FaultLine Reviews

Decent beer good service and good appetizers. I didn't try real food. But beer and appetizer where good at a decent price. But not overwhelming.

Come on a sunny day to its outdoor sitting. It is beautiful and yet quiet. The beer is great, and the fish dishes are delicious. A great place to meet after work as well as it is conveniently located next to 101. If you like live music, come on a Friday evening.

Went here for lunch. The burger and pork sandwiches were good but pricey. The server was friendly and attentive.

Brewpub does a variety of beer styles well, food less successfully. Realize this is San Jose, but sawing through a $32 ribeye is a bit disappointing. Appetizers edible but not exciting - envision them being dumped into the fryer out of a Sysco box. Belgian style beers were good. Aesthetic is open lodge style, busy bar and dining areas, very noisy with concrete floors and zero sound absorption. Worth a visit for the beer.

Huge place with a friendly atmosphere and inviting staff. If it were located anywhere else the prices would be ridiculous but in the middle of Silicon Valley I guess it makes sense. Doubt I ll be back though.

Great ambiance and service. Food standard fare and bit pricey.

I have had several items on their lunch on dinner menu, their lunch menu is by far the best. I give them four stars because their dinner plates are hit or miss. The food is delicious and tastefully presented. I have also had their 2-5pm menu (since we did not know they stop serving entrees during that time) and I highly recommend their butternut squash bruschetta. I am not a beer drinker, but I have been there with a Groupon for beer sampler and appetizers, it's a good deal.

Food and Beers taste really good, we enjoy the service as well!

Love this place. Especially the beer. Good place to go for lunch or dinner. The best time is happy hour.

This place isn't bad but for a California brewery the draft selections are severely wanting. The space and ambiance are unique but strange--not necessarily in a bad way but it's like something doesn't add up. Server was friendly and the food came out quickly. But the food and beer weren't much to write home about. Would be an attractive option if it were closer to me but I've got better local options.

Had the ESB and the Kolsch.. Both were tasty. Appetizers were a good value and didn't disappoint.

This place is usually crowded I dont know why. We went there once for happy hour. My friend's beer was not even cold! The food is just alright.. not amazing at all for the price.

Good atmosphere, pretty good food. Skip the Kobe burger though - not good enough for the price regardless of the number of superlatives in the menu.

Beer is great, happy hour is reasonably priced, food is only so-so.

Faultline has a very attractive multi-level interior layout with exposed wood beams. There is a great selection of beers on tap and the food menu has something to please everyone. Especially of note is the level of service. From the greeters to the servers and bus servers, everyone was excellent!!

Great food. Very nice atmosphere for dining. The high point is the beer. All the standard beers are quite good and the specialty beers are often outstanding.

Like, your standard high carb restaurant. Nice, but don't overdo it.

Faultline is a typical BrewPub with a great selection of their own beers and a pretty good Happy Hour menu. It's commonly busy but not too noise, so small groups can enjoy conversation in the bar.

Faultline Brewing has a very large and fantastic assortment of beers
from all over. The staff are always courteous and very very helpful.
My wife and I always enjoy our sessions and time at Faultline.

The burgers and homemade fries were amazing! They have some great toppings for the fries too! We watched them make the fries in front of us at the bar. Wonderful selection of beers too!

Great atmosphere, went on a Friday night and the food was great, but my waiter was terribly slow with my drinks which was not that big of deal except that the pasta was a good bit spicy, but very tasty, I enjoyed the place despite the service, the live band was great

First time here for a company lunch. Good food and beer. Nice little gem in Sunnyvale.

amazing collection of beer... good for company outings... their appetizers are real good... gets pretty busy during happy hour

Tasty food at a good price. We had the chicken and sausage gumbo and fish and chips. Both delicious and decent portions. The nitro stout and hazy ale were nice compliments. Also loved having the ducks for company.

The beer is cold and fresh!! The food is delicious..the smoked wings and pizza are my favorite. Most importantly the service is top notch!! They are very attentive and always make sure you're 100% happy. Really big tv for watching football. I love this place.

Great choice of beers but the vegetarian food options are limited.

Good food and beer! I've been here several times when traveling for work. I would never call the staff "friendly," but always pleasant; I always sot at the bar. The dopplebock is ome of my favorites.

Good time, enjoyed my night with me and my wife. #romantic

Let me just say -- this place made me sad! Why wouldn't you be open all day saturdays & sundays? As for vegan options.. they do have a few overpriced items on the menu but if you want something tasty and healthy, you might as well swing by Merit Vegetarian (almost across the street) first. Huge portions to share & soooooo much variety. We were looking for a place to have a pint & play some cards & hopefully be able to get some decently-priced vegan foodstuff while we were at it. Oh well.

I ordered Fish of the day. I ate mahimahi, vegetables and mashed potatoes. Fish dishes are a pleasure for Japanese people when they are tired of steaks. The price is cheaper than the restaurant in the hotel, and since there are small dishes to large dishes, you can get a menu depending on your stomach condition.

We were 8 people and they had trouble to accommodate. Took the flight of beers and I really liked 3 out of 10. It does have a good atmosphere though.

beer was cold fast services at the bar would recomand for people who like beer

I would give this place 3.5 stars. This place is huge, and if you re looking for a place to go with coworkers for happy hour this might be a good choice. We got 2 flights and tried all 10 beers. They were alright beers, a couple were pretty good, but nothing that stood out. The calamari was good but really really oily, and when it got cold they got really soggy. Not sure how the rest of the food is here, but I think overall this place is not bad, not great.

Best beer I have ever had at a brew pub. Get the Kolsch! Food is excellent and usually the menu has some new items when we drop by. Keeps thing fresh.

Very delicious food. Really convenient location. A little bit $$, but also nice for a nice dinner out.

Always good service, great atmosphere, and a trip down memory lane to when I used to live in Sunnyvale, CA 20 years ago

The clean and spacious space is impressive, but the food is not good in quantity or taste. I would like to taste various draft beer.

Beers were stylistically on point, good variety and brewed well. Food was really good, especially for the price. Atmosphere was really nice being next to a duck pond. Highly recommend.

Wow, what happened to this place??? Food used to be good here. This day, three of us ordered a few appetizers and a main for each. My main was fish and chips. Appetizers were small portions and really not good at all. My fried fish was very oily... really oily that it was soggy. Cooked before the oil reaches optimal temperature? The side tartar sauce like concoction was watery and blend also. Thought about giving 3 stars for the ambience. But, service was very slow, making us search for them throughout the dinner. The first plate was the main for one of us instead of the appetizers. That main looked skimpy...

Is the new management aware of what's going on -- need more servers and careful chefs.

2 stars from me...

Still offering flights of beer during COVID, ten 3 oz pours of their beers for $15, so that's great! Their beers ranged from yuck to surprisingly tasty. I was pleasantly surprised by their hefe. Their hazy was meh and stout was eh. Their service was pretty nice, but, after we got the beer flights and were enjoying them they informed us we have to order food too... So, garlic fries for me and a salad for my friend. The fries were garlicky and crispy for sure and my buddy didn't complain about the salad but didn't praise it either. Overall, nothing to get super excited about unless you just like chilling on the patio, by the pond, with construction and road sounds nearby, enjoying different beers and some snacks.

The Sunday hrs is from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM. All the other days is from 11:00 AM to 9:30 PM

Great food, amazing service and just a fantastic place to have a good time out with friends. Watch the game, have their brewed beer.

Great Location. Food prices and portions reasonable. Great Bear Selection!

Good food, fresh beers. We've been at Faultline number of times. Located in the center of the Silicon valley, it's quite convenient a place to release stress after work.
A signature burger and a glass of IPA will go together well.

Had the gumbo $19 which was good. Staff was friendly and accommodating.

Goodish service. Beautiful building. Gross food though. Sadly disappointing

I say one of the best breweries in the bay area inn the pandemic!

A nice place to hook up with friends but i had the Gumbo yesterday and thought that it wasn't that good. The rice was under cooked, the chicken supper dry and had way to much pepper. Hopefully their chef will read this and get control of the menu. Gordon Ramsey wouldn't be happy here either. At leas i don't think so.

Good food and service, but gosh... When wearing a mask please remember to cover your noses. It's pointless to wear it without covering your mouth AND noses. Made me felt super unsafe.

Food was not worth the price and service was so slow

Food selection, beer and views of the ponds are pretty good. Will go back again!

The place is really nice.
Everything is impressive, starting from the interior and all the way to the taste of their food and craft beer. Recommend to anyone, wether you are looking for romantic diner, or you just want to have a drink and watch some sport!
Great place!

Location is perfect...not too far away from many popular companies. This place gets really busy during lunch hours as many business lunches are held due to the ideal location. I love the setting they offer. It can be business casual as you like or you can ask for outdoor seating by their pond which would make it more intimate dining experience. Food is really great. I love their seasonal Louisiana-style gumbo. And their fish tilapia is made just perfect cooked in wrapped aluminum foil. And of course, you can't go wrong with their selection of beers.

Love the beer selection here... Cask conditioned stout today. They also do flight of their beer. Great salads (kale Cesar) and burgers.
Had a lot of fun a while back here with a Special Olympics fundraiser.

Beer was good hence the two stars, food on the other hand was 0 Stars. We ordered the pretzel and beer cheese which was tolerable the vegetable ceviche was incredibly chunky pretty much just cauliflower with some lime juice and seasonings,. the chips that came with it we're all food dye colored we asked for plain chips and they didn't have any so we ate the plain chips that were mixed sparsely in the colored chips then asked for some more chips and they charged us for another bowl of chips, fish and chips was acceptable. Service on the other hand wasn't the greatest. the place was packed though so I don't think they're going to be hurt by losing our business.

Great establishment, atmosphere, etc. Been coming here for some time and is a great environment to meet to catch up, have work lunch, etc.

For okay food, this place is way too overpriced. I know Faultline used to have a chef back in the day that I liked but I feel like he s not there anymore. I think the place could be better but it might just be a bit lazy because of the good traffic it gets from people that work locally. There is a rewards program that s cool and it s easy location wise but I think this place could be a lot better.

Way overpriced for what you get. Portions are mostly OK, but paying $26 for a plain burger is rather silly. There are much better options nearby, save yourself the money and go somewhere else.

We love faultline. Great outdoor seating, good beer flights, and until recently the ability to fill growlers. We hope they get their license sorted soon.

Great place for watching sports and having a good beer.

The beer bar restaurant that the company's colleagues admire is very rich in beer. This time I tasted IPA plus Gumbo, IPA is bitter and sweet, and the flavor is mellow. Gumbo has a variety of seafood immersed in thick dark sauce.

Wonderful salmon with capers and green beans, great margarita. Inexpensive too. Well worth it after not eating out in months. Outdoor dining.

A variety of beer and snacks in a casual atmosphere.
But a little fuss.

The service is always great here, and with the different beers there is always something new to try and the servers are all very knowlegable of different beers and what to pair them with.

The food is really good, its a few steps above standard pub food but not so fine dining you're out of pocket and wondering what just happened!

I love the full bar as well - its not everyday you have a brewery serving anything other than beer - so its a treat for your non beer drinking pals!!!

Definitely pricey. Beer was good, food was nothing extraordinary but was good too. Beer variety was something I wasn't expecting, usually local breweries only have a handful of options. Faultline had at least 8 or 9 different styles. Among the styles I can remember were: English Porter, Nitro Stout, California Pale Ale, Red Ale, Hefenwizen, Dunkelwizen, Indian Pale Ale.

A great beer selection with delicious food. The wait for food can sometimes be a little long, but seems to be due to its popularity. They also fill growlers.

Great location, beer and food. Service leaves you cold

Great place to take out of town visitors after work! Food/Appetizers are amazing... I hear the beer is great too but I do not partake... But gets very loud....fun atmosphere if you can handle the back ground noise!

This is one of my go-to restaurants in the Bay Area. Food is always great, wait times are never too long, even without a reservation. Spring and summer ushers in the outdoor patio use too! The entire staff is obsessed with ensuring that you have the best experience possible. Oh yeah-- then there's the BEER.

The place has a decent selection of beers (a couple of the IPAs were a hit at the table). The food isn't anything special and although the portion sizes are large, the meals are expensive for what you get.

The restaurant is huge, can host large groups and attracts a lot of after-work and corporate drinks crowd. The service is attentive and friendly and the open layout and the sunny garden with a fountain goes some way towards making up for the otherwise middling food.

The beer is good, but food is "eh." Not only mediocre in substance, but decidedly overpriced. Apparently the kitchen closes an hour before the bar at the very least on Thursdays, which is surprising considering they only stay open until 9:30 anyway. Also, it was probably just a bad night, but our server was inattentive to the point of seeming disinterested in us being there at all.

If they're going for gourmet they really need to work on their food, if they're going for a more homely brewpub, they need to come down on price and stay open later. Half of each just makes the place seem half assed all around.

Fantastic service, delicious german menu for Oktoberfest, definitely do the flight for all the beers. Wonderful experience, I will 100% be back.

Good beer n good... Really nice staff. We'll be back.

Delicious food. Great drinks. Friendly staff. Beautiful location. We have done many team events here and all are excellent. It is a local brewery so no other beer but you won't miss them or so I'm told.

I have been here several times and Faultline is a pretty good brewpub. It's reliable for what it is- a nice after work happy hour type place to get beer and appetizers. A few tweaks to the beer and the menu and they would get 5 stars from me.
This is a great place for groups or a company event, as the space is large and has nice indoor/outdoor options.
I suggest getting the beer sampler so you can taste their wares and decide which one you would like the best. Surprisingly for me, I really liked their Kolsch last time I was there.

Great beers, awesome food, fair prices and good service. I really liked this place. Great for watching a game.

In a word: underwhelming. Beer was decent, but not great (only had the IPA). I liked the smokey wings, but wish they more than one sauce (which wasn't buffalo). The Beef Dip was recommended, but I'm really not sure why. Reminded me of Steak-umms...#justsayin. And for some reason, my waiter was actually a busser. Don't get me wrong, he was awesome, but it was odd. It was busy, but not that busy. So overall, not a bad experience, but not a good one either. Underwhelming.

Very nice in the summer to sit out in the garden - why don't more places have this? Suitable for both lunch and dinner events. Good if you can get a table at the bar also if you want snacks and drinks. Good service. Can be very busy and noisy through. Beer is wonderful.