Tom H.
Yelp
We came in the restaurant today - a slow Saturday afternoon, just looking for a relaxing and cool atmosphere to enjoy a mid-day meal.
We were seated at a booth that clearly has had torn leather seating for a number of days and why that would not be immediately temporarily repaired, until it can be reupholstered later is beyond me.
There were crumbs on the seat as well as on the table. We asked the waitress if she would kindly grab a rag to wipe off the table.
She proceeded to excuse the situation by suggesting that tables are always sticky as the cleaner they use has an adverse interaction with the table top coated finish. She did, of course, accommodate our request and wiped off the table with with a rag and a spray cleanser.
Ownership/ management, get with it and either use different cleaner products or more appropriately refinish your tabletops with a finished coating that can handle cleansers that frequently are applied to wash all wood top tables regularly.
The restaurant offers wing orders of 5, 10 and 15 size servings, respectively. I requested an order of 10, and asked for half of them with sweet and spicy buffalo, and the other 5 to be BBQ.
The waitress came back a little later and told me that they can only give me my 10 wings with one type of sauce. I told her that seemed quite peculiar given that they offer orders of five wings so if I had ordered one order with one type of sauce and another order with another type of sauce, they certainly could've served me two different sauces so what's the problem with doing that with my order of 10?
Further, from my experience (e.g. Rusty Bucket, 101 Beer Kitchen and High Banks competition just 2-8 minutes away), I have always found that chicken wings are customarily served with celery sticks and ranch dressing as well, and it turned out that Brew Dog does not include celery sticks as is commonly done --most disappointing.
When my wife's chicken sandwich and fries were served and my wings were served both her fries and my chicken were cold.
Again, we thought that was odd for a slower afternoon.
They did promptly take care of that situation and rather promptly served us new fries and new wings, and we appreciated it.
It is important that the Kitchen get things right the first time as on a busier night there wouldn't be time for us to wait for a remake nor for the kitchen to prepare it. Not to mention the waste.
My wife had also ordered an ice tea and she requested a pack of Splenda. Unfortunately, they have no other form of sugar other than cane sugar, which does not dissolve very well in a cold drink.
Wondering what consideration the restaurant is giving to somebody who might be diabetic and could not use sugar?
The waitress we had was attentive, but was unsparing in conveying in a rather matter of fact tone and words, a dismissal of our concerns. She specifically said each time I asked about the celery or the ability to deliver my wings with two different sauces that that's just the way they do it here.
I give the waitress credit for at least attempting to offer to bring out the wings plain and to also bring me the sauces on the side, but when you're paying $15.95 for 10 wings, that's not how you want your food served - particularly chicken wings.
Overall, this restaurant needs to be much more attentive and accommodating of their customers, and needs to adopt far more care for the maintenance in the condition of the restaurant and courtesy to their patrons.
The risk you run with skimping on products and service quality is that customer will just skimp too and not return.
I share my comments, respectfully. I'm hoping management will pay attention and turn things around. Brew Dog benefits from a wonderful facility and a great concept with a great location and it would be a shame to see it lose traction