Lincoln Ave. Brewery — Restaurant in Calistoga

I normally don’t write reviews, but after visiting this place I felt compelled to write one…

Worst service ever, if I were the owner of this place, I’d fire the waitress working at the bar on the spot without thinking twice (the one with dark hair collected in a bun). She was literally looking at us waiting at the bar for 15 minutes before finally taking our order, and the place was half empty, so it’s not that she was swamped with work. Then they didn’t have any cold juices in the fridge for our 5yo… I was “fine, we’ll just take water from the water dispenser”, just to find that one was fully empty too (she refilled it 5 minutes later). On top of that she was visibly having “an attitude”, almost annoyed why we were even showing up there. I first thought it was only us for some reason, but then I saw her giving the same treatment to other customers, and then she almost smashed the telephone when someone called couple of times and she couldn’t hear anything due to bad reception.

Food took some 40 minutes to arrive (it was literally just fries, pretzel and pork belly bites), so total time from coming there to getting food was some 55 minutes. Again, it was waiting on the kitchen counter for good 5 minutes before the waitress finally noticed it’s ready to be served. Then she literally threw the food on our table. We never got plates, so had to eat directly from plates the food was served on.

Food itself was the only bright point of our visit. At least the person working in the kitchen knows what they’re doing. Pretzel and pork belly burnt...

I called in an order and the lady I talked to was very nice, they slid our order in as the last one of the night (though according to their hours they were still open for an hour). Food was decent for a late night snack, but nothing spectacular (though two items were technically from the kids' menu). The two sauces that we ordered with the chicken strips were not in the box, after I specifically asked if they were and was told yes. Next time, I'll definitely check. The fries were really good, had a good crisp and good flavor, but again would have been better with something to dip them in. When we got there to pick up, there were specials that sounded a lot better than what we ordered, so I'm tempted to go back for lunch if those specials are still around. (Pretzels with beer cheese and Mac N Cheese with brisket) *FYI, the pictures do NOT show the full portions, we already started eating when I thought...

Staff was nice. Good place for beer. Food is a little disappointing. Ordered two different IPA beers which were great tasting, wish they served or had a flight (6 small beers of choosing) for tasting. Food was a flat bread pizza, brisket bah mi and the almond desert. The flat bread pizza crust was great but the center 25% of the cheese was never melted all the way. The brisket was way over cooked it was tough. The almond desert which was amaretto/almonds on top of mascarpone (which is usually soft and creamy) on top of a little layer of sponge cake. If it came served way softer it would of been a great tasting desert. It was served hard as an ice glacier which gave it a freezer burnt taste and truly hard as a rock. The decor was very nice and once again the staff...