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Ate on a Friday night with a 9:30 reservation. Place was packed until 11:30. Great vibe inside with terrific lighting. Quite warm however. Started out the night with some help from the beer "sommelier" who provided some great insight to the list even to a beer junkie like myself. Food on the whole was terrific. They encourage you to order many plates and share amongst yourselves and that's exactly what the three of us did. Started out with some raw kumamoto oysters. Delicous. Also proceeded to order the most delicous shrimp i've ever had in a curry sauce. They served some of the best house bread with a delicous goat's butter. Try not to fill up. Also had the sweetbreads with a perfect mix of bitter greens, roasted citrus and a salty sauce. Sublime. Also ordered the potee plate with a variety of pig parts, the charcuterie plate with the highlight being the headcheese, and the half roasted chicken with frites and sausage. The chicken was accented rather strongly with lemon and rosemary but it was cooked better than any other i've had. Just incredibly juicy. Fries were a slight disapointment based on what I had heard and especially in comparison to those from lunch the next day at Hot Doug's. Finished the meal with the chocolate panna cotta with stewed cherries. Also great. Overall they are doing some terrific cooking here with a focus on pork, oysters and beer. Can't go wrong with that.

Their farm chicken might be the best chicken I've ever had in my life. Hands down. I only docked some stars for value because contrary to perception, The Publican is NOT a cheap restaurant. Brunch main courses are under $10 but sides are pricey, come for dinner and you're spending $40-50 a person easy. Service is awesome, vibe is great. Room is very loud, though - would love for them to get some sound-dampening tiles or something.

Is the kitchen here even capable of a miss? Everything we ordered was like fireworks of flavor. The menu is kind of erratically priced - you can get out for $15/person or $50/person, without too much difference in quantity, depending on how you order - but the service is beyond awesome and the whole vibe is great. One recommendation (hope Paul Kahan is reading this): PLEASE describe the beers on the beer list. With that many varieties it'd be nice to know what's light, dark, hoppy, fruity, etc ., without having to ask the server to explain every single one.

We had reservations for 5 on a Monday night. The place was incredibly noisy even though it wasn't full and the waiter said it was a slow night. We asked for help ordering. Her idea of help was to tell us that everything was fabulous. We asked if we were ordering too much or too little and she said we were fine despite, at the end of the evening, having to cancel two orders because we had ordered way too much. We spent much of the evening handing our plates to the busboy--efficient as he was--as we changed courses; we felt like we worked there. When we asked for some spoons from the waitress so we could eat the just served shellfish stew, we were told that we should be patient, she would bring them as soon as she had time. This was an okay experience but we agreed that as a dining experience, we didn't need to repeat it.

We were a party of 4 on june 5th @ 5:30 - from the pork rinds to the pickled plate of treats to the frites with eggs, sweatbreads(lamb& shallots), Sand dabs(fish),Country Ribs & many different beers from the extensive list. Every dish was a wonderful taste experience! the desserts were also very tastey. We had the waffle with honey and rubarb sauce & buttermilk choc cake with a ginger & lime sorbet. Small plates but all delish!! would go again in a minute!! Beer list and pork rinds would be worth the trip on there own! highly recomend this place!!

Came for Sunday brunch with some friends and we honestly were blown the f*** out of the water. Every dish was stellar - red-wine poached eggs were a brilliant spin on boring old eggs benedict, the scrapple was kickass, the ham quiche and smoked fish is a totally inspired pairing. And oh my god, the bacon! I know bacon is over, but sweet god this is the best bacon I've ever had in my life. And considering that the brunch prices are all supercheap (rare to have something over $10), it's maybe my favorite brunch in the world. That's right - the entire world.

This place has fantastic food. We started the night with some great beer and wine and half a dozen mixed oyster sampler, and they were super fresh. We split the fish stew, which really the best bouillibaisse I have tasted outside of Marseilles, France, (pure fish stock with no cream). My husband could not stop sopping it up with his bread. The star of the evening was the veal brains. I didn't look at them too closely so as not to scare myself out of eating them, but they were superb little morsels that tasted like filet mignon. Our waiter was super nice and the place was packed when we went at 10pm on a Friday night, however the communal table does not make you feel like you are eating with strangers. They have cool booths if you go with a foursome. Overall this place rocks!