We love to eat a breweries. The food is usually as good as the small-batch handcrafted beer. One of the best meals we ever ate was at the Great Lakes Brewery in Cleveland, so I was very excited to hear that The Lancaster Brewing Company was less than 5 minutes from our hotel in Harrisburg, PA.
My overall rating, 2 1/2 out of 4 forks. I will outline the good and the not great for you below...
The Good:
Michael had a strawberry wheat beer which he said was great, as they are primarily a brewery that is a good sign. The children's menu was reasonably priced (everything was $5-$7) and came with a drink and ice cream. Zoe picked home-made mac & cheese with a side of applesauce. The mac was a penne pasta and you could see the real cheese in the sauce. She and I both enjoyed it a great deal! :) The waitress brought us a basket of rolls, one of these rolls was an onion pumpernickel which I immediately claimed for my own. Delicious. Just enough onion and the pumpernickle was flavorful. The roll was soft yet still had some body to it, enough to make it chewy. Michael ordered a lamb burger that came with greek feta and homemade potato chips. He loved the burger and we all enjoyed the kettle-style thick cut chips. Lastly, our waitress was great. She made a point of getting Zoe's dinner out while our meals were still being prepared, she brought Zoe's rootbeer in a papercup that she took the time to decorate for her. These things are small touches, but they meant alot to a 4 year old who was eating dinner about 3 hours later than normal.
The So-So:
We decided for an app to try the cheesesteak rolls, not really sure what they were....It turns out they are shaved steak, onion and cheese fried in an eggroll wrapper. They were served with some sort of flavored mayo and horseradish sauce. The rolls retained way to much fryer oil, it literal dripped out of them. The flavored mayo, we don't know what flavor it was but it wasn't tasty....The horse sauce had a nice amount of bite to it though and that was good. I ordered the pretzel crusted chicken with roasted red smashed potatoes in a mustard sauce. I have to admit I have pretty high standards for this dish, I have had it out and have cooked in myself....This was my least favorite version of them all. The potatoes were not smashed enough and the mustard didn't harmonize with the flavor of the potatoes, it was actually just too grainy. The pretzel crust on the chicken was a little thick and the mustard sauce on the chicken was not quite plentiful enough. The chicken was however moist on the inside. But in a few spots the pretzel crust was not cooked enough, probably because it was so thick. However, the dish was certainly edible just not great.
Would I go back there? Maybe for beers and burgers. Would I recommend it? Sure, and I would tell people it is certainly better than going to Friendly's and to stick with beers and burgers.
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