Wolf's Ridge Brewing

Edit Upgrading my review from 2 to 4 stars! Wolf Ridge reached out immediately about my negative experience, and proactively offered to send me a gift card for a chance to come back to the dining room for a better experience! This falls right in line with the service that I've consistently experienced from them. As stated earlier I wasn't planning on no longer visiting their establishment but it just cements them as a great establishment in Columbus in my eyes.

I feel very conflicted about leaving this review. In general I don't usually leave bad reviews unless I've been treated very badly but in this case I found myself so disappointed I felt the need to say something....Let me start with this caveat. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE WOLF'S RIDGE. It is hands down a top 2 brewery for me, and their taproom is always a great time. The food in the taproom, everytime I've had it has been delicious, and their beer, in particular their stouts, speak for themselves. The staff is always warm and friendly and clearly well trained, and that held true in the dining room tonight as well, as our food came out efficiently and looked absolutely fantastic on the plate. Unfortunately I found myself so unbelievably disappointed in the quality of the food we were served. I have been wanting to do a sit down in the dining room for a long time and have followed all the mouthwatering photos on instagram for quite some time as well, so I was extremely excited to sit down and finally have a chance. Everything LOOKED gorgeous, but our scallops were raw, and I don't mean cooked lightly to preserve tenderness, I mean cold in the middle fresh off the boat raw. My sister's duck was way over salted, and the parsnip puree it came with had a very off putting taste. The soft cheese we ordered would have been fine except it came out so covered in nuts and syrup you could barely see, yet alone taste the cheese itself, and it was served with nothing to scoop or smear it on despite the description of it being served with fried bread (turns out that meant a few crumbles of fresh croutons). Lastly my lamb shank pot pie. A stunning mound of visual goodness, served on a fluffy split puff pastry, rest on a velvety pool of red wine demi. Except the meat was so tough and chewy I had to give up on a few hunks, and the demi was overpowered by salt with a slight red wine finish....We spent alot of money tonight and we're very disappointed. I say all this to say, I know this staff and this restaurant can do so much better. I will ALWAYS be a patron of the taproom and will continue to sing praises about the staff, the marketing, the beer, their delivery service and so on. However, I don't know that I will be paying another visit to the dining room unless it's for a few drinks and maybe a burger.