Day Block Brewery & Restaurant — Restaurant in Minneapolis

The parking lot only had room for 11 cars, minus a reserved spot and another for the guy who parked like an ass and took up two spots. AFTER we got in, we learned we could have parked at the Valspar lot for free, we paid for street parking. Upon entering, there was nobody there to greet us, just a “seat yourself” sign. We wandered around, and finally chose a seat near the main bar area.

My wife like the bartender’s mustache. The restaurant was open and clean looking. I enjoyed the music being played. It was a touch loud, but I think I’m just getting old. First contact from our server was prompt. I ordered “The Federales Mild”, I couldn’t finish it. It had a medicinal finish and tasted way too hoppy for the style.

I looked through the menu, confused, as I didn’t know what to order. It looked as if they couldn’t decide what nationality they wanted to be, so they had items listed as being from Carolina, Greek, Korea, Vietnam, Mexico, to go with pizza.

I ordered the Korean Beef. It was listed as coming on house-made white bread, it came on some fancy ciabatta bread - I hate ciabatta bread.

My wife ordered a “Build Your Own Pizza”. We were underwhelmed, it was dull, flat, lacking any pop of flavor. My chickens, however, loved the leftover pizza and gobbled it up as fast as they could.

We spent much of the evening watching as people entered the restaurant and looked around to be acknowledged until they realized it was seat yourself. Several groups of “hipsters” walked in, then right out. We did have interesting characters at the bar with multi-colored hair. There was a wedding party upstairs, and I believe they came in through a different door.

I waited for a while to use the restroom, the culprit for the wait was a couple from the wedding was spending an inordinate amount of time in a restroom together - get a hotel room folks, getting head in a bar restroom is tactless! My wife was upset with the unisex facilities as the toilet was peed on, and she said there were paper towels all over the floor.

I told the waitress it didn’t like my beer and she could take it back. I ordered a samplers of their beer - asking her to just skip the mild, since I already knew it wasn’t any good. A sampler was not shown on the menu, and I only knew of it after seeing another server deliver one. It was delivered missing the mild and the Nugget IPA, she said she’d bring it after they changed the keg.

*The Wit - light coriander with mild floral notes. Underwhelming. Citra Pale Ale - Cloudy, should be clear. Mild on the hops, with a medicinal aftertaste - an infection. *Berliner Weiss - Very cloudy - fine for the style. Dull, sharp sour character should be dominant . Was the first beer to not have their medicinal finish. *Extra Special Bitter - Clean with a toffee-like flavor. The best beer of the night.

The waitress came by with our check and mentioned they might be putting the Porter on next, but we’d have to wait. I never did get the “other” beer, though I did get to pay for it, and the mild I didn’t want. 4 samples for the price of 6 samples, yipee!

The beers were not very approachable for common beer drinker. Nothing was very high in alcohol, but nothing was what I would consider a session beer.

There appeared to be a medicinal house flavor I detected in all but the ESB. A house flavor leads me to think either they have an infection somewhere and/or they use all the same yeast. The medicinal house flavor could also come from cleaning material left behind, but I’d guess there’s contamination in the same yeast being used for everything from a wit to a mild.

With so many countries listed in the menu, it looks like they could not make up their mind on what to focus on. The pizza we had was bland, and my Korean Beef has cilantro as the only...

My fiance and I stopped in for beers and food while looking for places for our welcome reception. This looked promising but unfortunately was not a good fit for us. Beer - I was not particularly impressed with the beers. We tried a flight, which covered the majority of the beers, and there was only one in the flight that i liked and wanted to finish. Food - the food was better than the beer! We had the Carolina BBQ pizza, it was a little too toasty (burnt in some areas) but otherwise it was unique and good. We also had the classic caesar salad with chicken, the chicken on the salad was delicious. Service - not the greatest. We were there midday on a Friday, and there were perhaps 5-6 tables total. The service was slow, beers took a while to order and to be served to our table. After we sat we asked about the possibility of taking a look at the event space/taproom, with intentions of considering doing a welcome reception for our wedding at their taproom. The server immediately informed us that looking at the space was by appointment only. He then also did not attempt to follow up with us and give us contact information on who to talk to, or try to introduce us to anyone around that may have been involved in taproom event planning? Shortly after that, we saw what appeared to be an engaged couple enter and sit at a table adjacent to us. Not long after, what appeared to be event planners entered and they sat with the couple briefly before moving to the event area. Totally understand if an appointment is required to discuss events especially if its in regards to the Day Block Event Center, but it would have been nice to at least have been allowed to look at the private taproom. And if not that, to have the server that was interested in connecting us with someone to discuss event planning in the taproom. So we've opted to take our plans elsewhere and have been very pleased with the service, excitement, and ease of communication with our venue of choice for our welcome reception, a brewery in NE...

My friend and I sat outside in the back patio. Our initial server was a White boy, who said he would be out with waters. He then decided to seat 8 people behind us and give them waters first. A new server came to our table and finally helped us after 5-7 mins of us dying in the heat lol.

I ordered the Frose, brisket pizza, and a pretzel. My friend ordered a spicy margarita and some fries to share. This total without tip came to $54.

First of all, the frose was really good! Drink portions are very small for $12 though. My friend’s margarita was also a very small cup, but she said it was strong. My friend’s second cup of water had hair in it and she just didn’t bother saying anything cause she was already done with the servers at this point and their lack of attention.

Now the food… my pretzel came to my table with a blonde piece of hair on it imbedded into the butter on the pretzel and then they continued to salt it. I lost my appetite after this. I sent it back to the kitchen and my server Aden said it would be on the house. I paid for the tab and he forgot to take it off anyways. The pretzel was dry and it was definitely store bought so I wouldn’t recommend the pretzels here. It also took 10 mins for the second pretzel to arrive. As for the pizza, it was really good! But they’re stingy with the meat so if you’re hoping for a brisket filled pizza, expect to taste only the sausage.

Overall, the vibe and service just wasn’t for us. Disappointing spending so much money on an experience that left you more hungry and thirsty than when...