Powerhouse Restaurant & Brewery — Restaurant in Puyallup

Good food, truly wonderful beer, ale and stout, prompt service. This is a converted power station just as named, with interior brick walls, exposed beams, and power station paraphrenalia in use as decoration on the walls. Sound protection is limited, and even though the place was half full it was noisy -- not a good spot for a quiet conversation or discussion. The brewery is inside the building and if you ask you may be able to get a tour (I got one, and I really got a kick out of it). The tables were occupied by both genders (no kids, it was about 8pm on a school night) and the bar was a crowd of men only. I was seated and served promptly in the dining section. I had fried artichoke hearts (overbattered and too salty for my taste, but more or less what I would expect from a bar menu). I ordered dinner off the Oktoberfest special menu and had roulades, thinly sliced beef wrapped around a filling (in this case bread crumbs and mild pickles) and served with a heavy wine-based sauce; I thought these were pretty ambitious for a bar menu and they turned out well. They were served with homemade sauerkraut thickly adorned with caraway, and homemade spaetzele. Both side dishes were really excellent (though I realize my fondness for sauerkraut is not universally shared). Another excellent dish was a huge creme brulee for dessert, perfectly glazed and perfectly creamy and delicious underneath, about twice the size of a typical serving. But the crown jewels of the place are its fermented beverages, and these were just extraordinary. You can order any individually (as well as growlers to go) but they also make allowances for indecisive persons like myself. For $6 you get a "sampler" or flight of five. I had the seasonal winter ale (a heavy, warmly flavored lager with 8% alcohol), an India Pale Ale, a scottish ale, an oatmeal stout and (if I remember correctly) an amber ale. All were wonderful, but the scottish ale and the stout were my favorites. My favorites, I should say, of the menu. My very obliging waiter favored me with tastes of the brewery's barley wine and its Imperial Stout, which were not on sale that evening but represent the very pinnacle of brewing; if there is a richer brew than their imperial stout I doubt that I will taste it this side of heaven. Benjamin Franklin is said to have declared that beer was proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy, and whether he said that or not,when you drink this I think you will find it easy to believe. Altogether a very satisfying evening, which cost about $40 including the appetizer, entree, side dishes, beverages and dessert. Although nominally open til 9 they stopped seating after 8:30 on the first weeknight...

I have eaten at the Powerhouse a couple of times and absolutely loved it, so when my mother came to town it was an obvious choice to bring her here. What a mistake that was. My wife, mother, daughter, and I arrived at the restaurant as the lunch rush was ending and we were seated in under 10 minutes. The waiter took our drink orders and I ordered and appetizer (breasts of fire, which is usually top notch). I should have been wary at this point because he was one of those waiters that doesn't write anything down, which is fine if you can actually do it. The waiter brought our drinks and then the waiting game began. The waiter checked in on us after about 5 minutes which is when we placed our food orders and then he basically abandoned us. After about 25 minutes without any attention he finally comes back and tells us our food should be out shortly. I ask about our appetizer and all I receive is a blank stare. He says he will go check with the kitchen to see if it is done and I stop him, because it is obvious he forgot, and tell him if he didn't put it in to not even worry about it because we were tired of waiting. He admits he didn't put it in (thanks for lying to me) and apologizes and says he will take 10% off our bill. Now if this had been the only thing I wouldn't be writing the review, but it gets worse.

The waiter brings out our food and I had ordered the ribs that are advertised as coming with beans and a jalapeno corn muffin. The ribs come out and no muffin. I immediately ask him about this and he says they don't include it anymore as they recently changed owners and chefs. What the hell? It says right on your menu what is supposed to come with the meal. If you are going to change your menu you actually have to CHANGE THE MENUS! The waiter says he will go to the kitchen and see if he can get me some sort of substitute for the missing muffin and then he turns around and promptly forgets about us again and never returns until he is bringing the check. We ask for some take out boxes so we can just leave and he also forgets about those.

I would have brought all of this to the attention of the management, but I am pretty sure our waiter was the manager. This was without a doubt one of the worst dining experiences I...

First off I want to state that my boyfriend and I have been regulars here for over a year. I have never written a google review before but tonight, I felt the need, as I have never had such terrible service. Normally I would rate this place 4 stars because we love this local brewery but it’s a little overpriced and this particular visit was beyond disappointing and deserves 0 stars. When we arrived, we were told there would be a 30-35 minute wait and we were completely ok with that. This restaurant only has 16 tables available, 4 of which only seat 2 people. There were only a couple, a group of friends, and a family ahead of us. We went to the bar to grab a drink while we waited. The bar only has 5 stools. We were not looked at or acknowledged by the bartender for 10 minutes. Shortly after we were served our drinks, an elderly couple came up to the bar and were served instantly. We waited 45 minutes to be seated. We ordered an appetizer, what we consider the best fried pickles, to start. They came out after a while, very hot. Before we could even take a bite of the appetizer, both of our expensive pasta dishes were placed on our table by a different server, with hard as rock burnt breadsticks. When our waitress came over, I explained that we haven’t even had time to enjoy our appetizer yet and our entrees were delivered. She apologized but offered nothing other than fresh new breadsticks after she heard the ding on my dish from tapping the rock solid breadstick on it. We tried to take a few bites of our appetizer as we stared at our entrees getting cold but couldn’t do it. We asked for boxes for our unfinished appetizer, untouched entrees and the check. The waitress brought over the check and boxes with no apology, no compensation, nothing. After spending time and money from 6:45pm-8:30pm on a Tuesday, we are left with nothing but a ruined appetite, a terrible experience, and enough disappointment to spend more time writing this review but we wanted a transparent expectation of how it will be at...