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American Fresh Brewhouse Beer Garden - Assembly Row
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Ratings by mynie:
Reviewed by mynie from Maryland
4.05/5 rDev +2.5%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 3.75 | service: 4 | selection: 4.25
4.05/5 rDev +2.5%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 3.75 | service: 4 | selection: 4.25
What a weird, pleasant little place.
Downtown Boston was nuts. The weather was nice and there was a music festival and so even though I needed to do work I couldn't because there was no parking. Th-that's a good excuse, right? Lack of parking? Besides, no need to be productive on such a gorgeous day.
So I hopped back on the highway and made toward the nearby burbs, figuring incorrectly that I could find my way to Cambridge if I squinted hard enough. The unnavigability of Massachusetts is impossible to overstate: run a google map search from Point A to Point B and it produces a line that looks like someone on acid tried to do math in cursive.
Anyhow, I wound up in a slummy area of Sommerville and then decided to run a phone search for alcohol. It sent me to the parking lot of an outlet mall. I parked, figuring what the hell, I can pick up some cheap misprinted Pumas or whatever and then go to this foodcourt brewery, and seriously while I was thinking this I physically ran into this weird little shanty place that sold beer.
It wasn't until I was halfway through my pint that I realized I was sitting in the taproom.
When they say this is an outdoor restaurant, they don't mean they've got a porch. The whole thing is outdoors, like an immobile food truck. There's a merch shed, an orderin' shed, and a kitchen shed. And tables. And it was packed.
The servers were friendly but greatly overtaxed. The only taplist I could find was written in chalk, but it was very descriptive. They had about 10 taps, all house beers, all a little too expensive, but all nicely brewed.
Food selection was simplistic, with a heavy and inexplicable emphasis on fluffer nutters. Lots of sweet and savory grilled sandwiches, some fried crap. Didn't sample but it smelled good, like a carnival.
So... I dunno how to review this, really. It's a damn pleasant little spot, and it'd be criminal to stop by the outlet mall without poking your head in.
May 25, 2015Downtown Boston was nuts. The weather was nice and there was a music festival and so even though I needed to do work I couldn't because there was no parking. Th-that's a good excuse, right? Lack of parking? Besides, no need to be productive on such a gorgeous day.
So I hopped back on the highway and made toward the nearby burbs, figuring incorrectly that I could find my way to Cambridge if I squinted hard enough. The unnavigability of Massachusetts is impossible to overstate: run a google map search from Point A to Point B and it produces a line that looks like someone on acid tried to do math in cursive.
Anyhow, I wound up in a slummy area of Sommerville and then decided to run a phone search for alcohol. It sent me to the parking lot of an outlet mall. I parked, figuring what the hell, I can pick up some cheap misprinted Pumas or whatever and then go to this foodcourt brewery, and seriously while I was thinking this I physically ran into this weird little shanty place that sold beer.
It wasn't until I was halfway through my pint that I realized I was sitting in the taproom.
When they say this is an outdoor restaurant, they don't mean they've got a porch. The whole thing is outdoors, like an immobile food truck. There's a merch shed, an orderin' shed, and a kitchen shed. And tables. And it was packed.
The servers were friendly but greatly overtaxed. The only taplist I could find was written in chalk, but it was very descriptive. They had about 10 taps, all house beers, all a little too expensive, but all nicely brewed.
Food selection was simplistic, with a heavy and inexplicable emphasis on fluffer nutters. Lots of sweet and savory grilled sandwiches, some fried crap. Didn't sample but it smelled good, like a carnival.
So... I dunno how to review this, really. It's a damn pleasant little spot, and it'd be criminal to stop by the outlet mall without poking your head in.
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American Fresh Brewhouse Beer Garden - Assembly Row in Somerville, MA
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