OK beer, avoid the food.

OK beer, avoid the food.

My wife and I had been buying Rare Vos and 3 Philosophers in stores for awhile and thought we'd travel to the brewery since we live within 2 hours.

We stopped in for lunch around 1:40 pm and had a 30 minute wait - which is fine given this seems to be a popular place. Once seated, we ordered our food and beer. I ordered the Chicken & Waffle and the Neon Rainbow New England IPA. My wife ordered the Roast Beef sandwhich and the Rosetta sour ale.

We waited 30 minutes to get our food, although the beer arrived quickly. My waffle was burnt to the point where my butter knife did not cut the waffle but instead chipped off pieces. The chicken and sauce were fine but nothing to write home about. My wife's roast beef was very fatty amd impossible to cut with a butter knife. She tried to chew a bite of her sandwich but had to spit out her bite because the roast beef was impossible to chew. She and I had to switch plates. When I attempted to bite into the roast beef sandwich, my teeth wouldn't cut through the meat so I had to rip the meat with my fingers in order to complete a bite. The beef was very fatty and sold chilled. If you are going to do chilled roast beef it needs to be a different cut. If you are using this style of roast beef, it shouldn't be served in a sandwich.

Both of these entrees were $15 each. Let me tell you, even if done correctly, these were not worth that kind of money. The roast beef was maybe worth 10.95 if done correctly. The chicken and waffles maybe 12.95. We ate our entire meal because we didn't want our money to go to waste. If you don't want to waste your money, don't eat here.

My wife did enjoy her Rosetta beer, as well as the candied stout she had after. I did not like the NE IPA I had. My wife and I travel around to a lot of local and not local breweries. We enjoy trying all of the different beers. One of my favorite styles is NE style IPAs. This one was not really comparable to others I've had by "less famous" breweries. There was almost no haze and no citrus flavor to speak of.

The general atmosphere is one of indifference. We didn't really feel comfortable telling management about our food being terrible because we didn't feel they would care. Ommegang is a nationally famous brewery (did Game of Thrones go to their heads?) and they generally don't care about your experience as much as they do your wallet. Felt like just another visitor to cram into the day for them.