Now that it is a new year and the holidays are over I feel like I can get back to normal. With that said I promise to be more active on the Lehigh Valley Eggplant.
I have to say that my experiences with the Bethlehem Brewworks never left me wanting more. I love their decor and the beer but the food is always just OK. It was never ever consistent for me. For my 30th birthday this year we decided to go to the Allentown Brewworks. This would be our second time to the Allentown location.
Our first visit was pretty amazing. We had a great waitress and our food was pretty outstanding. I ordered the Daddona Shrimp pizza and Jaime ordered a giant Ceasar salad. The salad was pretty basic but delicious and my pizza had grilled tiger shrimp, baby spinach, sun dried tomatoes and gorgonzola cheese. Even after I was full I couldn’t stop myself from eating more.
For our second visit we decided to go on my birthday. We warned our waitress in the beginning that we would be there for a while and our friends were meeting up with us in an hour or so. She was fine with that. We started with their beer sampler which is only $8 for 6 sample glasses. You get to choose any of the beers that they have including their special holiday ones! I love getting the sampler when I go to a brewery, and this is the first place I’ve been to that lets you select the beers.
I had been craving the Daddona Pizza again and for some reason they didn’t have it on their menu. They only had one similar to that with chicken. So I decided to get the Iron Workers Fish n’ Chips dish and Jaime went with their Pear Bleu Cheese pizza. Jaime’s pizza had crumbled bleu cheese, walnuts, pears, prosciutto (which she told them to hold ) and they drizzle the pizza with bleu cheese dressing. I wasn’t sure what to make of this until I tasted it. The bleu cheese and the sweetness of the pears really work well together.
When I cut into my fish I found it to be a little tough. Like it wasn’t that fresh or had been microwaved. I really was looking forward to it and hoping that perhaps my first bite was decieving me. But no, the whole fish was tough. The beer fries that come with it were great and we were finding that our beer sampler was hitting the spot.
After our friends arrived they ordered some sort of nachos dish and after they finished we just sat in our booth and ordered a round of beers, then another and another. After a couple rounds or so our waitress seemed to be getting anxious. My friend asked her if she was about to leave and that we had no problem settling up our tab with her. She said no, no but then at one point gave us the check without asking us if we were done.
I didn’t leave that night feeling like everything was amazing but it was good and I am going to return very soon. They have some great specials and events happening through out the week that I’m looking forward to checking out. I know on Fridays from 5-11pm they have $6 pitchers! You really can’t beat that. I think that this place is a great addition to the Allentown area.
-Mundania
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