11/06/09

best place

by Emilie Esnault

best place in Boston!

• Pros: best place
• Cons: no drawbacks

10/04/09

Good place to chill

by Steven C

Watched to Sox game at Beer Works. Great atmosphere and the beer is awesome. Good place to hang out with some friends.

• Pros: Espresso stout is wonderful.

03/26/09

I enjoyed it here

by PatrickKerby

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• Pros: best food in town
• Cons: long wait

03/26/09

Never been there

by HisDudeness

I've never been there, only been once to Boston, maybe I'll go there when I'm in Boston next time.

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This is nice

• Pros: it sounds nice
• Cons: it's far away from Zurich

02/10/09

I like this place

by kazmiekr

My favorite place to go before the hockey game. The food and beer is great. Lots of beers to choose from

• Pros: Beer is awesome

08/18/08

RIP OFF

by Celts

I have been going to beer works for years now, i even buy their beer to take home. I have never had a bad experioence untiul yesterday. I went in after the sox game and some food. The food was great but they tried giving me a $150 tab when I wanted to pay. I let the bartender know that it was the wrong tab. She gave me my tab which was $45 and I paid it. Today I check my bank statement and noticed they charged a $165 tab to my card. When I called to let them know they were no help at all. They are going to research it and call me at the end of the day. I went to the bank and the tabs were run 30 seconds apart from each other. I seriously think this was done on purpose. Be careful when you leave a card for a tab, they have no clue hhow to keep that stuff organized.

• Pros: location, beer
• Cons: they will charge you for others tabs, very unorganized. BE CAREFUL

08/01/08

Acclaimed beers, generous bar-food portions and a relaxed environment attract young, sports-enthused masses to Boston's oldest, most popular brewpub.

by Eric Grossman

The Scene
Your experience at this original Beer Works depends on the time of year: Baseball season brings lengthy lines and standing-room crowds, but the huge, neo-industrial dining areas sport plenty of empty tables between November and March. Sox fans and college-aged beer connoisseurs enjoy an ever-changing assortment of 16 beers on tap--massive kettles produce award-winning brews, like the colorfully named Bambino and Bluebeery Ales. Service can be exceptionally rushed and distracted when the place is packed.

The Food
An epic menu ranges from healthy and nourishing (freshly made salads, grilled swordfish steaks) to fried and offbeat (sour cream and chive fries, fried pickles). Most patrons gravitate to shareable bar snacks like jumbo buffalo wings (bone-in or boneless) and beer-battered onion rings. Gigantic burgers require two hands, but the truly famished tackle steak tips or a pound of juicy, marinated turkey. Few have room for oversized desserts like the "Big Dig" brownie sundae.

07/25/08

Good homebrewed beer

by justme28

I've gone here several times for lunch with folks from out of town. It's near where I live so that's our primary reason for going there. The beer selection is good and they have a lot of original homebrewed beer. The food is so-so. I'd recommend the pizza and quesadillas but not the burgers. Service has been ok, but not great. At least the food comes out quickly. This seems like a good place to watch the game, but not so much for a sit-down meal.

07/14/08

Ugh!

by jrboston22284

I was absolutely horrified by the Fenway location. While we were eating dinner, they were cleaning dust out of the AC vent in the ceiling by hitting it with a broom and letting it rain down right where food was coming out of the kitchen. When we mentioned to the waitress that we thought it was disgusting, she sent the manager over (who was the one doing the dusting) who basically told us to shut it, that they were taking "all precautions" and then went back to hitting the vent and raining dust over the food coming out. After he finished with that task, he took a scraper to a counter with upturned glasses on it, scraping off god knows what, spewing it onto the glasses. All of this, in plain sight, AFTER we complained. Makes me wonder what they do in the kitchen. On top of that, the waitress was incredibly slow and the chicken fingers were overcooked to the point you coundn't bite into them. They're dirty, rude, and have terrible service. I will never go back.

• Pros: beer
• Cons: dirty, terrible service, rude manager

07/01/08

One of my favorite bars in the city

by jenheidir

This place on their rotating menu has such a wide variety of beers, from fruit flavors like blueberry and watermelon to Fenway-themed brews. This is definitely one place to order a beer sampler. The menu of classic American ballpark dishes is just as tasty (the nachos are my favorites), but come hungry if you plan to order. Portion sizes are HUGE here. Only downside is that there are often long lines if you want a table and parking is hard to come by on game days and weekend nights.