Tall Tales Brewing Company

I stayed here through Harvest Hosts this week. Their brick oven pizza is amazing. I also had the Mahi tacos which were also great. The staff is friendly and attentive and there is plenty of parking for your RV in their rear parking lot. Conveniently located off Rt 50 and only about 25 minutes from Ocean City!

Where to even start with this place.

As a local, I’ve watched this spot reverse-evolve from a fun hangout with great food and solid drinks into a full-blown circus.

We waited over an hour for appetizers, and the excuse was a wedding party. Sorry, but a wedding party isn’t an excuse for bad service it’s something you plan for and staff for. Our waitress wasn’t rude, just completely aloof and detached, and clearly had no authority or backup to fix anything.

When food finally came, we still had no silverware, no plates, and no refills. My wife and I ordered two of the same mixed drinks twice four total. Not one came out the same. Some in glass, some in plastic, some with thin rims, some thick — and one even showed up with a Mexican salt-and-Tajín rim like we’d accidentally wandered into a different restaurant. The drinks weren’t bad, just completely inconsistent like a roulette wheel of glassware and garnishes.

The bathrooms? Forget it. Lines six deep every time. Maybe hire a restroom company or roll out some porta-potties, because clearly the infrastructure isn’t keeping up with the crowd.

Then came the grand finale dinner arrives after 90 minutes, delivered by a robot.
Now, the Japanese place down the road has the “smoking dragon” robot it’s cool, sleek, and fits the theme. This one looked like the Temu knock-off version. Between that and the empty claw machine by the bathroom, I felt like I’d wandered into a deleted scene from The Naked Gun maybe the modern reboot starring Liam Neeson and this robot as his sidekick.

At one point, I was standing in complete disbelief staring at that empty claw machine not a single prize inside when our waitress came bouncing over, absolutely thrilled to inform me, “We have more video games in the back!”
I just stood there thinking, “Are they all like this one? You put a dollar in and get a claw full of air?”

Honestly, years from now there’ll be kids in counseling saying, “It all started when I put a dollar in the claw machine and grabbed a handful of air… and the waitress told me, ‘Congratulations.’”

When the food came out with no silverware, I started to wonder if we’d stumbled into an Ethiopian restaurant experience communal eating, no utensils. I was halfway to asking for floor cushions so we could lounge and fully commit to the theme.

Meanwhile, the walls look like an NHL team’s been practicing slap shots for a year. The furniture’s grimy, and the bathroom looks like someone lost a bar fight in there, lights out, rusted fixtures, mystery stains.

The whole place screams no management, no quality control, and no pride of ownership. Someone needs to hit pause and reevaluate what’s going on here before this place completely implodes.

Honestly, Gordon Ramsay would lose his mind in here. I’m half-tempted to call Bar Rescue myself and submit a sponsorship application.

Until you see this place getting rehabbed on TV, do yourself a favor and go literally anywhere else because life’s too short to spend hard-earned money on bad experiences.

Waitress was nice and honest about small size of the brat but WAY overpriced when served with potato chips- see picture. The kitchen is either poorly staffed or terrible cooks/chef. Our Hawaiian pizza was missing bacon and ham and rather dry. Mostly cool when served to us. What we didnt ask for was the spicy sauce on it, so our son couldn't eat the food we waited over an hour to try. Both our pizza and pretzel were burnt on one side. We've had wood fired pizza at lots of other places and not had this issue.