Liz P.
Yelp
So this should be more of a 3-star review but I'm preemptively giving them 4 stars.
We went here yesterday with two of my boyfriend's friends who live in South Lyon and whom frequent the Hat, as they call it. This was my first time there. The Hat was hosting drag queen bingo, and as a result, our server wasn't really available for us ... We literally had four different people bringing us things, none of whom were super reliable. (For example: no one could find our check at the end, either, so we had to list off everything we had purchased...)
That being said: the food was excellent. Probably 5/5 from me - we had the special, the Reuben pickle wonton rolls, which was amazing, especially with the 1000 Island sauce, and my entree, the chicken and waffles, was also good, with a huge portion (it also came with fries). Our friends got the Mac and cheese with Nashville hot chicken and it arrived with regular chicken instead, so the restaurant brought some hot sauce for them. We ordered another round of the pickles and they brought the wrong ones (the regular pickle and cream cheese wonton rolls) but did correct it.
Drinks were also very good, my favorite being "Dames and the Giant Peach," which tasted more like cider than a sour beer. You're also allowed to taste anything you want before buying, I had two stouts I tasted but didn't really like.
My boyfriend bought a few beers to take home as well and the cashier asked him how our dinner was and if anything could have been better. He kind of was like, oh, it was okay... And the cashier was like, yeah, I know service could have been better tonight, sorry about that. One of the beers was $10 per can because it's a specialty of theirs, and the cashier ended up comping him one of the two cans he bought in order to make up for the service, which I thought was a nice gesture.
So yes, this review would have been three stars out of five but my boyfriend's friends said that this type of service was very unusual for them, so I'm preemptively giving the Hat four stars.