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| - I'm a fan of the food but the service is generally on the bad side.
I've been to Brickhouse countless times since it's so convenient for me. I keep going back because their blackened salmon Caesar salad is one of the best I've come across here at the lake. The piece of salmon is usually generous and when it is well seasoned it is just a delicious dish. Their lunch salads are a great deal, they have six different generously sized salads each priced at $4.99 or $5.99 (the Caesar is $4.99) and then you can add a protein if you wish (chicken $3.99, salmon/shrimp/blackened cod/steak $4.99, tuna $5.99). Which makes my delicious salmon Caesar $9.98 and I always walk away with leftovers. They used to make their croutons in house, yummy deep-fried bad-for-you morsels of deliciousness that I would counsel myself not to eat and would finally give in and eat every last one. Unfortunately they've switched to flavorless store bought croutons that are easily possible to avoid eating and I just pick them off. I have to admit I now rate the salad a 4 instead of a 5 because of that.
Their lunch sandwiches that I have tried and loved include Grilled Chicken Aioli $6.99, Portabella Mushroom with tomato, onion, pepperjack and aioli $5.99, and the Blue Cheese Burger for $6.99. I was not fond at all of their eggplant sandwich $6.99 but that could just be me. I am a bit of a french fry lover and Brickhouse has THE best steak fries in town, hands down.
There is a brick oven as you walk in and they make fantastic pizzas in there. The lunch special every day is your choice of two... a soup or mixed green salad plus any 6" pizza or a grilled cheese tomato sandwich for $7.99. Pizza and a salad make another very generous sized lunch. Even if you go for just a 6" pizza they range from $4.99 for plain to $6.99 for multiple toppings. Are you catching my drift? For the price, this is a fantastic place for lunch if you want a sit down meal.
Now the not so good part. Since their other restaurant opened the services has become spotty and erratic. I waited an hour and 10 minutes one day because the server forgot to put our orders in and when we squawked she said we then got stuck behind two larger parties. I was with 5 other people and pointed out this made me late to get back to work so she offered to get just my meal done for me.?? I have waited in the lobby to be seated for 25 minutes because the kitchen closed itself down until they caught up with themselves. Why'd they get so behind and shut themselves down at 12:10 pm? Because they took a lunch reservation for 22 people at noon and couldn't handle the volume. I've also sat for 40 minutes in the bar area with 4 others while the servers repeatedly apologized that the kitchen was overwhelmed. On the other hand, due to multiple years of eating here I've often had good and great, timely, spot-on service. You simply never know what you're going to get and you need to be prepared for significant waits in case they aren't on their game that day. It has caused me to eat there less frequently which is a shame because I really like this restaurant's food.
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