Blake's Tasting Room — Restaurant in Armada Township

Was very disappointed with food and beers. When we arrived we wanted to stay inside but where told that would be 30 to 40 minute wait but could however be seated immediately if we wanted a table outside. My husband and I agreed to eat outside, not 2 seconds later another girl walks up and says outside was unavailable and that would be a 40 minute wait! Wait what? We then agreed to wait the 30 to 40 minutes for the indoor table. I asked if it would be fine to go to the cider mill while waiting. I was told that would be fine and that they would call me when the table was ready. Well not 5 minutes into the cider mill we receive a call that the table is ready. Ok fine, however it would take us a couple of minutes to get back there. What an attitude I received, I am disabled and cannot walk as fast as I used to. The girl on the other end of the phone said, what it will take you a few minutes? I said yes we just arrived at the cider mill and it will take us a few minutes to get back to the tasting room. You told us it was ok to walk over to the cider mill. She replies, ok whatever. How rude can you be? Our waitress attended to us quite well. The food however was a disappointment. Very small portions and high prices. I have worked in the culinary field for many years and would expect more for the price. Come on people it’s a farm, farms are notorious for substantial, tasty meals. I loved the innovative approach to the food and have to say some of the things where very well executed. The cider ketchup was delicious, you need that in the store. I’ve been going to Blake’s since I was a child and have very fond memories of it. I wanted to create that feeling for the tasting room as well. Please though pay more attention to your staff, lots of people standing around doing nothing. They need to be more attentive to their customers. Food would be quite good if you offered a little more food for the money. You are a year round operation not seasonal and the prices should...

Booked an igloo for my birthday. Was aware that we had to spend $250 and had a 1 HR 45 minute block of time. There were 7 - 5 adults 2 kids.knowing we had to spend 250 we let the server know we wanted to plan it out so we had time between apitizers and our meal.

Ordered all 3 apitizers to get us started. Pleased with all of them except the cheese sauce used for the pretzel. After the apitizers were delivered we asked for some time to allow them to settle. The waitress didn't come back for 25 to 30 minutes. This was a fair amount of time knowing again, the minimum we needed to spend, and that we needed some time between courses.

My issue comes with what happens next. The next time we see the waitress she brings in a stack of to go boxes is says, "Your food is about to come out, but you only have 15 minutes left on your reservation." That ruined the entire experience. We ordered soups, salads, and main entrees that you cannot speed eat. My mom didn't even try to eat she was so stressed about it. She went ahead and transfered her salad immediately to her assigned box.

As I mentioned above... We knew there was a time block. We also knew were were celebrating and having a good time. I would encourage Blakes to provide guests with a reminder during their igloo reservation that if you don't order your main entrees by X time they will be served to you via a Togo box. The issue really ruined the experience after spending $280 with automatic gratuity included.

Another item of note was the condensation at the top of the igloo. I understand there isn't much to be done, but we were all aggressively being dripped on...

Update 1/24/21, went back after 5 months and still not happy with this place. 😒 bad beer selection and the seat yourself area outside had dirty tables, not one clean table and no one hired to clean or serve food or drinks. The bartender gave me a rag and cleaning solution to clean table myself. The blakes tasting room is getting worse, not better. POOR MANAGED and I don't suggest eating here anymore. The cider and donut store is the only thing worth the trip. Don't bother with food and drinks.

Usually love the food/drinks here and the people working as well. Have been here a couple times the past 6 weeks and they're serving the beer and wine in plastic cups. I have been to several other places / breweries that are serving the beer and wine in glass cups. Taste like I'm at a keg party with the plastic cups. Not good at all!

Also not real happy with one of the bar tenders, I did not catch his name but he did not clean the bar off before we sit down and even when I sat down he tried to serve us with menus and did not bother to bother cleaning the countertop at that time either. I had to ask him to do so. Meanwhile, while he starts to serve us, then it appeared he also had a family member maybe a wife or a girlfriend that he spent most of his time with standing across the bar where she was sitting and sampling her drinks while each time we needed something we had to waive him down or wait for somebody else to help us. This episode happened about two weekends ago and we are going to give this place a few more months to hopefully change back to what it use to be from last year. So one...