some people complain that once in a while their third pint takes a little longer to come, so here's my advice: step 1: politely remind your server or a manager (they have walkie talkies on the ears) 2: stop being an entitled little millennial priss.
Another tip: if you come Sunday evening, which is unfortunately my favourite time to stop by, it's luck of the draw if you want to try the seasonal "adventure" beers like the delicious Oranje Weiss, as they tend to run out.
So listen, it's a brewpub, meaning that you can't go in there expecting the food to be white glove level exquisite, BUT they do have some truly interesting selections. The pizza is wood oven. Yup, actual wood oven. Not nearly good as, say, Pizzeria Libretto, but that's like comparing gold to platinum; they are two of the same thing (metal) but totally different in every way. Still the pizza is quite tasty. Other than the pizza, they have actual entrees, like the swordfish with fennel, the Scotch Egg, ravioli and so on. Ambitious but still not too bad. My latest visit had me trying the wings with ghost pepper suicide sauce. My dining companion thought they were so hot that she was playing tonsil hockey with the devil, but I could have gone a little spicier. Still tasty, so don't mind me; i'm just a masochist when it comes to capsaicin. Of course they have burgers and they're tasty, but let me stress something: $7 for pints of hand-crafted beer by the water! Boom!
Great place to catch the game after a long bike ride (plenty of bike parking outside) with your friends. What really sticks with me each time, garnering a 4-star review is the sincerity of the service. Everyone from the hostesses, the managers, and servers wants you to have a good time and feel taken care of, and that counts for a lot.
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