Pints Barn — Restaurant in Tumwater

One could say this is part of local chain of Pint’s restaurants in the Olympia Area, but each has its own menu and feel, so they almost do not seem related. This one is quite small compared to the others, but does have a nice outside area when it is nice out. Menu offers quite a bit of choices. Usually when I have been here it has been for the local Pint’s Running group and the place is packed. This time was for an early happy hour. There were some beer specials, but no wine special for happy hour, which is interesting. Wells were also on special. For food you order from the regular menu and look for the couple items that have the HH by them…. Not too many but we found a couple things. We had the nachos which ended up being very good…. so big and filling that we didn’t touch the second item we ordered – a Pita Pizza. Took the pizza home for lunch the next day and it was yummy as well! Overall a good addition to our...

This place is awesome. Indoor air conditioning or outdoor patio. Our waitress (Laura) was great. My wife and I (1st time visiters) stopped in for lunch. One waitress and one cook. The place was empty, I was a little worried that the positive reviews were all made up. We ordered lunch and beverages. We had heard about the appetizer boards, so we ordered two, the Cougar Gold cheese board and the Sausage Sampler. Then the place started filling up. I guess we were just a head of the normal Lunch crowd. The food was fantastic, enough appetizers for a large group (we had leftovers). Many cheeses to sample with pickled vegetables and pita. The Sausage sampler would have been a meal by itself. Our waitress, the only one, handled the busy crowd and made sure we were taken care of. Excellent service, very good food, and my wife liked the dark beer. We shall return the next time...

So this was our first time here for my mom and I. We found out that they had a new cook after waiting for our food for an hour. Kristi the bartender/server ( I assume this was the correct person since her name was on our receipt and she was the one helping us most of that time) came up an apologized for the wait and explained the situation. She applied 25% off our food. The food came out about 10 minutes later. The food was definitely very good. Their version of a french dip had so much flavor and one of the italian style sandwiches blew me away with the flavor in the meat that we will definitely be back. The only thing we would suggest changing is the auju to use the one made by Johnny's as we belive it has a better flavor. These guys really made our experience one to remember, even with the food wait and we will...