I've mostly enjoyed my occasional lunch or dinner at the bar watching some soccer match between European teams I've never heard of. Â Staff has almost always been stellar (except one). I give three stars (minus one half) for three reasons.
About two years ago, a line cook in the front of house was approached by a female coworker who complimented him on his new haircut. He appreciatively removed his white cap, ran his hand over his new buzz cut and, upon replacing his cap, used his unwashed hand to arrange a salad. I wrote a note to management without response.
My second fiasco was on a Monday night lobster fest when I ordered a 1-lb. lobster and salad. Noting a "temperature variation" upon being served, I asked my waiter if the lobsters were freshly steamed. He assured me so. I disagreed. With all "we-don't need-your-proletarian-kind-in-here" demeanor, he raised his nose to reiterate the freshness and cooked-to-order claim. Upon hearing this, I broke off the ICE cold claw and asked him to hold it and explain how this happened. Plate removed. No response.
This past Saturday, I had a quick lunch of an excellent shrimp and corn chowder but made the error of  ordering what I thought would be classic American strawberry shortcake. Upon arrival, Chef had taken poetic license to squirt an almost-bodacious amount of chocolate syrup all over the berries, whipped cream and (not-so-fresh) shortcakes. I asked why this was not stated on the menu. Cow-eyed apologetic waiter explained that it was "a decoration." Not so. Why not similarly "decorate" classic spaghetti in marinara with creamy horseradish sauce?
Caveat emptor. Wegmans MUST HAVE better supervision in the Pub to get my full endorsement. Written concerns about shopping needs have received very prompt response. Written concerns about the Pub - none.
4 stars for the pub, even tho I complained about my meal!
First off, I've been to the pub several times and almost always get the burger, which I am indeed a fan of. Â On my last visit the server told me they had a NY Strip Steak special for 16 bucks which included 2 sides. Â I know they sell good steaks at Wegmans, and thought it sounded like a good deal. Â I was wrong! Â
I was initially put off because they serve the 2 sides(fries and a salad) on the same plate as the steak, basically burying it under the sides, or possibly...hiding it from view!  It was a sad little piece of meat.  Not quite half inch thich, lots of fat on the edges and plenty of gristle inside.  This steak would have to be marinated and tenderized before it was cooked, it was just a low quality cut of beef.  I had to saltpeppersteak sauce it heavily, and ended up leaving quite a bit of it on the plate. I can goto Outback or Longhorn and  spend 16 bucks on their house sirloin and get a quality piece of meat for my money.  I just expected more from Wegmans and thought I'd get a better cut...this steak belonged in a diner...I'd expect it at Denny's or IHOP...but I was really hoping for a nice cut of beef and was terribly disappointed. Â
So why 4 stars? Â Rob, the manager on duty, saw my plate was rather "full" and asked about my meal...I explained my disappointement and the expectations I had when I ordered and he immediately told me he would't take my money and wanted to know if there was something else I'd like to try...I did not, and he suggested I try the prime rib special they do Friday nights after 4:00, which he seems to think will be more to my liking. Â I was very pleased by his attitude! Â Exactly what you want from an ownermanager. Â
I tried to leave a tip for the excellent service...Of course he wouldn't take it! Â So, Rob, I'm leaving you a tip here on Yelp...Thank you for your great attitude and excellent service! Â I will be back for sure to have more burgers, and will try the Prime Rib as you suggested!
Can I be frank? I hate tipping. I'm all for the business model where you pay the employee a fair wage in the first place and then the tipping is just gravy. It makes for happier employees and better service (okay what do I know).
The food was pretty good. The burgers I know they made fresh on the grill in front of us. Pretty solid burgers. The fries were really good too. They must have been fresh cut. Unfortunately it is a little pricey.
The other entrees I was a little suspicious about. Those looked a little TOO much like the food in the regular prepared foods section in the market. I suspect a "heat and serve" procedure.
The beer selection was great and wasn't too inexpensive. The restaurant was also nicely decorated and appropriately casual but not divey. You don't have to dress up but it's not trashy either.
Also it's Wegmans. You know you're in it for the experience.
This is a cool place. People are nice, food is fresh and good. Â Restaurants with no tips are not common in the area. The only reason why I don't give 5 stars is the menu. They should change it at least twice a year and put new dishes on the table. Eating the same thing from 1st of January to end of December is a little bit boring for regular customers.
Review Source:There are very few places where you can get food this fresh, this good, and this inexpensive, but The Pub at Wegman's has pulled it off. Â
In a word: Â WOW.
The pub is located adjacent to the market in Wegmans. Â It has a lively, vibrant, and friendly feel to it. Â You can feel safe bringing the kids here, no matter how loud they might get. Â The servers have always been exceptional (it's a shame that they don't accept tips, but that is one of the things that makes this pub special). Â
My favorite dish there is the classic italian chicken sandwich with a side of tuscan fries. Â This sandwich is a tender piece of chicken, served with a coating of bruschetta topped with fresh mozzarella, and finished off with a perfect bun. Â I can hardly fit it in my mouth, but it is so good that I don't mind looking like an idiot trying to. Â We have actually replicated this dish at home because we have enjoyed it so much at the restaurant. Â
It is served with a side of fresh seasonal vegetables that is cooked in Wegman's signature finishing oil. Â It is olive oil infused with other herbs and flavors. Â This can be purchased in the market and you'll find yourself doing so after tasting these veggies. Â You'll want to do it at home. Â
The Tuscan Fries are spectacularly executed. Â You can tell they are fresh, they remind me very much of fries you might get on the boardwalk. Â Generous herbs and garlic cloves are cooked in with the fries. Â You'll finish these, even though you may initially doubt your ability to do so. Â
And all of this comes at a great value! Â And they don't accept tips! Â
If I had any gripes, it would be that there is not enough seating space so the place can be hard to get in to on a weekend. Â We've had to find dining elsewhere because of this on 3 or 4 occasions. Â Also, the place can tend to get so loud at times that it is hard to have a conversation at your table...especially if Wegman's has hired a solo guitarist to sing songs over a PA right next to the restaurant. Â These are minor things though, this place is AWESOME!
I go here for the dinner specials offered on various nights of the week - they have Prim Rib night, or $1 oysters, or shrimp night. Â You should call ahead and ask what the special is at your local store. Â Unfortunately, they seem to run out of the featured item early in the evening (like 7:00) - especially the seafood, Â and what is the point of having a shrimp or oyster night, if they run out before the dinner hour even gets going? Â When we asked them to simply go over to the seafood counter in the store to get more (shrimp), Â the server said that it is not their policy and were not able to do it. Â Having said that, however, I have had a nice Prime Rib dinner served with a side salad of field greens that was really good with the Toasted Head Cabernet.
Review Source:My dining companion and I were looking for a place to eat after spending the day in Oaks. Â I suggested the Pub at Wegmans and she said she wanted to try it. Â The wait was only 25 minutes on a Saturday night. Â For a "pub", there was a pretty good selection of healthy choices. Â We started with the Shrimp and Pork Wontons which were very good. Â For our dinner, we had the fig and gorgoloza pizza and the roast vegetables. Â The figs were not distributed very well and almost all ended up on one slice. Â The beets were overcooked. Â And my partner was disappointed when she was told that they were out of the apple pie. Â It was a bit noisy but not unexpected
P.S. Â I did have the waitress come running over to the table twice. Â I stood up and was toasting my partner twice during the meal (her birthday was 4 days before) and I think the waitress thought I was getting ready to propose. Â Haha.
I'm not super crazy about the Pub. The food is decent, but I'm a street fighter, I need bigger portions. Though the food is good, the menu selection is small. The prices are fair, but with the portions being smaller I'm not certain how much of a deal it is. Maybe Wegies is right, maybe us fat American should size down our meals. Though I wouldn't exactly call their food "health food" it is definitely a lot lighter than other joints. As far as drinking, some people marvel at the idea of getting drunk at a grocery store, but that brings back too many painful memories for me of my old job at the Shop and Save.
Review Source:Wegmans meets sit-down dining and the results are positive.
I've eaten there twice in the Autumn of 11 and it has been good. This place has some good French fries to start with. The zucchini fries are a little too light (they need more thickness) but they aren't too bad.
I've had the black tiger shrimp and grilled vegetable pub plates. The shrimp is fine and the salad it comes with is good. Just ask for dressing on the side. They tend to overdress.
I really liked the grilled vegetable plate and look forward to having it again. There are many components and all of them work. Pleasant roasted eggplant. Perfectly grilled asparagus. Beets doing their thing. A grilled onion that perfect. Delicious polenta with marinara. The endive stuffed with goat cheese was fantatsic. I love goat cheese and endive! Not expecting that, especially in Collegeville of all places.
Overall a pleasant addition to the Wegmans experience.
The pub in Wegman's is simply a great place to go with friends for a bite. We ate here the Friday after Thanksgiving, following a movie in nearby Oaks.
First of all, it's inexpensive. They pay their servers a "living wage" which means that you are not supposed to tip them. The beer and wine prices are very reasonable. I ordered a $6 glass of shiraz. The bar was out of shiraz, so our waitress brought back a small tasting glass of a different red wine. It was a fun way to recommend a different wine. The meals themselves ranged from $8 burgers to $16 entrees.
Secondly, it's kind of fun to peek out at a grocery store while you eat. I was focused on chatting with my friends, but if I was eating alone, I would have loved having the opportunity to plan out my grocery shopping trip while I ate my meal.
Thirdly, the food is surprisingly good for a grocery store. We started with a few fried appetizers. The french fries were cooked with tarragon, served with a spicy ketchup and delicious. The other two appetizers, fried mozzarella and zucchini strings, were just okay. I recently changed to a vegetarian diet, and I ordered a veggie burger for my meal. It was homemade at the store with quinoa and millet, topped with a spicy sauce reminiscent of Indian fare, and sitting on top of a toasted whole wheat bun. It was delicious. The burgers and entrees are served with either the side salad of the day or the vegetable of the day. The side salad had onions, roasted peppers, feta and baby greens, and the vegetable of the day was kale cooked in coconut milk. I had the side salad and found the onions far too powerful for my palate.
It's a great place, and would be my first choice for a meal after our next movie at the Regal in Oaks.
for a pub this is great. I have meetings here regularly. The food is good and the beer selection is great -- more right across the aisle. I've run the gauntlet on the menu. Nothing here beats lunch at the Essex in NYC, but it comes surprisingly close. I like Wegman's grocery store and this seems a nice oasis. If you don't want to be served, grab something at one of the food bars and sit at the open tables.
It's not noisy, no TV blaring at max volume. I like the atmosphere, you can talk and be heard.
So who goes to a grocery store to eat lunch? You're thinking "I might go to buy lunch, but I'm not hanging around." If that grocery store is Wegmans, then you might consider grocery store as lunch hot spot.
The Pub at Wegmans is a new concept in what a grocery store can be. With the demise of Barnes & Noble as a place where people can go and hang out, I predict a new role for the grocery store - community hub. Wegmans already has a reputation for providing a place where folks can gather, from the celebrity chef events to family movie night, to meeting space to community rooms where folks can hang out and play Bridge. Wegmans understands that if they can get you to come to the store, you'll find something to like and you'll come back.
The Pub is just such a place. It has seating, just like a café; it has wait-staff just like a café; it has a seasonal menu, just like a café. The prices are on par with what you might pay in a high end café, this isn't diner food. If you choose bar seating, you will be able to watch your food as it is prepared, which I like for many reasons. It is a little noisier than a traditional café, since you are in a grocery store, you're aware of foot traffic.
On my first lunch visit, I ordered a slider plate consisting of a turkey burger, pulled pork and a lobster roll. I admit, I ordered this plate so I could try the lobster roll. Your choice of side is either the vegetable of the day or a Greek style salad. On my last two visits, I stuck with the lobster roll. Just enough lobster, just enough crunch, not too mayonnaise-y, served on a buttered, toasted roll. I also ordered the Greek style salad each time. I am looking forward to trying the naan pizza and the pasta features when the lobster roll goes off menu. While you may opt for a glass of wine or beer with your meal, I opted for desert, which features Wegmans desert products. They have a rotating seasonal pie, ice cream deserts, cake, and "adult" coffee drinks.
On the first visit, I opted for the chocolate cake. The cake was dense, moist and chocolaty. The frosting was creamy, not grainy and chocolaty. It was about the most perfect chocolate cake I have had in a long time, better than what I've tasted from stand-alone bakeries. On my next visit, I opted for the white cake. Again, the cake was dense, moist and flavored with vanilla. Not too sweet, as though it were trying to make up for being plain old white cake. The frosting was a white frosting, sweet and creamy, not grainy. All cake is served with a side of seasonal berries and a dollop of fresh whipped cream. On my last visit, I convinced my companion to go for the white cake, while I enjoyed a sundae. The sundae features Wegmans soft serve vanilla ice cream, which I believe is limited to certain stores. The only complaint I had is that there wasn't enough fudge sauce...in my opinion, there is never enough fudge sauce...but that is the worst thing I could say about it.
The portion sizes are generous without being over-sized. The Pub menu also has calorie counts on its offerings, which is a blessing and a curse. If you're watching your diet, it's very helpful; if you're eating because lunch the best thing that is going to happen to you that day, you may wish to ignore the calorie count or make an appropriate adjustment at the next meal time.
One awkward thing about the pub is the no-tipping policy. I'm so programmed to tip, that it does feel a little strange not to do so. My understanding is that if you feel compelled to tip, it goes into a pool and all the servers share it.
So rethink your lunch strategy. The Pub at Wegmans offers a set menu, plus seasonal dishes and adult beverages. There is a Pub in Collegeville and Malvern, PA. Check your Wegmans website for additional locations.
Packed on a Tuesday night, the Market Cafe prompts me to use a cliche I hate: "something for everyone." Â It tries some new things too, like paying fair wages and including service into the (not elevated) prices, so there is no tipping (which feels weird). Â And service is still good, which people usually claim won't happen if tipping goes away -- well, yes it will if properly managed.
Calories are listed on the menu, which most restaurants would be terrified to do. (Nearly 800 calories for a bowl of sweet potato fries, wow.) Â The kitchen is in full view, in the middle of the pub, which inspires trust -- nothing which falls on the floor will be slipped back onto the grill. Â Wish I could say the same for Red Lobster. Â It is fun to sit at the bar and watch the cooks.
This is our rest stop on the way home, after a day in Philly or an after work snack stop before picking up groceries. Â Due to the suffocating, deadening heat (in freaking May!), no one dared to sit outside at the many cute tables, as crazy as people are to be outdoors after an endless winter. Â Sigh, the PA climate is just extreme and never moderate -- was it always this way?
I was disappointed in the lack of food diversity, but at least the summer menu now has an herbed tofu, and the side dish of kale and carrots was tasty. Â There is a good homemade vegetable burger that they will make without the cheese. Â Why not just offer it with a nice tahini-lemon dressing or veg mayo (and maybe a gluten-free bun), so anyone can have it? Â All needed items to do this are in close proximity in the store. Â I will try the flatbread pizzas sometime, and some ethnic flavors sneak their way onto the menu, I see.
Always a plus for me, I spied bag hooks under the tables, so I don't have to put my bag on a restaurant floor or dangle it from a chair in other people's way. Â Did you read that a woman's bag can be one of the dirtiest things around, because of where we are forced to stash them?
Wine and beer list are decent; they even have our favorite everyday red blend, Apothic. Prices are affordable, as most other reviewers said -- most glasses are $6. Â Venture into the produce section to see the imposing, 8-foot-tall automatic wine machine which dispenses bottles (we did not try it but were hoping to see someone use it). Â There is no by-the-glass machine, like the Malvern Wegman's has. Â Check out that beer section though, wow -- this must cut into the Craft Ale House business. Â Points off for multiple tvs at the bar, with sports on, bleh.
Don't feel like having service and just want to be left alone out with coffee and your laptop? Â Space is right outside the cafe. Â Have restless kids with you? Â A kid-friendly area is just beyond the other space. Â The huge food bars/stations offer plenty, and the diversity that I wish for the pub is there, with both a hot and a cold vegetarian bar (though I wish they would label or include ingredients for all items, though some are marked vegan or gf). Â I wanted to get the kale dish on my way out, but the hot bar closed up around 8. Â I am not sure of the point of the Timber Room, but it is a comfortable area to read and relax.
The Pub has specials every day, and I guess the crowds came for the mussels last night. Â
The whole shopping center is called Providence Town Center (thank god not the affectation, "Towne Centre"). Â It is that trend to replace actual public space with commerce-driven areas (right now, stylish outdoor malls), but at least people have a place to hang out where they don't have to buy anything (try to resist, considering the grocery and food selections if you are from Berks County). Â New Urbanists hate to see capitalistic fake town squares replace real mixed-use ones where people live or can walk/bike to, but at least this has some sense of aesthetics and is well-positioned geographically, for us.
Oh my, I love this place! Â We went here after a long, hard day working at a home show. Â It was out first time and we'd heard that there was a restaurant in the New Wegmans. Â It was better than a restaurant! Â Our server and sometimes bartender was GREAT. Â The prime rib was excellent (just a little fatty but that's what you get in prime rib). My husband ordered a couple of items off the "tapas" menu, and Glory of Glories, there was a full bar! Â We bought a bottle of VERY reasonably priced wine and then learned that we could NOT tip the wait staff! Â How Australian! Â We went back with two friends and I think we ordered every item on the small plates just to try them. Â Heavenly, we'll be back...
Review Source:Lots of pluses about The Pub. Food is good. The service is good. Calories presented on certain menu items. The menu isn't overwhelmingly large, but the are lots of good options. There is no kid's menu, but you can grab something from the Market Cafe and bring it in. Reasonable prices. Alcohol.
They must pay the staff reasonably since they do not allow tipping.
The burger comes with a small side of (sautéed?) vegetables instead of the typical fries. The burger was juicy and served on nice crusty brioche.
The zucchini fries were a bit greasy and salty, but otherwise good.
The chicken tender appetizer is two reasonably sized white meat tenders, and made a perfect kid's meal (and they were tasty.)
Pepsi products. Booooo!
The Pub at Wegman's is amazing for so many reasons. Â To name a few...
- Excellent food and reasonably priced
- Fun ambiance
- Great service
- No tipping allowed (yes, ALLOWED, they do not accept on credit cards or with cash, and if you manage to sneak some money on the table, it all goes into a pot for their employees as a whole)
We have eaten here twice now, once at the bar and once at a table. Â They have an open kitchen where they prepare most of the food, which is fun to watch. Â I have had the crab cake entree both times because it is JUST SO GOOD. Â It is served with a fresh tossed salad, and is one of the most delicious crab cakes I have ever enjoyed.
Highly recommended for an inexpensive, quality meal out!
P.S. They sell a full selection of beer in their market just across the room - you can pick out a six-pack and enjoy with your meal at the Pub!
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