Freely Taproom & Kitchen — Restaurant in Tempe

I hate leaving baf reviews for locally owned businesses. But I feel that I need to in this case. Today was my second visit here. I remember the first time it being really good. It was geting late so we thought a bar would be a better option because they are open late. The mistake we made is that the kitchen closes early. So part of this is probably my fault. It was 8:25 and if we realized the kitchen closed at 9pm we would have gone somewhere else.

Tonight I ordered a meat ball sandwich. We wait a long time for the food. They even came over and told us it was last call for food. Which is kind of an issue if you haven't gotten your food yet.

When the food finally came my sandwich was cold. The cheese looked like it had sat so long that it was no longer melted. Then I realized that the meatballs were room temperature. My guess is the cheese wasn't melted it just melted under the heat lamp.

So my concern is that if food is being served at room temperature that people are going to get sick. So I over reacted a little which was no cool and the team was super nice and gave a refund.

So the reason for this review is so managment. knows and makes changes. This is a really cool local bar and I want them to stay in business. So I think hitting them with one bad review is worth the penalty because if they don't know this is going on they can't fix it.

If the manager had come over I wouldn't be leaving this review and other restaurants don't respond to emails so I apologize for the bad review.

Just know while the bar is open late the kitchen closes at 9pm. And never eat luck warm food because there is a high risk of getting sick if it's been a total of 4 hours allowing...

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