dogfish head brewings & eats

great place, bring the kids!!!. while on the pricey side if you just want something to eat, the food is excellent. my sister and i split the crab cakes (great) and my brother-in-law had the fish n chips (which rocked and very plentiful). get the sampler or one of the limited edition beers. if you are going to stay for awhile in rehoboth and have a fridge, get a growler of beer to takebackto have with the next sunset. my brother-in-law was about to kill me because it was such a long walk from the hotel to the eatery, but was rewarded with great food.

poor service/food. just returned from a fantastic getaway in lewes/rehoboth, de. my girlfriend and i started the trip off with a tour of the dogfish head brewery, followed by two nights at the new dogfish inn. we saved the brewhouse in rehoboth for our last night. this was an extremely poor choice. a place that is deemed the "soul of the company" by sam the owner, could not have been further from the truth. it started off with a lousy server. having ordered a sample of their distilled liquors, as well as a mixed drink, two ice waters, and a diet cola, we failed to receive our ice waters...that we asked our server for twice of a span of twenty minutes. (that long, because we only saw her twice in that whole time).
now, i know, that place gets pretty busy, however, this was late in the evening, on a tuesday night and there were a handful of empty tables, and no waiting customers. we finally had to grab a busser and ask that kind woman for ice water. eventually, ice water was delivered right at the time our main course was delivered (we already had our appetizers).

we both ordered burgers and our fries were luke-warm, half soggy, half hard as a rock, one was completely raw! really? how does that happen? at this point, there was no way we were complaining, as the server never camebackto check-in. my girlfriend wanted a refill of her water and diet cola, which were left on the very edge of the table, begging to be refilled, yet the server ran past numerous times to return to other tables and never once stopped and asked how the food was or asked if we wanted drink refills. it was a real shame, as i was anticipating buying a lot of drinks that evening, yet, never went further than the liquor sampler and the mixed drink.

extremely dissatisfied with the whole experience, what a shame. will not bebackto visit the place dogfish all started. i would warn others to think twice before visiting as well.

mixed review. we have been to this location twice. last year food and service were amazing...this year...the exact opposite. the wait was 15 minutes longer than we were quoted. we then waited for drinks and waited longer for our food. my fish and chips were so bad i would have sent thembackif our waitress was anywhere to be found. the fries were cold - the fish room temperature and barely cooked and flavorless. no one refilled our beverages or asked if we needed anything. the only time we saw our waitress was to receive a bill. i hope this was just a fluke and not the way this restaurant is going to go

restaurant week 2013. restaurant week is, in theory, a chance for restaurants to bring in customers to try what the place has (at a bargain price) and, hopefully, get them to return again, and often. dogfish blew it last night. my pork confit sandwich tasted burnt. my partner's app, a big bowl of chowder, arrived on the cold side... and my app, chicken wings, didn't arrive for another twelve minutes, by which time the partner had already finished his first course. and the wings were cold! our server, who should have known something was going wrong, could have come over earlier with either an explanation or an apology, which would have smoothed the ruffled feathers, but was clueless and disinterested when i pointed out the timing problem. this was followed by another overly long wait between when i finished the wings (which were mediocre) and the arrival of our entrees (so my partner had a double wait after his chowder). the joint was only half-filled, the kitchen shouldn't have been that badly in the weeds! clearly, there are training issues with both the front andbackof the house that need to be addressed. if sam calagione thinks this is the way to promote his name and his beers, he is mistaken. we will be walking right on by... often.

my wife started with the lobster perogi. they were mostly pastry shell with a couple of miniscule flecks of lobster. i had the crab and corn chowder which arrived 5 minutes before my wife's perogi. we both had the irreistable burgers. asked for medium well and they arrived rare. they got sent back. maybe tourist season has already started. we will give this place a miss for the next 6 months. the manager did come over and listened and took all of the food in question off the bill. it's a shame as we have have very good food and service here before, but it was off season.


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food is fine. would eat here again. stopped in at 2:30 on a monday and the place was almost packed. starter and dessert portions are enough for 2 people. our waitress was a little inattentive, but we will gobackand would recommend.

great opportunity to try some far out brews. this is a great place to try something different. i love sampling the newest beers they are fielding at the brew pub. make sure to go tour the brewery as well. they are strongly associated with the local farms, check out the ingredients board on thebackwall. the braised items are great. they rotate specials quite often.

great food, brews, & atmosphere!. let me start off by saying that this restaurant is awesome!
my friends and i were vacationing in rehoboth around easter last year and decided to make a stop at the "famous" dogfish head brew pub. with the great beer and a rockin' band, we ended up staying for over 7 hours. yes, you read right...7 hours!! the service was phenomenal-she kept the drinks coming and didn't pressure us to order food or more beer. we ended up ordering appetizers as the night went on (along with many pints and martinis with their house-made vodka...yum!). the apps were good and the butternut squash soup was great. i can't comment for my friends but they seemed pretty happy with their burgers and pizzas as well.
overall that night was a great success and one that will live on as one of the best nights ever! we are planning a tripbackthis year. can't wait!!

good place to socialize...not eat. we went to dogfish head for a meal and a few rounds. the beer, naturally, was good. the appetizer, the dog pile was artichoke-spinach dip and melted mozzarella cheese covering very oily pita wedges. we ordered hamburgers which were overpriced and undercooked....sent thembackand the new ones camebackundercooked again. the fries were greasy. overall, not very healthy or good tasting food but a good place to go for beer.