Mad Fox Brewing Company

Reviews about Mad Fox Brewing Company

• 1 / 5

  By bern crane
  Went here for brunch this morning. Never been before, NEVER going back. My wife started out with a cup of coffee. After she stirred it, she licked the spoon, and suddenly got a shocked, sick look on her face. There was hardened, sticky food of some kind stuck on the spoon. The waitress had not just brought her a dirty spoon, she had brought her a spoon visibly covered with somebody else's food. When we pointed it out tot he waitress and asked for a new cup of coffee, she merely took it away and replaced it, without any comment or apology.
  THIS WAS THE HIGH POINT OF OUR MEAL!!
  My wife ordered eggs benedect, I ordered a pizza with several kinds of meat on it. The eggs were described on the menu as coming with "crispy pork belly." My wife specifically asked the waitress about this in advance, and was told this was kind of like a crispy bacon. When it arrived, the "crispy pork belly" turned out to be a not-fully cooked blob of slightly warm, gelatinous gooey fat, and the yolks on the poached eggs were cooked completely hard. She sent it back, and a while later the chef or manager came out with the new plate. This time the pork was crispy, but the entire dish was greasy. He came back a few minutes later to check if the replacement was OK, and told her they had a new chef on today. No apology, no other explanation, he just informed her the chef was new and took off.
  My pizza was so covered with and swimming in grease I asked the waitress for some paper napkins to blot up the grease. She brought a stack of napkins an inch thick, and I had to use the entire stack to blot the grease up from the pizza, and it was STILL greasy!! When the chef/manager was there to tell us a new chef had produced the first effort at my wife's eggs he HAD to have noticed a very large pile of soaken wet greasy napkins on the table covered with pizza grease, but he said not one word about that.
  My son ordered a "Mad Fox Burger," which was a fifteen dollar hamburger covered with "bacon jam," which turned out to be some kind of sweet bacon mush. Now, my 17 year old son is a bacon addict. He will eat bacon on anything, including ice cream. Even he couldn't stomach this greasy, mushy stuff. For the first time in his life he scraped what was alleged to be a "bacon " product off his food and tried to eat the burger plain. Again, this was quite a task, as this fifteen dollar brunch burger was still covered in and dripping with grease. To Mad Fox I would point out that the bacon cheeseburgers at the Sweetwater Tavern and the Carlyle in Shirlington (one of the best restaurants in the state) cost fourteen dollars, and honey, you ain't no Carlyle!
  One might think that after a dining experience like this the manager, or at least the waitress, would come out to offer some kind of apology, explanation or remediation. One would be wrong. The check (for the full price) came out and was placed on the table without a word. The manager or chef (who KNEW there were problems with the meal) never came back to check on us, never attempted to make it right or apologize. It was like they realized it was a lost cause and just gave up and ignored us.
  Of course, by the time we got home all three of us suffered upset stomachs due to the greasy food.
  I realize this is a brew-pub, and frequently such places are known for the quality of their beer and not for their food. But when you charge the prices Mad Fox does, you have no right to bring out one dish of terrible food after another. If you choose to go there, beware!
  January 29, 2017
• 4 / 5

  By Michael Lai
  Great flights! Tons of beer on tap and the fried pickles are amazing! No real happy hours or specials. Huge venue with that is great for groups. Parking garage next door so driving is not a hassle.
  July 05, 2016