The Humble Beagle Pub

Unlike my friends, the Humble Beagle has never quite done it for me.
Service is friendly, with an interesting menu, but the food never completely gets to where it’s aiming. I dunno, when people suggest the Beagle, I think, «Can’t we try somewhere else?»
I does not help that the place is small with terrible acoustics. I do not enjoy eating dinner amongst a cacophony.

This place was simply amazing! The proprietors both work the floor and stop to converse and develop personal relationships with their customers. The food was absolutely delicious. Mediterranean flair with all natural ingredients. We had the affogato for dessert and it just blew me away. Their beer selection was first rate and available in 22 ounce glasses. Can’t say enough about this great little hole in the wall!

The service was friendly, good beer selection, and there was live music the evening we dropped by. All in all a good Eugene experience.
The burger was good, but nothing too remarkable without extras. You really have to build your own, so it’s unfortunate all the extras cost a dollar or so apiece. I choose to add guacamole, which stole the show, a perfect balance of flavor. Based on that I’ll skip the burger next time and try the nachos. With extra guac.
The vegetarian chili was surprisingly smoky in flavor, really hearty.
Also, make sure to save room for gelato. They whip up different flavors daily.

We dined at The Humble Beagle for the first time tonight, and I’m happy to say we had a fine dinner. I had the (meat) pita sandwich; she had the reuben. Everything seemed fresh and made to order. Great flavors. The smoked pastrami on the reuben gave it a very unique flavor profile. My pita sandwich required me to do all the sandwich-​making, which was a bit difficult and messy, but again — great flavors, unique combinations. Who knew red cabbage and hummus went so well together?
I could see where if it happened to be crowded, it could *really* slow down. Fortunately for us, it was a light night and our food came out in reasonable time. Our server was friendly and reasonably attentive.
We’ll likely return, though I wouldn’t necessarily say we’re in a big rush to do so…

I would give this place 0 stars if I could. I ordered the Fisherman’s stew which I had before there and it wasn’t bad. It came with a giant scoop of aioli on the stew. I told the waitress I did not want a giant glob of fat in my stew. She indicated that it was on the menu which it was but I thought it would be on the side. Anyway long story short, she said that they always served it that way which was a lie, and that their policy was not to remake orders. I tried to scoop out the fish pieces and all there was was some baby shrimp, four small clams and some small fish pieces. I think the price was $ 17.
My policy is not to go back to restaurants that don’t care about their customers. Plus the food totally sucked. Stay away from this place.

I really like it. Comfortable pub with great food. Some dishes are off the beaten path. I really dig the house smoked fish. You get oysters, salmon and halabut with horseradish and rustic bread. Great with beer. They also make their own pastrami and do a rubin with it. The garlic fries are killer.
Last night I tried the shakshuka, a thick hot tomato sauce with onions and feta cheese and a couple eggs on top with bread for scooping it out with.

I, like so many others in this town, don’t eat meat. When we moved in only three blocks from this place I was THRILLED to find it. My husband would rather I make dinner and relax at home but I knew the local beef selection would lure him in.
We waited at the front for about 5 (not bad) minutes to be seated and were immediately left without menus, the offer of a high chair (for my 1.5 year old) or a «be right back». When our server did return she asked about beer and I inquired about a wheat beer. She asked what that meant. Hmmmmm. A beer. With wheat. Not sure how to give you more synonyms here. My husband offers her a «it looks lightish, and cloudy usually. Like a hefeweizen». She was still confused and fetched us a chalkboard with the beer list.
We ordered burgers. I got the veggie burger which was, as warned, very crumbly. My husband got his med well which was nice that she offered. She did forget about our beer and we had to remind her.
My daughter broke a dish on their concrete floor and one server watched it happen but didn’t come to help. Another server came, offered us another beer, helped clean ceramic pieces and refilled our water.
All in all, they are getting one star for good beer and one star for local ingredients. The service was slow and unknowledgeable and the prepared food was just okay. We probably won’t be back, which makes me sad. I had high hopes :(
EDITING TO ADD: We did go back but chose to order to go and noticed that there is an additional $ 1 fee for to go orders. Really? I find this tacky.

Good local beer selection, great local/​organic food sourcing. Our table kept it petty basic, but there were raves all around. Not the cheapest, but it was a nice quality meal.
Only complaint I’d have was the iceberg lettuce on my burger — I like a little green in my leafies.
Overall it was a place I’d go back to, but not for a casual meal. Excited to try the bakery!

Great for local purveyors, organic, seasonable and sustainable ingredients.
Seasonable, rotating menu features PacNW pub grub with a Middle Eastern twist.
Service is hit or miss. This neighborhood hangout is often busy and seems either understaffed, or I’m misinterpreting the laid-​back casual description of the service as somewhat inefficient.
Food can be flavorful, served piping hot and as described on the menu… or a little less so of any or all of the three descriptors above at any given time.
Worth a try, and worth returning to.

I still like this place but I’m not quite as «5 star» enamored with it as my first time. The lamb pita no longer has the lamb in ball form and the overall dish was too oily for me (fried eggplant was kind of soggy, oily fries, hummus covered in olive oil). But overall I still enjoyed the sandwich, it just wasn’t worthy of the praise I offered previously.
Still has a nice atmosphere and the servers are friendly. Next time I come I’ll try a different dish.

We just rolled into Eugene and had about an hour and a half to eat dinner before the function my wife wanted to attend. I won’t say she was «dragging me» to the event, but it certainly wasn’t the kind of thing I’d ever go to on my own. Hey, I’m not complaining. My wife puts up with a lot from me. I’m always forcing her to go with me to every brewery we pass by, and she doesn’t even drink. Fair is fair.
Anyway, I fired up the Unilocal app and typed in «brew pub». The Humble Beagle was one of the first places to pop up. Perfect, I thought. My wife loves nothing more in this world than her boon companion, Merry the Wonder Beagle. I would suggest a spot for dinner where the name alone would warm her heart… and the beer would warm my belly. Heh, heh.
Unfortunately, the name is probably the best thing about The Humble Beagle. When we first arrived, we were offered a table in the entrance vestibule. I would have accepted those seats, but the area was drafty and the front door banged loudly whenever anyone entered. BAM! BAM! That would have driven me nuts, so we asked for a table in the main dining room.
We didn’t have to wait long for a table and they did have some nice beers on tap. Kind of a strange atmosphere. It looks more like a homey breakfast restaurant than a gastropub. My wife ordered a chicken cutlet and I got a bowl of veggie chili.
Wow. We waited forever for our food. I noticed that most of the tables didn’t have plates on them, and those folks arrived way before we did. Time was ticking away but we still had about an hour before our engagement. I started thinking The Humble Beagle was going to get me a serious a$$ kicking from my wife. She was checking her watch and I knew what she was thinking, «Enjoy that beer, Sonny Slim, ‘cuz it’ll be your last.» Crap. Yet another «aft gang agley» moment for the Frankster.
Thirty minutes later, food finally started coming out of the kitchen. I don’t know what kind of hold up they had back there – cook called in sick, perhaps? Everything was coming out of the kitchen at the same time, so there was some kind of problem. Hey, I’ve watched «Top Chef» and all those Food Network shows.
I was disappointed to find that my chili was lukewarm. Boo. The sour cream and cheese wasn’t even melty, but I had no time to complain. My wife’s chicken cutlet was a bit over-​cooked and the bed of greens it was sitting on certainly wasn’t anything special.
I found the prices to be way too high for the quality of the food. That chicken cutlet was $ 14 and all it consisted of was two fried pieces of chicken on a bed of Romaine. The veggie chili tasted great, but for $ 9, it should have been piping hot when it hit the table.
I have to say the servers were very friendly and pleasant. We did get to our function with a minute to spare. I’m bumping the rating up one star for the staff attitude and the fact that I didn’t have to walk back to Portland.

I read so many of the comments about this establishment, and felt myself thinking «ya, and that’s another thing…» True, it is local, true they use in-​season veggies, true they use organic ingredients, but…
Atmosphere… lack-​luster.
Wait staff… o.k. but ill trained.
Bread… fresh but «rubbery» texture. BTW one pad of butter for 6 pieces of bread… shared by four people. Really!
Food items that involves deep frying… too greasy for my liking.
Menu… I find myself scanning and scanning to look for something that appeals to my pallet. Which is different than most restaurants I usually visit where I can’t decide what to eat because it all looks good. But that’s just me.
Our meals X 4… all around, just average.
We have eaten at the Humble Beagle twice, to be fair to the fare, both times initiated by Living Social Coupons. There are just so many similar establishments in Eugene that are like the H.B. but do it all better. Sorry. I really wanted to like this place. Truly I did.
BTW, H.B. print up a few new menus. The ones we were handed look like they have been around for years… wrinkled, stained, penciled… or perhaps that is the relaxed look you are trying to catering.

The Beagle is great. It’s one of the few casual-​atmosphere gastro pubs in the south end of town (or perhaps in all of town??), and the owners are some of the most charming and interesting people you could ever have in the business. Couple that with the fact that the Beag’ is family to the equally humble Bagel joint next door… and you’ve got something really special here.
I’ve held off on an HB review for so long because I have desperately wanted to give them more than three stars. I mean, all of the pieces are there: local business, seasonal menus, home-​cooked food, great ingredients, hip-​but-​not-​too-​hip style, … so what’s wrong?
In my opinion, it’s the service and the inconsistency of the food that take the Beagle down a notch. For example, I strongly advise that you call ahead to see how busy the restaurant is – especially if you are on any kind of schedule. I have to use two hands to count the number of times we’ve been here and waited over an hour for food. Additionally, I hesitate when recommending specific items… because they’re not always they same. The chicken cutlet Caesar has been great at least twice for me, but then once it was so greasy that I didn’t feel right for two days. The burgers can be to die for, but one time my hubby’s was so overcooked that it was unrecognizable. It’s too bad, really, because we have enthusiastically (some might say, ‘zealously’) brought newbies here on three separate occasions. I think each time they walked away scratching their heads, and wondering if M and I had good taste in food after all.
So there are the caveats, but I still recommend a HB visit. Especially if you can swing it on a casual weeknight where you’re likely to be served by Ari or Ani and can get the straight story on how the restaurant opened and the commitment they have to the products they source and the food they serve. Also, when there’s no rush, I think you’ll be more than pleasantly surprised by the taste of the food. Their cioppino (fisherman’s stew) is some of the best in town. The mac and cheese is sinfully decadent. I also am a personal fan of any way that they choose to cook and serve lamb here. They’re definitely doing something right with that yogurt sauce!
The Humble Beagle is a wonderful addition to the neighborhood and to the Eugene food scene. I look forward to many more meals there and also to the time when the consistency is such that I can legitimately bump up my rating to the 4 – 5 star range that I know they’re capable of.

I’ve really tried to like this place. It’s in my ‘hood. It’s locally owned. They use organic ingredients and have a large variety of vegetarian things, etc. But every time I eat there I end up spending the rest of the evening apologizing to my husband for picking this place, again.
The food is so-​so. Things involving grease are always too greasy. They never wash off the board with their beer listings so you literally can’t read it at all. The service is hit-​or-​miss. I’ve had attentive service and then other times I’ve been left to my own devices for far too long. And it’s not always the cleanest, which to a degree I don’t usually care, but it can look gross.
And there are the logistics of things, like the fact that you can’t eat the veggie burger easily because it’s a super soft patty on a ciabatta bun= giant mess. Wanting to eat a veggie burger and not ordering it because you dread the experience of eating it? To me that says there is a menu problem and a different kind of bun should be used. Instead, the server just warns you that it’s messy to eat. Not cool.
The biggest kicker for me is how lack-​luster all of their bread products are, given that by day they are a bagel and bread bakery. Everything is super dense and too chewy. I always leave feeling like I ate a gut bomb.
I’m sad that I don’t like this place more, as I’d love for it to be our go-​to place, given the proximity. Sadly, it’s not.

I was hoping for a better experience, but maybe it was the time or day we went. It wasn’t a weekend, or even a Friday night but they were busy. I’ve been to busy restaurants before, and this experience wasn’t the greatest. I’d take my review with a grain of salt. Humble beagle pub is a cozy place to hang with friends or significant others. It’s a nice mix of young and old.
Pretty simple in terms of décor. Our server, was busy and forgot a lot. He asked us if we wanted bread. We said yes, and it took a long time, before we reminded him again. We never received any utensils, so we had to ask for those as well. We had some beer, but were never asked if we wanted more. Despite an empty glass. Our food took a really long time. Probably 40 minutes.
I had ordered the grilled skirt steak with fries, and my partner had ordered the meatloaf sandwich with soup. The skirt steak wasn’t too bad. The chimichurri complemented the skirt steak pretty well. The fries tasted like they were over fried. A little on the dark brown side. Had a little burnt taste to it. I felt bad for my comrade. He was told the soup was split pea, but it wasn’t. It was some sort of bean soup. Which was fine. But the sandwich was pretty bad. I had a bite of it. It didn’t have substance. Plus the bread was toasted for too long. The meatloaf inside, was the disappointing factor. It was a cm thick. Well, you know what I mean. Barely a sandwich.
Maybe it was the day we went. Who knows. People like this place, so I am assuming, it’s way better than we have experienced. It’s too bad. Maybe we’ll come back one day. But for now, it did leave a little bit of a bad taste in our mouths.

After reading the reviews we tried this spot on a Friday night around 6:00. Because the reviews on Unilocal said it was good for kids, we brought our two little guys.
We were told the wait would be a half hour, and our kids had toys with them so we thought we’d be okay. There were other families there but generally, at that time on a Friday night, I would not suggest bringing kids. We waited at least a ½ hour for our table. But we did get to enjoy a beer in the waiting area, and that was really cool.
Once at our table, we waited over 20 minutes to have our food order taken. If I had been there with just my husband, that would’ve been just fine, but it was almost 7:00 so our kids were super hungry and getting wilder by the minute. We waited probably 45 minutes for our food to come. In the meantime, our very patient waitress continued bringing us baskets of bread, which was yummy — but we were frustrated with the wait.
Overall, our food was good. The kids had pizza, which I tasted and thought was nice. I tried the lamb meatballs and thought the whole dish was just okay (meatballs were cold after all that waiting). After reading the reviews I think my expectations were too high. AND perhaps I’m not a big enough fan of lamb itself. The hummus and yogurt sauce were really delicious! My husband had a hamburger and really enjoyed it. We ordered the garlic fries and they were pretty great too. I don’t think the plain fries were all that exciting though.
I wouldn’t go back to this restaurant with our kids, but would probably try it again for a ‘date night,’ and order a different meal. The menu is quite creative and the flavors unusual, so it’s worth another shot. However, I agree with one reviewer who said the word ‘pub’ doesn’t belong in the name of this restaurant. The atmosphere and prices are definitely not what one would expect in a pub.

The Humble Beagle has a pretty good thing going on.
The whole place is relaxed yet classy. The couch and chair set up in the corner looks like an easy spot to get situated and drink some beer and snack on cheap appetizers during happy hour.
The food is pretty good. I actually thought the pita sandwich with lamb meatballs was dynamite, but the mac and cheese was pretty forgettable. Paying the extra money to throw some bacon and bleu on the macaroni would probably be money well spent. The lamb dish I had was a garlic haters worst nightmare. I was subsequently slaying vampires with my breath for the next 12 hours after visiting Humble Beagle. I say that as a good thing, because I love garlic like Puff Daddy loves changing his name every album drop.
I think every female customer last Friday when I was there was pregnant or had a kid. I’m just hoping my girlfriend didn’t catch anything.
Free bread results in an immediately happy hungry diner. I was immediately happy when the bread basket came.

I enjoy the humble beagle. I’m not much of a foodie so I’m less concerned with «exploring taste» and more concerned with having a tasty meal with good portions.
The nachos here are excellent and hugely sized. The macaroni and cheese with bacon is also high on my list of favorites.

Perfect little neighborhood weekday restaurant tucked away in a little corner of South Eugene.
The vibe immediately resembles a community oriented quality establishment. Containing only 10 tables or so, it’s very intimate and cozy.
Local brew and wine selections written daily on the blackboards above the tiny fireplace.
What impressed me the most was one of the owners coming up personally and explaining the wine list and then later explaining the espresso offerings.
Highly recommended coming here with a eating partner and savoring the local drinks and food.

I have loved the Humble Bagel for 20+ years and was excited to hear their daughter Anni was opening up her own place inside the same building. The name «Humble Beagle Pub» struck me as a little too cute of a play on words for it’s own good but who am I to say.
What I can say though, is that the food is really frickin’ good. The burger is up there with the best in the city (Cornucopia, Marche, 6^th St Grill), thick, juicy and well seasoned. Pizza was dense and a bit heavy on the cheese but that’s hardly a complaint. The real standout was the lightly battered seasonal veggies that reminded me of Indian pakoras but with more of the fresh flavors coming through instead of the batter.
Oh yeah, they serve beer here in regular 16oz or the more meal worthy 22oz. The tap handles are local aka Ninkasi and Oakshire with at least one other patron recommended choice that rotates.
Sourcing local foods seems high on the priority list here and I always appreciate that in Eugene, the land of plenty (foodwise that is).