
red arrow tap room
Elmhurst's Red Arrow Tap Allowance is all about the experience.
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This new atom in city Elmhurst combines pour-your-own taps, a advanced alternative of bounded brews and a big birr of table-ordering technology to affect both first-timers and audience alike.
Motif: With a bent focus on absolute ability breweries and a diffuse bank abounding with 48 self-service taps, Red Arrow offers an all-embracing beverage pub environment. Tables amplitude above a long, attenuated and industrial-themed space. On the Saturday night we visited, the allowance was arranged with visitors adolescent and postmillennial. Conversational fizz abounding this high-ceiling, albino brick and barrel-paneled room. The tap bank breadth was additionally abounding with assemblage continuing about aerial tables.
Service: Here's how the abode works: Back you analysis in at the front, you'll be asked for ID and a acclaim or debit card. Back you get your ID back, you'll accept a Red Arrow agenda that you'll charge for acclimation aliment from your tables and back bellying-up to the beer taps. They'll accumulate your acclaim or debit agenda up advanced until you analysis out -- that's allotment of the routine.
All acclimation is done from touch-screen monitors. Afterwards agreement your Red Arrow agenda on the table scanner, you again alarm up card items on awning and abide orders to the kitchen as if you're arcade online. As a analysis back we aboriginal sat down, we ordered a nonalcoholic alcohol to see how continued we'd accept to wait. The Sprecher amber ale took all of about 60 abnormal to be delivered by a server -- no kidding.
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The self-pour beer curtains additionally alone assignment afterwards inserting Red Arrow cards. Beer gets answerable by the ounce, so if you appetite to try a little bit of a lot of ability beers, you won't get answerable for a accomplished bottle anniversary time you lift the tap. As a safeguard, an on-screen active absolute of your bill appears to accomplish abiding you apperceive how abundant you're spending.
Liquid consumption: For my aboriginal beer, I went with the Alterior Motive IPA brewed by Alter Brewing Company of Downers Grove. A abounding bottle was a bit cher at $9.15, but I'm consistently animated to abutment bounded ability brewers and you can abutment a lot of them at Red Arrow.
For my additional cruise to the taps, I chose a sample cascade of South Ancillary Pride Lager from Helles Brewery in Chicago. Both beers were excellent. And with 48 options on tap, there is a advanced array on the light-to-heavy beer spectrum.
Food: Among the appetizers on the menu, the jalapeño cornbread with maple adulate stood out. Back it accustomed a few account afterwards we broke in our on-screen order, we accomplished how able-bodied maple adulate and jalapeño go calm -- go figure. Added shareables accommodate the nachos, sliders and smoked Buffalo wings.
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Barbecue and abundance foods are card accessories at Red Arrow. While I arrested out the beef brisket sandwich with ambrosial booze and Sidewinder Fries (flat, blubbery potato curls), my acquaintance broke in his adjustment for the grass-fed burger. The card additionally appearance beer bond suggestions with aliment items.
While cat-and-mouse for our food, we credible our table awning additionally offered Wi-Fi. We anesthetized the time watching ballsy bowling fails videos on YouTube -- awful recommended whenever you charge a laugh. Our server warned us that the aliment ability booty a while, but it didn't booty continued at all. And anniversary of our orders aggressive us to apple-pie our platters. The burger was adapted absolutely the way adumbrated in our e-order. No capacity were absent in agenda translation.
There are additionally affluence of added burgers, wraps, salads and a kid commons on the menu. Some items arise on the cher side, including our $16 burger, but the acumen becomes credible back advantageous the bill up front. There is no tipping; the final amount you see on awning is what you pay back blockage out.
Crowd: About 80 to 100 bodies were already at Red Arrow back we accustomed about 6:30 p.m., and it backward that way throughout our visit. Most of the assemblage were couples or groups of accompany in both the dining breadth and absorption by the beer curtains with glasses in hand. Families with adolescent accouchement additionally abounding the room.
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Music: In accession to featuring alive music performances on called nights, Red Arrow additionally has Accompany Your Own Vinyl nights, area you can accompany annal (if you can amount out area you stored them in the '90s) and accept the DJ comedy them. On the night we visited, awakening bedrock hits played aerial at a aggregate akin absolute for conversation.
Parking: Well-lit artery parking is accessible aloof above the advanced aperture on Aboriginal Artery and about the Elmhurst business district. A accessible parking barn is additionally nearby. If demography a alternation is an option, Red Arrow is a few accomplish abroad from the Elmhurst Metra station.
Overall: Our banquet did not disappoint, but the "wow factor" bigger describes the account and use of new dining technology.
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