Urban Comfort

Small bar area with plenty of table seating inside and outside. Patio has three full size shuffleboard courts! Beer is brewed on site and the chocolate raspberry porter was fantastic. Kitchen items cooked from scratch - highly recommend the fried chicken and waffle!

This is stop #10 of 14 brewpubs for my wife and I on this one week vacation and pub crawl. The pub is located on a cornet setting in an older area of mixed residential and commercial structures near downtown. We stopped here for dinner and to try their beers. This building is a former gas station (two outside doors for restrooms give it away) with a canopy added to allow for outside sitting and to cover the brewing equipment. Indoor dining is available in the former repair bays. It was a nice evening so we sat outside.
There were 7 beers on tap so we ordered a sampler flight of all of them. Each was brewed to style, and all of them exceeded style a bit so that we gave an overall grade of B- to them. None we considered to be notable, although the best of the group was the Royal Bohemian Pilsner. If it had been a little more crisp, it would have fit into the notable category.

Our food was very good, a bit better than the beers. This pub also has some liquor available and a house red and white wine for the non beer drinkers. Given our enjoyment of the outdoor seating, the good quality beers, and the great food, we'd come back here again when we are in town.

 

We visited the place mid-afternoon during the week and it was fairly quiet though it was obvious the space used to be a gas station and still had a lot of those elements. Indoor and outdoor seating available, we chose to sit outdoors with corn hole and shuffleboard available while you waited for your food.

Beers were served in pint glasses but poured with a proper amount of head and at a proper temperature.

Service was a little hit and miss, drink orders were taken quickly and drinks brought right away but it took forever to place our food order and to get our check when we were finished.

When I visited they had 6 beers on tap evenly split between locals and national craft brands with their beers not being available for another week or two - they had been brewed and were fermenting (they were expecting to have three different beers available less than two weeks after my visit).

Urban Comfort is the right name for the place since it really specialized in comfort food which was pretty enjoyable. I had the chicken pot pie, served in a piping hot skillet which was very enjoyable.

On the heels of ‘The Festival’, Dan being a wonderful host in that I wasn’t asked to leave, and the event not being oversold madness. We will need to food out somewhere somewhen before we head back to the house, ‘cause once we get back, it’s a safe bet that we won’t be venturing out again. Can we agree on this? Dinner plans changed twice on the lark & lark, but with their big inviting sign of ‘Urban Comfort’ and boasting brewing when in fact they are not (yet), lured in, yes, we were done…

This, clearly a gas station not too long ago as it still looks like one; the 2 bay doors still intact, window & panel. I suspect they roll up, not sure. The front lot converted to a 4 pack of shuffleboard courts penned, and seating (a long raised hightop set horizontally seating 16 on stools, and 8 long picnic tables set vertical across the front of the space), and the brewing equipment in a fenced in cage off to the left. Much of the seating and all of the brewery is under a corrugated and wood rafter awing strung with egg lighting. The brewery is not going to freeze but it will take in the rain when it comes in sideways.

Enter in. An 11 seat lightning bolt bar fronting the kitchen to the rear, and a straight bar to the right seating 6 on tractor seats a la Fette. The bars are done slab topped with a vertical slat wood plank base. 4 booths/tables in front of each overhead door, which do in fact, open, and a 5 seat slab bar counter in the front windows. Concrete floors & walls, and wood rafter ceilings with drop single bulb lighting. Subway tile wall behind the kitchen, and a mural on the far wall. As old gas stations go, the bathrooms are outside around to the side.

6 taps; 3 Florida locals (3 Daughters Beach Blonde Ale, Motorworks V-Twin Lager, Coppertail Milk & Sugar), and 3 non-regional American craft (New Belgium Ranger IPA, Bells Oberon, Lagunitas Dogtown Pale Ale), + Abita Root Beer. I drank the Motorworks V-Twin Lager, which was pretty good, and took a hit off of someone's 3 Daughters Beach Blonde Ale, which was pleasant enough.

Food being the saving of the day, I went with the 4 piece chicken dinner, served 2 pieces now, and 2 pieces sometime after that. Breast, thigh, & 2 drums, but never a wing (sigh). Chicken was goooooooooood and came with a side of mashed potatoes & bacon gravy, and a biscuit of awesome, with a small but never enough side of butter. Still, it was an awesome biscuit. Joe said he’d had better (chicken fried steak), a little tough and not seasoned enough. And the pot pie people felt theirs was too garlic-y (as if that’s a real thing).

I was happy with my meal, anyway, and they’re sporting some good local craft. But the brewing equipment is here and supposedly they’ll be a functioning brewery within 2 months. This, I would like to see.