Crooked Pint Ale House — Restaurant in Minneapolis

Fun, relaxed, late lunch with colleagues. During my recent trip to Minneapolis, my colleagues recommended the Crooked Pint for lunch and adult beverages. This was my first visit to the Crooked Pint. It is indeed a fun, relaxing atmosphere with diverse menu selections and full bar for adult beverages. My two favorite features of the Crooked Pint was the music and our fantastic, friendly and patient server, Becky! The music was a great selection of classic rock hits from the 70's/80's/90's. This being several of my colleagues first visit, including myself, we had a "million " questions about the menu. Becky was excellent and politely answered all of our many questions and helped us with our menu selection options. The Crooked Pint is, apparently, quite renowned for the "Lucy", a hamburger stuffed with cheese. I had to ask many questions about the "Lucy" as I was unfamiliar with this particular type of burger. In fact, honestly, I had never heard of a Lucy. There are many versions of the Lucy to choose from. I ordered the "Classic Lucy" which is also the featured lunch special on Thursdays. I was not extremely impressed with the classic Lucy. It was served hot and fresh. It was very juicy (ask for extra napkins!!) However, the classic is really a basic stuffed cheeseburger. It was served with no accompaniments. No lettuce, tomato, pickle, sauce, onion, etc. I ordered a side garden salad for my one side item, which turned out to be the best part of my lunch. The garden side salad was really fresh and tasty. Surprisingly, the side salad was a nice size salad which certainly made up for the unimpressive "Lucy". My colleagues and I also enjoyed a "starter" of tater tots. Trust me, these are not your usual tater tots. The tater tots here are large potato orbs, stuffed with cheese and bacon (yummy!) You have my highest and strongest recommendation to try these super size tater tots!! I am not a "drinker", so I am not qualified to give a review of the adult beverages. However, I can tell you my colleagues enjoyed and were very pleased with their choice of beer. From my observations, the bar has a large, interesting, and diverse selection of beers and ale's. The Crooked Pint is a perfect place to meet friends, colleagues or family. The dining room and bar area were very clean. If you're looking for good food, great music and low-key atmosphere, I suggest you check out The...

I'm not a huge fan of noisy places, luckily, I usually only eat there at lunch on weekends. The food is good and the service is always amazing.

Because I like to get good deals, and on the off chance anyone is reading this, they have Groupons which I don't use, but they have a fairly decent email and loyalty club and that have promotions fairly regularly to reward repeat customers, but even with a BOGO, lunch with 2 pops and a dessert can run about $40 just for sandwiches and burgers. Which is not out there for DT Mpls, but it is for us frugal people.

The only thing I could say negative about Crooked Pint, is they are owned by the same company that owns Green Mill, because I'm not a beer or burger chick, I'm usually left to their Reubens which are great and their Chocolate Chip Lucy, is to die for, which you will, as it's super sweet, so it's a great dessert to share and if it's only 2 people, usually one will have leftovers ;). I wish they had more options like Green Mill does, I don't like going Uptown (which is the closest one to me)...

I know this is wordy, hopefully it helps someone though...

Updated 3/2018- I really love Crooked Pint, last time I ate there, which was 2 weeks ago, it had been 2 months since my bf and I had gone there and we always sit in a booth in the bar, usually weekend early lunch time as he and I don't love crowds or noisy places.

Our server (who I'm horrified I don't remember her name!!!) knows my quirks and reminded me about something to do with my order, asking for clarification, as well as saying outright that it was good to see us, again.

And that is AWESOME, and so appreciated. So while I wish they had a slightly easier to obtain reward program, their food (given how picky I am, which limits me to really one entree on their menu) and their...

Worst restaurant I have been to in a while. It was bad from beginning to end.

We started off the meal by ordering totchos as apptizers and one round of drinks. When we got our first round of drinks we ended up ordering dinner. After we ordered dinner, the totchos came out and they were so cold there was still ice in the middle (not exaggerating). We ended up finishing our first round of drinks while waiting for our meal. We were looking around for our server, but he was not coming by our table. We saw one food runner walk by our table once and got excited because we thought it was our food (we were hungry). He then tried to give it to the table next to us who already had all their food and they said it wasn't theirs. We tried to say something, but he was already walking away and must not have heard us. Then he came back a second time to the same table next to us with the same food 5 min later and told them he had their food, even though they were finishing up their meal. They told him again it wasn't theirs and we tried to say something, but he didn't hear us again. We saw him bump into our server across the room and he pointed to our table. He dropped off the food and apologized, but he didn't pick up the dirty plates. The burgers were no longer warm and over cooked, the chicken wings were rubbery and did not have a lot of sauce or flavor, and the fries were bland. Our server did walk by our table once, but didn't ask us how our food was and only took 2 glasses off a stack of dirty plates and left the plates behind. We finally had an interaction with the server after the meal was over and we asked for one more round of drinks. He took our order, but left all the other dirty dishes on the table again. I will not be...