Michael Frisch

Review of Boylan Bridge Brewpub

The view is very nice, if you cannot sit outside a...

The view is very nice, if you cannot sit outside and enjoy the view then go somewhere. With that out of the way: the food/beer is either average or sub-par depending on what you get and the service is absolutely awful. I've only been once and I had low expectations going in based on the other reviews on Google. Lets just say the expectations were met. The couple of sandwiches my wife and I tried were okay; the fries that came with them were pretty good. The pretzel appetizer is as if they heated up frozen pretzels and the accompanying cheese dip was gross flavor-wise and consistency; they should change to mustard from a bottle instead so that it's at least passable. The beers weren't the worst I've ever had but they weren't as good as any of the other Raleigh breweries. The service would be an improvement if you just placed orders yourself and walked up to pick up the orders. Our waitress forgot my first beer order entirely, we couldn't flag her down to take our orders for about 25 minutes, she forgot our appetizer order, our waters never got refilled, and then we couldn't flag her down to get our check. This place would never been in business if it weren't for the view. That said, I would take friends/family here in the future but only if we can sit on their outside patio. Set your expectations very low and you won't be disappointed.