Fast friendly service. This is my favorite restaurant in the CLE airport. It is comfortable, not just wooden chairs and flimsy tables, this is a legit bar/restaurant with a full menu.
The selection of beer is nice, light to dark for all palettes.
When I have had to fly into or through CLE, I always stop here. The food is very good and the portions are large enough to share. The burgers have always been prepared "medium" as I requested. 2 out of 2 is good for me. The fact they have a burger on a pretzel bun, a GOOD pretzel bun would have me coming back. The pretzel bun they use is a little sweet and it is moist and fresh.
The caesar salad was cool, crisp and fresh and if you like cheese...you will LOVE theirs.
The service is fast, so if you are connecting and have at least an hour, don't worry, they will get you through without you feeling like you are being rushed or late. I never found myself craning my neck looking for the server, they are active and visible and again, very friendly!
The Cleveland airport is small enough so that if you are flying out of Terminal A and you have an hour plus, you can walk 10 minutes over to Terminal C and enjoy a drink at Great Lakes Brewing. Â Thank goodness! Â
I love that they have so many of their beers on draft at the airport. Â
We ordered a black bean burger and a chicken Caesar wrap as well. Â They present the food beautifully - I was surprised at how nice the plating was. Â The burger met my needs - I was a little disappointed with the fries - they were not fresh and lacked the seasoning that I Ioved at the GL on Market.
Service was good.
Definitely check out Great Lakes at the airport.
Well on a long layover on Christmas day so I thought why not pop in for a burger and a brew.
Couldn't decide on the brew so I chickened out and had a soda instead. Â I did get a burger and onion rings.
Place is a little tight with all the folks and their multiple carry on bags and strollers etc. Â But the staff is friendly and seems to be well versed in dodging and jinking around luggage that doesn't always seem to stay in place.
Food is good. Â I had the Old World Burger. Â Came out hot and juicy. Â Thankfully I missed getting the front of my sweatshirt with the juices that seemed to be dribbling out of everywhere. Â Burger had BBQ sauce made with one of their home brews. Â it was good and added a nice flavor twist to what normally passes for BBQ sauce up here. Â My burger also had bacon, two mini onion rings and a thick slice of cheddar cheese holding it all together all on a roll for a bun. Â Overall really a good burger. Â They hit the cooking temp right on for my order.
Onion Rings were really good. Â Not too much batter but nicely covered and with a nice flavor. Â Not sure if they use some of their home brew in the batter or not but it was very flavorful.
Wish I could transplant this place to back home. Â It is not very convenient to visit this establishment for the rings and burgers unless I am traveling somewhere.
Though the food is decent and Great Lakes brews amazing beers, the real gem of this place is not the bar but the brewery tour. They walk you through the entire process, answer all your questions, and you get to sample at the end! The tour guides are a wealth of knowledge.
Though the restaurant has a very fun atmosphere, the food is unremarkable and service suffers as the crowds increase. I recommend bringing a growler to fill and taking the party elsewhere.
be very mindful that if you get stuck in concourse C of the Cleveland airport and there are delays at the airport, this place (according to a manager) "stays open to keep the airlines happy." My observation: the employees sure don't seem to be happy about it.
I didn't make it beyond my iced tea and would rather starve before giving this place another dime!
Outstanding for airport food. Loved the pretzel buns and the onion rings. Split a decent ceasar salad with the husband. He ordered the old world burger and I the grilled chicken with onion rings. We were pleased. Also really friendly attentive service. Kind of pricey but it is in an airport. Not for the thrifty but a nice treat if you've been tortured by the airlines all day and haven't had a decent meal.
Review Source:Travelers beware: although Great Lakes brews some good beers, stay away from this place!
- This restaurant was extremely understaffed on a Friday evening
- Food was ridiculously salty and inedible
- Management is terrible and unresponsive
- Took almost 2 hours for a party of 6, and we almost missed our flight
Should be fine if you just want to stop by for a quick drink, but get food elsewhere.
So I am a fan of their flagship location in Ohio City. Usually airport renderings of restaurants are sub standard because they have a captive audience. This is simply the best dining experience in an airport that I have ever had. It does not have the ambience of he original, but it has the food and most of the beers at reasonable prices. Service was friendly and attentive. Great experience.
Review Source:well, contrary to my review of cleveland airport, i guess i did notice the food choices because i stopped in the Great Lakes Brewing company while waiting for a flight.
unknowingly, i ordered the most potent of their brews. very hoppy for my palate, but after half the glass (a very large glass) i was feeling buzzed. the server asked several times if i needed anything, but i didn't feel pressured at all to hurry up and drink my beverage or order something else.
my beer came to about 7 bucks, more than i normally pay for even a six-pack, but the beer was tasty and it was in the airport. which always makes me feel fancy when i drink alcohol in the airport.
The bartender was EXTREMELY rude, she pressured us to order & when we didn't order quickly enough she rudely said only paying customers could sit at the bar. This immediately put a bad taste in our mouth and we took our business elsewhere. There was an underlying sense of not feeling "welcome" in that establishment by her from the beginning if you know what I mean. Never again & it took us so long because the menu was limited!
Review Source:I can't even review the food. Do you know why I can't even review the food? Because I didn't eat here. And do you know why I didn't eat here? Because after I was seated, I waited a full 15 minutes, and not a single server stopped by my table. So I left.
I should have had the warning sign when I stopped in front of the restaurant and there was no host. And I waited. It was only about two minutes, but that's still annoying to wait without a host just to be seated. She gave me a seat in a corner. There were people eating at the tables at either side of me.
Now, I don't know about you, but if you have someone who has literally walked into a place with the purpose of spending money, you might want to take a moment to do something so that he actually spends that money. Like, take his order. But silly me, I guess that's not how they roll at GLBC.
I browsed the menu and looked at a nice little Prix Fixe menu of four courses for $17 that they guaranteed in 20 minutes or less. It's an airport, after all; people have to make connections, so they place a premium on service.
It looked good to me. I closed my menu, I got out my phone, I sent a couple of emails, I checked in on Yelp. I looked at some sports scores. I noticed out of the corner of my eye the tables beside me getting bussed. I looked up and watched the game on the TV for a bit. I checked my watch. 10 minutes had passed.
And I waited. And waited. Annoyed at this point. And not really in the mood of walking across the room (because I hadn't seen a server in my section in some time now) and finding someone and demanding service, I waited. And as the 15 minute mark hit, I stood up and walked out.
On the way out, the host looked at me with some concern. And she asked, with obvious exhaustion, "No one came to take your order?" No, no one did. And by the tone of your voice, it sounds like this isn't the first time that's happened, either.
How terrible must it be? How bad of service must it be to be unaware of someone in your section? Or, how bad must be it to know someone's there an ignore them? Lose lose.
I went around the corner and grabbed a sandwich somewhere else because, as I mentioned above, I had a flight to catch. I won't even try to visit this place on my future trips through CLE.
Beer served in a glass that tasted like dish soap and fish sandwich was LITERALLY freezer burned fish sticks on a bun. Â Sweaty waitress fanned herself with the menu as she mouth-breathed and hastily took our order (although it wasn't busy). Â The bill was $45 for two shockingly shitty sandwiches and one small beer.
Review Source:Maybe if we had ordered a drink, my rating would be higher. We were simply hungry and wanted to grab a bite at the Cleveland airport and the food here did not stand out.
My Old World Burger was more overcooked than medium. The pretzel bun was not bad and the onion rings that came with my burger was the best part of the meal.
Let's get real... Cleveland isn't the best city (nor is their airport).
Asshole comments aside, I wish I knew about this place earlier. They have six different Great Lakes beers on tap with a seasonal rotation. Although they are "competitively priced" in the airport at $8/pint, it's worth it. Especially the Christmas Ale.
Most layovers are boring. Â You wander the concourse, look at the overpriced bottled water and tabloid rags at the newsstand. Â Do a little people-watching at the gate. Â And if you get hungry, you spend way too much on whatever crummy chain fast-food they've got at the food court (because it's not like they'll really feed you on the plane). Â Great Lakes is a pleasant change from this - it's a decent local brewery-restaurant in Terminal C where you can kill time and snag some good food and drinks.
They've got a good selection of their beers on tap - the seasonals rotate, but there's plenty of variety from IPA to porter. Â They do beer flights, so you can sample 3-4 different beers. Â I chose a flight of three and tried the Eliot Ness, the Christmas Ale, and the Edmund Fitzgerald. Â All solid brews, especially the Christmas Ale. Â I'm curious to try more of their beers, but I don't end up in Cleveland enough. Â (Huh, never thought I'd feel that way!)
The food is solid, definitely above most airport grub. Â The Stilton soup is good, maybe a little too salty and thick for my tastes. Â But it's cheese soup... can't really get more Midwestern than that! Â My pierogies were good, served with plenty of sour cream, but the red cabbage and bratwurst on the same platter were overcooked and under-seasoned. Â I was rather full after all of that, but I had to try the deep-fried Mars bar - and it was worth it. Â
I would've leaned towards 3-3.5 stars if this were outside of an airport. Â But they get some extra credit for making 2.5 hours in Cleveland a pleasant experience. Â That's hard to do!
Stopped in here for a beer and dinner before boarding a flight back to DC. This location is on Concourse C of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
As Great Lakes Brewing Co. makes their own beer and serves it here  -  they don't offer beers from other breweries. I have to say this because I was sitting at the bar - I  had to laugh to myself - some guy walked up and tried to order a Bud Light from the bartender. He clearly did not get it.
I ordered the Commodore Perry IPA and a bowl of their Creole Gumbo. The IPA was far more clear/uncloudy than I am accustomed to. Most IPAs have a cloudy, unfiltered appearance. This IPA was not as hoppy as I would like.
The Gumbo? I would not order it again. I should know better. Not much flavor. I added some hot sauce to make it better.
Service was good. Worth coming here for the beer. Food-wise, might be better to stick to items on the menu that are simple - burgers and such.
Service was good and bartenders were friendly.
NOTE: Â Until Yelp corrects this listing, the correct address for this location is:
Great Lakes Brewing Co.
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Concourse C
5300 Riverside Drive
Cleveland, OH 44135
On my way back to Houston, Tx, I laid over at Cleveland, OH. I looked at this place in Concourse C from the outside and thought, "Why not??? Let's give it a try." It was an average experience.
I had the Amber Lager and Creole Gumbo. Lager = good, Gumbo= no go. I was disappointed in the food, but the beerwas good. Not a total loss. I recommend this to business traveler, traveling on a company expense account with time to kill.
I struggle with this since I know it is an airport location, I should expect high prices and bad service but I just want to warn other travelers. They get 5 stars for the amazing beer that I love, they lose 1 star for terrible service and another for ridiculous prices.
I paid $7.20 for a "short" beer, the Holy Moses Belgian white ale was amazingly delicious but $7.20 is just stupid.
They weren't terribly busy, when the gentleman next to me sat down and asked the bartender what beer he should get the waitress pointed to the menu and said "That's why I gave you the menu" and turned around. I know it is an airport and they are under pressure to get people out the door very quickly but you opened a brewpub, you should at least attempt to educate people about your beer especially since you sell 6 packs to go.
If you happen to find yourself hanging around in the Cleveland airport, Concourse C, either pray for yourself OR wander on over to Great Lakes. Â The beer was particularly tasty - MUCH better than you would typically find in an airport (unless you happen to find the Sweetwater Brewery in the Atlanta airport, but I digress).
The food is a-ok, nothing spectacular, but getting a cold, on-tap, craft beer while waiting for a plane takes Great Lakes up to 4 solid stars.
By the way, I had the Dortmunder, which won a Gold Medal at the 2010 World Beer Festival. Â It was DAMN good.
I always try to keep my bias in check, but it gives me such great pleasure in calling my favorite micro brew a home town establishment. Â The great robust flavors of their many brews are awesome and their themes are true to the town. I travel all of the time and have the advantage of enjoying many great brews from the Pac NW, New England, Texas, and California, but Great Lakes is number one in my book.
Review Source:I blame it mostly on this being an airport location. So I am being kind. The beer is good. And I appreciate that they do serve samplers even at an airport location. But the food left something to be desired.
I ordered the boneless wings (only wing option on the menu). You could choose from mild, hot, chipolte, or BBQ. Of course, I went with the hot. And, of course, they weren't actually hot. The breading was poor and the chicken itself was just ok. I could barely eat half of the order. And despite ordering both blue cheese and ranch, I only got a side of one. The problem is, I couldn't tell which one. It was almost as if they mixed the two together - and it didn't work.
But the beer was good. And it was nice to have good beer directly next to my gate. So I can't really complain. But I am sincerely hoping that the actual Cleveland location of Great Lakes has better food than this crummy airport location. And I'm also sincerely hoping that the service is better at the actual Cleveland location.
Had a layover in Cleveland, so had to research my options in terms of foodage/drinkage. To my delight, a brewing company!!!
The beers are pretty good, and they've got a variety of ales for any taste. Best craft beer ever? Wouldn't go that far, but it definitely beats paying $6/$7 for the gold-colored water coming out of that "insert generic beer name here" tap handle.
Food wise: get the Old World Burger. Â "Straight from their website: Smoked cheddar, bacon, fried onion straws, housemade Edmund Fitzgerald Porter barbecue sauce, pretzel roll." To me, that just sounded too delicious to pass up and I'm glad I didn't. Â I'm a sucker for pretzel rolls and this didn't disappoint--and the onion straws were fantastic on the burger.
Now, had this been a stand-alone restaurant, I think this would be a solid four-star joint. Â However, it's in an airport where, let's face it, the options often suck. So, five stars it is, because this is as good as it gets for airport dining and drinking.
I was here on a layover from mexico to newark international... and since they make you buy the food on flights these days (damn airlines) i decided to try to get a bite to eat before the connecting flight.
Unfortunately i was all alcoholled out from the partying at my friend's wedding in mexico that i did not try the beers. so this review is based just on the food that i had.
The food here is okay... I tried their famous stilton cheddar ale soup. Maybe I had too high expectations, because they did say famous, but it wasn't as good as i had hoped it to be. Especially when there was another soup on the menu which i was thinking about trying too.
I got the blue cheese burger as the main course... It was okay, not really memorable but not horrible.
In all if i were to have a layover in cleveland ever again i might try some of the other stuff on the menu.... and of course some of the BEERS!
So I tried the food this time. I ordered the Mediterranean salad, and I don't know what was so Mediterranean about it. That being said, it wasn't bad. The chicken was sliced strangely and I kinda enjoy that odd warm-chicken-cold-salad thing but this place served it all cold, but it was still pretty good.
The beer, not surprisingly, was badass. The music... well, it was better last time. Â I think there was some Phil Collins this time, and I know there was a little Evanescence emo-fest. That's ok, I read David Sedaris and drank the Christmas ale.
Agreeing with one of the previous reviews, this joint get's 5 stars for being a great bar for an airport. Airport everything is synonymous with sort of sucky and Great Lakes bucks that trend.
I had a hoagie and a big ol cup of pills and was more less pleased with both. The hoagie is pretty drippy and is more of a fork and knife affair. It's not fantastic but once again, in the spectrum of airport food it's good.
If you're familiar with Great Lakes Beer, you know it's pretty solid. I'm not huge on their IPA but i think their pils is great. Almost tastes as good as some of the Pacific NW varieties
Words that do NOT come to mind when eating at an airport restaurant: Selection. Classy. Relaxing. Affordable.
Words that DO come to mind when eating at GLBC in the CLE airport: Great selection. Classy. Relaxing. Affordable - but.
If you are traveling through Cleveland via air and are not able to visit GLBC in the flesh in Ohio City - get your ass to Concourse C for an ice cold brew and burger.
Despite my growing disdain for air travel (I have my good and bad days - today just happened to be a bad), my black bean burger on a rockin' pretzel bun and my chilled Dortmunder turned my travel-frown upside-down in a minute flat.
Had about an hour and a half to kill before my next flight. We stoped in here for lunch and got a nice juicy burger, it was really good. Also got their Octoberfest beer and it was pretty good too. Only thing I would change is that for the price I could have used some more french fries with the meal and the bun on the burger just seemed kinda like the cheep frozen kind, and a little small for the burger, but I enjoyed my meal and watching football on the screens and even got a pint glass with their logo to take home.
Review Source:With 3 hours to kill in what I heard was a very boring airport, I was afraid. But after a brief stroll down the Continental concourse, there was Great Lakes shining in all its glory. Apparently they had just opened this location, so we came at the right time. And then it was time to drink, and drink.
The Beer:
It was good - but of course it is - it's the best brewery in Ohio. I had the Irish Ale, and the Pale Ale. Pale Ale was good, but not any better than at other micros. The Irish Ale was real good - and not something I've seen at other micros before.
The food:
We weren't eating much, but the fries we were munching on were pretty good. Other people's food looked good at least.
The location:
Midway through the Continental Concourse it's a bit of a hike if like us you're coming from Southwest, but on the plus there's some nice big windows that both enable plane watching and give the restaurant the natural light that other restaurants we passed by lacked.
The verdict: The best place to go if you have time to kill at Hopkins. Or maybe you should even arrive early just to make a stop here - judging by the reviews of the main location (which I haven't been to) this may very well be a nicer restaurant experience than the main brewpub.
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