Atwater Brewery & Tap House

Overall, this is a pretty cool place. The atmosphere is nice and clean, fenced in parking, craft brews, good food, nice Detroit aesthetics, televisions for news/sports, a separate area for corn hole, and a friendly wait staff. I love Atwater brews, that was the main purpose for this visit (it did not disappoint in that category).

Here is where it did disappoint: (at the time of our visit the place was not empty, but not packed - appeared to be a slow night)

We ordered two food items at the same time, a barbecue chicken nacho and an order of pretzels, along with our drink order (two pints of craft brew).

The bbq chicken nachos were asked to come without scallions, but they arrived with them. Not a deal breaker since we don’t have any food allergies, just not a fan of them. We ate around them. The nachos were okay, the taste of the sauce was not our cup of tea. We prefer savory bbq sauce over tart and tangy (just a preference issue, nothing negative against the establishment). The pretzels did not arrive with the nachos, our server asked if we received them yet a few minutes after we received the nachos in which we replied “not yet”. He said he would go check on them in which another server stopped by a few minutes later and stated “Sorry we forgot about the pretzels, they are making them fresh for you right now”. We were not on a time constraint so it wasn’t the biggest deal, I could see how that would be a negative to most though.

We finished our first round of drinks and waited a solid 20-25 minutes before another check-up. We placed our order for the second round in which the first drink came out timely while the second “not so much”. By the time the second drink came out the first pint was almost finished. Again I wouldn’t find that to be a huge deal but the other person was left waiting the entire time without anything to drink. I offered my drink to them but they respectfully declined stating they would just wait until their drink arrived. When the alternate server came back he said “sorry we forgot about this one!” I will note he was polite and honest. In fact I applaud his honesty for saying they forgot, but I would be a liar if I didn’t tell you how disheartening it was to be forgotten about twice.

Even with the above issues noted the main takeaway from this review is that I would still recommend checking this place out, especially if you've never been. Maybe it was just an "off" night for them? I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.