Black Lung Brewing Grayslake — Local services in Grayslake

We've always like Black Lung, but their closest location was just far enough away that we didn't go very often. We're a bit spoiled because there are several really good bar/restaurants within walking distance, and when you get used to being able to walk to a bar, driving to one (and having to have someone stay dry to drive back) is a bummer.

So we were super excited for this location to open in walking distance along with the other places we so often go.

Black Lung's previously closest location to us didn't have room for a kitchen, and this location has one, so we were excited to see their new menu, but also kept our expectations modest. I'm happy to say, we were blown away with what we got (hot honey chicken), and excited to try more.

If you're a fan of micro-brewery beers, you honestly should really like drinking here. They have a lot of great stuff on offer. I'm not a big beer drinker myself, but they have fine bar with a full selection - I had an Old Fashioned that was wonderful and a strawberry mead. (They have mead!)

Service was great. The staff were really, really busy but they were consistently on top checking on our needs.

While we were there there was also live music that was really high quality. I know that's not going to be an every day / all day thing, but it really added to the atmosphere.

As a customer, I feel this opening was a wonderful success. It made me want to go back for basically everything: the drinks, the food, the service and the atmosphere.

In my opinion, a fantastic addition to...

We didn't realize the restaurant recently opened, but even so we hope the score of 3 will help them to get things straight. We arrived a little after 5 pm, not realizing we had to make a reservation. The server said we can eat at the bar or a high top. We chose the high top. The server was fine in the beginning. Once our food came, we asked for napkins, and she said she would get them. We had no silverware either. We were almost finished eating, and we had to ask a different server for napkins. She immediately got them and asked if we needed anything else. Our original server never came back to our table once our food was given to us. She passed by our table a couple times, but never looked at us or asked if we wanted refills or if we needed anything else. Then all of a sudden, she said something to a nearby server, walked past our table, and walked out the door. We could have easily left the building as well, as no one was paying attention, but instead we asked the manager (we believe) for our bill. We said our server was missing, and he did apologize. Besides the lack of service, we did think the food...

Very happy to see Black Lung come to fill the amazing space. It is a perfect location at the intersection of Center and Lake street. We were able to come in for the soft opening before they were fully open so some items may be different from our experience.

The restaurant is open and can be noisy because of the style of the room. There are beautiful art pieces showing off issue is Grayslake and parts of the brewery. They also have some arcade cabinets.

They had a decent menu that we were excited to try. We started the cheese curds. Sure it was more of cheese cubes instead of curds but they were massive and tasted great. My wife had the Summer Grove salad and I had the Habanero hot honey chicken sandwich. We were both very happy with our meals.

I had there Oktoberfest, left fork and the pistachio rose. The Oktoberfest was definitely my favorite followed by the pistachio rose. Would have loved to do a sampler but it wasn't available yet.

If you are in the area it is definitely something...