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| - Heist has a new brewer! The beer just got a whole lot better. Many different styles, fresh ideas, Belgian inspired but palatable for any taste. Except maybe hopheads, no IPAs as far as I can tell.
The food has gone downhill for me though. If you don't like rootbeer or candied things in your savory meal, then you'll have a hard time finding something here. If you are really hungry and have only about ten bucks to spend, you'll also have a really hard time. The food really is well prepared and creative and unusual, but prices of 12 dollars and up for tapas size portions of food are not for everyone. They have really awesome rosemary tater tots. But you better chew slowly, since they are about a dollar a tot. Burger sliders and ribs come without a side. And the actual burger and open-faced sandwiches that were decent portions are now not on the menu anymore.
Heist fills a void in Charlotte - the brewery that also offers food. But I can think of any number of places to have a better meal for the amount of money spent here, and I don't really plan to spend big when I go to a brewery. Obviously, other people feel differently, the place tends to be pretty crowded.
A word on Wednesday night trivia - not great. There is only a prize for first place (25$), not one of second and third like other places to. The questions are hardly knowable 50% of the time (How many grammy nominations did McCartney get? How much money did some random video game collection sell for and how many games were in it?) Nerdy, purely pop-culture questions. Wednesday night trivia at Revolution just down the road is a better alternative.
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