SmithHouse Tap & Grill

I can only talk about the Brisket. Worst ever.
I liked the place better when it was Lunaria back in the day.

Came here on Saturday night. It was not crowded at all. They were out of brisket. How that’s even possible is beyond me. So I shared a pulled pork sandwich with my girlfriend with fries and a side salad. The sandwich was unadorned, and they don’t even think to offer barbecue sauce (you have to ask, as we did). The meat was a little greasy, not great but not the worst I’ve had. The salad was meh, and the «seasoned» fries were just regular fries with what I believe was a healthy serving of paprika. Not offensive by any means, but not what I normally look for in a seasoned French fry. The service, while not terrible, wasn’t very attentive either.
I’d been here before and really liked it, so I was a little disappointed by my experience. I’d go back to try the brisket, or for a drink, but I don’t think I’d get the pulled pork again.

The hangover fries are great and the veggie omelet I had was good. It’s a good spot to watch football on Sunday as the space is huge and doesn’t get very crowded (at least not the day we went).

The hangover fries are amazing. Also the pitchers of beers are good too. Great place to watch playoff football, especially if you don’t want to be in a crowded bar atmosphere.

Closes in 53 minutes my ass. More like not open based on your bullshit «open 11:30 till late» which is clearly just a cop out to go home whenever.

Yes, I am a fan.
A nice, spacious place with a great, varied spirits and ales selection.
Friendly staff, good food (from their appetizers to their barbecue, I haven’t had anything I didn’t like yet) — what’s not to like!
Oh, and a great location, in what is somewhat local to both the Westside and getting further east.

I like it. These fish tacos meant BUSINESS. BBQ was pleasantly peppery. And as a buffalo chicken connoisseur, it was A-​OK by me.

LOW CLASS recruiting department… This place in terms of service is like DMV compared to a Mercede Benz car dealership. It is a «has been.» Compared to how it was when it first opened. My friends were right and I should’ve listened!!! Their saving grace is LEON (the manager) who thankfully saved the night after the waiter who MIS– serviced us scream and swore at us… The customers. Verbatim: «it’s not my fault your FUCKING friends don’t know how to order!» To top it all, when I asked for the manager, he responded…“I’m the fucking manager tonight!“
If you want a stressful experience after a stressful day at work… This is the place! Coming from one of the local Entertainment studios with a team from out of this country… I do not recommend this place. Disappointing after a glorious early days 3 years ago. 100 to 0 real quick!

We stopped in with a big party before catching a flick across the street BECAUSE the website says «ladies drink for free» and «the HH menu is full-​tilt» on Saturdays.
Not true*.
Too late now. So we stayed only to discover that both the food and service and pours were subpar.
*Isn’t that false advertising? The waitress (who ignored us the whole time) is all «Ya, we’re trying to get that removed…» Like it’s so hard. Like, it wouldn’t take a web person all of 49 seconds to pull that down.
How do I know this? Because I’m a Unilocal Elite, of course:

Service from Eric was amazing!!! Our glass was never empty, very attentive to our requests, and the food was amazing!!! On top of the awesome service, food, and drinks, the atmosphere was buzzing. If your into sports, this is the place to be

Horrible, horrible service. It took 45 minutes for our beer to come out. Our waiter messed up on our order, and then later came out and yelled at us saying he was about to quit 10 minutes ago, but he stayed to help his fellow waiters out and that he doesn’t deserve this, and neither do we. Then he slammed his hand on the table.
We were all in shock when he finished his tirade. Never coming back.

Went here with a group of about 6 on a Sunday night to find the place nearly empty – perfect, as it’s usually pretty crowded. Our experience overall wasn’t terrible. The food itself was good. I had the brisket with a couple of sides, and enjoyed it.
The problem was more of the service. Despite there being literally only 4 tables filled in the whole restaurant, it was nearly impossible to flag down someone to help us in taking orders or anything. There was no ketchup or BBQ sauce on any of the tables, so we had to get up and go get it ourselves after waiting for about 10 minutes to see our waitress, who had disappeared.
I also ordered the wheats flight of beer. While it was a good selection of beers, it included the Sierra Nevada Kellerweis. I’ve had this beer numerous times before, and even have some in my fridge right now. What they served me at Smithouse that they identified as Kellerweis tasted more like someone had milked a rotten vegetable and then put butter in it. It was definitely a bad batch. I told the waitress, who said that the pipes were cleaned yesterday, so there was probably nothing wrong with it. I asked her to at least let the bartender know to check it, but never heard anything back after that.
Overall, I’d come back because of the great beer selection and good food… but I really hope that the service will be better next time, because it was really close to a deal breaker for all of us there.

Arduous mix with somewhat pub house? Proper restaurant area, booth seatings near bar full of seats, then Bullard pool area opposite side. Chill place for meet ups, not party crowd.
Crowd late 30s on a Tuesday night. $ 3 valet parking. Chill place to catch up with a friend or so. Not crowded, actually very empty on a weekday night.

fuck man… it’s hot in this bar!!!
came here last tuesday for a birthday party and it was a consistent 90 degrees everywhere in the bar except in front of the door. bee to the dubs — when they found out the ac was broken they only opened one door!!! i guess both doors would’ve been too much air flow thus taking away from the «Tampa Heatwave» theme of the night.
asked the waitress to turn on the a.c. and she said that it was at the highest it would go without breaking. time for a new AC folks. i don’t even think the AC was on. it felt like «fan» mode. never again will i do this place, dude. i don’t pay the moneys for overpriced sandwiches and a thin film of sweat ALL night long (and not the good kinda sweat… not the keith sweat — kinda sweat back at my crib wit da slo jams kicking).
The Garage on Motor has a very similar menu and priced much more appropriately. $ 15 sandwiches only fly if your name is Canter’s and even then you kind of have to be drunk…

More like 3.5 stars to me. Walking distance from Century City mall, so if you’re looking for a good burger and beer before catching a movie, just walk on over here from the mall. I really loved the space… it has a very open floor space and it just reminds you of an awesome gastropub. I appreciate places that give you a beer pairing suggestion with every dish, which this place does.
However! even though it’s been around for 4 years, the service was still a bit lacking. It took us awhile to get initial service, and after we ordered, nobody checked in on us for the whole meal. If the service gets better, I would definitely bump this up to 4 stars.
+ CHEDDER CRUNCH BURGER. I was craving a burger yesterday, and this dish definitely satisfied. The burger is very juicy and topped with a melted cheddar crisp, so you get a great mix of both the melted cheese with the crispy texture. The cheese adds a great layer of flavor on the burger as well. The fries they have here are seasoned shoestring fries, which are my favorite.
All in all, a solid place, and I would definitely come back again. I’m not sure if they were understaffed or not, but hopefully the service gets a bit better!

Came here on a a Wednesday evening to have dinner. I’m not sure if our waiter was just awful but it took us an hour to get a burger, chili, and sliders. And they forgot the condiments I asked for on the side and that took another 15 minutes to come out.
Then attempting to get our check was another pain in the butt.
Service is awful and food is mediocre.

This is was my first time here. I came for happy hour. People are very friendly and service was great until it got busy. Then we spent 10 min looking for waiter to ask for the check. Very small HH menu. Drafts are $ 1 off. The Woodchuck pear cider is great and light. But isn’t there supposed to be beer on tap at tables though?
Menu — lots of BBQ and other comfort food. Prices are kinda pricey but not for BBQ a la carte. $ 8 extra for 2 sides & fries. Burgers starting at $ 13, fries are extra. I’m not sure if the food is worth the money but the BBQ I smelled at other tables smelled great as did the bacon brussel sprouts.
Note for sliders you have to get the same kind in your pair for some reason. 2 for $ 6. We chose pulled pork. My friend thought they were great. I thought it was ok, needed BBQ sauce at the table. My friend had deep fried fish tacos and loved them.
The place is nice and big, a little dark with comfy booths. Lots of tv’s. For you trivia SportsCenter folks, sports trivia night is Tue at 8. I wanna give this a try. I could win a prize! They also have an open mike night. With 120 beers on tap I would come again.
I found side street parking west of Beverly Glen. You’ll get a ticket if u park east of BG. $ 3 valet parking.
A fun place to hang out but they need more wait staff for improved service.

I don’t know why the ratings are so low. Meeting a business partner for lunch, it was a nice sporty/​pubby ambiance, they had a good menu filled with delicious sounding things, and over 100 beers on tap — sign me up!
1. BBQ Chopped Brisket Sandwich ($ 15) — very tender and a good brioche bun. BBQ sauce was okay, but overall, it was very good. Perhaps missing a dimension to it – perhaps adding cole slaw to it – but I would order it again.
2. Weihenstephaner hefe weissbier ($ 6) — one of my favs on draft. Woo hoo!
Nice and friendly service, and free valet parking (with validation) — yeah, I’ll be back.

My husband is too busy watching Lakers game so I’m just going to do a crazy review while he ignores me.
We came for happy hour and let me tell you that it has to be the WORST happy hour menu in the history of restaurants.
First of all its freaking expensive. Five pieces of wings for $ 6. I got two orders so ten pieces for $ 12??? I’m from Atlanta and the place that has the BEST wings Taco Mac sells 10 pieces for $ 8 and it comes with a huge side of fries. It’s also amusing how they make their wings. First of all, I will say the wings are crispy because you definitely hear some kind of crunching noise when you bite into it. However, the buffalo sauce makes the wing super soggy, it literally feels like WET CARPET. I love wings. So much to the point that I can still enjoy chicken wings even when it is made poorly. Smith House is the one exception when it’s $ 6 for 5 wings with one measley celery, carrot and watery blue ranch.
Ribs– too much sweet sauce, super dry and tough meat.
Taco– my husband and I were surprised by the presentation of the food. It looked super fancy and pretty which was super weird since the ribs came out in a metal pail bucket. This taco is superrrrrr bland so I had to drench it in the overwhelmingly sweet ribs sauce.
Everything else about this restaurant is perfect. Drinks are amazing, staff is slow but still courteous, great place to watch games and even when the food absolutely suckssssssssss, this place still attracts a a good sized local crowd every night. However, they really really really need to step up their food menu. If they can’t, they need to drop the prices of everything on the menu by at least $ 3.50.
Oh, the HOT bread pudding is amazing with the ice cream. You gotta try it!

I’ve been going to this place since it was aphrodisiac, and it really struggles on execution.
They’ve changed the menu at least once, and it’s still struggling. They changed the best thing on their menu — the beer fondue — and not for the better. Much, much smaller serving. Not big enough to share at this point. At least they didn’t change the recipe.
This past visit we waited 20 minutes for a server table side until we just gave up and ordered drinks at the bar. We were told by the hostess that we hadn’t been assigned a server, in fact she told both our table and the table next to us at the same time. Kind of felt like I was in school listening to a teachers lecture rather than being addressed personally and apologetically. 25 minutes of looking at the menu and waiting for any acknowledgement, a very apologetic server came over and took our order.
Drinks still took forever to get, food came out slowly, but since we were there to watch a game we didn’t mind that. We did, however, mind the length of time to get a drink.
I got the BBQ brisket and it was less than awesome. There was no sauce on it, which was probably for the better since their BBQ sauce is horrible. It came to the table ridiculously cold, so I sent it back for warm up. Then it came back hot but totally dried out. As for the sides — the collard greens are like biting into a salt lick. Totally inedible. Had to send those back as well. I asked for ranch on my salad, it came out with Italian — which actually wasn’t bad.
The mashed potatoes, though. Now THAT is where it’s at! Absolutely delicious. Along with the baked beans. Those were delicious, too.
Their kitchen has always struggled, though. I don’t go there for the food, but for the drink, multiple TVs and ease of getting a seat since they are barely ever busy. The parking is really mellow as well. Free valet, so no circling.
Overall it’s a GREAT concept and could honestly compete with Yard house. They just need a complete overhaul on management and an experienced executive chef to create a better menu and manage the kitchen efficiently and effectively. (I hope they never get rid of the beer fondue, though. That’s what I’ll always come back for.)