trailhead brewing co

eh...was just ok. i had the five alarm hot beef sandwich. wasn’t bad but wasn’t anything special. my wife had the bbq sandwich. wouldn’t recommend. we ordered the soft pretzel as an appetizer. they were verygoodbut priced same as our sandwich’s. we tried three of their beers the fruit smoothie ipa, pale stout and the dark brown ale. the fruit smoothie ipa was pretty good. the dark brown was by far our favorite. steer clear of the pale stout. ambience of the place was awesome. really cool brewery and building.

we've been here several times and mostly had reallygoodfood. the service has not always been the best, but some servers are excellent. the layout and lots of stairs makes it very difficult for anyone who has leg/foot issues, which i do. overall it'sgoodfood usually eclipsing the sometimes mediocre service.

two exhausted eclipse watchers who had started at 4am in nashville ended up here for a light dinner after a very long day. hadn't been in st charles in 25 years so it was great to see this lovely town again. we were going to the restaurant next door to eat outside but they were closed so on to trailhead! we started off with the raspberry beer that certainly hit the spot. it was happy hour with half price appetizers and pizza so we began to graze. the boiled shrimp was fresh and agoodsize. next was the sausage and pepperoni pizza. loved that sausage. we would have tackled the shrimp stuffed jalapeños next but alas, we were stuffed ourselves. service was decent with a friendly server. bathrooms were clean. the reason i deducted a point was that my seat which was half of a booth, was in desperate need of spring repair. there were many appealing menu selections so i will try to make it back before the next 25 years go by.

beer is alwaysgoodbut the food is always bad! wish at some point they would figure things out!?!?!?!

atrocious service. i wish i could say great thing about this place. well, there are a couple of positives: the beer is extremelygood(i had the pumpkin spiced ale, which was among the best i’ve had anywhere). and the space is nice, withgoodviews of the brewing tanks in the dining room we eventually ended up in. but the food was only so-so and the service was atrocious. our party of 5 arrived about 10 or 10:30 pm after seeing a show. we walked in and there was no one at the hostess desk, so we went upstairs. when you get to the top of the stairs, there’s a bar area. it was fairly crowded with people standing around. we squeezed through the standing people to a dining room at one end. it looked closed. so, one of us went to the bar to get the attention of the bar tender to see if we could sit in that dining room or if there was somewhere else we could sit. after 5 minutes or so of no employee even looking his way, another one of us squeezed back through the and found another dining room with maybe three of the tables filled with customers. so, after another 5 minutes or so, we found a guy who looked like he worked there and asked if we could sit at one of the tables. he said, “you should ask the hostess downstairs.” we replied that there was no hostess downstairs. he said, “just a minute,” and walked downstairs. one of us followed him, thinking he would find out. but no, instead, that guy totally ignored our friend, went behind the bar, and started bartending.

our group of 5 stood around, no drinks in hand, no seating, with every employee in the place ignoring us for at least 20 minutes before we could flag one down and ask if we could sit in the dining area. finally we got seated (after we removed a dirty, wet bar towel from the back of one of our chairs). the waitress said we could only order appetizers and pizza at that hour, which was fine with us. and the appetizers were half price. great!

the beer came (sloshed all over the table as it was delivered). we had fried asparagus with wasabi sauce (good, but no wasabi taste), wings (very hot but good), nachos (disgusting, with greasy sheets of cold cheese on top), and crab artichoke dip (ok, but very greasy). when one of us opened the silverware, which was wrapped in cloth napkins, the napkin was crusted with someone else’s food remains. the waitress was prompt at refilling drinks, and aside from dropping a dirty knife on one of our laps, she was good. so, while the beer was tasty, the service in this place is so bad we won't be back.

good service.goodfood.goodprice. neat decor.

always agoodtime. their happy hour is the best. beers are under $3 and half off appetizers and pizzas. their bbq chicken pizza is some of the best i've ever had. we always get their shrimp stuffed jalapenos, spicy chicken drummies and onion rings and are never ever disappointed. great bar food, awesome atmosphere.

one of the best places in st. charles. i've eaten here about 2-3 times now and had verygoodexperiences each time, over a period of several years. i came here with several friends on new years day for a great lunch after a hike. the restaurant is a big, multilevel, multi-room affair which makes each of the dining areas seem cozy.
i tried the seafood bisque which was nicely chocked with seafood and had a great little hot kick to it; i also had half a chicken salad sandwich that was good. the courthouse stout was a very nice, dark beer with lots of flavor. the sausage platter was also described as verygoodwith a really nice mustard andgoodsour kraut. the onion rings were the real deal. and the pork medallions were verygoodand very reasonably priced. wouldn't hesitate to go back.

if you've been to applebee's you've been here. the food is basic bar food, the beer isgoodif you like beer. i don't. however the mixed drinks are strong. generally, i wasn't impressed. normal american pub food--not bad, not good.

it's not just about the food.... i had never been here before, but took my parents and brother, who came from out of town, based on a couple of recommendations. my father ordered a red ale and my brother ordered a dark ale, they both got red ales. the server proceeded to argue that they weren't the same beer, only to be proven wrong by the bartender. the service was borderline slow and unfriendly, but the food was otherwise good. i had a spicy hot prime rib sandwich, and rarely do i get a truly spicy dish when i order one, and it hadgoodflavor as well.

really pedestrian and never anything new.. i've been going to this place infrequently for years and the problem with trailhead is that nothing ever changes. and it's frustrating because they have the makings of a really fine brew pub if they'd just brew. make seasonal beers. experiment. change the menu. it's not going to kill you. they are basically stagnating and it's sad. great location,goodambience, great potential. i guess they're still there because they have a loyal following. but be forewarned, trailhead management, there are too many new small breweries opening up and if you don't change your tune, you'll be gone sooner than later!

fantastic beers and solid pub food. excellent beers (5 choices year round: trailblazer blonde ale, riverboat raspberry ale, trailhead red amber ale, missouri brown dark ale, old courthouse stout; plus one seasonal selection that will change periodically). if you can't decide which to get, they offer a sampler of all the current selections.

the food choices are pretty standard pub fare. nothing fancy, but that's what a pub/brewery should be all about. there seem to be a lot of pubs/brewhouses these days that are trying to get too fancy with their menus.

personal favorite: hot pretzels on the appetizer menu. what goes better with agoodbeer than some big, soft, warm pretzels? some of the best pub pretzels i've had.

very disappointed. i, my fiance and her son and wife ate at trailhead last night. i had the brisket sandwich. the brisket was sliced thin like roast beef. it was very, very tough and inedible. my fiance's son had the fish and chips and he found them "soggy" and inedible. the onion rings tasted as though the oil was old. its too bad, i had heard verygoodthings about the place. i would go back for the beer, but won't eat there again.

the service is so-so at the bar but the pumkin beer made up for it. also, the food isgoodand they have a decent happy hour. i would go back and give it another try.

not open to large groups of bicycle riders. after finishing a long ride, we were looking forward to siting down for a drink and some light menu items. we were still in our biking clothes, the hostess looked us up and down (like we weren'tgoodenough for the place). she then wanted to know if we were all going to eat. some of us were, but some of us just wanted something light. she would not seat us. i don't mean she said it would be a half hour, she said she would not take us. she said they don't have seating for parties of 10 (which i know is not true because ive been there before for a birthday party.) i asked her if we could sit upstairs where there is room for large group/ she said a large group is up there and she didn't know when they would be done. she was very rude, and clearly didn't want us there because she though we wouldn't order much. i guess she didn't realize that avid cyclists tend to be relativity well off and love to eat and drink after a long ride. we took ourselves and our $300+ bill next door.