Ellison Brewery and Spirits — Restaurant in Meridian Charter Township

Want to get in touch with a brewery? Sit a few metres from the tanks where your beer is made? Industrial style rustic place with nice staff AND a food truck (not every day). Big Yay! BTW, the craft beer is awasome and consistent. You will see me here as often as opportunity permits. Update. Big. Food truck is now permanent and has expanded their casual but good menu. Enclosed outdoor patio replaced tha igloo, big deal! Now more music and comedy events. Both questionable. Music is very loud indoors so it is hard to communicate. But the comedy appears to attract a crowd, so it's probably just me. Oh. The Bingo/quiz had the coolest intelligent questions that were at least somewhat Google-proof. High five for that! We are always back, but will start making a fuss about the indoors volume.

Update: A friend told us that Ellison's does look good. Few customers. While I don't drink beer anymore we still like local business. We took the entire family and visitors there. Apparently the beer is as good as it used to be. The food was abysmal. Onion rings and pickles fried to death. Pizzas overbaked. I assume this is why we had to wait for over an hour. And remember,this place was the opposite of crowded. Sad to see...

Disappointing. We were meeting family in Lansing and decided to meet at one of our favorite breweries. I checked their website to validate they had the stuff we liked on their menu (we were taking my mom). Validated hand-held sandwiches, validated the beers, jalapeno bread etc. We get there and they have a puny menu. No jalapeno bread, no hand held sandwiches, no IPA. I ask the waitress about the menu I saw online. "We don't have a website" was the response. I explained I was on there just this morning. I got some response about them not being in control of said website???? I don't know what's going on there - but TAKE DOWN YOUR WEBSITE if it isn't valid. Whatever. We decide to move on and place the order for a couple of pizzas only to be told 10 minutes later, their pizza oven just broke. Whatever. I don't hold a broken pizza oven against them, those things happen, but I just think the entire visit was a bad experience. Small beer selection, small food selection, website that is theirs but out of their control. Not the Ellison we...

Came in Sunday evening. Was just hoping to enjoy a beer and support a previously strong local business's reopening. New space was nice. However, I stood at the bar to order for 5 minutes with multiple staff ignoring me before I asked if I was suppose to order at bar of if there was table service. Told there was table service and sat at table 15 minutes with multiple empty-hand staff passing me without even a greeting. I've always wondered what it would be like to be invisible. Guess I got my taste of that experience. I left. Waiting 20+ minutes to order a drink is nuts. I was reluctant to post review, but saw a customer with an even worse experience and management's response. I understand it is very hard to run a service business this day of age, new staff, etc. But there was also seemingly no management present to help support staff and assist customer who weren't receiving service. That is unacceptable for all parties involved! Just makes for frustrated staff...