Bottleworks — Restaurant in Sunbury

Bottleworks is the kind of place that I always regret not going to more often. It's actually because of the Rotary club that I started regularly going to bottle works.

I recently became a rotarian which sounds so weird for me because I think of the Rotary club and I think old guys in suits. Okay. I'm not a young guy, but I'm more of the poetry activist type.

I joined the rotary and one of our first meetings was in Bottleworks. Who's actually a pre-meeting with one of the members, Shawn. Who answered all of my questions about Rotary.

We just had beer, but it's never just a beer at Bottleworks. I have excellent beers, in fact, many excellent beers. In fact, almost too many excellent beers. It's hard to choose.

The good thing is they also offer a flight of beers. And I always get a flight cuz I want to try a little bit of everything.

And it turns out that it is a flight for a cause. For every flight someone purchases A donation goes to the Rotary club which in turn supports local and international projects.

I've been shocked at the kind of projects they do around the world.

Here are four key ways the Rotary Club helps communities internationally:

Fighting Disease – Rotary has led global efforts to eradicate polio and supports health initiatives like malaria prevention, access to clean water, and building medical infrastructure in underserved regions.

Promoting Peace – Rotary funds peace fellowships and supports conflict resolution training, especially in areas affected by war or political unrest, helping communities rebuild and heal.

Providing Clean Water and Sanitation – Rotary helps communities build wells, install water purification systems, and improve sanitation, reducing disease and improving quality of life.

Supporting Education – Rotary provides scholarships, builds schools, supplies educational materials, and trains teachers, especially in areas where access to quality education is limited.

These efforts are often led by local Rotary clubs in partnership with international chapters, ensuring culturally appropriate and sustainable impact.

So I'm not just drinking a beer or several beers that come in a flight, I'm making the world a better place and I can do that from a bar stool in Sunbury Pennsylvania.

For some reason I'm never hungry when I go into Bottleworks, but when I see the food come out of the kitchen, I regret my lack of hunger. The sandwiches are massive and the food looks very fresh. Maybe if a donation was given for every sandwich they sold I might buy more if?

I just need to go with an appetite. But if you like beer, this is your place. They always have at least eight beers on tap, I think more. They also have lots of beers you...

Just ate at the "new" Coal Township location this afternoon for lunch. This is going to be long because the list goes on and on.....upon arrival I had high hopes. I had been told by several friends that the food was good but don't expect great service. That was an understatement. My mind was quickly changed within the first few minutes. It took 3 confused employees to seat us in an almost empty dining room. Upon being seated we looked over the menu and noticed a "$5 surcharge for an addition plate," after asking our server I learned that if you ask for an extra plate (an empty plate) they will charge you $5. During our wait, the older, dark haired bartender was more concerned with flirting with patrons then doing her job. She made several comments that didn't belong in the workplace or anywhere respectable for that matter. The service was pure disaster to say the least. I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt because they had just opened & maybe they were still working out the kinks. My "Western" cheeseburger came out with toppings that weren't listed on the menu. I was given the choice of "pink" or "no pink". I chose pink and I received a soggy/bloody bun with my burger and the fries that were completely raw in the middle. I immidiately sent the items back and they were returned within 2 minutes which makes me assume that the food was microwaved. It would take longer than 2 min. to deconstruct a burger and put it back on the grill, then replate it. The only enjoyable item was the onion ring appetizer. Our server was missing 50% of the time. When we needed drinks she was nowhere to be found, when she reappeared she was walking through the dining room with her purse like she was ready to leave for the day, super confusing. In her absence I tried to get the floozy bartender's attention but once again she was too busy chatting it up with a visibly intoxicated patron. (Again, this is for lunch, mid afternoon.) We waited a long time for our check, then waited longer to have our takeout items added & to be checked out by a different waitress. (Our waitress apparently couldn't be bothered with us any longer.) An excruciatingly long wait for terrible service and mediocre food. The growler refills are super pricey. I'd recommend stopping down the road at the local beer distributor before I'd pay $20 for the equivalent of 4, 16oz beers. The on tap selection was considerably large and so were the 6 packs to go. I'd give this place a 2 out of 5 and that's being nice....

I really wanted to like this place (Coal Township location) but jeez was this a terrible experience. It was clear the server had ZERO understanding of beer or basic knowledge of the drink or food menu. Service was slow and when I finally received my sandwich it was a basic and disappointing lunch meat hoagie I could have made at home— without fries or even chips— I sent it back and was still charged for it. Everyone else at the table was incredibly disappointed. I wanted to like this place but outside their general cleanliness there is not many positives I can provide. If the current situation isn’t addressed, Brewsers will have nothing to...