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Thoroughly disapointing!!

Thoroughly disapointing!!
We'd been wanting to go for about a year and on Saturday afternoon we decided to make the 1 hour drive there. I love the beer and the brewery part was great, hence the 2 stars, but the restaurant was a disaster. How on earth is it so highly rated? Upon arriving we were told it would be a 45 or 50 minute wait for a table for 2, despite half the restaurant being empty, and outside had 4 or 5 tables for 2 free the entire time. The 20 year kids who were working the table booking were clueless and it seemed like all the wait staff were far too young. In a "fancy" place like that you need wait staff who've worked in the business, eaten out at other places and have some idea about what decent service is.. The security guard was like 16 and I shudder to think what would happen if a drunken fight started between the many bikers who frequent the place. After an hour and 10 minutes we were finally seated by an unfriendly waitress and it took a full 12 minutes for her to come back to our table and take our drink order. We ordered food and when it came it was brought by a jolly older woman and not the surly waitress, we started to think things were looking up. The food was mediocre at best. I had the Meat Lovers pizza which was supposed to be "Tomato sauce, loaded with daily meat selection & cheese". The pizza had a bland tomato sauce apart from 1 quarter of it that had the BBQ sauce from The Absent Landlord pizza or BBQ checken pizza. Clearly the chef is using the same spoon to spread
both sauce types. The meat selection was incredibly bad and most of it seemed to be pieces of smoked hot dog wiener, which is certainly not what I'd expect from an artisan wood fired pizza. The crust was great though, but didn't make up for the poor quality of the rest of the pizza. My friend had the The Brewhouse Club. This was a tiny, sad, tasteless sandwich. The onion rings were very good though. Overall not a place I would recommend to anyone and I assume they were having an "off day", but if I was running that restaurant I'd get rid of the kids and get some proper experienced people in there.

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