The Better Living Room by Ninkasi Brewing

J R

Make sure you know EXACTLY where you are going, Ninkasi owns mutiple buildings on this block that are poorly labeled. Be prepared to seat yourself, order through an app at the table and be underwhelmed by the quality of food that comes out. Had I known the veggie burger was a huge baked yam patty with no greens and a greasy bun overloaded with cheese, or that the salmon caper salad meant small FLAKES of dried salmon and a caper DRESSING I wouldn't have ordered either of them. The over all space is really cool, it's dog friendly, the experience was interesting at most. Seems mostly like an expensive place to bring your kids to day drink, when you walk in it looks like a daycare. 🤷‍♀️

Alexandra Thompson

Bf and I came here on a whim - I was pleasantly surprised by the building. It was open and airy and felt ‘elevated’. It was well decorated - there was a very functional layout to the space. It was clear that this was the common space for the office building before they opened it up -but very glad they did. It’s a great space for big groups. And can be great for day dates too! We had flights and food and everything was great! We had great servers who were friendly and super helpful with the menu. They were easy to talk to which is always nice when you’re sitting at the bar. Definitely would come back here!

Denise Baxter

My husband and I ate at The Better Living Room recently and had a great time. When I called to check the wait time, I was asked if I wanted to make a reservation. I was able to make one and reserve a table, but the hostess kindly recommended seats at the bar instead as they were more comfortable and roomy than the high top we had reserved. (I was warned of this when I booked.) We had a great evening. While they don't have many vegetarian options currently (my husband had the wedge salad), we knew that going in. I had the mussels and frites, and was pleasantly delighted that the mussels were well cleaned and did not have any sand particles. We felt very welcomed by the staff and really enjoyed our evening out. Thank you!

Jeannie S

We first went here the other day for lunch and had a wonderful meal and wonderful service. Our waiter (young man with red hair) was delightful. He even took our order the old fashioned way without us having to use the QR code thing. The outside area is one of the best in town. Very pleasant! The pastrami perogies were amazing and the cod sandwich was huge and very good. It's was a different visit last night. We took some friends to show them how wonderful it was and when we first walked in, the hostess (woman with curly hair) was very perturbed that we didn't have a reservation and showed her dissatisfaction with us. Maybe she was having a bad day but it didn't start our visit off well. Heather, our waitress, was wonderful and so was the bartender. The food was, again, amazing. We had the mussels and burgers and fries. Funny that for lunch, I asked if they had anything to drink besides beer because I don't care for beer and they said just seltzer. But last night they had wine - is this only offered at night? I was very glad they had wine and at a great price too. I closed out the tab with the QR thing because the hostess who sat us told us we HAD to use that so we slogged out way through registering and ordering . One of our friends decided he wanted another glass of wine so the hostess was near and we asked if we could just pay cash and order the wine the old fashioned way - she said NO you cannot, you have to use the QR thing. So, we didn't get anymore wine. We asked Heather and she apologized and said, of course we can get another glass of wine without using the QR. But, by that time we were ready to go. So what is the story, do you allow ordering the "old fashioned way" or is it just with the QR thing? So all in all we are very pleased and will definitely return but please let people order however they want. You will lose business being SO STRICT about this. It does seem that only the hostess was the strict one though. Maybe you should ask her to not be so strict about it. It was almost like she was reprimanding us for asking. Thank for this beautiful spot to enjoy your wonderful food, beer and wine!!!