Firestone Walker - The Propagator
| Address: | 3205 Washington Blvd, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA |
| Phone: | +1 310-439-8264 |
| Site: | firestonebeer.com |
| Rating: | 4.3 |
| Working: | 11AM–11PM 11AM–11PM 11AM–11PM 11AM–11PM 11AM–12AM 11AM–12AM 11AM–11PM |
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Ruth Stewart
I was impressed when I walked in to this new location, the greeter welcomed me and let me sit where I wanted, I chose the bar as I was not staying long. I was greeted by a surly wait staff who did not only not know what made their location different from the other two, he also apparently thought I was wasting his time as he quickly walked away, came back a couple minutes later and impatiently asked what I wanted. I got a taster, because I didnt want to leave without trying something after such a long trip. I was going to close after he set my drink down and walked away without a word. But just to spite him I ordered another taster. Then Dea (Thea? I am wicked bad with names) the Manager came over and asked how everything was, I was in not a great mood after dealing with Mr. Surly, and told her I was going to close, she asked if I was sure there was nothing I wanted to at least try before leaving, so I asked her, what made this place different from the other two locations? She not only quickly answered my question she asked me if I had tried one of their newer brews and as I had not I ordered a taster. While I was finishing that the other barkeep came over and introduced himself and talked to me a bit about their beer and my trip (Brent? Brendan? - Again really bad with names here). I told him I would take home a growler of their Azzaca as I wanted to bring home something of theirs, and because at that point I was feeling good about my trip. Honestly if it werent for those two this review would have gone very differently and I doubt I would have plans to come back. So stop in give them a try, if you get Mr. Surly just ignore him and ask to sit in another area, I am hoping it was just one bad day for him, everyone else I met there was absolutely awesome! Better pictures to follow
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Ben Gibson
Had a pretty horrible experience first time visiting last week. Made a reservation online several days before, when arriving, I was told by the host that it would be just a few moments, which was fine since I was about 10 minutes early. But after about 25 minutes still waiting, and watching multiple other people being seated before me and the hosts, all 3 of them ignoring me, I asked for a manager, I assume he was a bar manager since he came from the bar area, he was not much help either, tried to put me at a table with other people, strangers at that, I respectfully declined the table and asked to be seated at a booth or the next available bar seating. After another 25 minutes of waiting , I was finally able to get a booth, I thought the troubles were over, but no, after being seated, the server decided to take another 15 minutes for just a drink order, then continued to just keep passing right by me even though I know he saw me trying to get his attention each time. When he did finally return to the table, I told him that I would not be ordering anything else and that I would like my check to pay and leave. This must have been very hard for him to understand since he did not return with my check or card from the bar, and ignored me once again. I took it upon myself to just get up and go to the bar to pay for what I owed. All this after I spent about $65 in there store across the parking lot... Kindly the General Manager, dont know his name. But wears glasses and had a beard, was a very cool guy, comp my ticket and asked for me to come back again and mention that he said to come back. I will give it a try again. But hoping for better results this time around.
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Odalys Garcia
Was there yesterday afternoon for the first time and they did a beautiful job with the decor. My friend and I sat in the bar area and ordered flights to taste the beers, Im very impressed with all the variety, then we ordered some appetizers the sharable portions are smaller than other bars Ive visited but they were delicious! I was very pleased with this place with the exception of the service. Our waitress was nice and knowledgeable of the history of the place but the servers need to get more experience. For example: my beer order was wrong, we were still working on the appetizers and one of them came by and grabbed my friends utensils and said "can I remove this?" we both told him no, were still working on it and he dropped the utensils back on the plate. I observed the same person take a beer to another table and when it belonged to the guy sitting at the other end of the table, instead of taking it over to him, he handed it to the guy in front of him and told him "pass it down". Other servers I noticed were lost on where to deliver the orders. I would gladly give this place a five star rating, but the service brings it down. I hope they work on it, because good service it what makes a place worth returning to.
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Adrian Gonzalez
I HIGHLY recommend this place to fans of freat beer and foodies. First of all, I have to admit that this has been my favorite brewery for a couple of years now, bur rhia is my firat time at this location. The brews across the board are above average, with some selections just spectacular. I had a flight a couple sours and a couple bourbon barrel aged. Definitely, my go to is Parabola, but their sours are REALLY good. I tried one of their seasonal sours and our group order several of those. They change often, but do try some samples. Great way to expand your palate. As for the food, I was expecting typical pub food. But I was very delighted with their menu options and how well prepares they are. Calamari was good, but nothing outstanding. The kale salad with couscous and pamagranite was delicious. I recommend it. I also ordered the braised short ribs. I am not a fan of grits, but because the plate also came with crispy brussels sprouts, I thought I would try it. This is an absolutely delicious dish, and pairs well with the stout beer options. I will say I am. I will say they have now covereted me on grits... especially with the cheddar cheese, yum.
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Ray Rosas
Amazingly BAD service, and blatant at that. Sat at the bar and tried ordering a second round of beer for 45 min.The bartenders dont even look you and seem more interested in filling the orders for the dining tables rather than the customers they have sitting in front of them that they have actual human interaction with. One bartender finally saw me and said "one sec" and turned his head as he helped another customer, then filled out more dining table drink orders and forgot about me. Had to call over the hostess to finally get their attention just to get my check at that point - - ordering a second round wasnt even going to be an option because the fun of the experience was already sucked out. I get that the place gets swamped with customers at times, as the hostess tried to explain, but that doesnt mean that a customer should be ignored. Its simple bad business. If theyre going to open a place to serve at that capacity then they should staff up accordingly. I wont be going back. Way better options out there beer-wise anyways.
