Very disappointed. Do not visit. We walked in and sat at the bar on a very slow night. The hostess said hello then nothing. The bartender never said a word to us for 5 minutes. Nothing...not "I will be back in a second". Nothing, crickets. We waited, took turns visiting the restroom. Nothing. We ultimately left. Also, we did grab a beer list during the wait but it didn't match any of the beers we had looked at online. All I can say is that if they continue to behave like this then it will be out of business soon. read more

Was there with family for brunch on Sunday October 13th. Ordered The Hangover dish which were eggs and gravy over fries with cheese curds. When the food was brought out mine was the next to last and it was not desirable. The fries were not even warm except for under the gravy and the eggs were borderline cold. The combination of which almost made me sick so I stopped eating period. When I told the server she apologized saying that there were many orders for out table. I find this highly inexcusable since anything with eggs should be the first to be served. Even though the item was taken off the bill, it didn't seem as if these folks even cared about how food is served. Next time I visit family in Lansing this will not be a place to go for eats. read more

This is a great place to hang and have a beer or three. Great ambiance and usually easy to find seating. Mostly friendly staff. Great beers and decent food. The fall seasonal "screaming pumpkin" is one of my all time favorite beers. FREE PEANUTS!!!! read more

Happy table of vegans here. Tasty options, friendly staff. Wish I didn't live over 2,000 mi away.

Menu is short, but contains a variety of delicious meals. I've had the buffalo chicken salad and duck burger. They make a solid brew and solid staff! Good meet up spot for a lunch during work or even after. Also don't be afraid to drink their homemade pop! Drank a cherry cola and it was amazing. read more

I've been to Midtown twice in the last month and have been very pleased both times. I found the beer selection as well as the food to be excellent. Once was for a late lunch on a Saturday and the other was weekday dinner and I've really enjoyed the atmosphere throughout the restaurant. The wait staff has also been very friendly & helpful so I have to say Midtown Brewing is an excellent addition to the Downtown Lansing food scene. Great job! read more

Stellar food and awesome drinks ! I had the muther Ducka burger and got a growler of Crispin. Our server Justin did a great job. Thank you !!! read more

Great beer, cool vibe, awesome food (I had the banh mi sandwich...delish). Dropped 1 star because there were two gnats flying around my face. That said, I will be back. read more

AWESOME Place! Ordered Buffalo Chicken Salad, surprisingly filling. Ryan (server) was amazing, pleasant and down to earth. This maybhave to do with the fact I left my debit card when we dined, but Chase was also super nice about it :) I stayed and ordered again before I left just because Ryan turned in my card and Chase was cool!!! Ill be back. read more

traveling to see family, best food and amazing service from Laura! HIGHLY RECOMMEND for a great experience with brews and food. Mac & Cheese was off the charts! Thank you. read more

Our short lived visit was so disappointing, especially after checking out the reviews and the menu online. We arrived and greeted promptly. We made our drink selections (the tap menu was different than was posted on the archaic website) and then tried to order food. As a vegetarian, I check out menus ahead of time to make sure there's something I can eat and was really looking forward to some of the selections I made from the so called New Menu online. The food menu we were given was completely different and we were told, "Oh, we do brunch all day on Sunday and the menu online that says New Menu is actually an old menu." I decided to skip food because there wasn't anything that didn't contain meat, the waitress offered vegan bratwurst - I don't eat fake meat either. Keep your website updated! read more

After over a years delay, MBC is finally open. I had the chance to go for lunch today, and was quite impressed. The food was good, and the portions were large. The service was fast, and there were plenty of employees on hand. They had a bunch of beers on tap, all local brews. No national mega corporation beers here. $4.50 for a pint. Caution: Do not plan on going to the bar and watching a game on TV, as there is NO TV in the place. This must be corrected if they ever want to have a crowd on a sunday. read more

For lunch, I had only 1/2 hour so decided to order takeout for my first visit. I sat at a table and was served very quickly by friendly staff. She gave me a beverage to-go and placed my order, french onion soup and the house salad. It arrived pretty quickly, but while I waited, I enjoyed the free peanuts. Price was quite reasonable. Someone on yelp indicated that it's "not good for kids," but when I was there, three adults and four children were seated and were enjoying lunch. I was in and out in 15 minutes. I will definitely go back again! read more

MBC makes above average beers, but most of them are not memorable. I really like the IPA I sampled, last night, but one of my favorite beers--period--is their Screamin' Pumpkin Spiced Ale. Love that stuff, and it's really incredible when it's from the tap instead of the bottle. ...but this isn't about the beer. It's about the establishment in downtown Lansing--the whole shebang. I was very excited to try MBC, so I made the two-hour journey from Detroit to meet some friends. I showed up late, and it took about 20 minutes to even get the waitress' attention, and then she forgot about me. After flagging her down, again--when we could actually find her--I finally had to say, "I'd like to order a Pale Ale and could I see the menu, please?" Things finally got rolling, but it still took a while to get my beer once I ordered it--probably 10 or 15 minutes. I ordered a burger, because burgers are usually a guarantee of a good meal. The waffle fries were boring and tasteless. The burger, well, the burger!--where's the beef?! The beef patty was thinner than a McDonald's burger! The bun was HUGE. I ate a few bites and pushed it away. When the waitress finally came around again, I told her that the burger was awful, and all she did was say, "I'm sorry," and handed me my bill. Really? I've had restaurants take back food and remove it from my bill for a hell of a lot less, and I didn't even say anything. Applebees, for example: the bartender noticed that I didn't eat my appetizer, and she asked me about it and I just kept saying, "That's okay! You guys didn't do anything wrong, I just didn't like it." I totally didn't expect them to remove it from my bill, but they did, and the manager even came and chatted with me for a while. I'm pretty disappointed that a Michigan microbrewery couldn't offer the same, if not superior service, to a chain restaurant. It was the worst dining experience I ever had. McDonald's would have given me better service and a better burger. For the first time, EVER, I didn't leave a tip. That's another funny thing: when she brought back my change, she didn't bring the coins. She just gave me the cash. Sure, it wasn't a lot of money, but how dare a business short me on my change! It was a waste of a two-hour drive for me, but I wouldn't even recommend this place for a five-minute walk. Lansing has other restaurants that are a hell of a lot better. Go check out the Nuthouse, if you're in the area. read more

This is a gem of downtown lansing. I wish I knew about it sooner and there were more like it.

Haven't been here since it was the other MBC, and I'm glad I gave it a shot. The bistro steak salad had enough protein to be a legit post workout meal, if you aren't VERY hungry, go for the half. Service was a bit slow at first finished well, I'll be back for sure. read more

If you want to come to a restaurant where you make a reservation and then the manager gives it away right before you get there? This is the place for you. Apparently here, making a reservation means making a time where you beginning waiting for a table to clear. Hope you have a great meal read more

Service is extremely slow every time I am here. It can take 30 minutes from time of order to get your first drink. Dinner takes 45 to 60 minutes, and we're not talking about difficult meals (pizza, Mac and cheese??) or especially busy nights (week days). This place can be completely empty at lunch hour and if you walk in with a small table, it still takes forever. Prices are higher than average. Food is good, always hot (never seems to be waiting on the burner long). Quality has increased recently, too. Wait staff is friendly, but seemingly overwhelmed (why would drink orders take so long if this were not the case). Management needs to increase staffing (problem seems to be lack of help?) or find another way to decrease wait times to justify prices. Something has got to give. I love and appreciate their presence downtown, but as a semi-regular, the wait times is something that continues to bother me and has shown no improvement in the last year. I hope they figure it out soon. read more

Their trivia night was super fun! They also have great selections for beers. Also, their nachos were awesome! I'll definitely be coming back soon. read more

Place has good food and good beer but their website is so ugly and so awful to navigate that i almost didn't go there. would love to be able to find menu, beer list, specials, and events a lot easier than the amount of work i had to put in to find it. read more

I really enjoyed my meal while dining with friends. I had a lobster grilled cheese sandwich and it was perfect. Nice size bread with real lobster meat and great cheese. It tasted really good. I can't wait until we eat there again because I want to try there new hamburger. read more

Really good food, absolutely awesome beer but zero good looking women and the atmosphere was ridiculously boring. I'd go again but I am bringing like every friend I can muster! read more

First time here. Service was great...very honest about what I had questions about. I got the lobster roll with totes and it was soooooooo good. I highly recommend. read more

After waiting 15 min with no waitstaff at our table, we went to the bar for service. Not cool, people. Good selection of wine and beer. 40 min. Still no waitstaff. Now we don't have time to order food. WTF. Lots of interesting items on the menu, but glad we grabbed appetizers at Troppo first! read more

I wanted to like this place. Went here for the first time today; food was mediocre at BEST. Know that you are unable to modify any of the menu items, even to request that something be left off (food allergies, anyone?); apparently the chef has decided what is best for you. Given how personal taste is, I find this pretentious in the extreme. I had the California Reuben and garlic pub fries. The fries were cold, limp and greasy (even after I had specifically ask that they be on the well done side). Just not even worth eating. The sandwich was just OK; frankly I've had a better sandwich for half the price. read more

We thought this place was really great. The steak tacos and BBQ chicken pizza were delicious and the double IPA was very nice. The kids grilled cheese was a big hit with the little one. If we pass through Michigan again, we'll stop here for dinner. read more

Great food! Great service!! Great IPA!!!! Worth the bus trip from MSU!!! Todd served us. When asked he shared what he thought were good for us (the IPA). We asked about food. He recommended the smoked dip for me and it was amazing. Super good flavor. Portion size was great. The rest of my party had similar experience with their food as well. I highly recommend Midtown Brewing Co. to anyone. read more

Good local beer great local quality food I would recommend the crab cake salad or the crab cake sandwich or what I like most the California Reuben very nice place for friends or family I would recommend to most anyone. read more

I recommend the burgers and any beer they have on tap. Great selections for a local bar.

Great place. My only dings are for dark lighting and salads that can leave something to be desired (taste good, but only 2- 3 ingredients). Would actually give 4.5 stars if I could. Otherwise great drinks, great house beers, and amazing burgers. I highly recommend the black bean burger and the Midtown 'American Stout'. Hubby loves the 'Mother Ducker Burger'. Great addition to Downtown. read more

Went there for lunch on Wednesday afternoon. Restaurant was half full. Waited for over an hour. We had to leave before the food was even delivered. Manager and wait staff were incredibly unhelpful. A party the same size came in after us, ordered, ate, and left before our food even arrived. read more

I can't even give MBC a star but I had to give one star to write a review. Went there on a Wednesday evening, 7:15 ish, place 1/2 full. Took 15 minutes to get our drinks, waitress inattentive. Finally ordered food after being there 20 minutes. Waited 45 minutes and no waitress no meal. Finally saw waitress walk by table with no acknowledgement we existed, stopped her and told her to cash us out for the drinks. Waitress never apologized or offered an explanation. After seeing the same complaints from other reviews I felt impelled to include my experience. Bizarre. Never had an experience such as this. I can't imagine this place staying in business. read more

Went here for lunch with coworkers, maybe 4 tables were occupied. Waiter came over and talked to us for a few seconds but only got two of us drinks. We waited 15 minutes to order drinks and then proceeded to get food (we had 7 in our group). After ordering, we anticipated our food to be out in a normal time, we were wrong. It took 50 minutes and at that time we had to be back to work so we just had them box it up so we could take it with us. Upon arriving back at the office we noticed that one person didn't even have their order and another order was wrong. read more

Dined at Midtown today with a group from work and truly could not wait to get back to the office to write this review - my first on Yelp. Our dining experience began with the waitress coming out and telling us that there were to be absolutely no modifications, per head chef's rules because the chef has put together offerings she believes taste good together and she's not going to have any lowly peasants f-ing up her creations. Oh...KAY! It's a new menu since the time I was there last and not an improvement, if you ask me. I ordered the buffalo chicken sandwich. When our food came out, I found that mine was inedible. Honestly, I think the sauce or the tomato (or something) had gone off. It just did not taste good. And, the fries were limp and luke-warm; same for my co-worker who asked to have hers well done (which they ignored, I guess that's a modification). At any rate, I flagged the waitress after trying a second bite of my sandwich, after scraping as much of the blue cheese sauce off as possible. I told her it did not taste good and that I didn't want to eat or pay for it. Not 2 minutes later, out marches the chef (all 22 years of her) - but she didn't come to apologize. No, no! She came to tell me that the tomatoes they serve are grown hydroponically and they pay almost $2 a piece for them so that can't possibly be the problem. Basically, she came out to tell me that I was wrong about my lunch, despite the fact I was the one trying to eat it. I eat out a fair amount and have been to a wide range of restaurants, and I have never had such an experience in my life. Someone needs to check her ego! Bottom line to me... this is yet another place that's trying too hard to be something it's not. It's a brew pub. It should have interesting, but still pretty middle of the road fare. And, if someone doesn't want a sunny side up egg on top of their crab cakes, that should be their prerogative! I didn't go to Midtown frequently in the past, but considered it a solid option for some types of circumstances. I will not return, under any circumstance. If I were the wait staff, I'd be pissed because there's no way this chef's attitude isn't affecting business and tips. read more

On numerous occasions, I've experienced some of the worst service. I keep thinking the service will get better, but I'm done. The final straw was when they charged $15 for a whiskey on the rocks. The server had asked if I had been there before and that's why she didn't tell me the price, as if I should know the whole food and drink prices after having been there. I highly recommend avoiding this place. read more

Agree with Coral Z about the food, but I thought the service was good. They recently revamped their menu and took off the selections that everybody loved and went there for (olive burger, turkey on pretzel bread for example). About the "no mods" - I couldn't get a burger (listed on the menu wih bacon, cheese and BBQ sauce) without the sauce and I couldn't ADD bacon to the cheeseburger. I ended up with what I thought would be a french dip , NY Strip and even though the menu said it was "smoked" I couldn't imagine how "smoky" it would taste. Awful and bitter. From what I gathered the new chef is very rigid and pompous and perhaps doesn't understand the whole concept of pleasing the customer - that's what makes money, because the people will come back. I won't. Though the beer was good! And as I said, so was the service. read more

Please let people build their own pizza. You have all the fixings. Build your own is not gonna bankrupt you. Also, bartenders who actually talk and say things like thank you go a long way. read more

This place was so much better when it was Michigan Brewing Company, it really gone downhill since, I wonder what happened? I came in the other day with my parents, thinking this would be a nice place to grab a quick lunch before touring around the capital a bit. At first upon arriving we did the usual wait to be seated. Although even know there was about 15 open tables at the time of arriving, still took the host a good 10-15 minutes to get to us, her conversation with the bartender was very important I guess. We were finally seated, at a dirty table which had ketchup and salsa all over it, and of course the host didn't care and just walked away, so I had to ask our waitress when she finally came to take our drink order for a towel to clean it up myself. She leaves, comes back, and just throws this nasty wet rag down on or table and walks away! My parents and I were just blown away! What kinda of resturant does that? Well after tidying up the table ourselves we waited another 45 minutes for our waitress, or anyone to take our order... No one ever came, so we decided to just leave. I've never been so embarrassed taking my parents anywhere. Well my boyfriend suggested Lansing Brewing Company, which is right down the road and let me tell you it was vastly, vastly better! No problems and a perfect 5 star rating! Do yourself a favor just go there instead. read more

First timer. I had a flight of Midtown beers were all excellent. The Brewmaster has my respect. I had the lobster grilled cheese sandwich and it hit the spot. I don't know why I don't see something similar everywhere. Nice people. read more

Go for a beer & eat somewhere else. They took the wings off menu, bummer. I had a blue cheese burger that had teeny tiny amount of cheese. Downtown spot is nice tho. read more