Been there 2 time in the past 8 years I have lived in the area... Â Both in the past 2 weeks! Â Wish I found this place earlier.
The first night was a regular week night, but all our kids had things to do so we stopped by. Â Nice comfortable place, they had a nice band in the back room playing so it provided a great background to the meal.
The food was really good.
The second time I went with my mother and son, I was in the mood for that food again. Â This time the Band was in the Bar area, a great Bluegrass band that I would have really enjoyed listening to. Â again the food was good, however, my son (age 4) was crying that the music was to loud and my mother and I couldn't talk at all.
I guess I need to find a way to know if I need to go to listen to music, or go for a good meal with those I love.
One of my favorite local restaurants! Â Live music every Friday night. Â The Bluegrass jams they host once a month are fantastic!! Â A small, but great selection of beers on tap. Â I'm always pleased with the quality of food and service. Â They just started making wood fired pizzas about a year ago, and are better than most pizzeria pizzas I've had locally. Â A great place to have a meal or just sip a beer with an appetizer!
Review Source:This is a very convenient place to go if you are coming back from Vermont - just make a left off rte 7 onto 278, follow to end, and make another left onto rte 2 - it's on the right just past Tamarac school. It's great that you can go somewhere without a cover and hear some great music. It's a nice casual place to bring the family or meet friends because it's pretty loud, you don't have to dress up, the prices are very reasonable and it's very pleasant. Â Last night was not their best service night. We were shown to the table and the lights were not on in that section of the restaurant - so we were supposed to sit in the dark? We turned the light switch on. I mean, common sense! The table was stabilized by a wad of newspaper shoved under the leg. The carpet was dirty with crumbs. Ok, I can put all that aside because I have been there before and the food is good and maybe they were busy and couldn't get to that. But after taking our drink orders, I could have killed and skinned and smoked bbq myself in a shorter amount of time than it took for the food to come out. The bbq was excellent but my drink glass stood empty for a long time and only when my companion went to the bar and asked for another, did suddenly it occur to our waitress that maybe they had a table to check on. The food was excellent - but the service needs help. It's too slow and not attentive enough in checking up on whether you need anything else. They are very nice just need some better training. I do recommend the food, the atmosphere, and the music. The smoked chicken, brisket, garlic mashed potatoes, and cole slaw are all excellent. The nachos are outstanding too. The best thing of all is the cornbread with sweet butter. Yum. I rank the food 4 stars, the service 2 for an average of 3 stars. The last time I went here I had much better service in the bar area.
Review Source:The Wife and I had dinner here last night after one of her co-workers had recommended it to her. Â She got the 1/2 rack of ribs plate and I got the sampler, my ribs were a tad dry but still had great flavor and bark. Probably the best ribs we've had since moving up here. The pulled pork I got was also very good, even had enough left over to have a PP sandwich for lunch today. Good experience overall, will definitely make a return trip.
Review Source:family of 5...2 adults, 3 children all under age 12.
WAS STARVING after being at the Graftom lake park most of the afternoon.....would have eaten just about anything and this place looked busy which was a good sign especially on a Sunday about 530pm.
When we first walked in the place was large and the bar was full.....about 2 tables actually had people eating.
First ordered the Nachos Grande appetizer to hold us over til the real food arrived......
ordered the drinks and they came out promptly
Tha Nachos never came and the meal did.......off to a bad start,
Ordered 3 kids meals.....1 child had.homemade mac and cheese. DRY and looked like it had been sitting for a few days waiting for a customer. 2 children had quesadilla.....also not hot....how is that possible, had to melt the cheese make it.
Adult 1 Ordered the veggie stack thing with pasta, wasnt sure what to expect here. It came out like a stack of grilled veggies with a huge cheese ball melted on top of it all. OK......Again...not hot.The "melted"cheese was cold, what is going on in the kitchen. It really looked like it was all premade sitting in the cooler waiting for a customer to show up and order it. This plate shoule have taken about 12 minutes to make. It had a large Portabella mushroom which was uncooked in the middle of all the peppers stacked under the large cheese ball.....The Pasta was in a seperate dish......just penne with some basil? sprinkled on it.....no sauce or anything.....sauce wasnt an option given when ordering. Adult 1 drank water with this mess and the next two days was sick from the food.
Adult 2 ordered the FULL rack Brunswick Baby Back Ribs......" Sticky and Sweet" was what I was told..........came out DRY and Warm......not hot, DRY DRY DRY.....like eating dried Jerky off the bone. I got the Mac and cheese side and Beans.....Mac and Cheese.....COLD and DRY (like my childs) like week old leftovers. HEY CHEF.....add some milk and butter throw it in the microwave and stir the noodles around for 2 seconds to TRY to freshen up this "HOMEMADE" train wreck.
Left with 2 stomach aches and 3 kids that were still hungry......inexpensive and terrible food......I guess it is a great place to drink alchohol.
Love this place and am willing to drive a bit to get there. Choices of barbecue styles and the smoker is right there as you pull in to park in the ample parking lot. It is a great atmosphere inside. Warm, woody and relaxed. Great staff and good choice of beers. I've been there all four seasons -- it's always a good time for barbecue.
Review Source:Ugh, I was so hoping to write a rave review after talking to people who've been here and liked it. I don't even know if after last night I could muster up the energy to even give it a second try in hopes of a better experience.
Inside---open and spacious, but old and grimey looking. Tables and chairs were 80's style and the chairs at the table didn't even match each other. It was like they were all found at garage sales. I don't know if this is on purpose or not, but it didn't look all that cool and daring or comforting.
Service---about the worst I've had in a long time. The girl we had would come back only as necessary. She forgot to bring bread when we asked for it and instead said it was in the oven. Warming up hard rolls takes about half an hour??? And I got news for them, when they finally came out, they weren't warm..AT ALL!. After dinners were served, and even after apps, she never came back to check on how food was, if correct, etc. And that was a big mishap b/c my father's girlfriend ordered the steak sandwich w/ peppers and onions and the peppers and onions weren't on it and it took the waitress about 10 mins before she ever came back and it wasn't even to our table, it was to the next table and my father had to wave her down to get the peppers and onions. Then, the peppers and onions didn't come back for another 10-15 minutes so her sandwich was cold and completely dried by then so we had to ask for it to be remade. As if that wasn't enough, the original waitress didn't even bring it back, it was another waitress. It also took the waitress forever to clean plates between courses and she was spotty each time she did it and would only take away some of them. Good thing we had a table for 10 with only 5 of us there to push some stuff down more. I also have to tell you that it wasn't busy there last night at all when we were there so busyness is NOT an excuse for yesterday. I tend to be very lenient w/ wait staff because of how hard they work, but this girl was no where to be found and just not good.
Food---very hit and miss. I had high hopes since my clam chowder was served piping hot and was very tasty and you could taste the real clams and the soup was so creamy. However, the rest of the food came. Chickens were DRY, pulled pork and baked beans served cold. Mac and cheese which were gotten by my sister and my father's gf both commented were very tasteless. In apps, the calamari...many pieces were stuck together and not well seperated which means to me that batter must have been too wet or fryer over crowded and not well watched. Also, the calamari had 0 seasonings to it----you had to use the sauce to get some flavor. The potato skins were commented that even those could have been better and weren't that tasty. HOWEVER, the BIG WINS of the night....clam chowder was very tasty, ribs were excellent and fell off the bone and the sauce was excellent, and corn bread was very moist and just sweet enough.
Overall, I am not a happy camper and everyone in the party left either completely dissatisfied all the way around or were very 'meh, i've had better'. Also it took FOREVER for food to come out. Also, after reading the description of the place, I was hoping for some local brewed beer or homemade beer and there wasn't (or at least we weren't told there was when we asked about beers) and the waitress barely knew the beers available and even said at one point one of the beers we were looking for wasn't available and then later came back and said it was.
Had a great day outside and wanted to finish off with a bang. Â Having had a great experience at the Brunswick BBQ and Brew once before, we decided to stop in again.
Sadly, this experience was not as good as the first. Â Floor was dirty. Â High chair was dirty. Â Floaties at the bottom of my pint glass. Â
Waitress was unsure of beers they had on tap, but halfheartedly took a stab at listing them. Â Their prior beer selection was half the reason we stopped here...we remembered it for having several good craft brewery selections. Â So we asked for a beer list and chose one from the menu; her response was "we are out of that one, you must not have been listening". Â Oh. Â Struck out on another listed menu item when I ordered...no sweet potato fries.
Then our food came. Â My daughter's mac and cheese would have been better described as "mac and milk" and there was no side with it. Â I would describe my pulled pork as crunchy and dry. Â We mentioned the mac and cheese issue to our waitress who had tasted it earlier and agreed it was tasteless and watery, but offered to get us something else. Â We opted for cornbread. Â When the bill came, my daughters meal, which should have been juice/mac and cheese/side but turned out to be juice/cornbread/no side was still at full price. Â Which is only 5$ but it is the principle, really. Â All this and I overheard both of the tables being served near us complaining to her as well about their food.
Overall, the service left much to be desired, as did the upkeep of the restaurant and the quality of the food. Â Prices were still great. Â And I am still impressed with their craft brew selections. Â That is, if they have most of what they had listed.
As I mentioned above, we had stopped in here last October on the way home from a day at the park with the kids. Â I should have reviewed it then...place was clean (with the exception of a messy bathroom sink situation due to a faucet malfunction), service was outstanding, beer was great, food was good as were the prices.
Seems the quality of food and service is headed downhill at this establishment and we are really disappointed to see it happen. Â Perhaps they had a change in management, or cook staff. Â Either way, it would be great to see it turn around as it is a convenient location to stop on the way back from a day in the woods in MA or VT when you have a hankering for a good beer and some comfort food.
Their R&B is my taste in music...
In this case, R&B is Ribs and Beer! Â
The BBQ ribs are offered Kansas City or Memphis style. Â I prefer the Memphis with its rub of spices and lack of messy sauce. Â But I recall also liking the Kansas City ones when I last tried them here. Â I find the BBQ chicken on the dry side, but that's were the beer comes to the rescue. Â The draft selection is excellent. Â Last night the Smuttynose Robust Porter truly hit the spot. Â
No complaints from my wife with her Southern Tier IPA and Vegetable Stack of grilled vegetables stacked and layered with fresh buffalo mozzarella, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic glaze. Served with a side of pasta.
Brunswick Barbecue & Brew is nestled in at the end of a quaint, tiny town right before the beginning (or end depending on which way you're going) of Highway 2. The building brings very little attention to itself; while the brick red building does stands out from the rest of quiet Brunswick, one can easily drive by the place without even realizing it was there - that is until you catch the smell of a smokey grill wafting through your car window as you pass by.
It is very difficult to talk about a place that has the perfect first impression. The service may not have been up to par, the bathroom sink might have been too dirty, or maybe the waitress had a slight moustache that wasn't to your liking. Point being is this: It is always easier to pick at all the wrong things than it is praise it for all the good ones. Every now and then though, after sifting through all the garbage, you find a place that you absolutely love and all you can really do is simply smile.
With that being said, there really is nothing much more I can say. The service is impeccable and the food is delicious. I have seriously tried with all my might to find something minutely annoying, but to no avail. It is a nice place to end the day driving on along Highway 2, and it is unfortunate that I didn't discover Brunswick Barbecue & Brew earlier.
To all those who are in the Troy area, I urge you stop by and enjoy a simple, delicious meal with your friends and/or family. Â It is unlikely that someone will see this review, but this place deserves all the attention in can get. And if by chance you stumble upon this, much like I stumbled upon this restaurant, hopefully you'll make the effort to go and have the simple and delicious food.
As they are close to home, and have a terrific little patio by a stream for al fresco dining, we like to go here once in a while. The beer selection is good, wines by the glass extremely reasonable in price.
This being said, I would stick to basic barbeque or burgers. They have an Angus burger for $8.99. Ribs are pricey but you can get half or full racks and a choice of 3 styles of sauce/ preparation. The cornbread is mighty tasty. Desserts are not home made. Stay away from salads etc. I had a terrible spinach salad with grilled shrimp and our excellent server was nice enough to take it off the bill. That's the way to insure a customer's return - and we will return!
PLEASE feed the starving cat by the patio if you go!
We started going here when they first opened. Â At first the food was 'holy moly, out of this world' delicious. Â We couldn't get enough of their mac & cheese! Â After a year or two the food, while it's still really good, doesn't have the same 'pop' as it did when it first opened. Â
We've tried just about everything on the menu. Â The coconut shrimp are great, steamed clams, bbq chicken, ribs and the cornbread! Â Make sure you get the honey butter with the cornbread. Â It's really good. Â The meals can be a little expensive though.
To make it even better their beer tap selection is fantastic. Â I can't wait for the pumpkin ale to come back!
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