Kayla B.
Yelp
A welcoming, beer-forward, wood-looking restaurant. I was surprised by how much we enjoyed the food and drinks here, and we're already looking forward to coming back to take advantage of some of their other specials in the future.
PROS:
-I'm a pretzel snob. Like, it's by-far one of my favorite foods. It isn't often that I come across pretzels I haven't had before, and the Short North Pint House has me dead to rights here. They have a $19 (it's expensive) "pretzel flight" that's made up of 3 pretzels and 3 corresponding dips. It is expensive for how much food you get, but the pretzels are (literally) stuffed. There's cream cheese in one of them and cheese in another. They're probably some of the most unique pretzels I'm going to have this entire year.
-Tablemate got the wings. He said they were were good. They were overcooked and a bit dry, but that's all that he said would have kept them from being genuinely great. Good wing size, sauce flavor, and heat.
-Really, really good espresso martini.
-I'm not sure if they're beyond-packed on Thursday or dead, but they have wing specials, beer specials, $5 Espresso martinis, and more on Thursday. It's a wild day full of specials.
CONS:
-Almost all (I wanna say, like 90%) of the seating is high top tables meant for at least 4 people (in many cases, 4-12). If you're someone who doesn't find high tops comfortable or can't get on them, this will be problematic. There are a few picnic-style tables in the very back, but when I went, this section said "seating offlimits".
-It's kinda loud in here. We came during off-peak times, and it was still pretty hard to hear one another. Bright side: we did end up getting a table though. But I imagine this place can be one of those "scream at your nearby tablemate" places when they're at peak hours.
-We came for the Restaurant Week menu during the Restaurant Week days. The waitress, however, let us know they had chosen to stop doing Restaurant Week there a day early. Not awesome, but she was really helpful about showing us what items on their everyday menu were similar or the same as the Restaurant Week menu.