Peekskill Brewery

[ryanallday]

first I must say what a beautiful place they put together. Could be confusing for first timers as it was for me but the bar or "tap room" is street level and the restaurant is upstairs. This was my second visit here and I still have mixed feelings. The food I had was delicious but once again on this second visit the service was extremely slow. This was a very slow monday night too only a few other tables taken. first visit we had the wings with chipotle maple sauce, the sauce is amazing i'm going to attempt to replicate it some time, the wings are awkwardly large and not separated. It's very messy to separate the wing pieces. Again it was very tasty. I also had the PB Burger, it was good, nothing crazy or amazing. Tonight I had the Mac n Cheese and it was easily the best Mac n Cheese I've ever had, creamy, cheesy, the bread crumbs on the top were a great touch and thick cut pieces of very smokey bacon...incredible. I've tried a few beers, very good and priced good too. The lemonade was very memorable for me too, made fresh and very delicious and refreshing.

[Nancy C]

Did I miss something (re: they moved?) Have been on vacation... If yes, where to versus the "old" location?

[ryanallday]

they're in a beautiful 2 floor space right down the road from the old small space

[DGresh]

So they are no longer where they had two entrances around the corner from one another?

[dma1250]

They moved to the really nice old factory building that was recently renovated across the road from the tracks, facing the riverfront green. I haven't been yet, but it got a good write up in the NY Times since the move.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/nyr...

[GIOny]

I recently heard that Yellow Brick Road Cafe ( or something like that) will be going into the old space. It's a reference to the fact that L. Frank Baum went to school at the Peekskill Military Academy and when he got off the train he had to follow the yellow brick road (which was the color of the road at the time, the road was actual yellow bricks, but not like the color in the movie) to walk up to the military academy.

[dma1250]

You got me curious, so I googled it and found a facebook page for the Yellow Brick Road Cafe:
https://www.facebook.com/TheYellowBri...

It says they are opening this week. This is acutally the space at the corner, in between the two buildings that used to be the Brewery. It was a greasy spoon called something like Susan's and has been empty for quite awhile. I used to go there just for the great view. This is an ideal spot for a cafe, right across from the park and train (and far away enough from the Peekskill Coffee House to not be in direct competition).

Thanks for the info!

[GIOny]

Thanks for the correction. Your right that is a great spot for a cafe. Originally I heard the Bayou from Mt. Vernon was looking at the old Brewery spot but this was before the moved out, have not heard anything since.

[weedy]

Trued the new place, and it's a nice looking space.
Much more energetic feeling and an enjoyable place to be.
But...
the food remains totally 'eh'.
The burger was decent, but only that.
The pickle pot starter was bland, and uninteresting, with each element tasting exactly the same; the celery weird and rubbery.
Curry Pot Pie was oddly watery and a bit bland as well; clearly made with jarred premade curry powder that was very tepid, and with not much character.
Pork Belly was nicely cooked in terms of texture, but again bland.
The fish and chips were just odd, with the fish nearly tasteless and the coating mushy and (again) without flavour.
Oh, and both the burger and fish and chips had these little stubby chips (fries) that were okay, but odd.

I like the place itself, so it would be so much better if the food was really worth going for.
It wasn't.

[MisterBill2]

Use a knife (and fork if necessary to hold it) to cut the wings into halves before eating the pieces by hand. I've had that at other places where they were served in one piece. I can definitely see that trying to break them apart by hand would be messy if they had sauce.

[GIOny]

Sounds good, I want to check out the new place but I think I'll wait for warmer weather. I thought I heard they have a rooftop deck. Do you know if this is so?