Monnik Beer Company — Restaurant in Louisville

Today was the first time here, but I can tell this is an easy 5 stars. The food is great. Upscale bar dining experience.

Bone Marrow - Very well prepared, very delicious. To be honest, it does feel like a very small portion for the price. But then again, I do understand that bone marrow has gotten pricy this past few years.

German Potato Croquettes - A deep fried mashed potato ball with a grape size packet of bacon jam in the middle. Cheese to dip. Mashed potato and cheese was very good. I feel like the flavor profile on the bacon jam inside could be a slightly improved. But overall a decent experience!

MONNIK BEER CHEESE - Ok, lets talk about this one. I could be wrong here, but the bread seems to be homemade. A very very excellent bread that clearly had a lot of effort going into it. The beer cheese I would probably rate a 3.4/5. Of course I ate it with the bread, but stood out as probably my least favorite thing I ate. Dont get me wrong, I am sure that many of you would love this! Its just not up my alley. When I think of Beer Cheese. I think of "Red Yeti" in Jeffersonville or "New Albanian" in New Albany. Both of which have clear 10/10 flavor profiles for their beer cheese and are also very different from each other.

LOCAL BURGER - Man, everything on this burger just tasted like they plucked it from their garden in the back. The meat was cooked unusually perfect. They got the bacon to be cooked to the perfect crisp/juicyness. They asked how I wanted my burger cooked, I told them medium well and got exactly medium well.

Chicken Schnitzel - Wife got this, but she let me try about a 2oz portion. It was also perfect. A very great flavor with a perfect presentation. I think that the purple stuff was pickled cabbage. That honestly did seem a little out of place.

The wait staff was extremely nice and listed off their daily specials after taking our drinks. Note that they do seem to have quite a few choices of daily specials that are not listed on the menu. This gave a...

Monnik is a great place for local craft beers and good food, frequently updating the beer rotation and food menus. The staff is very welcoming and I am very grateful to be able to frequent such an awesome place!

I also happened to be a patron of the restaurant the day that the previous reviewer down below (Megan Ellis) was there and I can very much attest to the fact that her story is full of hyperbole and she was indeed the rude one in this situation.

The server very politely asked them to sit down as they were hovering around two seated tables (in the middle of an ongoing pandemic) and let them know that the beers are on the menus they were provided; which for some reason Megan took very personally to the point of writing a one star review. Megan very rudely replied to the server about the current rotation of beers not being on the menu, which she very kindly let Megan know there is indeed a separate rotation menu on their table (much more kindly than I would have replied given Megan's complaining tone). At no point was any employee rude to Megan or her group, in fact the rest of the patrons of the restaurant spoke up about how impolite Megan's group was simply because her reaction was very strange and immature.

I honestly can't believe I have to write this review just to counterbalance the ridiculous entitlement of the previous reviewer, however...

My husband and I came here for the first time last night. He enjoys craft beer and I enjoy great food and this place exceeded our expectations of both. Their liquor they serve is top shelf and lot of it is local has well. Even their meat is from a local farm has well, which makes the taste of their food above the others. Els was our waitress and her personality and knowledge of the menu is outstanding. My husband got the sliders and I got the Brie and apple burger that are on the limited time menu they have. He also got a flight of beer and I got the “ Shaped of an L” has my drink, a fun fact: our waitress made up that drink for their menu. It paired well with my burger and I would get it again. We ended our meal with their beer float. Their ice cream is from Louisville Cream, a local ice cream shop here. Els paired the ice cream with an amazing beer on tap. One thing I noticed is that the wait staff works like a family, our table never had empty dishes on it for more than 1-3 minutes and our waters were always full. We got to talk briefly to Nick, one of the managers and told him about our time here and only had wonderful things to say. We came for a date night but the atmosphere here at Monnik Beer Company is made for every occasion. Thank you to Els and Nick and everyone here at Monnik making our night so wonderful that you made us want...