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    Rockfish Brewery

    4.0 (11 reviews)
    Closed 12:00 pm - 11:00 PM
    Updated 2 months ago

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    John M.

    T'was a rainy Sunday on the Downtown Mall and we wanted to grab a beer. We had our two pups with us and Peter (the owner) was gracious enough to let us bring them inside with us. They are connected to the new Bebedero spot and offer food from them. The Bebedero is closed on Sunday so Peter encouraged us to grab some food and bring it in. I love the new location, comfortable taproom feel. He said their new brewing equipment will be in soon to allow them to brew onsite and not transport beer from their Preston location. The beer is great, my favorite is the NEIPA when he has it on tap. You can't go wrong with any of his brews. Rockfish will be on our permanent rotation when on the Downtown Mall.

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    Peter M.

    Great to have you in on a rainy day! Cheers!

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    Thanks for coming in! Cheers!

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    Food was good and beer just ok. Unfortunately service was not and the server/bartender seemed very annoyed to wait on us.

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    Despite how busy the downtown mall was, Rockfish had plenty of seating indoors which was ideal for our purposes.

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    4.7(44 reviews)
    1.4 mi
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    Great veteran owned brewery with chill employees, great selection of beers and plenty of seating…read moreinside and outside. Husband enjoyed his flight and even got a growler fill of one of the beers he liked. Loved that they have a large selection of games to play.

    My husband and I came here with our 2 dogs a few weeks ago while in town to go hiking. We saw…read moreonline that they had a very large, pet-friendly beer garden, so we came here after a long day of hiking to relax with some beers. When we arrived, the parking lot was very full and we quickly realized that they had trivia going on inside. While working our way through the taproom to go outside, we had to walk past a table that is right next to the patio door. It had a big trivia group around it and they had a very reactive dog that lunged and tried to bite both of our dogs. Not a great start to our time there. Once we got outside, we realized we could sit anywhere because not one other person was outside. I stayed by a fire pit area with the dogs while my husband went inside to grab beers. He came back with our first round and we planned out some more places we wanted to go to in Charlottesville during our stay. Not once while we were there (for 2 hours or so) did a single staff member come out to check on us or offer to turn on the gas fire pit. My husband said that the woman at the bar the couple of times he went up there was friendly enough, but there were several other people on staff that didn't acknowledge him/us our whole visit. As it got closer to closing time, we noticed people leaving, but the parking lot seemed to stay full with the same amount of cars. I'm not sure if there is a car repair place nearby and they share parking or if 90% of the people inside decided to ride share home, but it made us think for a long time that a lot of people were still inside for trivia night. My husband went inside to close out and saw that only one other table was still there, so we packed up our stuff we brought for the dogs and went to head inside to leave after finishing the last of our beers. We took our empty glasses up to the bar and the last table inside had just left, so we were the last customers. The woman standing at the end of the bar completely ignored us, didn't thank us for coming in, and stayed on her phone the whole time. It was just super rude and only enhanced the overall unpleasant experience we had during our time there. The beers were good and they seemed like a popular spot for a trivia night, so maybe it's better to visit and stay inside, but we didn't have a good time and wouldn't come back if we are ever in town again. I did really like that they had a community area for fresh food for people in need.

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