Lorain Brewing Company and Event Center — Restaurant in Lorain

Good, definitely not bad; but far from great food. My wife and I got a togo order, and she said it was amazing inside. Food was ready ontime and sandwiches where still hot.

Easily ordered over the phone, and was suggested not to get the club sandwich when I asked out it... uh oh. So, I was debating between between the Club or Cornbeef sandwiches. Wife got the Brisket Burger with a fried egg.

Her burger was a bit on the medium-well, not medium rare as ordered... No pink. Outside of that, she still devoured that burger, and was the first to say "Good, not bad; but definitely not great".

The mac-n-cheese fell into same category. Cheesy goodness... but way to mellow for greatness.

Tots & Fries where good, but nothing memorable or great about them. I wish they where crispyier, but they where closed box take out. (We live between 5-10 min away); perhaps a vented box for the fried potato product to help maintain their crispyness?

I should note, that the menu list Reubens, not corn beef sandwiches; so I made the request no sauerkrat, which was honored. So this is where things fell apart, and if I wasn't preoccupied with a dozen other things and wasn't reassured by the person that took my order it was a popular item, I would have tried something else.

My double gripe? It doesn't come with cheese... but can have cheese added... No swiss cheese. Seriously, this the Cleveland area and we have quite a few legendary Corn Beef places. Maybe, I'm spoiled, but seriously no swiss cheese? If it's a stable menu item, why not offer the most commonly paired cheess with it?

I may have totally overlooked that it comes with a salad dresssing, since I was to preoccupied mentally debating this lack of swiss cheese thing and what sort of monster sandwich I created by opting to add cheese... Pepper Jack Cheese. Maybe it could work.

My salad dresssing sandwich, may have been better off in a bowl. Dripping off the sandwhich, completely saturated the bottom of the bread and oozing onto my tater tots. So, it failed in presentation. My salad dresssing problems continues as I tried to eat this sad monstrosity of a corn beef sandwich, a Salad Dresssing sandwich would have been a more accurate description of it, with cheese and cornbeef additions.

The hints of cornbeef where rather tasty, when not completely overpowered by the salad dresssing (and my horrible choice of peppper jack cheese). and left me desiring to actually try a naked cornbeef sandwich from them, as well as stopping at (sarcasm) Dollar General or Save A Lot abd grabbing a pack of swiss cheese to add to it...

Regardless, I will try their Cornbeef Sandwich again, maybe in a few months once they get settled in and dial in their menu a bit, and their staff learns a bit more about their food. My Salad dresssing sandwich was a terrible disappointment with potential, especially since I should note thay according to the menu the sandwhich in fact, does come with cheese, more specifically Swiss Cheese (Gruyere cheese is yellow...

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