The Rusty Onion

Good beer selection. Grabbed food from here the other day. Need to go back and try their pizza. Had the wings which were pretty good.

So, I really want to LOVE this place.  Unfortunately, I don't.  My husband and I have been here twice.  Once for drinks, another time dinner and beers.
    Let's start with the positives (and why I will be going back and giving it another try):  
1.  The beer selection is great.  They have so many local craft brews on tap, it's wonderful!  With that said, there are a few places in the area with an equally great, or better, beer selection (Duckworth's, Mellow Mushroom) and better food.  
2.  The decor inside is awesome.  They have these really cool lampshades that are painted with the local Charlotte Brewery's logos.  They are very cool.  
3.  The staff is very friendly, maybe a little too friendly.  While nice is great, my husband, our friend and I must have been interrupted no less than 15 times during our dinner by various people asking us if everything was OK.  That said, it was their second week open and I understand being overstaffed and it's your new job.  If the manager tells you to go around and check on tables, that's what you do, but it was overkill.
4.  The onion rings were yummy.

Now the not so great:
1.  As mentioned above: Too many people interrupting our meal.
2.  Single bathroom.  I know this may be out of the owner's control, but I hate when a bar/restaurant has just one bathroom.  This means you are always, more often than not, waiting outside.  Waiting outside at this place means waiting in a narrow hallway where servers are coming in and out of the kitchen, it's just awkward.
3.  Our food was not good.  They are a pizzeria, we had two separate servers tell us that the cheeseburger pizza tastes, "Just like a Big Mac".  It didn't.  It was flavorless and the crust was not fantastic.  For me, the crust makes the pizza...this was blah.

With all of that said, my husband and I will go back.  I will try something other than their pizza.  Our friend said their pasta was good.  I hope to give a more positive update after our next trip!

I have seen the sign for the Rusty Onion up for several months and was very excited to see that it finally opened. After reading several reviews we were a little hesitant to try it but chalked those poor reviews up to grand opening jitters.
I'm glad we tried it out. I'm pretty sure the owner of the restaurant held the door open for us and welcomed us in. We were promptly seated and greeted but our super sweet waitress. We ordered a large pizza half mac & cheese and the other half Philly Cheesesteak. I really enjoyed my half of the mac & cheese. It was very flavorful and delicious. My husband enjoyed his Philly but suggested adding some A1 sauce.  The music was fun, the restaurant was clean and looked really nice, and service was great. I will definitely return!