Brick & Brew Reviews Summary

Category: Gastropub

Address: 26 W State St, Media, PA 19063, USA

Phone: +14844438441

Rating: 4.4
based on 189 reviews.

Ambiance

Pros:

  • "Great ambience & decor."
  • "The atmosphere is excellent and the staff is always friendly."
  • "Great atmosphere. Really good cocktails and beer selection."
  • "The interior is very rustic and includes a bar, brick oven pizza, and a handful of tables and booths."
  • "What a lovely place, has been decorated with a lot of thought."
  • "The atmosphere was casual and fun - perfect for dinner and drinks with friends!"
  • "It's a very warm and inviting atmosphere."

Cons:

  • "It can get rather loud and crowded during nights and weekends but that doesn't bother us at all."
  • "Ambient noise is very high. Been there many times. Can be a long wait."
  • "It's not a place to go for a quiet romantic night because it fills up easily and can get very loud."
  • "The downside is it tends to be a little trendy with very loud music."
  • "Food was fine, was hoping for a chill dinner with family and the music was way tooooo loud no one could talk/hear each other."
  • "Cute place. Noisy."
  • "The only downside is that the music was a bit too loud for us."

Service

Pros:

  • "Service can be hit or kiss by I don't care much when I enjoy the food and ambiance as much as I do here."
  • "Great food, beer, whiskey selection and service."
  • "The staff here are very friendly and helpful."
  • "Excellent service! Would highly recommend!"
  • "We had great service with very attentive help."
  • "The servers were friendly, patient, and informative - this place is highly recommended and will definitely return in the future!"
  • "Our waiter was exceptionally good, friendly, and offered suggestions that were very helpful."

Cons:

  • "The service is slow. The water they give you is in a small glass, so you run out of quickly, but the waiter was never around to do a refill."
  • "The low point of my day was the horrible service and treatment I received from Javan (the bartender)."
  • "Service is sub-par and my husband and I visited on Tuesday and ordered the fish lettuce tacos and they were salty as if the cook was a smoker and could not tell that they had oversalted the fish."
  • "With the place barely a quarter full the service was still very slow."
  • "Horrible customer service. 2:20pm 9/4/2021"
  • "Management is atrocious and rude."
  • "Today the service was extremely slow, our food took too long to come!"

Food

Pros:

  • "The burgers were fabulous, the coconut shrimp toastos and fried pickles!"
  • "The food was delicious."
  • "Um, I'm still a little dumbfounded over how perfect these french fries were!"
  • "The duck sliders here were amazing!"
  • "The food is so tasty and the portions are amazing for a Gastropub."
  • "The food is terrific, and they have a specials menu with delicious and interesting options that cycle out every week or so."
  • "The food excellent - we had the burger and the sliders."

Cons:

  • "I ordered a salad, there was maybe a third of the amount of food there usually is & the dressing was already mixed in, which would be fine except there was so. much. dressing."
  • "I ordered the shrimp flat bread. It was brought out very shortly after everyone else's food. It was completely uncooked."
  • "The crab dip was good, not amazing, but good. Everything else sucked."
  • "Carmel beignets looked fantastic- until we bit into them and got a mouthful of uncooked dough."
  • "The lobster mac n cheese was a little on the greasy side."
  • "The mahi mahi was dry and tasted fishy."
  • "The fried pickles were very thinly sliced length wise which makes a flimsy bendy mess."

Drinks

Pros:

  • "Their cocktails are the best around."
  • "The cocktails are amazing especially the old fashion and sazerac."
  • "The craft beer and cocktails here are great. Many to choose from with unique ingredients."
  • "The whiskey sour (which is still the best I've ever tasted anywhere) was just as fantastic as always."
  • "The bar mix drinks are phenomenal and they have a good beer selection."
  • "The drinks here are great. If you like whiskey especially."
  • "Cocktails were well made with quality ingredients."

Cons:

  • "None of the beers appealed to me."
  • "The drinks (as expected,) were overpriced."
  • "The cocktails were also just ok, and way too sweet."
  • "Cocktails however were pretty mediocre and they didn’t have ranch dressing."
  • "I started drinking whisky sours because of this place but now their sour is mediocre and is not freshly made."
  • "The drinks (as expected,) were overpriced."
  • "$7 to add 4 small burned shrimp to a salad is criminal."

Management

Pros:

  • "Great time, the manager here is spectacular! She was super accommodating to my very awkward situation."
  • "The manager was very accommodating and was able to get us a s’more shake even though they were no longer on the menu."
  • "The staff was great and went out of their way for a great meal."
  • "They handled it fairly enough."
  • "The service and food were outstanding! From calling to make a reservation, to be being greeted to the service and the food was fantastic!"
  • "Jaime was our waitress and she was AMAZING, great customer service, friendly and very attentive."
  • "The staff is on point."

Cons:

  • "What appeared to be a lead or manager approached and frankly and adamantly told us that he could not join our table."
  • "The low point of my day was the horrible service and treatment I received from Javan (the bartender)."
  • "Management is atrocious and rude."
  • "They only want your money and don’t want you to sit and enjoy your time there."
  • "The manager was absurdly rude."
  • "Management is atrocious and rude."
  • "The manager was absurdly rude."

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