Last Friday evening I met friends at The Brewery at Carillon Park for dinner and drinks. I was pleasantly surprised by the interior of the building, the food choices and the beer (current and pending) selection. The outside of the building is very rustic, as we saw when we were at Carillon Park for our class a few weeks ago. The inside reminds me of an old barn or mill of some sort. There are pipes or ducts to move grain or liquids from one place to another, a big, brick fire place and the exposed beams are amazing. The bar area was a bit small, but there is plenty of room to sit and eat and even enough space to dance it looked like. Someone was rolling out dough, perhaps for rolls or home pie crusts. The servers were wearing turn of the century costumes, the women in long, prairie skirts and the men in pants and shirts with big sleeves.
The food was amazing! I expected an ok burger, but it was probably one of the best I've had in a long time. Friends I was with had the reuben, which was HUGE. The soft pretzel appetizer was also great. The beer selection was small but still very good and when they start serving their own brewed beer is when people will really start talking. The only negative part of the experience was our server, just didn't seem engaged or as if he wanted to be there.
I snapped this photo before we left, you can see the detail that went into designing the restaurant
. Oh, and there is also a very large banquet room available for parties. Perhaps we should have class there before the end of the semester....Dawne???
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