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I was in the area for business and decided to give this place a try as it was more 'on the way' than other Buffalo brew pubs listed here. How I wish I had gone out of the way.

Upon arriving at the pub I was surprised to see bright neon signs outside. A bit cheesy for a brewpub I thought, but since it was located amongst a sea of chain stores I figured it was just a matter of fitting in with the neighbors.

There were a couple of fellas standing on the porch having a smoke when I walked up and we exchanged greetings, or rather I did. They didn't seem to want to be bothered.

The inside of the pub was pleasant. Plenty of people of all different walks of life enjoying themselves and peanut shells littering the floor. The bar was lined with dozens of taps. A waitress told me to grab any table I liked and she'd send someone over.

The gal who waited on me was pleasant, friendly even, however when I asked her a question or 2 about their house beers I didn't get the impression she was too well informed. I ordered an Amber, which arrived reasonably quickly. I'd rather it hadn't arrived at all. I have been to dozens of brewpubs over the years and this was by far the worst beer I've had at any of them. I can hardly describe how bad it was. The taste seemed like a cross between fermented coca cola and week old sweat socks.

While choking down this beer I asked the waitress what she'd recommend on the menu for a vegetarian. She suggested the veggie lasagna which I happily agreed to. Mistake number 2. When the plate arrived all I could see was a thick layer of solidifying cheese with a floret of broccoli poking through. I got to work on this lasagna and found that a. it had no tomato sauce b. no noodles and c. tasted absolutely awful. I pushed the $10 plate aside and returned to my lousy amber. The waitress showed up about 5 minutes later and seeing the plate at the end of the table inquired what was wrong. I explained that while I've never sent a meal back in my life I simply could not eat this. I inquired about the lack of tomato sauce and she explained that they don't use tomato sauce in their lasagna. Now while I'm sure that there must be lasagna recipes out there that don't call for tomato sauce, one would think that an establishment wouldn't throw such a curveball on their menu, or at least would better describe the slob they were slinging. This was no lasagna, it was a casserole of some sort- and a lousy one at that.

The waitress did the right thing by insisting on taking it back and trying to appease me. She said she didn't want me to go away hungry. (she was aware I was a business traveller) She recommended the veggie burger, which I reluctantly agreed to and I ordered their Pale Ale in the meantime.

The pale arrived quickly but was no better than the amber. It was one of the blandest, bodiless beers I have ever had. At this point I was beginning to get annoyed. This was the 3rd item they brought me and each one was, at best, disappointing, and at worst, unpalatable.

Next the veggie burger arrived. It was on a decent looking bun, and on the burger was 2 slices of tomato and 2 thick, white leaves of iceberg lettuce. The burger, which was some house recipe, was dry as can be. At least the fries were ok.

I don't know what more I can say. Beer, lousy. Food, awful. Wait staff, friendly, cute (fortunately), uninformed. Would I go back? You couldn't pay me enough.