Hop Haus is another great option for beers in river north. Â I went on a Wed night and had a nice craft beer (Arcadia Scotch Ale) and a sampling of their "wild burgers"...wild boar, lamb, bison, and ostrich. Â Apps are good too...wings, portobello launchers, and bruschetta. Â Big bar with plenty of TVs and great ambiance. If you're in river north, a must try for happy hour.
Review Source:I was quite unimpressed with my experience here. Â I came with a few friends who also felt the same way at the end of the evening. Â The service was sub par. The menu and signs clearly said one thing but when the check came we were charged higher prices. After discussing this with a manager, it still wasn't resolved. Â The food was just a little less than okay. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't return.
Review Source:I have never had worse service than the night my boyfriend and I decided to try Hop Haus. The waiter maybe spent a total of three minutes at our table the whole night. He forgot water multiple times and forgot our food. On a not-so-busy night, he never put in our order for two four sliders and after 45 MINUTES, he came by to ask us if our food had ever come out. He was referring to the appetizers and tried to cover himself when he realized he had forgotten to put in our dinner order. So he lied and said they would be out soon and he went to put in the order. After another 15 minutes our food finally came.
  So far our treatment was not good, but probably not warranting of a horrible yelp review. What makes it worthy was what he did with the bill. After hours of horrible service, he added 20% gratuity to a bill for a table of two!! My boyfriend and I are both servers and know very well how and when adding gratuity is appropriate and that was inexcusable. I have never once left a bad tip even if a server was a little forgetful and that night I blatantly ignored his assumption that we wouldn't review the bill and I left no tip at all.
  Forget my food, fine. Add yourself a $12 tip- I'm leaving you nothing and never coming back. Hop Haus, if you're reading this- this man didn't tell us his name but he was a late 30s Hispanic man who is very much devaluing your company. The food was great. It's a shame we had such a terrible time and will never come back.
With a name like Hop Haus I expected beer to be a main component of their menu. There were only 4 on tap. Ok beers, but only 4. And the bottles were just ok too, nothing special. I don't even like beer and I was disappointed.
The food was 100% slider focused. I tried 3 sliders of different meats and they were all just ok. The fries were ok - one bite and I'd had enough. Nothing was bad, so if you're in a tight place then go, but I have a higher standard than ok since we've got all of Chicago to explore for food. We only get out one night a week max since we've had the little one and this was just not worth the night out.
This was on my short list for my husband's birthday and we ended up going to Hopleaf instead (Hopeleaf had great food and a ton of beer). We would have been very disappointed if we came here for the birthday.
Normally, I am not a sports bar person. The fact that this place manages to overcome that challenge is a tribute to their good attention to detail. While the menus and presentation are fairly casual and low-key, the food is consistently good and well-presented, crazy big portions if you're into that, and it is hearty. Nice beer list, good cocktails, consistently friendly & quick staff, and sensory-overload atmosphere (I'm sure you can find more details on the latter in other reviews.) The music videos on rotation are a nice touch.
Review Source:The beer choices- amazing! The menus is constantly evolving and they are willing to bring in new requests. They like beer but are not experts, which doesn't really bother me because I know next to nothing about beer, other than what tastes good.
The food- meh, your better off at the corner diner.
Atmosphere- kind of young, hip and sarcastic. There are pictures lining the walls, it is supposed to be funny but overall, it does keep your eyes engaged when you are on an awkward first date.
I have passed this place a million times and thought...."hmmmm....good place to watch a game?". Â At the same time I thought this...there was an evil twin inner voice saying "looks cheezy....". Â On a cold December afternoon....we stumbled inside (with my two kids)....and finally decided to sample their contribution to River North's sports bar - pub n grub roster. Â Which inner voice was right.....?
Unfortunately, it was EVIL that would win on this day.  First...the atmosphere was somewhere between TGI Fridays and an eastern european dance club.  There were 842 tvs everywhere...and the volume was SO LOUD I was disoriented.  It wasnt crowded ....and the service was average.  The food....made me wish it was TGI Fridays....the nachos were worse than 7 11s.  Cheese "sauce" (canned) and soggy chips?  We had a veggie burger...it the consistency was similar to hummus with less flavor.  The fries were ok....and they HAD CRAPPY KETCHUP.  A pub that doesnt have good ketchup...whats next....poor  beer selection?  Well...I wouldnt call it poor...but they didnt have PBR or Bud or any non hop bombed craft beers. Â
What says it all...is I felt sorry that I visited. Â I felt like I ingested 1200 calories and tasted NOTHING. Â I came out half deaf (and I am a drummer...so its not like I am a stranger to loud) and didnt even see a good band. Â In my opinion...it is not worthy of River North. Â My neighborhood has Graham Elliott, GT Fish and Oyster, Japonais....heck, even Green Door Tavern or Citizen do a good job at delivering to the Sports Bar crowd. Â I am not sure what Hop Haus delivers....
Being in the neighborhood, I stopped in here on a lark one afternoon just to see what all the fuss was about.  Not that I've really heard anyone talk about the place so much, but I figured that a place that calls itself "Hop Häus" is trying to do a thing or two to advance craft beer.  I was wrong.
First of all, adding an insipid, unnecessary and inaccurate umlaut to the German word Haus is insulting, and then, when you walk into a place whose name tries to hop (no pun intended) on to the craft beer craze, but only invested in four draft lines, you realize this all is just a joke.
It was fairly early (around 3 pm), so I understand that the place was not heavily staffed...all told, about seven customers were in and out of the place while I was there. Â At some point, the server and the bartender just disappeared, though, for about ten minutes. Â The phone kept ringing and ringing, with no one answering.
There is a definite lack of focus on attentiveness, which I would consider to be a major fault. Â I had a couple sliders and some mac and cheese...sliders were all right, but the mini pretzel buns were dried out, which can be expected if you take such a tiny little thing and throw it on the broiler, even for twenty or so seconds. Â The mac and cheese was craftless and dull. Â When I left, the draft lineup was as follows: Heineken, Miller Lite, Sam Adams Winter Lager, Goose Island Green Line. Â Give me a break.
This place is either run by highly cynical, opportunistic people, total morons, or both. Â Either way, where I might see potential points of improvement when visiting a place I don't care for, I really see no such thing here. Â It might as well rename itself something sports-related and give up on trying to fool a hapless public.
It is places like this that remind me why it is so worth spending a bit more money for a quality meal. Overall, I was pretty disappointed. I chose to have 3 different sliders and I am not sure which one was worse. The lobster roll was alright since it came with a spicy mayo but I honestly do not even think this was lobster. It tasted like the imitation seafood you get in those plastic bags. I also chose to order the steak slider with blue cheese. I think there was one tiny crumb of blue cheese and the steak was so dry it was really difficult to swallow. Lastly I had the 'shroom' burger slider. It was very tasteless and the mushrooms were slimy. As my side I ordered mac and cheese with lobster and I was confused. There were two or three different types of noodles including lasagna noodles. It seemed like the kitchen ran out of elbow macaroni and just threw in whatever else they had on the shelf.
In addition to the poor quality of the food, the bathroom was about as awful as a truck stop outhouse. It was a relatively far walk down a cold hallway and was filthy. Not only did it have toilet paper and paper towels all over the floor there were dirty glasses all around the sink. And to top it off, there was a window in the stall. There were some bent and broken blinds covering about half of the glass and the rest was wide open. Anyone in the neighboring buildings could have easily seen in. It is safe to say I will not be returning for a second visit.
I had a good experience here. It's known for it's burgers / sliders, but I got a salad and was pleasantly surprised. I ordered the half size, and it was plenty for a meal, and I actually brought some home as well.
The service is fine, they leave you alone for the most part but are around if you need something.
I love the food here so much. Everything is delicious, besides the nachos. That said, last time I went with a party we had a blond haired waitress who got all of our orders wrong, charged us incorrectly and didnt even come up to our table for 25-30 minutes. The service by this lady was literally so bad that I considered complaining to the manager. She accused me of drinking 3 beers. I had one. I couldn't drink 3 beers if I wanted to (they are 25 oz glasses!) I love hop haus, but they NEED TO DO SOMETHING about the TERRIBLE SERVICE. Fire this waitress. She made you lose customers.
Worst part: We had enough people in our party that we were required to tip. If I ever have her again, she will be the only waitress I will give no tip to. She doesn't deserve it. She made fun of us, argued, got our orders wrong, and didn't wait on us. We had to get our own silverware. Please hop haus, fire her and get some good waiting staff to replace her sorry excuse for an employee!
Alright... Hop Haus... what can I say about the hop haus.... its the hop haus.
I work in this building and I've been working in the area for a few years now. Â The hophaus is one of those places that serves many purposes. Â You want to get down on a tasty hot lunch... this is the place. Â Need to meet a friend after work for a drink... this is the place. Â Feel like having a decent burger... this is the place.
Hop haus is not big frills, tasty food and a pretty decent beer selection. Â The beer menu changes constantly and you cant ever make a bad choice. Â Not a place to get a good manhattan or mixed drink.. stick to the beer here... or if you like your booze on the rocks, that works too.
They have decent food. The sliders are tasty. Â I enjoy the filet mignon and wild boar sliders verymuch. Â I always get them with Mac N Cheese. Â Can't go wrong. Â The tenders are good too. Â Fresh and piping hot and nice big chunks of chicken. Â Try them with the teriyaki spice sauce, very good!
Its the hop haus, plain and simple :D
If you like to get crunk around River North area you've definitely run into this place.
SHOCKINGLY after all these years a buddy of mine dragged me in here for late night food on a weekday. It was pretty relaxed and let me just say the OSTRICH burger is devine.
So the hell with people who want to talk smack about service. Sounds like poop talk to me. Really though, what do you expect?
So their food is good but the service makes you HATE the establishment. Â My coworkers just ordered takeout in hopes it would be a faster deal but they arrived and waited literally a HALF HOUR for all their food to be ready (they ordered two sandwiches.) I don't know how many times people need to hear that their service is AWFUL to get the hint. The food is good but I'd recommend not dealing with the service.
Review Source:It's hard to serve a bad beer when it comes out of the bottle, but the same isn't true when speaking of food. Â The beer list here is solid, and constantly changing. Â The food however, is a disaster, and should be avoided.
The walls of this goofy place are lined with pictures of athletes in "compromising" positions. Â The pictures aren't funny, really. Â They do elicit the, "oh, look at that," response, but certainly don't do anything to add to the restaurant. Â On top of that I'm pretty sure they were playing the soundtrack from the movie Major League when I was in there. Â What mood are they going for???
Our order:
Chicken Tenders - Meaty, chewy, and scalding hot is how I would describe these unsatisfying snacks. Â The breading wasn't very flavorful, and there were many times that I noticed chewing through textures that shouldn't be present in a chicken finger. Â The terriyaki and Spicy Thai sauces were disgusting. Â I couldn't stomach a second bite of each, they were both salty and had a bad flavor.
Scrambled Eggs - Yes, even the eggs were bad. Â They were undercooked, and tasted like maybe they were cooked in a pot that recently had something sweet in it. Â
Breakfast Potatoes - The potatoes were covered in a thick cheese sauce that was more of a cheese-flavored, heavy cream than anything. Â There were also some random sliced red peppers on the potatoes, that helped distract from the awful sauce, but again, this was not something I imagine many people enjoying.
The service was good, even though the food was bordering on inedible. Â The guys in the kitchen are certainly not tasting anything that gets sent out. Â Come for drinks, but don't bother eating here.
I'm not sure that I've ever written a review with 1 star.....yet.
Out for a random night in the city, we started out with dinner and by recommendation from a friend we tried Hop Haus. Â We were told that they had good beer, good food, and a good atmosphere.
I can't even tell you how quickly I pulled out my phone to text my friend and ask her if we were talking about the same place. Â
Upon walking in on a Saturday night, it was dead. Â There were a few people in the bar watching hockey & basketball, and a few others waiting for a fight that was starting soon. Â
Besides noticing the lack of patrons in this bar, all we could focus on was the disgusting smell radiating from this place. Â It was like they mopped their floors with dirty water, and cleaned the bar with the same. Â There was also an overwhelming aroma of fish. Â Not even just fish, but I felt like I was out on a boat all day with sweaty guys that were fishing, and that we had dead fish on the boat too. Â Does that paint a good enough picture for you?
We ordered some beers and were pretty happy with the selection they had. Â We almost got caught up in the games on the TV, and the guys working there were trying to pool money from everyone there to pay for the fight coming on. Â I'm not really into that so I kindly reminded my man friend of the smell radiating from this place and he was nice enough to even help me finish my beer so we could get outta there.
The man behind the bar was very quiet, never once smiled, and never once made me feel welcome. Â At the host stand behind me by the door, I could see another male employee blatantly flirting with a female employee who was off for the day. Â Dancing, and being loud about things I didn't need to hear. Â Then she came up to right next to where I was sitting and yelled to the bartender that she needed a certain date off. Â Right next to me. Â Next to my ear. Â
I did not have fun. Â I did not enjoy the atmosphere or employees and cannot recommend this place to anyone else, nor would I give this place a second chance.
If you like burgers and beer, you'll enjoy this place.
Great selection of both, so you won't get bored. Took some out-of-town work colleagues here, and they loved it.
They offer a number of different burger options, some exotic, some pretty standard. Pretty much something for everyone.
Unbelievable! Â
First, we came in a small group and sat at the middle table. Â It took 30 minutes to get the attention of the staff just to order and another 30 minutes to get a drink.
When I finally got my drink it was SHIT... pure shit. Â I had ordered a cocktail that was supposed to have vodka, fresh berries, mango, and sparking wine. Â It tasted like crappy flavored vodka, had no mango and had absolutely nothing sparkling about it. Â The "fresh berries" were disgusting shriveled berries at the bottom of the glass.
A friend ordered a burger... they didn't bother to tell him that it was the appetizer burger and the tiniest slider ever... Yes it was funny watching a 6 ft 4 in man have a slider as his dinner, but it wasn't so funny for a person ordering a side salad to get only a ramekin full.
When we finally got the staff's attention again we got the check. Â They had the audacity to add 18% tip to their bill - probably because they knew that they were awful. Â We paid in cash the EXACT amount to the penny and made a note to NEVER return.
Hop Haus is where you take your small-town family when they express to you that they feel overwhelmed by their visit to the big city, and ask you questions like "aren't you scared to take the train at night?" Your small-town family doesn't want to go to Mercadito or Paris Club or Tavernita. They want to go somewhere that is just like where they came from. They want to go to Hop Haus.
And for good reason. The sports-themed walls and familiar enough tap beers offer a comfortable atmosphere that is relaxing and low maintenance, and lends itself well to showing up in whatever you and your loved ones happen to be wearing and chilling out without worrying that you won't fit in with the crowd. Just slide into a big booth and breath a sigh of relief that all the food will be palatable and that you won't have to answer concerned questions like "oh, I don't about this, what is this now, 'ceviche'? Jenny, what IS that?! I don't think I can eat here, can we just find like an Applebee's or something?"
Oh, didn't you know? You ARE at Applebee's! So just relax and dig into your burger/wings/ nachos/calamari/fried ravioli/etc. Nothing to challenge your taste buds here! Just good old fashioned bar food that won't scare you back to Nowheresville. (To be fair, the calamari is pretty solid. And the burgers looked good.).
You can't totally avoid pitfalls, though. The bill will be more than your family is used to paying and you will have to sit through a chorus of how expensive everything is here in "shee-CA-go". They may also make (good-natured, of course) fun of the server for having a slight  accent. C'est la vie. You can take the family out of Wisconsin....
Come for the loaded fries, stay for the drinks. Â Or the other way around. Â They're both great. Â I work very nearby and I love coming in after a long day to get me some TASTY loaded fries and a vodka martini. Â They are kind enough to stuff a blue cheese olive for me (which is next to impossible to come across at that time of night) and that has meant the world to me! Â
We been waited on by several different staff members and they are all wonderful - pleasant, accommodating, personable, quick, the works! Â The only food I've tried there is the loaded fries since I'm just hoppin' in for a late night snack. Â (Don't act like you didn't appreciate that pun). Â But I got my eyeball set on a few of those burgers and I'm gonna tackle 'em one of these days!
Major drawback: weekends. Â Your voice will literally shake from the vibrations resulting from the music below at Spybar. Â It's so ridiculous down there that its almost a deterrent for Hop Haus (for me, anyway). Â Sometimes the music is too loud at Hop Haus even, but maybe I'm just too lame..
Oh! Â The silly sports pictures! Â AWESOME! Â MAKE SURE you give them the attention they're due. Â Each one is great!
I want to like Hop Haus. I REALLY do. It's like that awkward cousin that you avoid for fear of getting caught in odd conversation, but ends up earning your respect by carrying his weight in the bottle of old bourbon that grandma left out after Christmas dinner. However, at the end of the night, he's still awkward.
The options are already desperately sad in that area and any place that has a fine beer list and potentially delicious food should jump right to the top of the list. Unfortunately, Hop Haus does not.
When you first walk in you think, "Ok, it's spacious, has a funny off-the-cuff decor featuring sports oddities and mishaps and even a pretty big bar area. This could be all right." Â While it is true that the beer list is satisfyingly crafty, that's about where the fun ends.
The menu has some interesting options (most notably the ostrich and boar sliders), but overall it's pretty basic bar food. Â The most general description: it's a burger joint.
The one (and possibly only thing) anyone should know about this place is the atrocious service. Seriously. Read the other reviews. Their service is awful. I honestly don't know how a restaurant can know full well that their response time to everything is sub-sub-par and defiantly refuse to change. I have to assume they are being defiant because some of these reviews are two years old. To put that in perspective, they still had slow service right around the time the iPhone 3GS was announced to the general public. Â That's a long time in iYears.
The Hop Haus earns some respect from me for attempting to bring a good craft beer list to the neighborhood, but just about everything else falls short. Â If they fix the service issue, I would be inclined to give it a revisit. For now however, I'll keep it at a once a quarter visit.
If you put the fact that drunk people would have a really hard time finding the bathroom through the LABYRINTH (I may or may not be speaking from personal experience here) this is a pretty solid place to grab a couple drinks with friends!
The scene: Â Me and three friends waiting in line at Soundbar (across the street from Hop Haus) for our "free" NYE pre-party deal for longer than absolutely necessary (as in we would have missed our free part altogether) so we decided to find a warm place and decide what bar to go to next.
We wandered into Hop Haus "for just a quick drink" to figure out our next move, and we never left!! Â It was a great environment with lots of drink choices--my husband was quite pleased with their beer selection, and I thought their "mixed drinks" options were ample enough. Â And our server, Megan, was a good egg!
The actual taste of the "blue" whatever I ordered was SO strong that it was barely drinkable...but I managed anyway. Â Which is probably why it seemed like it took forever to get to the bathroom...
I would love to come back for more delicious bevvies and maybe sample the food sometime, too!
I have only been here once. It was to grab some drinks after a dinner in the area. There is a nightclub downstairs where the music comes up into this bar. Not in a good way though. It just pounds at your feet and muffles with the noise of the bar.
If you have people in your group that like "Bud light, Miller light" aor any of those other piss beers, then this is not the spot for them. Most of the beers are microbrews and crafts.
I will have to go back to try the burgers, which I hear are amazing.
One thing tha tI loved about the place is it is a little higher than street level and had windows everywhere. If you are there watching a game and grabbing a bite and beer, it is fun for people watching too.
Perfectly okay bar for a drink after 5. Just nothing exceptional. It's a sports bar, but they were nice enough to turn off the blaring TVs. It was completely dead on a Monday night, but picked up a bit as the evening wore on.
I don't get the umlaut, not sure that's the correct use, on the "A".
Okay place. I'd stop back in if in the area, I'd just not make it a destination.
I am tossed on this place. Â The food is usually pretty good and the portions are huge. Â The burgers are so large, I can take the rest home for a lunch and a dinner! Â Try their chicken sliders! Â Two of them is about the size of a normal sandwich. I will say for a bar, this place has some of the best pizza in town. Beer list is pretty large with many micro-brews to choose from which I like.
Place is a bit pricey and it is hard to leave paying less than $15 for a lunch. Â As for the two stars...I wanted to give another, but the service isn't even worthy of one. Â In fact, out of any restaurant I have ever been to the story I am about to tell, nothing has even come close to this. Â
One afternoon 5 of us head out for lunch and get seated. Â Our server who might have been homeless approached our table. Â We got 5 waters...10 minutes later..nothing. Â Finally 15 minutes after we gave out "extensive drink order" we got our H2O. Â By this time I was parched to say the least. Â We were ready to give our orders by this time, but upon dropping our drinks off he peaced out again. Â Seeing him in the distance 5 minutes later I saw him start to head back to our table, where I made a comment, "my order will be screwed up watch," to my table. Â I ordered a plain pizza and a side salad. Â About 40 minutes later our food came...let I remind you this place was in no way near full capacity and we didn't see him for that entire time!
My salad never comes..finally the pizza comes. Â I remind him nicely about the salad and he says it will be right out. Â I finished my pizza and he brought us the bill. Â Following the bill, he brought me a salad. Â If he just let it be and didn't even attempt to bring it out, I probably would have brushed it off but the fact that he was carrying this small little salad out to me after I paid, made me livid. Â I wanted to jump across the table and seriously hurt this dude. Â I said in a not so pleasant voice..."I just don't even want it anymore, just take it off my bill please." Â
We then ask two split the bill 3 ways on 3 different cards which we have done multiple times. Â He then says..."well I am busy so It's going to be a while if you want to do that"...I am like I have been a server for a long time and I have eaten here a bunch of times where I have split a check on 4 cards so I don't think it should be that big of problem...he says "Well I don't know if you got that kind of time." Â Whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaat...good thing they took away my silverware, cause this dude was about to get forked. Â I got up and left and had my co-workers handle the rest.
It was my friend Kyle's first day at the office and we completely forgot to bring him...I don't feel so bad now...we actually probably did him a favor.
Being relatively new to Chicago I been using Google search phrases like "Really Good Sandwich Lincoln Park" or "Awesome Thai, Old Town" so I stumbled across Hop Haus with "Good Burgers the Loop" Â boy oh boy was I glad I ended up here.
From the previous Yelp reviews nothing looked particularly special. But I needed to meet my Dad downtown so I settled on this place. Â
Things to note:
Service- mediocre
Beer List- mediocre (mostly bottles)
Appetizer/sides- mediocre
Burger- Bomb (mine had mushrooms, bacon and this ridiculous garlic mayo) and PRETZEL BUNS! Â Chicago that is rad, NYC invest in Pretzel buns
Check it out, enjoy a good burger, but don't really expect anything else to be that special.
I'm conflicted about Hop Haus...the food is great but the service is not usually great.
I went on a Saturday afternoon for some drinks and lunch with a friend. Â It took our server a while to come over and then an extra long time for our drinks...it was a vodka/diet and a vodka/water...shouldn't take too long to pour those. Â If the bar would have been packed I could understand but there were maybe 5 people sitting at the bar and a few tables occupied. Â Our server seemed to disappear quite a bit, I saw her putting on her jacket and going outside so I'm sure it was smoke break time. Â We actually had to ask another server to find her so we could get more drinks. Â Just overall bad service.
The food is another story. Â They have delicious burgers and quite a variety of different meats for the burgers. Â I like the get the sliders because then you can try a couple different ones. Â The waffle fries are pretty good especially the ones with seasoning...the others are plain. I have been here for brunch as well and the breakfast pizza is amazing! Â If I lived closer I would get this probably a little too often!
They have a bunch of TV so you can catch all the games you are looking for and the pictures on the walls are quite amusing as well.
I would say if you want a great burger and willing to deal with some not so great service def give Hop Haus a try.
It's certainly nothing special from the outside, and it's kinda dated and funky on the inside, but Hop Haus can do a good burger.
It's your perfect weeknight place to grab a beer, a burger and fries, and good conversation with friends. With no crowds. And 80's playlist. And reasonable prices. In River North. Word.
I personally gravitate towards the chicken sliders (yeah, I'm one of those weird people who prefers chicken to beef. Shoot me). I highly recommend the Teriyaki & BBQ. And the sliders are a decent size--I was full after two of them. They are also super accommodating about adding extras or customizing. My dining partner said he may have stumbled onto the best burger ever: fried egg burger, add guac. Don't ask, just try.
Large beer list to satisfy all your drinking needs, though I would stick to beer from here. Save your mixed drinks for Spybar downstairs. Not that I recommend chowing down a large burger while listening to "Video Killed the Radio Star" on repeat, and then heading to the club.
Speaking of Spybar. Leaving here on a Wednesday night at 10pm, we could already hear the techno starting to blare from downstairs. In other words, come and eat before Spybar opens. I imagine it can't be pretty after that.
I had to revisit Hop Haus because of the confusion for what I would write for my review. Â One time I was just beginning to get infected by the flu or a cold so I can't base my opinion on that since everything happening everywhere was terrible (especially since they took the leftovers in back and wrapped them up- I HATE that, let me do it myself!)
Another time, the service was a travesty, and it was on a date too... but all other times service was good.
This other time, the mac and cheese was just too noodley. Â Yeah, I made up that word.. Noodle eee. Â Go ahead, say it out loud, it's fun.
Overall, the food is good, and as a separate surprise, the pizzas are delicious. Â Best BBQ chicken pizza I've ever had. Â The most recent visit had a wonderful female server, check-in's from the management, quick service, really good food... BUT as for the atmosphere, they had a live jazz band in the side room but still played music in the main room.. coupled with the bass from Spybar, it was really distracting. Â Three different tempos at the same time.
I haven't had the specialty meat sliders they offer. Â As a rule, if a place offers specialty items, if they can't get the basics right- like BBQ chicken pizza, then the other stuff isn't worth trying, so next time Mr. Ostrich, Mr. Wild Boar, you will be consumed.
Old reviews left me afraid, left me petrified
That I would not leave Hop Haus very satisfied
But then I saw that tasty menu and the beer list was so long
And I was wrong
Me and Hop Haus got along!
You probably want me to stop singing now... Â
Went here on a Saturday night with a group of 5. Â We had an 8 PM reservation - made it very easy, got a nice table in the back. Â (only weird thing there was the television that was basically right on top of my head, like inches away). Â Not too crowded and not too loud, so it was a great place to catch up. Â Beer list was long and impressive, though I can't say I'm a fan of places that don't disclose drink prices on the menu. Â In fact, that's probably what's keeping this from being a 5-star review. Â While some of us saw the beers on special as we walked in and consciously ordered one of those, others were a little shocked by the high prices of their choices once the bill came.
Onto the food. Â YUM!! Â I had 3 sliders with a side of fries. Â Wasn't in a super-adventurous mood so I had 1 steak slider and 2 burger sliders. Â All fantastic (actually just ate the 2nd burger one for lunch - 3 sliders was a lot). Â Fries were tasty. Â Fresh out of the oven and I liked the seasoning, just wish there was a little more of it! Â I tasted the mac & cheese and it was delicious too. Â Others at the table got the bacon mac & cheese and thought that it was amazing. (they also highly recommended eating a bite the bacon mac & cheese on top of a waffle fry). I know that my friends who got wild game enjoyed their meals as did my friends who ordered regular sized burgers and everyone went home very happily satiated whether having eaten a full-sized burger or sliders.
Most of the times I am a disgrace to my fellow homos. Still, there are some things that put me in the category of a "stereotypical homo". For example:
1. Being preferential about things; you may call it "being a snob"
2. Never stepping foot inside a sports bar or any place that associates itself with sports
Even though I have been living 1.5 blocks from Hop Haus for almost a year, I never bothered to check it out because A) it is a sports bar B) I wouldn't be caught dead in a sports bar C) I don't drink beer and this place seems focused heavily on beer.
The in-laws were in the mood for burgers and beer last night. We were pretty tired from taking them all around town and decided to eat close to home. They wanted to check out Hop Haus since it is focused on both burgers and beer.
Being a bad homo, I relent and off we go to Hop Haus.
I HATE ALL OF YOU BITCHES!!
Why hasn't anyone bitch-slapped me, told me to stop being a gay snob, and check out this place? WHY??
After perusing the menu the husband and I hoped for the food to be awful so we would never come here again. You see, there are so many enticing varieties of burgers here. That means we would have to come again, eat all of them, and be fatty patties. No, we cannot do that. We are homos after all, we are not ALLOWED to be fat (stereotypical homo). Oh, I am so fucking vain!!
The husband and father-in-law got the trio of mini wildburgers. Kangaroo, Bison, Wild Boar, Lamb, and Ostrich. Holy fuck!! Mother-in-law got a trio of mini bacon burgers. I was trying to be somewhat healthy and ordered grilled chicken tenders with a sweet and spicy orange ginger sauce.
All burgers were excellent. My chicken was just average, a tad overcooked.... and the sauce was neither sweet nor spicy. I should have ordered the burgers, too. I ate from the rest of the three plates. Father-in-law ordered mac&cheese as a side and it was sinfully delicious.
I am not a beer drinker, I shouldn't comment  about beer at all... but, I drank two bottles of Ebel's Weiss. That is more beer than what I typically drink in a year. The husband had two bottles of Hen's Tooth, he loved it. Father-in-law ordered two different beers and he loved both.
I am eating a leftover Kangaroo miniburger and I feel like jumping up and down in my office. It is so good!!
Ok, I think I have had enough of being a non-judgmental homo for now. It is not fun. I am going back to being a judgmental homo.
LOL guy: Do these jeans make my ass look big?
Me: No. YOUR FAT ASS MAKES YOUR ASS LOOK BIG.
LOL guy: I love you for being honest!
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