As we speak the house owners of Toledo’s Maumee Bay Brewing Company open their first enterprise in central Ohio, Shawnee Station Taproom & Kitchen. The companion brewery affords a brand new identify, trendy house, and upgraded menu, all located in a brand new construct on Glick Highway in Shawnee Hills, proper throughout the O’Shaughnessy Dam from the Columbus Zoo. (On the different finish of the strip is Boston Stoker’s newer espresso store.)
Maumee Bay’s unique location in downtown Toledo makes its dwelling in an historic brick constructing relationship to the late 1800s. (You may see a few of it in our put up Two Days in Toledo.) By comparability, Shawnee Station is way more trendy, with pure woods, calming blues, and usually unadorned partitions.
There’s a big bar to at least one facet, with seating each contained in the restaurant and on the all-season patio.
The beer menu at the moment options a couple of dozen Maumee Bay brews. I’m unsure in the event that they’ll brew any branded Shawnee Station beers, however there’s a small brewing system subsequent to the kitchen. At our preview dinner, I tasted their Doppelbock.
Additionally they characteristic a small assortment of wines and cocktails, like this margarita.
The menu affords a spin on the unique brewpub’s tavern-style menu, with a number of upgrades. It looks like a should to order the large Bavarian pretzels, which arrives suspended on a rod with sides of honey mustard and beer cheese.
The blue crab pimento cheese dip was one in all our favourite bites of the meal. It’s served with house-made pork rinds, naan, celery, and inexperienced onion.
The starters menu additionally options one-pound servings of wings with a wide range of sauces.
The menu continues with a set of salads, flatbreads, soups, and sandwiches like this nod to their Lake Erie origins, the panko-crusted walleye sandwich with jalapeno, sesame-pepper slaw, avocado, and a candy chili mayo.
You’ll additionally discover a smashburger, BLT, and the crispy hen sandwich with arugula, spicy garlic aioli, bourbon bacon, and onion jam.
Entrees vary from tuna poke bowl, roasted Amish hen, blue crab baked gnocchi, steak frites. Right here’s the chimichurri hangar steak, served with potatoes, roasted tomatoes, and a pepper jelly.
The line-caught halibut is served with olive oil-poached potatoes, olive ragout, saffron butter, and a petite herb salad.
Shawnee Station encompasses a personal occasion room as effectively.
And a size-able all-season patio, full with fire.
Shawnee Station Taproom & Kitchen is at the moment open Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday, 11 a.m. to midnight; Saturday 10 a.m. to midnight; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Shawnee Station Taproom & Kitchen
6058 Glick Rd.
Powell, OH 43065
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