re: Blackened Brew in Hammond: my review page 13

Went yesterday so I will post a review:
Positives:
- the place looks great, I like the set up of everything and it is unique.
- Local taps, everything on tap was a local product and they had Great Raft, Parish, Abita, Tin Roof, was surprised no Mudbugs, and didn't think I saw a Nola tap
- Food came out quickly which is always a good thing
- Food itself was pretty good, I was expecting it to be "meh" but the Gf (No pics) had the Bees Knees Burger and I had the wings. We also had the pretzel sticks, which looked like hot dog buns with a pretzel outside. They were actually pretty good but you only get 2. Burger was nicely cooked and rather large, it came with fries. The fries looked like your typical sysco frozen fries, not sure if they are supposed to be hand-cut or not but they were just regular fries. I had the Honey BBQ and Jerk Chicken wings. I enjoyed the Honey BBQ more than the Jerk Chicken but they were rather large wings, I could not finish them after the pretzel sticks and all.
- prices on beer seem in line or cheaper than other places. I know an Envie at Chimes is like 7.00 but it comes in a 20oz pint, at Blackened Brew they had it listed for 6.00 but it doesn't say the size of the glassware it comes in.

Cons:
- serving staff is a little slow and unsure about beer. Our waitress seemed fairly inexperienced when it came to the different types of beer they had so i assumed she was new.
- It can get loud, we did not sit at the bar but towards the back and could hear the conversations taking place at the bar. Part of that was problem the people talking and part may be the acoustics of the place.


Overall it was a positive experience and I would certainly go back and eat/drink again.

Yeah with someone at the bar I recognized from SELU but not the owner

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Yeah with someone at the bar I recognized from SELU but not the owner

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Overall it is a nice place, with a decent tap selection...

Yeah, I've been a few times since this thread as well. It has gotten better since the first experience and I've shared beers with the owner at this point.


Still like Todd at RW&B though.... This has messed up my Hammond rotation though as it used to be Tommy's and then RW&B

I go about every 5-6 wks. My wife gets her hair cut across the street and I usually will grab few beers and maybe some lunch. Owner is always nice and the staff is always friendly. The beer knowledge isn't there maybe, but I'd assume it will get better the longer they are around.

Had some fried livers a couple times back and they were pretty good.

I still hit up R,W & B to grab some beers to go though. They sometimes have some stuff I don't see in BR.

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I've shared beers with the owner at this point.

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Free shite ?