Petoskey Brewing Company — Restaurant in Bear Creek Township

Do Not Order the Chipotle Chicken sandwich!

I know someone here recommended it but when I ordered, pieces of the chicken was actually cold, not pulled but in chunks, and it seems it was warm enough because the cooks decided to almost burn the buns, which heated up the chicken.

The sauce was average, not the best. The beer batter fries seemed to be regular fries, and not coated with beer batter.

I got water at first, but the taste was below average. It had a weird taste to it, as if it was not properly filtered. The icecube were more foggy than any other establishment I noticed. Because of the taste of the water, I decided to get Ginger Ale instead. This soda taste was worse than the one I had before. It has a weird taste, along with an excessive additive of corn syrup.

My other table-mates had beef burger, and they enjoyed their food. That's a plus.

While eating, i noticed people walking in with their dogs, either walking them on the floor, or holding them by their arms.

My server actually took a longer time to attend us. Upon arrival, it was relatively quick, but afterwards, he took longer to arrive.

Our food took a while to arrive as well. It was not as quick as other tables.

The table I was sitting at, the guy

The bathrooms are not architecturally optimal. Anyone from the patio can easily see an individual inside the restroom when the door is propped open.

Upon getting ready to leave, we decided to leave cash as tip. The person to clean the table, quickly rushed to clean it up, giving little to no chance for the original server to obtain his tip.

In terms of service, visual, design and chicken food choices, this establishment is below my...

My significant other and I were in the area and wanted to find a tasty spot! This one didn’t impress me much in the end, but it sufficed.

The inside seemed small and cozy in a quirky way. We got the Parmesan Garlic Fries to share. These were Beer-batter fries and they were served with a side of ranch dipping sauce. They were $9.00 and they ended up being good. I ordered the Pesto Chicken for my main food item and it was $16.00. It had Smoked pulled chicken, sun-dried tomato, fresh sliced mozzarella, basil pesto and garlic aioli on a hoagie bun. It was served with potato chips & a pickle spear. The sandwich sure was tasty, but it was small. I expected it to be bigger for the price it was. The chips and pickle spear were both decent.

For my first drink, I went with the 1898, which was a Lager - American Light. It was 16oz for $6.00. It had a crispy taste and I enjoyed it. We shared the Red Brick Hard Cider, which was a Cider - Traditional. This one was 16oz for $6.00. The flavor was smooth and it made for a calm drink. We also tried the Michigan Cherry Hard Seltzer. It was 16oz for $5.00. I thought it was simply alright. It didn’t throw off too much flavor in my opinion. We had to try the Michigan Cherry Spritzer before we left. It was made with Petoskey Brewing vodka, dash of bordeaux cherry juice, Petoskey Brewing Cherry Seltzer and a Bada Bing Cherry for $8.00. It was okay. It wasn’t anything special!

The service was good at first, but slowly declined. It ended sour with false pricing!

Overall, this was a nice place to try, but not worth another visit. The portion sizes didn’t match the prices.

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Place was pretty busy on a late Sunday afternoon with some combination of leafers (seeing the Fall colors) and locals. Staff was friendly and welcoming, nice looking place on the inside but smaller than it looks from the outside.

We were just doing apps and a drink, but they Parmesan fries and deep fried cauliflower took over 30 minutes to come out. I get that it was pretty crowded but that seemed a little silly. Even more perplexing is the cheese on melted on the fries was already hardening, no longer hot. Fries still edible,but disappointing. In waiting so long for the apps, we ordered a second beer whcih also took a good 10 minutes to come to our table. I should mention, I don't think any of this was our servers fault, she was hustling all around the place and also very nice. The beers were pretty solid, which was one of the bright spots. Can't remember the name of IPA I had, but it was good as was the Pumpkin Buster. Wife had a Blueberry beer which was interesting and she liked it, but got something different the second time.

Not a terrible experience by any means, but a subpar first impression considering all the options in the area. I get that it was busy, but 30 minutes for something out of a deep fryer and 10+ minutes for beer to make it 10 feet away from out table isn't exactly a great start. But the staff was nice, the beer was pretty good, and right off the bike trail, which we frequent, so that's a bit of a plus for us. We will most likely give them another shot when they're a...