Smylie Brothers Brewing Co. - Evanston

Tim Berneche

Great place excellent food and service. Nice interior with the high ceiling bowstring trusses.

Alan Moy

Love this place! Amazing offerings for food and beer. Leadership here is active in the community. And you can’t beat the patio. Great destination downtown to post up and enjoy good times over good brews!

Charles Rooney

I will say this. I really like Smylies food and drinks, it never disappoints. What was disappointing is the service today for lunch. The front desk staff was nice and welcoming but after that it was a mess. Our server had an airpod in the entire time to start. Ok fine when your doing dishes or bussing. But your taking orders and talking to guest, what the heck. We just sat down and then are immediately asked if we need more time with the menus. Yeah bud let me sit down and at least loot at it once. We order drinks, some starters and my daughter's meal. Food/drinks comes out promptly and it's all good. We finish our starters and drinks, my daughter is chamming away on her dish. Few minutes go by. Few more tables sit. There orders are taken and delivered. We are still waiting to place our main course. I ended up going to inside bar to get a second round of drinks. Sever is asking other tables if they need anything, plates cleared more drinks, anything else to order and so on. We are left stranded. My wife ends up going inside to place the order with the front desk. Food comes out promptly and it's all good. Waiter finally comes by and asked if we needed any plates cleared. By that point I bussed the table and put the plates on a bench behind us at it began attracting flies and bees. Waiter asked my wife for a drink refill and she said yes, the refill never showed up. Asked for bill and this was the fastest service we had, to get us out of there. For all the issues the bill was correct for what we ordered. Again. I like Smylies. The food and drinks are great. The atmosphere (building and setting alone) are wonderful. Front of house staff could use an attitude check or refresher on what service is all about. We all have bad days but when working for the public you kind of have to hide your issues. This all maybe a fluke of the day. We will continue to order out and this might have been our last dine in. Ordering out is always good option here. Also noticed a glass of wine costs as much as the bottle. I know Mark ups are a thing but shoot.

Rupal Mandal

Food was ok. Service was horrible. The host was rude and our waitress was not very communicative. We needed to ask for refills on our drinks 3 times because no one checked on us for long stretches of time. So disappointing because it seemed like a really fun place to try out.