Pretzel With Queso
Congregation Ale House

Congregation Ale House

300 S Raymond Ave, Pasadena I-91105-2620, United States

Pub • Pubs • Burgers • American


"There seems to be a trend in Pasadena of restaurants with these weird menus of pizza and tacos and sushi, etc. all under the same roof. This place doesn 't have sushi but it certainly is keeping up with the Joneses. It 's a chain or something, right? So the Philly cheese stake comes in the bread equivalent of a taco sized sandwich. The chef wasn 't from Philly, best I could tell. So I wasn 't expecting much, and boy was I still disappointed. There was cold cheese that was roughly broken up over the top of my sandwich. The bread was soggy and untoasted, the beef taste of freezer, and the veggies were mush, like twice thawed peppers. The stand out champ was the fries. I sent the sandwich back and said charge me for the fries, lol. They were good. The kiddo had a pretzel and, I mean, how do you mess up a pretzel? You bring it out with a flavorless cheese sauce that had been over whipped resulting in a broken cheese sauce. No problem, people won 't notice the texture. I did but the kid didn 't mind. Service was normal, we didn 't ask for much attention so our drinks were full and he was totally fine. No fuss no muss. Would I go back? Not on purpose, but we 're frequently trapped in that area for an hour here or an hour there. So, Maybe. The fries were actually that good and they have a diablo fries that I 'd be down to try. I dunno, maybe. I included the picture of the sandwich lol. It really had like, ZERO meat flavor Oh, also they had the house lights at full freakin ' brightness when we walked in, then halfway through the meal they turned them down. It was like 6:30 so it 's not like it was early. The sun was already down. I audibly laughed when we walked in. Thank you for coming to my presentation about my experience at the congregation house."