Brass Monkey Bar & Restaurant — Restaurant in Pee Pee Township

This place has such curb appeal! They are trying so hard but they have a long way to come. Some of the concepts are brilliant but the execution is poor. I really want this place to succeed and I really hope the owner reads it. This could be such a nice place. My husband and I were traveling back to Kentucky from Columbus, We saw The Brass Monkey on the way as it is a great location easily viewable from US 23 with great parking. So we decided to stop here on the way home. We were greeted and seated promptly. The place was pretty empty, several staff members were gathered around the corner of the bar and in an area just outside the bathroom (spotlessly clean). We waited serval minutes at our table just checking out the menu, then an apologetic young lady rushed over with some bread and said no one told her she had a table. ( The bread was hard on the bottom and seemed old, possible had not risen enough before baking ) She took our food and drink order all at the same time, my husband had a noodle bowl I had a sizzling steak and sausage skillet, with peppers and onions, baked potato, sherry mushrooms and a salad. She brought our drinks and my salad at the same time. The salad was large for a side salad. I ordered it with blue cheese dressing and it was excellent, both the dressing and the croutons seemed to be homemade. Very flavorful! We were excited for our main course to come out. The server returned with our main course, a rather small skillet with a baked potato and sausage visible and beautiful bowl of noodles in broth, basically soup, and then she disappeared. I looked confused at this skillet she sat down before me, it was a $32 steak and sausage dinner, or so I thought. The presentation was horrible. (I have pictures.) A baked potato with hard cheese and I do mean hard cheese on top and two sausage, no sign of the steak, peppers and onions and sherry mushrooms. We will come back to the skillet meal. My husband started to enjoy his noodle bowl, presentation was lovely, packed full of fresh veggies and herbs, the noodles were slightly gummy but all and all he was happy, but he wasn't given a spoon with his soup and our server was no were around to ask for one. I began to try to figure out how to go about eating this pile of food before be, as it was in a pile, I scanned the room for our sever again no we're in sight. I thought an extra plate would be great, but no such luck so I used the bread plates to remove the potato and sausage and reveal the steak ( which I had requested a medium temperature ) sherry mushrooms and peppers and onions. The steak was grey in color it seemed to have been poached in a garlic butter instead of sizzled in the skillet in came in, the peppers and onions were cooked to mush, again seemed steamed instead of sauted and the sherry mushrooms tasted of the garlic butter the steak was drowned it. I was very disappointed. The sausage was great, well cooked, wonderful flavor. The baked potato could have benefited from a little salt on the skin and the cheese could have been melted instead of hard, like it had sat under a heat lamp. The garlic butter was delicious, but excessive., it over powered the bottom half of the pile of food. Perhaps place it in a small bowl for dipping the steak in after it has been properly seared and cooked to the correct temperature. My husband had finished as much of his noodle bowl as he could since he was never given a spoon, I had picked through and consumed as much of my disappointing pile of food served in a skillet as I cared for. Our server was still nowhere to be seen. She never returned to enquire to our needs or satisfaction. We sat talking and waiting, eventually my husband went to the staff gathered at the bar and asked if one of them to get her. A few minutes passed, she returned, our check in hand, no enquiry as to our satisfaction or if we would like dessert. Said I guess you need a box. So we took the box , paid the check and left. Chocolate cake would have been nice but we felt she wanted us to leave instead of provide us...

My family was very excited about trying the Brass Monkey but ended up disappointed. The atmosphere and decor was nice. The wait staff was friendly but very slow to greet us and take our order. Almost all the food is AL LA CARTE and VERY EXPENSIVE for what you get. Chili was ok. Sausage and Pepper Hoagie used the cheapest meat they could get and it was still around $14 and came with NO sides. In total it was probably not even $2.00 in food cost. Sides were all between $3-5 that I checked. The Reuben Wontons, Saratoga Chips, and Fries were good but all over priced and half of the fries were cold. The kids Chicken Tender meal looked like frozen chicken from Sam's Club and wasn't impressive. My kids nibbled at it. Overall, this place left us feeling disappointed and ripped off. We will not be back unless some major changes happen. We were really hoping this place was going to be better. If you want good food at a fair price then I recommend skipping this one and going to another...

(ignore Rebecca Bales, an obvious "philistine") I have eaten in restaurants from D.C. to L.A., Tampa, New Orleans, Dallas and many others. I have NEVER experienced such a perfect meal that blended this well (and I'm friends with chef Braun of "Blu Fusion" in Marco Island, FL).

The "White Chicken Chili" was a dish I would demand be enjoyed with No Interruption from Anyone so I could concentrate on its incredible fullness of perfectly blended ingredients.

The "Frisco Melt" did what the name promised with every bite. I could not believe I was actually eating a sandwich. It was more like a French pastry of the most tender beef and exquisite bacon imaginable, resting between two perfect pieces of Texas toast requiring no effort to bite through.

The chef at "Brass Monkey" is truly a culinary wizard as my meal was prepared with, most likely, a wand rather than a grill.

This location is an anniversary must-do or a business lunch meeting that will doubtlessly...