Vintage Brewing Co. Capitol East

If you love bottomless mimosas, this is the place to go.
The brunch menu is a great accompaniment.
All interesting but still comfortable choices.
Great service and very vibrant wall art. Our favorite things to start off with are the pretzel appetizer and the Rip Rip chicken.
We personally prefer garlic parmesan.
the pretzels are fresh, soft, and hot, while the Rip Rip fried chicken thigh bits are juicy and delicious. We stopped in for Fathers day and ordered chimichurri steak and eggs.
It was very disappointing, the eggs were covered in oil and the steak was over done.
We let our server know and they were so kind and exchanged our dish for something else.
Also they didn’t charge us for either of the dishes and also gave us one of drinks on the house.
We have never had a problem there before that and they were very accommodating when we did. The replacement dish(ham, egg and cheese panini) was perfect. Also their Nashville chicken sandwich is delicious and juicy.

Owner response

Stopped in for the Sunday Brunch.
Nice classy place to go.
Our server, Samantha S.
was great.

Having lived in Madison for many years I've been to the Vintage several times, and have found it to generally be a solid chain option for food, and some decent local beer options. This weekend we visited the East Washington location for the second time and had a rather memorable experience.
Three of us ordered the same hazy IPA, and I found it to be quite off.
I described it as drinking beer with a hint of Pine-sol cleaner, which others agreed with.
We brought it up to our server and she said that "others who know what the beer tastes like have also complained", but that it is the same beer so "it is what it is, we can't do anything about it." She did check with the manager and was told that perhaps the keg hadn't sat long enough and that may be leading to the flavors.
I was rather surprised to see such a disregard for QC. Our server was super friendly and prompt, and the tater tots and sidewinder fries were awesome as always.
The Nashville hot chicken sandwich was decent.
I'm not a fan of their bread, but it is still a solid option. Our recent experience will definitely impact whether we elect to go here in the future.

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