Rumor Brewing Company — Restaurant in Four Corners States

I’ve heard a lot of great things about this restaurant literally watched someone post about it last night giving rave review. I love to support local and try something new. When my husband, my eight month, old and myself walked in, we were not greeted, or even told how the restaurant operated. I told my husband to assume that we seat ourselves. I placed our order. There was a poor selection of any type of beverage, alcoholic, and non-alcoholic. I asked for the NM green and I added black olives and roasted garlic. Our pizza came out and it was a simple margarita with roasted garlic giant chunks and a mix of two different types of olives which was not communicated. The black olives were rock hard my husband felt like he was bitting down on a rock and spit them out. Typically when you order roasted garlic at a restaurant it’s minced and these were literally whole cloves of garlic. That were not even that soft. We were never checked when on, and I had requested our tab remain open. When my husband when to close the tab nobody asked how anything was and didn’t even say a word let alone thank you. She simply told him where to stick his card. We were so disappointed with this experience. As soon as we open the door and exited, we said never again. Service is one of the most important things when operating a business especially during this recession when people are going out to eat as a specialty treat after a long work week. Also for people to choose to support a local business not dominos and also try something new rather than Pizza barn or trail rider they at the very minimum expect to be at least treated with respect since our money is being spent there it’s really disappointing to act like business doesn’t matter and for the employees just to be in the back smoking weed or blaring music whatever they were doing besides giving quality customer service. We will simply never come here again and we will share this experience with our friends and family in the area.

On a side note most local business owners that receive a review like this give a contact number to follow up and change the experience. Your response and lack of taking responsibility says it all. We all have children and families we are providing for. Next time you have the chance to dine out with your 2 year old please consider this ridiculous...

UPDATE:

2/15/24:

Went back for an after valentine, Valentine's brunch. I asked if their would be an issue since the ingredients were missing last time, I was told they are under new management.

Cool, cool. Ordered bites p, Margherita pizza, sandwich, and some beer. Being the only customer in the store at the time made it even more relaxed than last time.

Played some pool and shuffleboard, pizza showed up.....heads up. Margherita pizza may differ, I've always known it to be one way, large mozzarella slices, basil leaves, sauce. We got it with green chile. It was shredded mozzarella with shredded basil (fresh), green chile, and some sauce, not enough for me to love it, but that's my personal opinion, I ain't knocking nobody for that.

Bout halfway through, my wife said she wanted to get pesto chicken pizza for dinner, I ordered one. Couple more beers, shout out to the monk. In the beginning, we were told the Focaccia bread was gonna take 30 minutes. All good, looking forward to fresh bread and hummus!!

We had been there about an hour, hour % 1/2, maybe a little over. So our second pie shows up (Pesto chicken), I had asked for green chile on the side as well. I wanted a bite, open it up annnnnnd no green chile, no onions, annnnd no chicken. I caught who I was told was the manager (she was so kind and understanding) she explained that new staff in the back and the Focaccia were experiencing technical issues due to dough being temperamental. Too salty.

We paid, and the items we didn't receive were removed. Staff laid back and relaxed. For me, the BIGGEST problem is this:

The first thing we ordered was Focaccia with hummus. When an issue arose, communication would have been the simplest thing, but not until the end did we find out that we weren't getting that dish.

TL;DR: Decent food, amazing chill vibe, staff is both helpful and non communicative. I'd advise you not to agree to wait for something. You may not get it

Pros: Beer cold and delicious, and they have food.

Cons: No communication, some food...

Just visited the brewery for the first time, didn't even realize it was there until I saw the patio lights last week. Great selection of beers (close to 25 to choose from), 3 were brewed on-site. Tucked down a funny little lane, it has a cool ambiance, very casual and pet friendly. Although there wasn't any sign indicating, they had a small but tasty selecton of nibbles. I've been to tasting rooms where not even a pretzel was available which is lame, plain and simple. An important thing to mention is that they offer 4 oz, 10 oz, and pints. This means if you want to try a few (or many!) different beers you have OPTIONS besides a whole pint. The 4 oz beer was just $1.50.

These folks have made an effort to offer a light bit of food to go with your beers... with a little support maybe they'll branch out on their selections. They offered three different savory pastry sandwiches (ham/gouda, 3 cheese, and one other but I've forgotten), crispy breadsticks, and pretzels (honey mustard maybe). There may have been one other item. We tried the ham/gouda savory pastry which was served warm and one order of crispy breadsticks which came with 4 large, lightly salted breadsticks + spicy mustard. Both options were actually great!

If you are looking for a Dining Experience this isn't the place. If you are looking for an unpretentious, fab little spot to hang out, enjoy a wide variety of beer options and sample a few snacks in a surprisingly great setting (or a quick pint before your Dining Experience!) you should get...