Firehouse Grille & Pub

Our first hint should have been the parking situation, or lack there of, this restaurant is on a street that you can't drive down, so turn down the access street just before Front St, and park in the parking lot at the end of that road.

Walking down Front St was a ghost down, and when we walked into Firehouse Grille & Pub at 5pm, it was too, just a couple of people at the bar.  We stood at the "Please wait to be seated" sign for over 5 minutes without being seated, and when we finally gave up and sat at the bar, one of the bar patrons jumped up and introduced herself as the waitress... though not ours apparently?  We waited another 2 or so minutes at the bar before an older lady, the bartender walked up with an attitude and asked to see our ID's before even saying hello, I'm young looking, but I am 30, so I was a bit shocked.  After we showed her our licenses, she told us that there was a beer special on black and tans, and a special on Stella's where you got to keep the chalice (we were not interested, but while we were there a couple sad suckers did bite, at which point i noticed that they were giving away the used, scuffed, cloudy looking sets that the bar had obviously already used... this just seemed disgusting to me, someone who normally goes to bars that do glass giveaways, NEW glass giveaways.)

We saw Angry Orchard on tap, and decided to order that, it was actually very good, very fresh tasting, it's a hard thing to find on tap, the good review ends there.  For food, I decided to order their "home made and hearty, world famous, 2 alarm chili," which said it was served with cheese and sour cream.  The bf chose a hand crafted fire starter burger, which boasted a patty formed with crushed red pepper, jalapenos, Tabasco sauce and covered in melted mozzarella, he opted to sub out for the cheddar bacon fries, and ordered it all cooked med-rare.  

When the food came out, it looked just ok, the patty on the burger was a weird grayish color, and very obviously came pre formed and frozen, it was covered in a few jalapeno slices and a slice of mozzarella cheese which had been melted.  It was cooked well done, no pink at all, and the bf said he couldn't taste ANY spice, his comment was that he should have gone to McDonald's instead, ouch, My chili looked decent, definitely a good color/consistency, though the sour cream came in a plastic ramekin and smelled like it had been in there for quite a while, i tasted it, but opted not to use it after that.  There was a sprinkling of fancy shredded Mexican cheese blend, and a couple of dehydrated looking diced red onion pieces on top.  As soon as I tasted it I knew immediately what their secret main ingredient was, I've tasted it a million times, Prego spaghetti sauce.  It essentially tasted like meaty spaghetti sauce with beans, in fact when the bf tried it, he said "wow! spaghettios!" Lol, I ate a few more spoonfuls, but the bf used it mainly to dip his fries in, saying it tasted like chunky ketchup.  

Needless to say neither of us finished our food, nor did we bother taking it with us.  When we were done I had to chase down someone to give us our bill, at which point I saw that our tiny Apple Ciders were $6 a piece (a 6 pack at the store is $7.99) AND that we were up charged for the cheese and sour cream that "came with" the chili, AND charged for a full side of cheese bacon fries instead of a substitution price.  I begrudgingly paid the exorbitant bill and because of the flat out RUDE customer service left a big old 0 on the tip, first time in my whole life.  Can promise I will be checking my statements for the next month to make sure they didn't add on.

Summary:
Terrible food, worse service, impossible parking, and ridiculous prices.  Worst place I've been in recent memory, will NEVER go back.

Great location. Decent interiors. Good prices for what you get. Our waitress was nice & friendly. I need to go again so I can provide more details.

Only had apps but shoot!
Prrrrrretty darn tasty!!! The spinach artichoke dip with a really soft flatbread was superb!!!
Beer battered mushrooms???
Effin awsome!

The downside, we were on the patio which was the size of my bathroom and hiptser poseurs were smoking like 5 feet away from our table....