Great atmosphere, friendly and attentive service, and terrific food. Â We loved the bread with honey and mustard butter... yum. Â Â Pizza was spot-on. Â
The atmosphere is cozy and casual. Â
We ordered the beer sampler and we were super-impressed. Â Don't let the strip-mall setting deter you. Â The inside makes it allllllll good.
Bru has hands down the best lunch in Boulder. I have been half a dozen times and each time is better than the last. I just had a chicken flatbread sandwich. Sounds boring. It was the bomb, serious flavor, light and fresh, just absolutely so yummy. On top of all of this there lunch menu is seriously priced low. Most options at $10 with a huge side of soup salad or roasted veg. Best kept secret in Boulder... for now!
Thought about minus one star because there dinner menu is overpriced starting at $17 for an entree and up from there. Could not dot it... food is too good!
Bru has some exceptional beers.My wife who hates beer drank a full glass of the Belux after trying a sip of mine.This is the most beer i have seen her drink in 12 years.The Beezul is  my favorite.The pizza we had was good enough that we want to go back and try other things on the menu.
Thanks Bru ,my wife is no longer a cheap date!
Wanted to update since my last review when I was not overly impressed by the food.
Went to Bru again for a late night dinner with friends and we were all blown away by our experience. Everything was perfect including the tomato/basil/mozzarella pizza, wood-roasted veggies, bahn mi, and the killer cheese and meat board. The beer is in my opinion, the most innovative, delicate, refined and delicious beer being brewed in Boulder's craft beer scene right now. A serious score for beer geeks.
Don't miss the Beezel, coffee stout, Dubbel w sour cherries, Belux and Citrum.
Great variety of house-brewed beers - leaning toward Belgian and German ales. Â Entrees and appetizers were excellent.
Really enjoyed the wood-roasted veggies and radish and bean salad, and the sourdough pizza was fantastic. Reasonable prices and decent service. I'll definitely be back!
Big fan of Bru! Â Most excellent beers and the food is pretty spot on. Â Relatively small'ish dining area, but for the location it probably works well for them. Â Very nice & cozy atmosphere - much more sophisticated than the surrounding strip mall.
We love the beers and the Beezel was one of the better attempts that I've tried brewed outside of Belgium. Â Citrum was very good as well! Â Once Avery moves up north, this might be our new go-to location for east Boulder drinking.
Only knock was the pizza we had, while by no means bad or terrible - it wasn't as good as expected. Â Will certainly give it another go, but they might want to tweak that somehow. Â
Looking forward to going again soon!
I didn't even know that this place existed until my friends were raving about this new brewery in east Boulder. We were a little taken back as we pulled into this old shopping center on the edge of Arapahoe. Hesitant at first, but as soon as we walked through those doors we knew we were on to something good. There was no hostess so we weren't really sure what to do when we walked in until this nice young man came and greeted us. The beers were awesome! Loved the Rigley Red Rye IPA and the Arium Dubbel. Their brew master really knows what he's doing serving up these full flavored beers that really are a true delight. The food was great! I liked the fact that our server was able to explain the dishes to us and that he came back to make sure we were enjoying ourselves (he had tattoos). Our server was great, but it did take some time to get our beers. We noticed the bartender having multiple conversations distracting him from making our drinks, which was a little annoying. I would strongly recommend the daily sausages that they make in house. I think that day ours was a 5 spice pork sausage. Their salads are amazing, nice and fresh. Our pork entree left little to be remembered, but there's definitely potential. Nothing very unexpected, which is not at all what I was expecting. Although, our server informed us that most of their food is local and organic. I was truly amazed at the amount of food that was prepared in house. I think this place makes literally everything in house, from the butter to the ice cream. I was a little bummed that my daughter had only a few choices for sodas, something like blueberry and strawberry/melon. I was expecting to get a nice root beer or something for her. If you want good/personable service, fresh homemade food and exquisite beer then BRU is definitely recommended. They still have a little fine tuning to do, but I think this place is on the right track. I'll definitely be back for more beer and I wanna try their pizzas!
Review Source:I visited Bru on a recommendation from a friend. He said he enjoyed their beers so I thought I'd give them a try. Bru is located in this odd little strip mall/restaurant strip just south of Arapahoe. You've kinda got to be looking of it to find it.
Upon arriving the first thing I saw was a mouse hanging out in their firewood in front of the entrance. Note to Bru; mice and restaurants are not harmonious with one another. Once we were inside we were quickly greeted by a nice gentleman who also took our drink orders. We ordered several beers in a flight and all of them were pretty tasty. He also helped us make our dinner selections and we relaxed in the artsy environment enjoying their wood fired bread plate. Which I will say was good but it appeared that the bread was oven baked then warmed in the wood oven so it was a little misleading. Not to mention at $4 I thought it was kind of a joke as any reputable restaurant serves bread compliments of the house.
I ordered the roast Berkshire pork and my wife ordered the fried chicken. Both meals arrived rather over cooked. The pork was dry and unexciting. The flavor was rich but had been muted by its preparation.
The chicken was also over cooked and it appeared that it was cooked way too quickly. The fat had not rendered from the meat but it was overdone and dry. You almost have to try to pull that off.
The sides were okay but nothing that corrected for the proteins.
I really felt that this place had decent beers but their gourmet twist on the food was not going well for them. Maybe try sticking to simple foods that are quick and easy to prepare. At the price point this was not a value and I could not recommend the food. This review may sound harsh but I think it's only fair to be honest when you expect your guests to shell out of this type of meal.
I'd say stop in and have an appetizer and make your own conclusion. I'll be back for a beer or two.
Was pretty excited to try Bru for lunch today on Thursday at 12:15 (prime time). All said and painfully done, the whole kit and caboodle took almost two hours. Is there some sort of a catch? Were there 20 people in our party? No, it was a whopping TWO of us. Not to mention, there were literally only six people in the ENTIRE effing restaurant! I was mentally preparing for it to be busy before we even arrived. Man, was I wrong. When we ordered some drinks it took 25 minutes. An app of wood fired bread...tack on another 30. Is it that hard to serve beer and toast some bread? Good thing you pour your own water since they leave the table your own carafe. The food was pretty disappointing also. There was no salt and pepper to be found anywhere in the restaurant. I would have asked our waitress for some but she decided to go grocery shopping or something. Everything was flavorless and dry. Shouldn't a Meatball Sandwich have some sauce with a hint of flavor? When our server finally did decide to resurface she asked if we were ready for the bill. I muttered, "um yeah, we need to get back to work," she said, "oh, sorry. I had to step away for AWHILE." WTF??
If you want to stop and have a beer and lounge around for hours on end and just shoot the shit with friends that's totally understandable. This is lunch time people. Most of the hard working community has some sort of time limit. I consider myself a very low maintenance person and would feel differently if business had been booming, but the crickets were literally chirping in the place...oh wait...the crickets weren't even there. (I guess that's a good thing.) All-in-all a terrible experience and major disappointment. Should be one star but I gave it two because their beer was actually the only saving grace. What do you expect though, it's a brewery?
Tried today (Sun, 12:30pm) for the first time.
Walked in and place was near-capacity. Small-ish dining room, but quaint and nicely decorated (rustic). Â Kitchen is open and there is a nice stone wood-fired pizza oven dominating it in the middle. Â Hostess sat our party of 9 in two tables, 4 and 5 to accommodate us, which was nice.
Service was..."leisurely"...felt like we were forgotten on a couple of occasions early on. Â Finally got to order drinks...they were our of their Rye IPA, so I had the "citrus" IPA. Â Not bad - kind of light and refreshing. Â Good for a brunch-type meal. Â They were also out of several soda syrups for our daughter (they make all their sodas by hand) so she had to settle for a vanilla-style soda.
Ordered a Rhubarb and ricotta turnover to share. Â Was mostly cold and rather dry. Â Also more tart than I would have preferred.
Got to ordering food (finally! Like I said, service was a little on the slow side) and we ordered the breakfast pizza, poached eggs with trout and a salad with fava beans and jicama.
The poached eggs were served on small baguette slices with creme fraiche and smoked trout. Â Eggs were cooked perfectly. Â Nice size portions. Â Could have used a little more seasoning (S&P to start), but otherwise was a nice dish.
The breakfast pizza had a single fried egg (sunny-side up) on the top with pesto and other assorted items on a light sauce. Â Was very good. Â The pizza's not sliced (to preserve the egg) so it was hard for the ladies to share the pizza.
The salad was a nice size (especially for the price) and well dressed.
I also ordered the Belgian-style Pale Ale. Â Nice flavor, a little bitter on the finish.
Others had their BRU-mimosa. Â If you've been to Snooze and had their brew-mosa, same thing. Â Only this one comes in a pint glass and is more beer than OJ. Wife thought that more OJ would be better.
Overall, I think that there is great potential here...service needs to be a little faster (though our server was super nice and friendly), having more stock on-hand would be nice, and beers take time to get all the kinks out before knocking it.
I'd give Bru 3 1/2 stars but can't, so I have to use 3 only. Â I'll definitely go back in a few weeks to see how things are going and try some other of their menu items.
More breweries is only a good thing; we live in such a fabulous area for micro-brews. Â Combine good food and good beer and this place can become a home-run.
This place is amazing, in my opinion. The beer is all great - it reminds me of classic Belgian beer is all its varieties and I've tasted everything (after like 3 weeks of visiting) - light to dark, it's rich. The food is totally gourmet - much like Frasca, but I like it better. Next time, I'm going to invite my CU prof-type friends.
Review Source:Wow...while on vacation we stumbled across Bru and were very impressed. We had the cheesy biscuits with onions and. Gravy and it was sooo fresh and delicious.  We also had a ricotta and ruburb turnover which was decadent.  We also did a flight of there homemade beer..I know it was really early (about 945am..) but it was....brunch. That is my excuse and I am sticking to it. I really liked the brown beer with dates  and sugar. Actually everything we tries was great.
One of the best brunches we have had and I am a brunch addict. Great food, beer and our server, Hailey was super friendly, provided lots of information and had a great sense of humor. We also found that Bru has only been open 3 weeks and hope next time we go on vacation and I need to work in DEnver we can come back. We also found they make everything on site...from their beer, cure their own meats and cheeses.
WE did have a hard time locating Bru when our gps directed us to us the address...it is in the far right hand corner.
I was in Boulder for work and our partners took us here.
Great beer, very fun atmosphere. Chalkboard tables!
The salads with arugula were fresh, light, just right.
The meat and cheese plate was good, but a couple of the meats were on the tough/gristly side.
The trout was a whole fish- the texture was superb, but they might want to call out that it is a whole fish, bone-in, etc. Some of my companions were thrown off by this.
The little pancake fritters/ biscuits that accompanied the fish were also really tasty.
I like spicy things, so I asked what they had for hot sauce. They make their own Sriracha!. Yummy!
Homemade ice cream to end the night.
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