The Brass Tap — Restaurant in Leander

After reading a few mixed reviews, we decided to give this place a try. Middle of the afternoon on a college football Saturday, they had half the TVs set to a rerun of an NFL game instead. The bartender at the bar was trying to keep up with the drink orders, but she was alone. There was one waitress working the tables. The place was only 1/3rd full at best. We got our first drinks relatively quick and ordered the chips and trio dip. 30 minutes later I asked the waitress for another drink and about our chips. She advised the kitchen only had 1 cook so all food orders took about an hour. Including just chips and dip. The chips finally came out about 20 minutes later, but this time I was still waiting on my drink. A 2nd bartender showed up and finally got my drink. Originally my wife had ordered a flight of margaritas, which was supposed to included a pineapple margarita. She felt bad asking the single bartender why it wasn't in the flight, but finally did. Their response was they were out of pineapple so they just made one with strawberry without asking. When my wife commented that she didn't like the strawberry, they just said they were out of pineapple. No apology or concession. Now we were on to finally eating the log awaited chips and dip. Salsa and Queso were ok, guacamole was really sour. Neither of us could eat it. I pushed the guacamole tray to the side and the bartender just watched me do it, shrugged and walked off. At this point there was no chance we were ordering more and staying to watching the rest of the game. Right as we were going to ask for the check, the bartender told the new people who sat down next to us that the kitchen stopped taking food orders because they are too far behind. So they could only get drinks. They got up and left. Oh and I almost forgot, about midway through our hour there, the waitress started telling people they were out of all chicken items. Maybe this place will get better with time, but for now, I...

If you’re looking for over priced mediocrity, this is your place! This is a bar with crappy bar food at a gastro pub price. Service was terrible, our waitress was nice, but knew nothing about the menu. The hostess was rude, as soon as we walked in she looked up and said “first come first serve” then looked back down at what she was doing. Um, yes, all restaurants are, I think she meant seat yourself. So we sat an open table and they have one dingy menu for everyone to share, don’t worry, we had ample time to read the menu because the whole staff was standing around at the food window talking, no one came for our drink order for at least 10 minutes. It wasn’t busy either, half the place was empty, we stopped on our way home at 4 pm on a Saturday. I was asked how I would like my burger and I was stoked that I could order it medium, not sure why I was asked since it came grey and well done. All our food came out 5 minutes apart and of course our daughter’s food came out last and so hot she could t eat it for another 5 minutes. Which is bizarre because the rest of the food for us adults was room temp. The chicken tenders were pretty good, but a lot of the chicken was inedible because it was so stringy and chewy. My husband’s beer was good. All of our food was meh. Definitely won’t be coming back, there’s plenty of great bars/gastro pubs with a lot better food for a better or...

Sadly, we were a little disappointed after being very excited to try, but might give it another shot.

We had ordered two burgers and fish tacos and we ordered the Mac/cheese balls appetizer. The first burger (BBQ burger) came out solo. We had to wait a while for the second burger to come out. In all fairness, we were expecting that second burger a little later because it ordered after everything else was.

The appetizer arrived when the 2nd burger came out. It was then quite a while before the fish tacos finally arrived. The food wasn’t terrible, but the timing was.

Fish tacos could definitely use WAY more flavor. They were incredibly bland, and the salsa that it was served with had zero flavor.

Mac & cheese bites were okay but they tasted frozen and then fried. The barbecue burger was actually very tasty.

It was crowded because there was a Texas game on and a UFC fight. That might’ve had something to do with it and nowadays there is always something going wrong in the kitchen because of staff issues.

Nonetheless, kitchen timing wasn’t great. May give it another shot, but might just use TBT as a place to have some drinks while watching a game...