2Toms Brewing Company — Restaurant in Fort Wayne

Leaving my review here since 2Toms decided to remove themselves from The Knot and just move over to Wedding Wire after I had left a very honest review about my experience booking with them for my wedding reception back in August of 2024. My fiancé & I decided to book 2Toms Brewery for our small wedding reception after doing a tour months prior to our wedding. We thought it was the perfect space for what we were looking for and the gentleman who helped us was very nice and professional. The owner ended up not making it to our scheduled tour but we figured he was busy and that’s okay. Fast forward to the month of our wedding, my fiancé and I experience some major financial difficulties and ended up having to switch our caterer. Tom worked with us in that regard and we really appreciated it. Now fast forward to the day before our wedding. I had gotten approval from Tom that we would be able to set up for our reception the night before our wedding with no problem. We tried to do it as close to closing as we could to be considerate of their other customers that evening. When my family got to 2Toms to begin setting up, they noticed there was way less chairs and tables than what we had been told would be available during our tour. When they tried to explain this to one of the workers there, he turned around and told them “he can’t be bothered with that right now”. My family confused and not knowing what to do had to call me to which my fiancé had to turn around from where we were already going (a dinner reservation for just the two of us the night before our wedding) in order to go to 2Toms and figure out what was going on. I was not able to reach the owner by phone or text. It wasn’t until my fiancé left a voicemail, frustrated, that Tom finally decided to text me a minute later and tell me that he would figure out the table and chairs situation the best he could the next morning. So we had to set up as best as we could and work with what we had as well as missing our dinner reservation that was already paid and planned for, all the night before our wedding. The morning of our wedding I received a text from Tom with a picture of the rest of the tables and chairs set up. The extra tables & chairs they decided to bring out looked completely different from what we had saw during our tour. The tables we had already saw and set up were nice wooden tables with very nice black chairs. They decided to fill the missing tables and chairs with cheap folding tables and folding chairs. It didn’t look good together but what else can I do the MORNING of our wedding?? So I just say they look great and move on. Now it’s time for the reception. At this point I’m thinking there can’t possibly be anything else that can go wrong. Oh but wait. Once we get to the reception, about 30 minutes into it, we noticed they had booked a live band basically right next to where we are doing our reception. Drowning out whatever music we had playing and also had random people walking in and out of our private wedding reception because that was the only way they could get to the door to see the band. Also, no heads up about this at all from Tom even though we booked this space 8 months before our wedding! Also the Bluetooth speaker they had set us up with to play music kept going in & out and when we informed the server that was working our space, she didn’t seem like she really cared and I ended up having to bring out my OWN speaker in order to continue playing music for our reception. With everything that had already gone wrong, my fiancé and I decided to end our reception almost 2 hours early and not add anymore funds to what we had already paid towards the bar. We paid the $400+ bar minimum fee prior to our wedding and had planned on spending a lot more during our reception had we not felt like we had to cut it short. Mind you during all of this I never met Tom once nor have I received any sort of apology since he saw my review on The Knot. Instead he decided to just remove his business from there entirely and move to a different wedding...

To be honest, it's going to take A LOT for me to give craft brewery less than 5 stars....it hasn't happened yet...and it's not going to happen now.

I stopped into 2Toms on a Sunday morning because - hey - BEER - and it was Craft Brewery Day (or something like that) for a flight, and because our son-in-law said that 2Toms specializes in some pretty non-standard brews. And that is pretty right up my alley.

2Toms is in a kind of an out-of-the-way type place, not being located on a main road but on a side street, tucked away edging a residential area. The building is kind of unassuming, but there's a cordoned off area up front for outside imbibement.

The inside is pretty spacious with some of the brewing machinations to the left behind glass. Tours are available, but Jim didn't have time for that, only for a quick flight.

They do six-ounce pours for flights here, so a standard flight of 4 equals 2 bottles of beer. Keeping true to my nature, I had 4 very different, unique beers.

1 - Yorke IPA - New England IPA that is a deliciously grapefruity affari. 2 - WRY - Rye IPA that is a-s-t-o-u-n-d-i-n-g 3 - Stjørdal - Smoked Beer that is, hands down, The Best smoked beer I've ever had. 4 - Benevolent Commotion (Batch #2) - A Farmhouse Ale that is, not only the Best In Flight, but one AMAZINGLY awesome sour.

All of the beers were top notch, and the gentlemen that helped serve us (whose name I don't recall) was knowledgeable and you can tell had a passion for craft beer.

Now, back to my statement about probably never giving a small/craft/independent brewer nothing less than a 5 is this: In order to open, operate, maintain, and survive as a brewery you have to have a passion for it. Any brewery that's still open this late into 2020 HAS that passion, and they'll adjust as they need to to make sure the doors stay open. Although in-house sales may be down, breweries like this are probably doing a phenomenal take-home business because 2020 and alcohol consumption kinda go hand-in-hand. I thank and applaud each and every brewery I've been to for hanging in there and keeping us hydrated through the nightmare that is the...

I'll start with the positive; the beer we had was good, little over priced but good. The Mac side was good and the cookies were were warm, gooey and good. Now the bad....the food was a joke. $16 for a basically a pre-made burger patty with no side and a stale bun that was falling apart. I got the brisket as part of the 2 for $35 meal. The brisket cost me $3 more and all I paid for was a pile of FAT. This was literally the worst brisket I've ever had...it wasn't brisket but closer to a real fatty bad cut of prime rib. Over half of the over priced under sized meal was food that wasn't edible...see picture as proof. I brought it up to the staff and nothing was done.

Once again if you are looking for a beer this place did have good beers with flavor. If you are looking for food also I'd avoid at all cost

EDIT TO 2TOMS REPLY.....

I did bring up the meat being nothing but fat to the bartender....who was the only one to visit our table. I showed it was all fat and had to eat around the rest and he just took the plate and said ok. So please don't try to justify bad food and make it seem the customer was in the wrong. That really shows poor taste. Staff did not visit us 3-4 times either. But when someone did show up I did point out the poor meat quality at least on what...