Rooster Street Brewing — Restaurant in Lititz

Made a reservation and got there on time (actually 15 minutes early) and still waited nearly 20-30 minutes past our reservation time for our table. The place is small so our group stood awkwardly with little room while waiting and other groups coming in and also piling up while waiting for their tables to turn.

Ordered cocktails at the bar while we waited and asked to close out before we got seated. One of our party members wanted to pay the whole tab before we got seated. The bartender pushed back that she was our server and would just transfer the drinks to our check. We insisted on paying and she pushed back again. It was really awkward and I had to assertively demand we were paying at the bar and not to transfer the bar tab. Really bad transaction and push on the part of the bartender. Horribly awkward. Why get pushy with a customer?

Food: The steak was incredibly salty. Good seasoning blend but VERY salty. Asked for my filet rare and it came out a little closer to medium. Nobody asked us to check how they were done. Topped with horrendous crispy fried onions. They were blackened, burnt, and acidic bitter and truly unwelcome (see picture). The side of perogies were good.

My lady got steak frites. Hard cooked steak (well done when she asked for medium). Decent flavor but chewy from the heavy cook. Overly salted, and seemingly fried.

Appetizers: The straight fries were over salted. Got a loaded fry with great meat but soggy fries underneath. The brussel sprouts and meatballs were amazing. Kudos there.

Booze: the cocktails/mocktails were outstanding. The bourbon selection was dominated by PA distillers which are not my personal preference. Okay wine selection. Locally made rooster street brand/made beer.

Overall: bang for buck it wasn't worth it. Everything was pricier and most of the food I got or tried was outrageously salted. ROOSTER ST. USED TO BE OUTSTANDING when it was a neat little butcher shop. Not sure what happened.

The rest of our party was also bothered by the bartender interaction and awkwardness of trying to make room for the ever growing group of reservations showing up with tables not yet turned.

I was a big fan of Rooster street back before it became a hip restaurant. I'll likely not...

My family and I (we're Hispanic) visited Rooster Street Butcher recently and had a deeply uncomfortable and disappointing experience. We didn’t know a reservation was required, so we walked in hoping to get a table. As soon as we entered, everyone turned to look at us, and we immediately felt out of place — we were the only people of color in the space.

The hostess told us there were no seats but to check back in 20–30 minutes. She didn’t ask for our name or number, which felt odd, but we decided to wait. My father then spoke to another staff member, asking again about a table for four. She told us the wait would be 30–40 minutes, and again, when we asked if they needed our name or contact info, she just said no.

What was most disturbing was when the first hostess walked over to another employee in the back, pointed us out, and we clearly saw that person shake her head “no.” At that point, we decided to leave. Based on how we were treated — and after seeing another review just two months ago mentioning a similar experience possibly involving racism — we unfortunately believe we were being discriminated against.

No one should have to feel unwelcome or excluded because of their skin color or ethnicity. We’re writing this review to warn other people of color — Hispanics, Black, Asian, anyone who isn’t white — to think twice before coming here. No one deserves to be made to feel like they don’t belong simply because of who they are.

Also, we noticed that the business’s responses to negative reviews on Google are often snarky and rude. We hope this one doesn’t receive the same kind of dismissive reply, because our experience was real, and it...

We went here at lunch time and it was packed. We have our baby with us and the lady told us the only available seat is at the bar (the table is too high for baby chair) or we can do take out. We asked if we can seat at the bar and if there will be tables that would be free if we can just move later on. The lady said "We don't do that, switching tables" We were both surprised by this response. She offered us to go get take out and informed us there are tables near the elementary school opposite to the restaurant and we can seat there. We were soooo not ready for this response either.

Because of the time restriction we opted to seat at the bar and where will just seat our baby in our lap while we eat. After we ordered we saw some tables getting free. The lady whom we had initial interaction with was setting a table with a high chair and we were like "I hope that's for us" and it was.

We ordered beef burger (nothing special about this) with plain shoestring fries and parmesan trufle shoestring fries (soggy fries) as sides. Pricey for the taste.

We interacted with a guy thay brought our check who was super friendly.

We were just so surprise with the initial conversation we had with the lady - why make it so complicated if in the end you will just offer it anyway, also I think this kind of interaction throws off customers. As a business this is a bad way to begin with. Building a good initial rapport with the customers is always the best way to entice anyone to buy your product.

Parking is kinda difficult to get into otherwise there is a street paid parking on the side of the restaurant which is full...