Occidental Brewery & Tap House

Bartender is hot! Great place!

Went into the Occidental Brewery in Baldini's on March 15th to check it out. Was very pleased with the variety of brewed beer & the good variety of lunch items. Also several old time baseball & softball umpires eating lunch in there. Being an old ASA softball umpire, enjoyed getting caught up with them. Miss old Lay Port.

Came in for the first time since the switch. Had a group of 6, 5 of us there for the 2lbs of wings deal.

The good:
The food tastes good, sauces were decent, and the wings come with fries which was cool. After reading other reviews about putting fries in oil used to cook fish, we luckily didn't experience that for anyone in our party. The beers were good, but it would be nice to see them brew their own IPA and other styles.

The bad:
The wings themselves were what I would call "bone-in chicken nuggets". At some point the wings looked whole, but the baskets we got were filled with broken drumettes and wings. They tasted really good, and you gotta eat around the bone as it is, but they could definitely step up their brand of wing (think Flowing Tide wings or Sneakers wings mmmmmmm). If you're not careful you can get little chunks of bones and crunchy marrow in your teeth.

I want to give 4 stars but the wing fiasco makes it hard. Would still recommend it for some after work food and beers if you're in the area.