The Canadian Brewhouse

So im just gonna say this first i am not a person looking for a fight but the bouncers here are totally disrespectful. The first time I was here with some buddys and the guys beside us were causing issues which we pointed out to one of the guys working that night and did nothing till my friend with a cast went out for a smoke and the guys beside us followd him and starting fighting him we then went out to end it. The manager on duty told us and his exact words were get the fuck out of my bar. And then let the guys who started the problem back in.
That is one of the issues I’ve had the other was I orderd a burger and it was cold so I asked for a manager and his response was deal with it I then responed with if im spending money I expect something descent then I was asked to leave so that being said I dont intend to come back or spend my money
Change your attitude and maybe my buddys and I will return

I really hate giving a mediocre metric. I am more of a black or white kinda gal, so I will preface this review with a promise «to follow up» in the near future for a more definitive opinion. I also understand this is a fairly new location and they need to work out the kinks. They are pushing it with about a year of being open…
We have been here a few times before this review so I will give you a consolidated summary of the good and not so good.
One of our past experiences we had ordered our food and had to wait over an hour for it to come out while some people who came in after us were getting their orders before us. After we kicked up a fuss with our waitress she went in the kitchen and the food then came out luke warm and made wrong. I ordered my sandwich with cheese and after taking a bite found out there was none. So I sent it back for two deficiencies, cold sandwich, made wrong. Now this is what kills me… They put a piece of cold cheese on my already cold sandwich (you know, the one I already took a bite out of) and brought it back to me!!! That is insane and begging for a negative review! It was obviously a calamity of errors between our waitress and the kitchen. After asking to speak to the Shift Manager because our experience was so horrible she did manage to make it right with her magical manager ways.
On the same visit they had U.S. College Basketball on almost every tv but what doesn’t make sense to me is the World Junior Hockey Championship was only on 2 small tv’s that we could barely see from our table. Team Canada was playing, we live in Canada and we were at the Canadian Brew House. What???
Had I reviewed this location after this visit they would have received a one star rating and only because of their fabulous manager and that is about it. BUT I really want to like this place so I refrained.
This most recent visit when we were ordering drinks, I was interested in having a glass of wine. I know that they had been carrying Kim Crawford, Savignon Blanc by the glass, but to my dismay the wine list had changed (I had an old, sticky, menu in my hands). Not one decent white wine option and not one Savingnon Blanc available. Disappointed. Our Server suggested the Shiraz then I had to inform her that Shiraz is a red and Savingnon Blanc is white. Guess this is a «Brew House» so they may not know, but the staff should be familiar with their own menu. I know there are better options by the bottle, but I don’t want a bottle, just a nice glass of wine with lunch. Not boat gas. They will need to change the ‘by the glass’ options before I come back again. And yes, I only drink wine~ not beer.
Their ‘by the glass’ options are not the same as their ‘by the bottle’ options (which are pretty decent). Who is making these decisions and why do you choose to carry twice the inventory? Makes no sense at all! Obviously they are getting a contractual rebate or a lower cost/​higher margin from the ‘by the glass’ wine vendors.
I spoke to Drew, who was the shift manager about this when he came around to our table and he was fantastic! They are lucky to have him in their employ (he went around and spoke to everyone! A rarity). He was empathetic and offered a few different options to get around this swill they are now offering. Half price bottle Thursday or ordering a bottle and taking what isn’t drank at the time, home. I will never do the latter because I won’t pay double for a bottle of wine that I can buy at the liquor store, I am smarter than that and they have yet to win my loyalty as a customer to earn this. Drew did intrigue me with the Thursday option.
Their Management Team is ‘hands down’ fantastic!!! And that is the only reason right now that they get three stars.
Just a few more minor notes. 1. The regular order of nachos is huge (like, can’t wrap your arms around, kind of huge), perhaps they should offer a half size option. We felt really bad about wasting all the food that we couldn’t eat because we were unaware of the size when we ordered. 2. Pickled jalapeños are waaaayyy better than fresh on nachos, we thought the fresh was just weird and a little uncommon. 3. Remove all wicker (nacho tray for example) from your restaurants. Anyone in the restaurant/​hospitality industry knows wicker can not be cleaned.
I am looking forward to revisiting this location after all cylinders are firing together and updating my review!

Great food just don’t go there on a weekend in the evening… it turns into a loud crazed drunk fest bar.

I enjoyed the burger. Good busy atmosphere if you want to be in a loud social gathering type restaurant. Not as we suited for a one on one quiet conversation type meal.
The free bus ride to flames game is a huge bonus. Drink down a beer before stepping onto the bus and you can have a worry free experience of no parking, and being able to have a couple more beers at the game. Seriously I hope to never drive to a flames game again with this service. Remember to tip your driver!

It’s hard to find much wrong with The Canadian Brewhouse in Airdrie.
It’s a huge and well-​decorated place. Sports pub high end. Lots of booths and tables and a massive bar. There’s no shortage of seats and SO many TV’s! Good-​looking crowd too!
My server was the bartender, and he really went out of his way to provide spectacular service. It was not crazy busy but you could tell he was a pro. Super nice guy too.
I had a chicken salad and it was fresh and delicious.
Great beer specials!
Why wouldn’t you go?

Nice place, good food. They just need to turn the volume down a little it’s nice to be able to the hear the person across from you.

My oldest Babygirl works here, that’s why I was initially going to come but she wasn’t working this day:(My friend was in the mood for pub food which is a rarity for me, I thought it was a bad idea but we went and I was delighted to see they had some GREAT menu options. I had the Filet Mignon w/​button mushrooms, roasted potatoes, veggies and gravy for less than $ 20.00. There was a LOT of LOVE cooked in that little 6oz, I left full and HAPPY! I will be back. Lots of big screen, looks like a great place to watch the UFC.

Hubby and I went there last night for dinner. Thought we should try the new place out.
Service was just ok — I think she was overwhelmed or maybe got slammed with multiple tables at once, not sure. Nice girl but not super attentive. Drinks sat empty for quite a while, empty plates sat for a while, needed to request her through another server.
The wings weren’t actually wings but rather chicken nuggets (processed meat in other words), my shrimp tacos were lukewarm and hubby’s sheps pie would’ve been good except he thought there was too much cheese on top.
After my first bite into the tacos I did let my server know they weren’t hot and requested a fresh plate be made. She apologized and said no problem. Once my hubby was taking his last bite of his meal, my tacos arrived. Slightly warmer than before, but not much. But at this point I’m hungry and just want to eat.
Once we received the bill our server informed us that the tacos were comped — which we appreciated as we didn’t expect that at all. So I give them props for that.
Overall though I don’t think we’d go back. There’s too many other choices here in Airdrie now.

I met a work friend for lunch today at the Brew House. Pretty nice place inside, lots of TV’s with sports on, a big bar, lots of seating and nice staff.
I ordered the Canadian Burger and fries. My friend ordered the beef dip and sweet potato fries. We got our food pretty quickly. Here is where they lost a star or two for me. I understand they are a franchise, and you should get the same food no matter which restaurant you go to, but ugh… its so bad!
The fries were… fries. Crinkle cut freezer fries. Can’t say much more. The burger looked and smelled ok, it had potential. Sadly, after I bit into it the potential left. It had that grey pressed sponge look. I hate when you bite into something SO overly processed that you can’t even imagine what is in it making it that way. Flavor was OK, just OK.
Most chain restaurants are similar, they are what they are. But I don’t rush back to the Canadian Brew House.

2^nd visit. Would prefer kid free all the time. But after 8 it is kid free. Food is great, noise level for some might be too loud. But we came to watch hockey and expected noise. Our waitress was excellent and intuitive, will most definitely come back.

We went to try it out at the behest of my 15-​year-​old son (minors are allowed until 8 PM) and I am pretty sure I know why that was now… but we’ll get to that. You are first greeted by a pretty cool sports bar décor, with one wall made from old hockey sticks, another made from backlit corona bottles, and about 65 big screen TV screens including four made into a «Jumbotron» above the bar. If you want to catch the game, there is no way to find a bad seat in the house for that.
We sat ourselves in the area up top and immediately noticed that for a Wednesday lunch hour, the place was packed! We were served quite promptly by our server and received our drinks right away. Between three of us we ordered 2 of their daily special of tenderloin, mashed potatoes and Caesar salad for $ 12.99 which came skewered with a lottery ticket, a pound of wings (we ordered another later) and their bacon wrapped stuffed jalapeños. The steaks were cooked well to order and the wings were reportedly delicious (my son’s meal). The bacon wrapped jalapeños were absolutely disgusting. Rather than the traditional method of stuffing them, they have opted for a lengthwise halving, plopped the cream cheese on top, then wrapped the wildly varying sizes of peppers with bacon. I am not sure what made those tiny little peppers so wilted and shrivelled, but it sure wasn’t too much time in the oven judging from the practically raw bacon draped around them. I took the bacon off mine and ate the pepper, well, a bite of it. Yuck! My partner bit one and that was all. He spat his out and he likes tender bacon. A food abomination like this would not have been so notable aside from the «Oh, that’s too bad» we received from the server and the $ 11.99 we paid to have a revolting looking plate sitting in the middle of the table, but we probably would have replaced it with something else and had a better dish to rave about and remember. I am pretty sure our server loaded up on Valium before her shift, so to be fair it may be why she didn’t apparently care about too much beyond a monotone repetition every time she was near the table of the phrase «How’s the food.», it was not so much a question, though.
My impression of the place takes me back to why my 15-​year-​old probably wanted to go back even after his Dad and StepMamma won’t return. I later learned they disliked the food. His first reason is he loves chicken wings and they did wings pretty well. The second is likely that, for whatever reason, despite the failure of Fox in Airdrie that had similar female uniforms and the closure of Hooters and The Tilted Kilt in Calgary, they seem to feel that their establishment has enough other positive qualities to buck the widely reported trend away from scantily clad, (and in our case, vacuous) servers. They wear skirts that do not fully cover the buttocks of their female servers– no joke, you can see a full quarter cheek of the female servers butt cheeks while they are standing up straight! The male server and the male bartender were dressed quite sharply, but it was a conservatively striking contrast to the scantily clad women and even left a bad taste of objectification in my Fiancé’s mouth (although, again, that could have been the appetizer…). I am all for sexy and revealing, this was just overplayed, predictable and trashy.
I would maybe go back to watch a hockey game, order wings and enjoy a few beers. It would not be my first choice, which is unfortunate as the menu had some tempting offerings and the décor was really inviting and even had a «Terrence and Phillip» mural. When the novelty of being new wears off, there is nothing so unique or special to keep this place busy.

As soon as I saw that red trim go up during construction I got excited because it only confirmed the rumours about CBH coming to town.
Exactly what Airdrie needed and blows Brewsters, Toad & Turtle, Pour and any of the others out of the water when it comes to watching sporting events. Minor glitch on opening weekend that required everyone to go next door to Mr. Mikes to use the restroom but something tells me that’s all Mr. Mikes will be good for in the future.
See you all there for many, many Flames games and HNIC.
Welcome to town CBH!

Best pub in town! I have been to Pour, Toad&Turtle, Original Joes, Brewsters; this blows them out of the water. Great food, good service, awesome building.
Went in this morning after hockey. We were the first customers as it just opened today. Tons of staff around, super nice, and recommended food for all of us. Its mostly pub food, but very well made. Huge menu, from wings and poutine, to pizza and fish and chips. It was hard to decide what to order as it all sounded so good.
Lots of beer on tap, all the major names, and some rare ones like Sapporo.
Only difficulty was the server couldnt print one persons bill, so the early guy to leave had to pick his seat off the bill of all eight of us.