Silver City Brewing Company

5/25/2008 7:02:44 PM, sunday, may 25, 2008
extremely friendly staff on our 10+ visits, food it well above brewery/pub food..which has it’s pros and cons...sometimes feels too fancy for my taste, but I’ve never had anything that wasn’t fantastic. Beer is always great...Sasquatch Stout and Fat Scotch Ale are excellent!

4/6/2008 12:19:40 AM, sunday, april 06, 2008
Very solid place, if lacking a tiny bit in character and imagination. It’s in a strip mall, which doesn’t put you in a great frame of mind to start with, but it’s kinda not their fault they were pretty much on their own when they built there as Top Notch Burgers years ago, and the growth has exploded around them. Now it’s in between department stores and drugstores, which makes it feel like a chain or something. It’s very clean and tidy and well-run, though it looks like it could either be brand new today or 20 years old. No ambience in terms of aged wood or any sort of patina of friendliness that’s built up over time. Oh, the people are friendly for sure, it’s just that the building materials look very pre-fab. Anyway, the food’s pretty good, nice mix of pizzas, comfort food, and some mainstream american entree favorites. Nice big flat screens and plenty of cute servers. Not much to make this worth a special trip they don’t offer any vintage stuff or anything exceptional that way. But I’d certainly rather eat here than any other place within 25 miles if I were driving through Silverdale on a road trip.

2/22/2008 1:14:30 AM, friday, february 22, 2008 [ Updated friday, february 22, 2008 ]
ambiance is a big box filled with seats. service was good, typical for a brewpub, you can tell that the people enjoy working there. selection was fine, they had there typical 6 plus two that were not there normal seasonals, no stouts, or porters at the time. food was tasteless, had the calimari (no taste) the boston chowder (is that new england) tasted processed, and not as good as ivars processed chowder, the ribeye - cowboy style was not that tasty, kid had the El Diablo pizza that was not hot or spicy, and rather bland, wife had duck which was the only item that had flavor... overall not impressed at all with the food nor the beer, skip this place, just because it is the only brewpub on the kitsap pennisula does not mean that it is good.

4/30/2007 9:42:37 AM, monday, april 30, 2007
This was a great place to visit. You would think this is the typical local city brewery pub trying to be good and they only serve bad beer. But they had great beers the staff was attentive and they really love there beer. The beers where good cold and served very well. A great place in a area in need of great beer. Had a great time the food was awesome.

1/9/2006 6:06:58 PM, monday, january 09, 2006
Okay, it was a surprise to find this place. The beer was good! Let’s get one thing straight; Silverdale is not quaint or cute. It is little more than a sprawling super mall -- a bleak sea of franchise joints that is generally void of any discernable character. Silver City Brewing Company is refreshing in this environment. How well it would be received across the Sound in a hip Seattle neighborhood is quite irrelevant. No, the large, rather industrial interior is not cozy. Yes, they seem to cater to the after-shopping crowd (a PC way to say “soccer moms and their families”). Yes, it does remind one of a Red Robin or a TGI Friday’s. My fear was that Silver City would prove itself to be the kind of place that only uses the “brew pub thing” to provide character. Like a shtick. All of that being said, the beer was good. The bartender was quite knowledgeable about the beer. They had an impressive assortment of their own beers on tap. And the beer was good. In fact, it was quite good. Obviously they are serious about their beer. We took a few bottles home with us and enjoyed them. They make good beer. That’s most important.

12/2/2005 1:51:43 AM, friday, december 02, 2005
Somebody dropped some cash on this place, cavernous interior, 30’ ceilings, clean and somewhat corporate feeling though. Lots of selection, some good. Bottles to go. Food is typically forgettable. Tiny bar, huge restaurant with a whole cross-section of the town in there when we stopped by.

11/26/2005 11:32:11 AM, saturday, november 26, 2005
Big, fresh wood, high ceilings type of place. Uberclean. Bar area is small so ended up in restaurant area, which sucked. Table service is the bane of brewpubs. A restaurant for the whole town, so hardly a beer geek vibe. Some people weren’t even drinking beer! You can buy bottles to go. Long list of house beers, though I wasn’t thrilled with any of them. Food...very industrial, and I didn’t like the looks of any of it. Glorp and glop all over the place and plated poorly. Not my scene.

8/26/2005 5:14:04 PM, friday, august 26, 2005
Review based on 3 visits in 2003 including their Oktobefest event in 2003. Mall parking lot, great for RV owners. Nice bar, nice dining area. All meals were good. Typical expensive food as you find in Seattle area. Decent selection, decent beer. Good quality liquors at the bar.

8/3/2005 8:11:49 PM, wednesday, august 03, 2005
A large restuarant located in a mall parking lot - it resembles more an Olive Garden or Red Robin... or perhaps a BJs, if you catch my drift. They had a nice patio area outside, and I was able to sample all of their beers in good sized portions. The food was very pricey for the type of restuarant and the quality of food offered, but I was actually really impressed with their clam chowder. The scotch ale was the highlight of my visit, much more so than the Fat Bastard. Recommended.