Israel Mejia

Review of Caboose Brewing Company

This place is so overrated. The food tasted very g...

This place is so overrated. The food tasted very generic, portions are very small and ridiculously marked up. It is following the DC area ripoff milennials model where you end up still hungry with a 100+ dollar check. This is the town of Vienna, not DC nor Manhattan where those prices are slightly justified because of how expensive the cities are.
The menu is poor (tiny expensive portions of cod or pork belly were the only proteins--and the vegetarian selections were uninspired and even more overpriced) and beer selection just average.
Also, it is absurd you can have burgers only for a few hours one day a week--we understand that this style is "a thing" but being that this is a brewery, in a warehouse, in Vienna,full of people in bike shorts, we were expecting some food of which one might possibly fashion a nutritionally complete meal that tastes good.
If you want to be trendy, try again,you're about 10-15 years late to the pork belly party. Serving traditional "poverty foods" at a huge mark-up just means you're ripping off your customers while pricing traditional global consumers of these innards and off cuts out of the market. The last thing the DC area needs is more trendy locavore food that takes ingredient sourcing (which does matter, to a point) as a substitute for taste, technique, nutrition, and common sense. Also, apparently it's a license to serve a tiny bowl of plain macaroni w a tiny amount of cheese thrown on top with no other ingredients or seasoning, call it a dish and charge 12+ dollars for it. Seriously, how is your Mac and cheese so bad? We buy the same (great) local cheese at the farmers market downtown, and you somehow have managed to make it completely tasteless. Bottom line, product did not taste like usual quality from these local purveyors.
As long time residents of the Town of Vienna we thought this was a great addition to the town but after visiting we are not that convinced about it.