Tyler's Restaurant & Taproom

My wife and I spent our early dating years here most weekends. First bar in CH/CBORO to focus on good beer.  Food is good too.  Ask about tap specials.  They get stuff you can't find anywhere else!

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

This bar is the tale of two bars.  There is the left side which is quite easy on the eyes and where I'd love to sit down for a couple pints.  However, I was here for a bday thang on a Sat. night and everyone was on the right side with all the pool tables, foosball, golden tee and hepatitis.  I swear they stole the couches from my parent's basment.  There were only 6 beers on tap (Guiness, #9, Foothills Jade IPA and a couple others) with a bunch of bottles available, but I was underwhelmed.  This day in age you have World of Beer, Yard House, Flying Saucer and even the Tyler's in Raleigh where 50 beers on tap is the minimum now.  6 beers on tap for a place with "Taproom" in the name killed it for me.  The tv's were of nice quality, great 1080p quality, but I simply could not get past the limited beer and deplorable decor.  If you enjoy camoflogue, musky odors and decade old stains then this place is for you.  I wish I had eaten something, but did not have much of an appetite.  This is a bipolar restaurant where good meets bad, and sadly I was stuck in the bad... thus this review.

Great location of the Tyler's chain, offers the great food and service of their other locations with some Carrboro charm.  On a Sunday night at 7pm the restaurant was packed with a wait-time of about 20 minutes for a party of 4 (which in reality was more like 10 minutes).  Our server knew the menu inside and out, took all of our orders from memory and everything came out perfectly.  Definitely check out Tyler's if you're in the mood for a good meal and a beer in downtown Carrboro.