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I guess it's not very relevant in light of the news, but we were there today and it was lovely. The star in my opinion was the braised pork with kimchi and polenta. Beet salad was beautifully put together, with tiny slices of orange and crumbles of a robust bleu cheese. It paired exceptionally well with my (complimentary) gin bloody mary, and I do not ordinarily have liquor with meals. Wife and daughter loved their chicken and waffles. My tarragon cake with lemon curd was glorious! It was my first time there and I am looking forward to returning.

It's just bar food, it gets the job done and the fries are crisp and the help is very friendly. These guys are in business to meet the expectations of weekend hog bikers and the people who support the Horse Farm folk in the area. They do a fine job of that. We had mussels and fish-and-chips last month and it was perfectly ok. The mushroom soup was a little too ambitious. Nothing here is going to make you write long letters to the Pope but if you order sensibly you'll get fed ok for not too much money

I was there for Godzilla a few weeks ago and I am a fan. My mushroom pizza was very generous with the mushrooms and responsible about the crust -- crunchy and good flavor but not quite the level of really good homemade. Def better than most restaurant pizza. I didn't try any of the other food but it was well received by my guests. We are probably an extreme case but we were up to a couple hundred bucks for five people -- two of those were teenage boys who eat EVERYTHING, plus I had a couple of ten-dollar margaritas, so if you order carefully you can do much better. That popcorn sounds like a heck of a deal and the quality of the pizza makes me believe that the popcorn will be excellent. Regarding the ten-dollar margaritas,get one *at the bar* and don't order one from your seat. My second one got watered down bad by melting ice but my first one was really darn good. The beer selection is very good although I think a "drafthouse" ought to have at least one cask ale on tap, but who actually does that. One structural problem I have is that beer and popcorn don't really make sense to me, and beer just feels a little wrong in a movie theater. I think I'll be able to overcome that, though.