Hops Restaurant Bar & Brewery

We stopped in here for a late lunch before leaving town. We sat outside to take advantage of the great weather. They have a decent little patio out front. We waited about ten minutes and had multiple waiters/waitresses pass by but no one stop at our table. I finally flagged down a waitress. She was very apologetic and offered to take our drink order and find our waiter for us. She returned with our drinks and let us know our waiter would be over shortly. We ordered a pitcher of their sangria which came out wonderful. It was a good balance of sweet and strong. Another 10-15 minutes went by and still no sign of our waiter. The waitress who got our drinks came by and asked if he'd taken our order. We said no so she let us place an appetizer order with her. As she took our order a waiter came over looking frustrated and asked what she was doing. I cut in to explain that we had been there over 20 minutes and had yet to see our waiter so she was helping out. After I said it I realized I was setting myself up to have my food spit in. Oh well. I guess worse things could happen. He took our order and left. The same waitress brought out our appetizer, not our frustrated waiter. Although he did bring out our entrees when they were ready. Only problem, we had no silverware or napkins. I could have attempted to do without but I'm sure I would have gotten strange looks eating a steak with my hands. Thankfully the sweet waitress that had been helping checked on us again and got us silverware. Not more than ten minutes after we got our entrees the waiter brought our tab. We didn't ask for our tab. We still wanted to order another drink. We weren't in any sort of rush to get to the airport so we wanted to enjoy a drink out on the patio. We never saw our waiter again. he left our empty plates in front of us and never came back. I had to go inside and order drinks from the bar for our table. When it came time to pay our tab we had to give our tab to the bartender to close out for us because our waiter was again MIA. Overall the food was good, not great. The steak was average, my brothers lobster was a bit too chewy and rubbery. The drinks were good. Our server was horrible. Had it not been for the other waitress stepping in and helping I would have been really upset. It also would have been nice to have a manager come by or walk around to check on tables and see how everything was going. If I return to Lakewood/Golden, I may return to give them another chance.

Hops is true to it's 2.5 stars. I haven't been impressed by the beer here. For a place called hops I always expect a bigger selection or at least an ipa... However, the flaky buttery airy croissants with a delicious honey butter drizzle that they bring you after you sit down is awesome! Awesome enough to cause a fight at your table over the last one. The nachos were pretty good. I like how they arranged it in a flowery shape so you could easily grab a chip already loaded with just the right amount of toppings. $12 for nachos and beers. Not bad. I'll have to try the margaritas next time... I guess I have to order something to go with those scrumptious croissants!

What a dive! I think I will now call it "Hops Dive Bar". Last time I will go there. The last time was the wait staff; this time it was the food that was bad. The kind of place you feel like if you say something about the food they will do something nasty to it in the kitchen and send it back out. We called the manager over last time on a food item and they tried to fix it; this time the manager would not even introduce herself as such. What a bad taste that will stay for a long time.