Type: Neighborhood Bar
Class: Mid-Scale
The Elysian Brewery is very spacious, has some comfortable booths, but is mainly only ok table seating. There is typical Brewery decor and to be perfectly honest, how many times can you be impressed with a place decorated with giant beer vats that they don't let you drink out of.
The menu here is highly questionable, in that it has that bizarre health nut/trendy Capitol Hill styles where everything sounds like something that you would normally eat, but has all sorts of unusual ingredients that really you would rather avoid.
Now I realize that this is a brewery, but whatever you do, DO NOT DRINK THE BEER. I know a number of people who have gotten ill from drinking the beer here. I don't mean, too much beer so I'm puking in some stranger's yard, amounts. I mean, a beer or two and now I think I am sick. We were sticking with hard liquor anyhow and you don't have to worry whether the gin has turned.
The Elysian appears to be a great place, but when you look closer, it is just a large eatery with a questionably trendy menu and your standard fair of drinks. I will say that I have drunk the Dragon's Tooth Oatmeal Stout and while I didn't get sick, it was not really a good beer. If you are looking for average drinks (the hard stuff), a place to sit and chat with your friends, and an "experimental" menu, then this is the place for you. If you want the same thing, but better, go to the Satellite Lounge down the street. Then when you discover that there is no seating in the Satellite Lounge because it is kind of small, come back here and grab a table.
I give it 2 Martini Glasses out of 5.
-wOOt
Posted by Brandon at March 26, 2002 02:10 AM