Browns Socialhouse Rochdale — Restaurant in Regina

I've been to Browns Socialhouse a few times here in Regina and elsewhere. This review is for the location on Rochdale in Regina but can probably be broadly applied to other locations.

A friend was feeling a bit down so I took him out to Browns for some drinks and a meal.

Food was great. No problems with that. I had the Tiki Tuna Poke bowl and he had nachos.

For drinks I started off with a cider. Okay. Next I moved on to my "girl drink drunk" mode and ordered a fuzzy navel. No one there knew what a fuzzy navel was. I had to explain it to them.

Woeful sigh.

Then they didn't have orange juice, so I told them that they can make it with pineapple juice and it would be okay. It was. So I had several of those.

Ended the night with a Guiness. Don't worry, daughter #2 was on call for a safe ride home.

It was all good, but it would be nicer if they knew their cocktails better, and if they had a few more on-tap options, and better support for local breweries and distilleries.

I get that it's a chain, and consistency is king with chains, but it's also good to support local.

I'd probably give them 3.5 stars, but since I cannot give half stars I'm...

We were there on Saturday before the supper rush., ordered our food and waited 45 minutes for it to come out. Once it did, 3/4 meals came out cold. 1 of them was the pasta, the other two the butter chicken. The butter chicken sauce came in cast iron dish which one would think would be so hot you could not touch it, however it was cold to touch. We sent our meals back, new ones were made, and they still were not hot. We felt bad sending them back a second time so we just ate them how they were, plus we didn't have time to wait for them to be re made. Our waitress was nice, however she walked by our table empty handed many times and we had empty glasses and bottles on edge of table that could have been taken away as she walked by. The plexiglass dividers between tables had food, grease stains and fingerprints on them, which makes me think they are not sanitized in between sittings. We used to go to Brown's all the time and have never been disappointed, not seeing any reason to...

Browns is a more upscale yet casual dining restaurant. The food is always unique and they have feature meals they run to give the menu a bit more variety as well.

I regularly go with one lady who is so crazy for their Cowboy Salad that if Browns stopped making it she’d pack up her stuff and leave this planet. There was a brief scare that this had actually occurred about a month and a half ago, (turned out it was the Cowgirl Salad) and I almost needed to have some type of crisis phone number for an intervention - so to Browns management: if you decide to get rid of the Cowboy Salad....be prepared to have the military intervene.

I recently had the spicy chicken sandwich - it was amazing. Oh, and If you’re a wine drinker. 24 bucks and you’ve got yourself a bottle of their social Red that you can cork and take home.

The only downside is it seems the total open design of these restaurants channels noise - sometimes it’s very...