A great choice if you are looking for casual and comfortable dining while in Brattleboro. Great old building with laid back atmosphere. The beers are not made in-house, but they have a solid list of local and regional beers, including Allagash white.
Their burgers are top notch and feature locally baked rolls and grass-fed beef. Plenty of options for the burger toppings or many other options on the menu.
If you are looking for a place to meet friends, kick-back, enjoy local beers, and have great food, this Flat Street should not be missed.
We wanted to grab a drink and snack before dinner and wandered into Flat Street Brew Pub. Â They have a nice selection or draft beers from Vermont and elsewhere, including many good craft beer options. Â We also tried the nachos, which were pretty good (and quite filling). Â This is a good place to grab a few drinks before dinner or to start or end your night.
Review Source:Went here twice over the past weekend, mostly for beers. Heavy on the BBC, which is a much better brewery than most as far as consistency across their many offerings. I stayed upstairs. The food was pretty good for pub/bar food. The fries were excellent, especially with cheese. The burger wasn't huge, but the beef was great, definitely way above standard. Sat at the bar so I can't comment on the table service. This place isn't loud nor crowded on either Friday or Saturday nights, even 'in season" but it is busy. It would be my go to place if I lived there, with Kiplings's being second. I found it laid back, almost overly so... I went here first because another review said it was a more night clubby type place and I wouldn't have minded at all running into someone cute to talk to... but nothing could be further from the truth, this is not that type of place, it is more a pub than a bar. My favorite brew ended up being Switchback Ale from Burlington.
Review Source:I was taken to this restaurant by local family members but I had eaten here many years ago when it was part of the hotel operated restaurant and had fond memories of some great meals here - not so now.
The Tap Room is located in the basement and it is more pub fare then a dining spot. Â Others in our party immediately ordered some of the many beers on the menu but I opted for a glass of Argentine Malbec at $8.00.
Beers ranged from $3.00 to $6.50. Â
The meal menu consisted mostly of pub food not full dinners. Â I had the French Dip at $12.00 with a side of french fries; another had the Turkey Burger at $9.75 with a side of french fries, another had the Baby Spinach Salad with chicken at $14.00 and another ordered the Daily Special of tuna at $26.00 which was overly priced for the portion. Â
Overall, the food was good for pub food but don't expect to be offered a traditional dinner at Flat Street Brew Pub.
4- stars because if I was at Flat Street it meant that I was in great company. Overall it probably only deserves 3 but for Brattleboro standards maybe it deserves 5- so I'll stick with 4!
In a "tourist town" like Brattleboro which only lives up to its name the 4 months of the year that aren't winter there is an ever-revolving door of businesses coming in and out. I only lived there 9 months and witnessed way too many places close dow, re-open, and/or become something else entirely. I could go on and on about my suggestions for Brattleboro to break this trend but back to Flat St! This is one place that doesn't seem to be going anywhere and if it did I would be surprised.
It was definitely a go-to spot for me and my crew. Some days were better than others in terms of service. They hire new people a lot which is both good and bad... it could be good if it meant bad staff was out and good staff was in but that has not generally been the case.
It was always fun to get the wietbier of the season... until I got so accustomed to one and had to be disappointed when they'd run out. There is a large array of beer on tap. I never understood why some beers that were upstairs were not available downstairs in the restaurant and vice versa. Both times I tried the fries I thought they were mushy and gross. The vegan burger was horrible the first time and stupendous the second but really I mostly just drank here and those times were generally a hit with beer... and often a miss if I ordered anything else.
Great assortment of beer which is what the four stars is for. A sampler of 5 5oz. beers is a mere $6. My favorite was a coffee porter. I also had the Drayman's porter, Lost Sailor, River Ald, and a stout. The coffee porter was superb. We ordered a quesadilla as an app to share. It was OK, but nothing special,so we figured to keep it to the beer.
Review Source:I went here after reading the reviews online.  As most everyone has mentioned their beer list is substantial and we  tried the Allagash white, Trapp Family amber, BBC Draymans and seasonal.  All were good and I must say the beer was better than the food.  We dined downstairs and liked the atmosphere, however the food was mediocre at best.  Our waitress was knowledgeable and attended to our needs.  I would recommend this place for a beer, but make sure you go downstairs to have it as the number of beers on tap upstairs pales in comparison.
Review Source:Lost Sailor quite light,
Go downstairs for dinner, then
Imperial Stout
(I have quite a bit more to say about this place, but others have summed up my thoughts fairly well. Â I would add that the people who work here are dedicated to good food and better beer and tend to know what they're on about when you ask a question. Â I would also recommend getting the samplers, if you're new to the place and are curious about the beers. Â It's charming, it's packed, it's tasty...I could go on, but you probably get the gist, by now.)
Went here for the second time last Saturday.
Sat down around 6:30pm and the place already had a decent sized crowd. Â By 8pm, it was pretty packed.
We got several rounds of BBC beers. Â $5.50/pint is a little steep, but they are imperial pints (20 oz). Â Recommend getting the "palette of 5" to get a sampling of the selections. Â Recommend the River Ale, Coffeehouse Porter, and the Imperial Stout.
My biggest gripe is the food. Â Keep in mind, the pub only serves a limited menu of appetizers and a few sandwiches/burgers, but the prices were not worth the amount you actually get.
For example, we ordered a chicken quesadilla. Â The menu explained that it was a 12" quesadilla for $12 ($9.50 + $2.50 for chicken). Â In my mind, I expected a full sized quesadilla...or 8 "slices". Â It ended up only being "half" a quesadilla (4 slices). Â The ingredients were delicious and super fresh... but then didn't quite make up for the price.
We also got the beef chili... which was excellent. Â Price was a little more reasonable at $6 and came with tortilla chips for dipping.
I've come here a couple of times - once by chance & the other on purpose because the first time was a good experience. I liked it better the first time, though.
There's an upstairs & a downstairs, with lighting that is a little too bright in both. Good beer selection (necessary, given it calls itself a brew pub), with servers & bartenders who generally know a lot about what they're offering.
The food, however, is hit or miss, it seems. The first time I was there, whatever I had (I don't remember) obviously made me want to come back. The most recent time I was there, I had the beet/goat cheese salad & it was pretty bad. 3 or 4 out of 10 bad. I probably should have just had a burger.
My boyfriend & I stopped by on a late night looking for a bite to eat. Flat Street hit the spot! Great ambiance with an fantastic  layout-- a designated traditional bar, a dining area and a mini lounge in the rear. There is also a restaurant located below.
Many beers on tap, along with an ample wine & spirit selection. The bartender suggested a summer beer that was terrific! Â
The brewery menu nice selection of typical pub fare. We ordered a pastrami Ruben, hamburger, and house salads. Everything was fresh, tasty and scrumptious. Next time, we'll try the nachos as our server passed by with a plate-- they were piled high & look REALLY good!
Flat Street Brew Pub-- Definitely worth checking out!
Food selection wanting... Beer awesome. The imperial Stout was very good, and the beer sampler at 6 bucks was well worth it. Â The service was a little slow, but the place is obviously understaffed. The server was very attentive to our toddler, which was cool. Â The food selection was limited--not a dinner destination, but perhaps good just for apps. I ordered the bean dip--layers of beans, cheese, guacamole, jalapenos, and sour cream, Â Not bad at all.
Review Source:This place gets a 1 Star in my book right off the bat for shoddy marketing. This location is NOT a brew pub and does NOT make beer on premises (even though their Pubquest listing would suggest otherwise in addition to their name). We were hoping to have dinner here to complete our 3 day beer weekend of touring brewpubs in southeast Vermont, however, once we found out they are not a brewpub and simply get beer from a brewery in Massachusetts, we just left. Not really surprised the place was very empty. If you are looking for local hand crafted beer, go down the street to McNeill's Brewery. Food wise, didnt see anything in town appealing (let alone open) at 7PM on a Sunday night.
Review Source:I am always uncomfortable when any of my friends want to go to Flat Street, and I have no idea why anyone wants to go since we always end up leaving and going somewhere else. The prices are crazy high, and the place is filled with snotty college kids who have attitudes. The help is not much better. I prefer someplace that no matter how you look you get treated well and can sit in a relaxed atmosphere. This is not one of those places!
Review Source:I kind of wish we had hung out upstairs instead of downstairs. The beer selection was AMAZING, and I found a new favorite beer: Berkshire Brewing Company River Ale. I'll take a keg, please.
The star deductions come from the food...of a party of 7, 5 of us had some sort of problem or disappointment. My gripe was the buffalo wings that arrived drenched in a sauce far more face-melting than I ordered and accompanied by two sad, droopy carrot and celery sticks. Other issues included weirdly small portions, lobster ravioli with no taste of lobster, and missing key components of unique sounding dishes (oh Indian Burger, we hardly knew ye).
Brattleboro is awesome, man - spread the wealth. Eat dinner somewhere else, then come here for snacks, beer and crazy dancing to the fun live music.
I'm going to update this *again* since I just went back there last night and it was absolutely amazing. I had dinner at the Tap Room for the first time and it was absolutely delicious. The specials I ordered (Wild Foraged Mushroom and Potato Soup, and the Weinerschenitzel) were fantastic and I cleaned my plate right off. My companions also had every drop of their soups. I've managed to try around a quarter of the beer menu now and I have to say their selections are simple wonderful. The best beer I had last night was a Pomme Lambic / BBC Steel Rail half and half mix that tasted like a hard cider but much better.
It seems that the Thursday night shows at the Tap Room are getting more popular since the show last night was packed. At some point every chair in the room was taken (including the benches on the side of the room) and maybe about half a dozen folks were dancing. The dance / Tap Room floor was really good and nice to dance on. The sound was pretty well set up and the bass sounded really good even though we were near the back of the room.
Anyway, this may well be my favorite place in Brattleboro now.
I absolutely love this place. Great selection of beers on tap - impeccably chosen and rotated frequently. Tons of Berkshire Brewhouse Company (BBC) beers...more than I even knew existed.
It always for a unique experience every time I come home and visit. The pub is decorated with couches and some high-top tables. Of course, you can choose to sit in the bar area as well. It has a cozy feeling, the crowd is an interesting mix of young and old (mainly local) and every time I go I seem to run into old faces.
Flat Street recently revamped and claimed the space in the basement formerly known as the Latchis Grille- styling this space as The Tap Room.
The pub upstairs has slowly won me over. Yes, it's probably the pricest place to get your drink on in town. But they've got the whole package- great cocktails and beer on tap, awesome staff and a nice atmosphere. So I was pretty hopeful about our first foray downstairs into The Tap Room- and it didn't disappoint AT ALL. Since I'm a cook by trade, there isn't a whole lot I'm willing to pay mark-up to experience outside of ethnic cuisine- but I will be a repeat customer here.
Why? I was immediately won over by the physical space- they've ripped out the eighties carpet revealing beautiful wide plank wood floors. You seat yourself, something I always appreciate- because I can't expect a hostess to know I've got "a thing" about being in the middle of the room. Â A KILLER beer selection down here- including quite a few lambic offerings that were much appreciated by my dinner companion. The staff was the right combination of attentive and laid back. They didn't hover, but we didn't wait either.
Yeah, yeah- I'm getting to the food. Nachos were solid, and a little nostalgic for me as I worked here in it's former incarnation as The Burrito Exchange. Nacho construction is important, because nobody liked to get 2/3 of the way down and be out of ingredients save for chips. Somebody knew what they were doing. My entree seriously exceeded my expectations- a 10oz sirloin in an ale gravy with grilled vegetables and garlic mashed potatoes. Far and away the best steak I've had in town- and the sides were great too. My companion had the greek lamb burger and was really pleased with it. They gave him vinegar for his pub fries which was a nice touch.
We spent 90 bucks for an appetizer, four of the pricier drinks, two entrees and a generous tip. I walked out feeling like it was money well spent- which for me is the hallmark of a successful dining out experience. Next time I want to check out the desserts.
Here's hoping this place thrives- it definitely is a welcome and needed addition to the dining scene in Brattleboro. Best non-ethnic spot I've come across.
This place features Berkshire Brewing Company's awesome line of beers, including their rare and always excellent seasonals. Â Most recently, FULL PINTS of Raspberry Barleywine. Â Score! Big Brother Massholechusetts limits servings of 9%+ beer to wee little 12ish oz diva glasses. Â Good reason to take the short jaunt over the border (and never come back!). Â Flat Street's guest beers are mostly regional and very well-chosen too. Â Small, simple and decently tasty food menu of hearty appetizers, salads, and sandwiches. Â Ploughman was decent but a bit strange in details (hamburger chips in place of pickle spears? Â really?)
Excited to see this place get their own beers up and running so little Brattleboro can again be a 2-brewery town. Â If McNeill's is too sticky for you, or the beer is having their strange quality issues (McNeill's beers are typically either nirvana perfection or Blech, depending on the quality of particular batch), Flat Street is the place to come for beer in the B-Vegas.
Flat Street's beer selection is somewhere between the "solid" and "dope" range. Â I'm leaning now towards dope, especially with the word that the brewery will soon be (back) up and running downstairs and, with it, will come new micros AND new lines to a total of something like 30, which is basically like a keg per occupant. To top it all off -- they're solid beers.
If you like investing in banks right now, enjoy playing football on skis, and playing chicken in cars, try the nachos here. Â They're seriously dangerous, something akin to an Uncle of the infamous Bloomin' Onion. Mountains of cheese, enough salt to keep 91 ice-free for the whole winter, and some of the most exceptionally unexceptional "beef" you can imagine. Â The problem is, with all those beers to try, Nachos, sooner or later, will seem like a good choice.
At this point, it's time to call a cab.
It's a decent bar, food's weak but it ain't a gastropub. Beer selection is fairly good and cheap enough, I guess. The Coffeehouse Porter is good. Cocktails are okay but a bit pricey. Decor is pretty bare. The music usually sucks. The crowd is older and very Brattleboro-esque, if you know what I mean. Closes too early, but at least I'm not banned from here yet.
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