May 5, 2009
The ambience is quite nice considering this is a mall location. Being a mall, there is a large parking garage that is cheap. $1 for 3 hours, $2 for the whole day. Staff is friendly but a bit standoffish. Medium priced and wide ranging menu. I got chicken fried chicken that had good flavors but the chicken was overcooked and tough. Beers were solid. One standout, one disappointing, the rest pleasant and drinkable. They were a little hesistant to provide a sampler but finally relented. Worth a stop if you’re in the area.

March 5, 2009
Better then the Bethesda version because their standard offering list is more robust. This chain has solid beers, but certainly not over the top great.

December 13, 2008
Went here for a colleagues birthday party. We were outside in the "patio" which was the mall. Ive never really drank in a mall before and dont think i will much more. The beers were surprisingly good and the prices were fair as well. I may try a different location that is not in a mall.

September 9, 2008
I spend every Sunday here watching the Pittsburgh Steelers as they have the NFL package. Great sports bar with good food and on Sundays, great beer specials with refills cheap and you get to keep the glass. Probably not a great place to eat dinner, but the service in both bars is very good on gameday.

September 9, 2008 [ Updated December 9, 2008 ]
The place was more like a sports pub that serves its own beer. Kind of fake like most mall pubs. The beer lacked substance much like the location. Typical American ice cream parlor flavored brewery. I don’t think that I will be back.

May 28, 2008
Since no one has mentioned it yet, I thought I would point out they have $1.50 beers on Wednesdays from 11 to 9, but it gets extremely crowded (starting around 5:30).

April 22, 2008
April 2008 - This is a mall restaurant that happens to make some beer. The waiter barely knew anything about beer, and the emphasis is definitely just on turning over customers. That said, the place served good food and decent beer. (Brewery #465, 4/18/2008)

January 9, 2008
When I read it was in a mall I figured it was attached to a mall, but no, this is inside the mall, tucked away back in the interior, and it feels like you’re in a food court. So inside it’s the same dark wood and leather of every other Rock Bottom, complete with the empty feeling you get when you know you’re drinking at a place that’s faking it. But oh well, at least the beer was pretty solid. The tripel and the kolsch both were pretty well made. Not sure if I’d come back and actually deal with going through the mall again unless there was something completely cant-miss on tap.

December 9, 2006
Yet another shopping mall brewpub with the expected food, atmosphere, and largely twenty-something clientelle. The sad thing is that one can’t do better in the vicinity, so why not?

The beers are actually pretty well crafted, if even conservative both in the array of styles available (Kolsch, APA, Brown Ale, Amber Ale, Porter, Hefe., on the day that I happened to be there) and the interpretations of each style.

October 10, 2006
A quick walk over the streets of Arlington in an enclosed walkway, down some narrow escalators, from the Arlington metro. Inside a frickin Mall? Ugh. Ran in, drank a sampler, ran out. No chit chat. Was fairly slow though. Waitress was quick and good. Some ok beers, mostly light and thin. I could have gone to any Rock Bottom and no have had a different experience.