Dogfish Head Alehouse
Categories: American (Traditional), Breweries [Edit]
6220 Leesburg PikeSeven Corners Shopping Ctr
Falls Church, VA 22044 (703) 534-3342
- Price Range: $$
- Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
- Parking: Private Lot
- Attire: Casual
- Good for Groups: Yes
- Good for Kids: Yes
- Takes Reservations: Yes
- Delivers: No
- Take-out: Yes
- Waiter Service: Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: No
- Good for: Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol: Full Bar
29 Reviews for Dogfish Head Alehouse
This location is the best of the DC metro area. I enjoy the Aprihop beer in the spring and the Pale Ale, Peche, or light in the summer. The food is always good- I've sampled burger, kabobs, pizza and salads, salmon. The woodgrill flavoring is the best part. Look out for some of the beers- they can cost upwards $12 a glass. Monday is $5 burger night. Excellent beer, great food, loudish atmosphere. Nothing to complain about!
I love their beer, especially the Midas Touch, which isn't in season right now. I usually go to the one in Gaithersburg, which maybe accounts for the difference in the food, but everything I've had there has been very good. The beach fries are terrific, and the fish and chips are excellent. I really like their slow roasted french dip sandwhich. I've liked everything I've tried there. I haven't tried their wines (they're known for their beer, so why criticize the wine?) or their mixed drinks.
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Dogfish Head is the very definition of overrated. People come in here and think that the beer is good just because of the pompous "beer geek" vibe that they saturate the place with. First off, if you don't like IPAs then you probably won't find much here. Every single beer is some kind of IPA, or a blend. I'm a big beer fan, but don't like overly hoppy beers, and that seems to be all that they serve here.
Also, the bartenders have a bit too much of the cool guy asshole thing going for them. No one is friendly or helpful and many can come across as insulting and condescending if you don't prove that you're a beer geek who gets off on beer that tastes like battery acid.
Food is adequate, but horribly overpriced. The appetizers are a good deal, but anything else is a waste of money. If you must order food, I'd suggest just sticking with appetizers. The hummus dip was pretty good, and they give you a lot of pita wedges.
My final complaint is their absurd beer pricings. They show a list of the beers they have, and you kind of assume that, like other brewpubs, it's all the same price. Well that's a false assumption because the beer I ordered happened to be $10.25 while everything else was $5. I couldn't believe it when the bill came and when I asked about it, cool guy asshole gave me a very formulaic "I apologize" and briefly gave me the beer geek pricing scheme, where anything over a certain percentage alcohol was a little higher. Well, gee, thanks for informing me that I'd be paying $10.25 for a tiny snifter of beer before I ordered. They really need to make it clear when a premium will be charged.
I likely never will return here as I can buy pretty much all of their offerings at Total Wine. Not that I'd have any interest in their overpriced battery acid anyway.
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Not bad. Not bad a'tall. Interesting place, this Dogfish Head in the middle of a 7 Corners strip mall...
So I recently came here with a date at his suggestion. I had never been, heard great things, and plus, it's got beer. I like beer. We get lucky and snag a table pretty quickly. Now, let's get down to the business of the beer.
Side note: Prior to coming here, my date and I had made a wager over something. The loser had to tell the server, "I have a hairy ass."
Shortly after we're seated, our server comes to greet us. He looked like he was hardly old enough to be driving, let alone serving us beer, but I digress. My date informs him that he has a hairy ass. Server takes it in stride and make a crack about knowing a good waxer. Bonus points for our server. He turned out to be extremely knowledgable about their beers, how they were made, and had some fantastic suggestions. He rocked.
So, I got the Alehouse 75. It's a blend of their 60 minute and 90 minute IPAs. Delish. Wonderfully hoppy, slightly caramelly, absolutely great. Date has the pale ale and his was also good.
Food was fantastic. I was expecting bar type food, but this was really good. I had one of the most interesting sandwiches I've tasted. It was basically a blackened Mahi-mahi reuben. All the fixings of a reuben with perfectly cooked mahi-mahi instead of corned beef. This sandwich was heaven. It was gloppy and messy and delicious. My date had the blackened chicken sandwich, which I'm assuming was good since I only saw it on his plate for about 4 minutes. Both sandwiches were huge and one would definitely be enough for two people to share if you wanted to start with an appetizer, soup, or a salad.
After we both went through enough napkins to kill about 3 trees, we decided to order another round of beers instead of dessert. Heck, that Alehouse 75 WAS treat enough to be dessert.
Prices were reasonable. Atmosphere was really cool. I look forward to coming back here in the future. Great beer, yummy food, cool servers that go along with your bad jokes...Definitely a spot I would give my repeat business.
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This is obviously a place known for it's beer. It's not just beer that brings me in the door, it's also the people. There are a bartender and server who seem to be moody, but who isn't now and again. I've absolutely fell in love with Cyd and Chad the bartenders. They are so sweet and always up for a conversation and know how to poor a good beer.
Nate and Greg are definately two of their best servers. They are knowledgeable, attentive, and speedy.
They've updated the beer menu so it lists the prices now, as it didn't before. Some beers are expensive, but it seem that the higher the alcohol content, the hight the price. The food portions are more than generous. I can never finish a whole meal in one sitting.
There isn't much room for large parties, but they are flexible with their cocktail seating and let my large party push some tables together to skip the wait on the dining room.
It seems the staff remembers the regulars. Two of the hosts seem to always be there, and they always seem to recognize my family the second that we walk in the door.
Good food, great beer, awesome people. Sometimes it's a little rough around the edges (crumb here, forgotten dressing there) but it seems to be a nice neighborhood type place. I always look forward to a visit.
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Only beer connoisseurs should be allowed in the door. When I walked in, the place smelled wonderful - faintly of smoking barbeque or baking bread, and newly chopped wood.
It's all about the beer, folks. Dogfish Head is a regional brew; it's made in Milton, Delaware, just a stone's throw from Dewey Beach debauchery. The irreverent attitude is apparent in the high-alcohol beers.
Note that many regular beers are about 5% alcohol by volume. I went last night and tried the Old Skool Barley Wine (15.05% abv) and the Indian Brown Ale (7.2% abv). The barley wine was served in a snifter glass. It was sweet, smoky, and had hints of dates and dried fruits. The nose was very perfumey. The Indian Brown Ale had a wonderful toasty flavor. It's dark, but not too heavy.
I tasted the pizza named "Simple Inquiry," that had a thin, crispy crust, pesto, and sliced tomatoes. It was good.
Really, it IS all about the beer. DFH is a brewery, so the food is secondary. I think that their beers are better than anyone else's. The brewers take painstaking care in their craft. They use centuries-old recipes. They make experimental kegs with wild flavors. Almost all are tasty.
I highly recommend and can't wait to go back!
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OK, this is my first review, and I actually signed up for yelp just to be able to write this. Let me get one thing straight, Dogfish head brews really good beer. Definitely the better American beer around, and they try special things, so if you come for beer you should be happy.
Weird that they have no beer mats (coasters in USA) and that all the beers are served really cold like its miller light instead of something better. Strong ales should not be served so cold.
the food was not amazing, but certainly not bad, but the atmosphere just breathed applebees. We were sitting under a huge ESPN tv, with everybody watching our way. And that is sad. Where is the focus on the amazing beer?
There are no special glasses, the only special glass they have is a cognac glass they call snifter.
The food was not amazing, and the beer was just too expensive too!
If I am in Belgium and I want a good trappist, it will cost me a fraction of what Dogfish head charges for their stuff. Come on, 20 bucks for a bottle is just driving the price up. I know its good stuff, but that goes too far. And in an American diner environment in a huge strip mall that does not work really.. Dude, if you want to run a good beer restaurant, don't make it a diner/TGI clone, get rid of your tv's or put them somewhere else, get special glasses and don't ask an arm and a leg for a too cold barley wine.
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The beer here is pretty good. Good alcohol content. The food, however, is nothing to write home about. If you come here, come to get your drink on. The black and tan was pretty good and the aprihop was both strong and had a hint of fruit flavor.
I had a fried chicken salad that was ok. The bbq chicken salad is better at Cheesecake Factory. My friend had a burger. He said it was alright. Most of the menu is typical bar fare.
There is plenty of parking but all of Seven Corners sucks at rush hour. This is a good place to hide out until rush hour dies down. The beer is priced at around 5 dollars per pint glass but the happy hour knocks it down to about 3.25 for select drafts. Not bad. Come for the beer not for the food.
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Gotta say I think this place is overrated!
I went here on the opening weekend, so of course it was REALLY busy. We sat at the bar (which we would have done anyway) and started with a beer or two (the beer is quite decent, if you come here, let it be for the beer!). We then ordered food, which is expensive for what it is AND it wasn't very good AND it made both of us sick the next day. AND they double charged our credit card.
All of this maybe could have been forgiven if the customer service was stellar... but it was not. So sorry Dogfish Head Alehouse, you might have good beer, but you can't stand on that alone!
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Things I like: beer, bratwurst. Things Dogfish Head Alehouse has: beer, bratwurst. So far, they were hitting it right. The waiter was very, very enthusiastic about "his" beer. After asking us if we'd ever been, we said no, at which point he went into what had to have been a good 5-10 minutes explaining virtually every beer they had available both either draught or bottle or both. The beer's a bit expensive, with the cheapest being $5.25 for a pint (although there's happy hour specials), and going up to $18 for a bottle of some of the stronger stuff (a few bucks cheaper in draught form, but you also get less if the beer is over 9%). Oh yeah, with few exceptions, all the beer is 9% alcohol or greater. So we both ended up getting the sampler, which is six 4 oz. glasses of five of their year round brews and their seasonal (Aprihop being the current seasonal) for all of $9. Not bad considering two of any beer would be at least $10.
Food was ordered, and I got the previously mentioned bratwurst, which came loaded with banana pepper saurkraut (another thing I like), a small bowl of chili, and a bunch of tortilla chips. The chili was meaty and good, and the brats were exactly how I like them: coarsely ground meat with a good hint of spice. The kraut was also very tasty. The waiter kept our waters full throughout the whole meal and was very friendly.
I like beer and I like food, so I'll be back.
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Definitely overrated. I went with my roommate, and we were not impressed. I can't comment on the beer, as I am allergic to barley, but generally I can get something else worthwhile to drink. Not here. Poor wine selection, and nothing to make a mixed drink that is not on their limited cocktail menu.
All that I remember of the food was salt. Even the next day I could tell that I'd had a lot of salt the night before. I will say that their homemade chips are fantastic - but we only got a handful with our salty crab dip.
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God, this place is good. I tried the beer sampler, which included seven glasses (way bigger than the 4oz advertised) of pure heaven. The 120 minute IPA was overwhelmingly good. Also, I had a burger that blew my mind, I believe it had gorgonzola on it, but at that point I was about six samples in and I was wasted out of my face hole. I haven't spent much time in the DC area, but my impression was that of $9 drinks and snotty asses in suits and cellophane, so this was particularly refreshing. Go there and be sure to peruse the seasonal beer menu - it's awesome.
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It's great not to have to drive to the Delaware beaches to drink, fresh, unpasteurized goodness of Dogfish Head beers.
We sat in the quasi-bar space and had a couple of sandwiches and a couple of beers before heading off for brewing supplies across the street at MLHBS(review here http://www.yelp.com/bi...).
The Reuben was a bit disappointing, mostly just the bread as I guess I've gotten used to the greek diner version which is slathered with margarine and grilled on a griddle.
Service was attentive and friendly and we were in and out quickly. An excellent way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
Note that we saw a pile of small kids (with their folks) there on a Saturday at 3 pm, so it looks plenty family friendly, if your not there late
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Dogfish Head beers have an excellent reputation. As a non-beer drinker, I can't comment. As a yelper, I can certainly comment on the food and service. It was a lackluster experience. I had a light dinner earlier in the evening so I ordered a bowl of the cream of crab soup. Whatever little bit of crab meat that topped the soup was seasoned with old bay, blech. The soup itself had no crab in it, it was pure filler - I tasted bits of onion and celery. It had the consistency and taste of a clam chowder without the clam and potatoes. I could only get through half of it, I couldn't bring myself to ingest anymore.
I also asked for a water when I put in my order. It took about 25 minutes for the waiter to come back with it. This was after I finished the soup. When it was time to get the check, we had to wait a good while and flag the waiter down. It wasn't even busy at that point in the night.
Anyways, here's some useful information if you've read this far:
- it's a non-smoking establishment
- Happy Hour is Monday - Friday 4 - 7 pm
* $1.50 Off all Drafts
* $1.00 Off all Dogtails, Dogtinis, Bottled Beer and Wine
* $2.00 Off All Appetizers and Pizzas
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I love the beer, but was unsure what to expect with the food. How good can a brewery's restaurant chain possibly be? Well, needless to say, I thought it was pretty damn good. I almost forgot I was in a strip mall in NOVA!
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If you are a beer lover, than the Dogfish Head Alehouse is where you want to be. It's a converted UNO's that has a mesquite fragrance radiating throughout the restaurant from the kitchen; the smell won't stick to your clothes in this non-smoking establishment.
They offer a beer sampler which I would recommend if you've never tried their brews. I started with the 90 minute IPA since it's the hoppiest they have. I've heard that in a recent study, hopps has more antioxidants and cancer fighting agents than vitamin E; this is reason enough for me to drink. The hoppiness comes from its title since it's fermented in hopps for 90 minutes. I would consider it a sipping beer that contains 9% alcohol, so you can get banged up pretty easily after a couple of these tasty beverages. The price is a little steep, $6.50 for half a draft...this is worse than what Daniel Snyder charges for a beer at a Skin's game; however, the quality of the 90 min. IPA is far superior.
The next beer I tried was the Chateau Jiahu. The recipe for this beer with a bite is a 9000 year old Chinese one that's brewed with rice, honey and fruit. While the fruit and honey gives it its initial sweetness, the rice flavor gives the aftertaste a bit of a bite. I would almost compare it to a sweeter coconut wine that's common in the Philippines called Tuba.
Other beers I samples include the Midas Touch and Raison Detre. Both are sweet beers with lots of flavor. I would consider the Raison Detre the best bang for the buck based on the alcohol %: price ratio.
For dinner I had the Turkey Club with Avocado Sandwich. In general I would describe their entre selections as high end bar food.
All that being said, I can't wait to go back for more!!!!
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Delicious Beer. Very Good Food. A great Local Restaurant which bucks the trend of the chain restaurants in the area - including the Great American Restaurant Chain.
Try the Jambalaya if you are in the mood for a spicy dish.
For the Beer Drinking - there is an interesting selection of micro-brews. Give the black and tan a good try if you enjoy Guinness.
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Dogfish head's beer is the only non-belgian beer that I love. The alehouse was a really cool hang out place. I don't remember much about the food, the beer was amazing. Did I say that already?
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I have to admit i'm almost a little dissapointed i'm not the first to Yelp! I thought for sure going opening weekend i would be :-P
Anyway, my parents and i used to be regulars at Old Dominion Brew Pub and ever since they went under new ownership, it hasn't been as much fun. We were estatic when we heard about Dogfish opening in seven corners because not only did we know they would have great beer, but we were hoping for the same friendly atmosphere. And thats what we got!
My Mom had been in a few days before and so when we entered we were met with "hey welcome back! Nice to see you!". Everyone is friendly and really happy to be in Virginia. I really reccommend sitting at the bar.... the barstaff (esp Sid and Chad) are great and willing to chat when the bar isn't that busy. if you're not familiar with the beers of Dogfish--- sit at the bar! They will definitely help you out!
I had the Shelter Pale Ale and the 60 minute IPA (which i feel is the best east coast IPA) and both were fabulous. They pretty much have every style of beer you could want, plus multiple mixed drinks, wine and even have bud, miller and heineken (side note-- the bartender said on opening night they served over 1000 pints and 9 miller lites... drink their beer!).
And the food... it was great! We had two appetizers... the rings, chips and fries which were great. The onion rings were so light and crispy and the fries tasted similar to what i'd find on the delaware boardwalk. My parents ate the cheese/crab dip and said it was phenomenal. They definitely wanted more!
We were there so long we ended up getting dinner too! I had the ceasar salad, which was great. I have to say one of my favorite parts is that their ceasar and "house" salad come with the choice of steak, chicken, shrimp, mahi mahi or salmon, which is so nice for anyone who likes that option (like me)
Overall, i can't wait to go back. it was just what i wanted!! A friendly place with great food and fabulous beer! The only drawback is that since they dont brew on premise, they can't serve growlers. Guess that just gives us a reason to go up to Rehobeth!
IF you like good beer, CHECK THIS PLACE OUT! I want to make sure they dont go anywhere!
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Just had our first visit to this establishment today for lunch. We were greeted warmly and seated promptly though after sitting there for about 5 minutes we had to ask for our waitress to stop by.
She was friendly but seemed to forget about us at times. My ice tea remained empty for a long time before she came by to refill it. The wings were very good and we appreciated the time between them and the main course (hate it when they come to close together).
There was a problem in the kitchen and the waitress said our food was being held up. It would have been great if she offered a refill on my wife's Raison D'Etre as compensation (she loved the beer BTW).
The food was good. Wings should come with extra napkins. My wife asked for an extra napkin but it never came and I finally took it off the table behind us.
We will be back despite the ups and downs we experienced today we will them another try.
Update: I heard back from the management who said they would work with that waiter and offered to buy us a beer on our next visit (which we will take him up on).
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Much better than the previous occupant, Uno's Pizza. The wide selection of fantastic beers is very nice. Happy hour is a pretty good deal, $1.50 off all drafts. Get here early if happy hour is your plan because it gets packed. At least it was packed yesterday evening (friday). I'm sure monday - wednesday isn't as bad. This is a good alternative to Sweetwater, but it could stand to use a little more bar space. But since it took over an existing space, what can you do? I had a grilled chicken salad so I can't really comment on food. It was a decent salad, but my chicken portions were quite small. I'm used to the mound of salad & chicken you get at Sweetwater. My friend, a beer nerd, almost had an orgasm after every beer he had. Don't come here for Miller Lites.
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Something for everyone if everyone is looking for good beer and good bar food. Bar food is good for bar food, but I wouldn't write home about it. And don't bother getting the crab cakes from here - crab meat is shredded with borderline too much breading. Regardless the food is well-priced and tasty - well worth the money.
I have to admit, you don't come here just for the food. You come here to try their many varieties of beer. For those new to the Dogfish Head Ales, I highly recommend the sampler. Unfortunately, my most favorite beer from the sampler was the seasonal pumpkin ale which was only offered in the fall. Besides the sampler and the standard beers they also have their specialty brews that are of varying range of prices, but overall very very tasty.
The ambiance is laid back and the wait staff is overall attentive. If you get the lanky white guy with the massive dreds for your waiter, consider yourself lucky. He was the best waiter we've had while we were there. Overall this place is a great place to take beer lovers for some good beer and some good times.
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i don't drink beer. i LOVE this place.
the wine is wine, but it comes in something resembling the size of a pint glass (slight exaggeration), so i have no complaints! i've eaten there on a number of occasions and always get the same things... because i love them. split between two people these are a fantastic complement for one another... the calamari comes with banana peppers (YUM) and a cocktail sauce that tastes like it should (not a sugar cube, but pureed tomatoes with horseradish, although it looks like ketchup). the seafood platter (on the "specials" menu) is the perfect partner for the calamari and, as a crabcake snob, theirs gets two thumbs up. i hardly know where to begin, this dish is so consistently delicious. the asparagus smokes with flavor, the salmon is always tender, the shrimp are divine, and the rice is wild & yummy. i can hardly believe i can get most of my favorite things, split between myself and another, all in two dishes AND with a vat of wine! (there is a house pino that isn't too shabby for a house red.)
on the seating: if you don't want to wait for a table you can sit in the high-tabled bar seating and still avoid the immediate bar area. on the weekends the wait can be long, but that's to be expected in this area if the food's good, which it is. last night i met my parents there and we commented about the din and its unobtrusiveness... although it was noisy we didn't need to shout to hear eachother. my father said "wood ceiling." i don't know what that means, but maybe it's what absorbs the noise?
the servers have always been attentive, pleasant & welcoming. my first encounter with the host/ess staff was bizarre... there was a small herd of them at the front and when we walked in they looked like a herd of deer in the headlights... but since then, they've always been pleasant and attentive. perhaps one of the herd got hit and the rest learned.
cheers.
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I am a fiend for their beer.
I found them up at their brewery in delaware..and have been hooked since. I try to make it out to the alehouse out here for a weekly happy hour..all i can say is, slap down the extra money for the Raison d'Extra or the 120 minute IPA.
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Man walks into a bar, says, "What do you have in flavorless light beers?" The Bartender pauses and looks confused, "we have the lawnmower light which is ...um..lighter." Man says, "I'll have that." the beer arrives and the man takes a sip and says, "ewwwwwwwww, that's a bit strong." Then he sets aside the beer indicating he has no plans to finish it or pay for it and without missing a beat says "What have you got for wine?" The moral to the story is - don't go to Dogfish if you don't like good beer. That is what they do. The beer is very tasty. I really liked my uber-cheesy pizza with pesto sauce. My friends had portabello sandwiches that looked very good. The expert pizza chef with us commented on his pizza, "good base, but didn't quite live up to it." Try the sampler for fun, but...it seemes to get a bit drippy at some point for some reason. Condensation combined with a wooden sampler holder maybe.
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So let's start with the location, it's sooo over due for something intriguing and worth going to, thank you Dogfish Partners for opening this unit!
Well, I stop in here for a quick beer so I could say that I was first to Yelp. In return, I ended up having a few more with a DFHA partner and chatting about the business.
You should know by my star rating that I will have no negative remarks, The Beer is some of the best the East has to offer, no questions asked!
This once small brewery has now grown into a restaurant partnership that will have no problem with growth in the future.
If you have been to the Delaware store then you know the food is an 8.5-9, that is how DFHA serves their product (food). Now, keep in mind that they just had their soft opening, meaning service may not be a ten.
In short, they have a great menu and it will match most customers taste. Personally, I'm going to dinner there this weekend and will report back after.
PS. No Smoking
Update 09-28-07
So I took the day off and ended up having lunch at DFHA. On the menu for me was the Bacon Cheddar Burger cooked over a wood fire grill to a medium rare temp. In my opinion it should have BBQ sauce serve on top or on the side. Besides that, it was perfect for a pub burger; the bun is also wood grilled to.
So when chatting with a manager, he inform me that in his opinion, the fish dishes are some of the best products they serve, umm a must try for next time.
Also on the menu is their wood oven pizza's, now to be honest I haven't try the pizza but they do sound great. My only wish is that DFHA would start a mug club here so I could feel like I'm part of the wave.
Wow, looking at the time and I've been here for two in a half hours drinking many beers and probably should get out of here before HH at 4pm.
That's all for now, get out here and enjoy some DFHA house dinning!
PS. DFHA Unsecured Wireless Network, plus Punkin Ale on draft!
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Our friendly waitress Gretel (I asked and she does not have a brother named Hansel, so I have saved you the trouble of asking her this again) was very attentive and good at guiding us through the menu. Of course the beer (the main attraction) is excellent and there are several variations here that I have not seen in any other bar or beer store. We opted for the Punkin on our inaugural visit and it did not disappoint. The food was quite good as well. They have a wood fired grill and have a number of selections of meats, fish and pizzas made on it. I had a paella and my wife had the "over the top" salad with crabcake, both were good choices, but there were many other tempting choices as well. The kids get crayons and paper with fun facts about dogfish as well as a fairly typical kids menu, e.g., pasta with marinara, chicken fingers, hamburger, etc... My only unfulfilled wish was that, at the moment, I was most in the mood for a pasta dish and there really isn't one on the menu (except for a Jambalaya with penne, which I don't consider a truly pasta dish). All in all a good experience.
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it was deelicious! for a thursday night, the place was quite full, but the wait wasn't long at all. i tried going on a weekend one time, and the wait was at least an hour.
my friend and i split the chateau jiahu beer, which was quite fancy! it came in a bottle like wine. it was a really nice, smooth, medium beer. not too carbonated, but it was pretty strong, hehe. i highly recommend it. we were disappointed the pumpkin ale, their fall beer, was apparently already out of stock. i hope the waiter just meant for the time, and not for the season already!
then we all split some calamari as appetizer, and i have to say it was very mediocre. they're the very small ringed calamari, which isn't the type i prefer. i probably wouldn't order that appetizer again, but will try another in the future.
i had the dogfish trio, which i really liked. two types of fish, and huge shrimp, all deep fried, comes with cole slaw and fries. it was a VERY generous plate. i was starving, and i could barely finish it. i actually kept eating, b/c it was so yummy. i probably could have stopped halfway and have been satisifed, not to mention have some leftovers.
it's a bit loud in the restaurant, but in a way it makes for cozy, atmosphere b/c everyone seemed to be having a very good time. there was even some shouting and clapping coming from the bar :)
all in all, a great dinner at a great new restaurant. can't wait to go back and try other dishes!
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the service was great and the food was great. we ordered the crab dip since it was receommended but it definitely DID NOT compare to mike's american grills. and then i ordered the rockfish which was absolutely to die for. and my bf ordered the prime rib, which im really not a fan of... so i didnt like it that much, but he thought it was tasty. all the sides that came with the dinner was absolutely great too. i would def recommend this place and i plan on returning to try other things on the menu that sounded yummy!!!
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- 2 Amys
162 reviews
Washington, DC
- Butcher Burgers
32 reviews
Arlington, VA
- Oegadgib
18 reviews
Annandale, VA
- Komi
40 reviews
Neighborhood: Dupont Circle
- Cowgirl Creamery
37 reviews
Neighborhood: Penn Quarter
