Carey's Brew House — Restaurant in City of Corning

Carey's brew house disappoints with sub par food at a frankly crazy price point.

We were in town to visit the Corning museum of Glass and while we were in town we figured we would grab lunch before we hit the museum. We settled on Carey's Brew House mainly due to the lack of other open establishments on a weekday afternoon. The establishment was not busy during our visit.

We were feeling burgers so we ordered the bison sliders ($15) and the juicy Lucy sliders ($14) along with a side of pub fries ($6) figuring it would be enough food for the two of us to share the sliders and fries. After an average wait time the food was delivered to our table.

To say we were disappointed at what we received would be an understatement. The juicy Lucy sliders were delivered with three sliders on the plate. The bison sliders, although more expensive than the juicy Lucy sliders, were roughly the same size and only had two on the plate. And finally the side of pub fries arrived in a cereal-sized bowl with maybe 10-12 (although thick cut) fries. The quality of the food was fine, it wasn't bad, but easily replicated at home with very little effort and no unique qualities is how I would explain it. Certainly not worthy of the cost of each dish, in neither quality nor quantity.

Between the food and soft drinks we spent a hair over $40 before tip on this visit, and we left with an unsatisfied appetite.

Overall, we will likely not be back to Carey's brew house. There certainly looked to be a good assortment of beer available, but id avoid the food unless you want to overpay for an underwhelming meal.

EDIT: To comment on the owner response, specifically where the owner states that they are cheaper than Wendy's, McDonalds, and Burger King, the only thing I have to say to this is it only takes a second of reviewing the menu at each of these locations to know that this is simply not true. Fast food is indeed processed, and it is commendable that Carey's does not serve equivalently processed foods, but no, if we are speaking strictly quantity the last I checked a burger, fries and drink at any of those 3 fast food restaurants has never once approached $25. This is pushing into the realm of upper scale dining, and for reference this is close to what I paid at Gordon Ramsay Burger in Las Vegas for a burger, fries and Drink. Feel free to search my previous reviews for that one!

Now, maybe our visit was a fluke specifically due to the menu options we ordered. Neither of the slider options come with fries. But Carey's menu does not specifically state that any of their sandwich menu items come with fries so I have to assume fries are an additional $6 if you want them, which is really the biggest face slap here because the amount of fries you get for $6 is abysmal. I just know what we experienced on our visit and what we experienced was...

We decided to give this place a try. Very disappointing. Not worth the money.

Party of two - dining in on a Saturday evening.

We walked in a little after 7:30pm.

The hostess promptly sat us as there wasn't a wait. There were only two other tables in the front of the restaurant occupied. The hostess asked if we wanted to sit at the bar or up front. Wish she would have said it's actually a bar area, not just a bar (we wouldn't have sat up front). Much nicer in the bar area.

She apologized for the wait as our server took awhile to get to our table. She gave us water and menus. Waiting for the server to come...he goes to another table, apologizes for something being screwed up, grabs their plates then asks us if we have been seen.

We said, "just by the hostess." He took our drink orders, and brought drinks back about 5 minutes later. Then he took our order. At this point we had been sitting there for WAY too long (just to get our order taken).

We ordered two burgers, which came 45 minutes after we got there. Both were mediocre. Waiter brought the food and apologized for the wait. He gave us two free diet sodas, which was a nice gesture.

We finished eating, and waited...and waited....for the server to come back. Not once did he check on us after he brought our food.

At around 8:40pm I walked back to the bar area and asked the bartender/waitress for our bill as we had been done for 20 minutes. The hostess had been gone for awhile, and when I went back she was either done with her shift or on break, eating at the bar.

The waiter was apologetic. We were very polite. I honestly think he forgot we were sitting up front (the other two tables' guests left before we even got our burgers).

If you have seating so far away from the main hub of the restaurant, maybe you should come up with a better system for checking on customers.

I could totally understand if the restaurant was packed - but it wasn't.

We...

I would give them 2.5 if I could. Wait staff was never rude but was disorganized and not very present.

They have an extensive beer selection but was very heavy on the IPAs and Hoppy beers with very few ciders or wheat beers. They did have the staples, as far as budlight etc.

I had a Bacon Beercheese Burger which was decent except that I asked for it medium and it came out brown all the way through and a slight brown crisp on the bottom which I assume is from leaving it on the grill too long. The burger I ordered was also supposed to have bacon on it, which it did however the bacon was very limp and kind of pale as though it wasn't cooked before being put on the burger for long enough or even close. Fries were also really fat. The fattest thickest fries I have ever seen not called potato wedges though they had a totally different texture. Some people love those I don't, I think fries should be crispy and that there is an idea surface area: volume ratio, and that fries should have a crispy layer on the outside if they are fried.

Edit I forgot to include this, pretty much every aspect of it was about a dollar more than most of the other restaurants in the area which I think would have been more appropriate if the burger had been done properly but since that didn't it meant I spent about $5 more in the end for just myself than other places with similar (better in my opinion) options and beers. Also the menus were quite poorly organized and presented which actually made it hard to find the entrees vs...