Wow. I honestly can't recall a time I have recieved slower service. A friend and I stopped in for a late lunch last sunday afternoon. The place is clean with a fairly good atmosphere, and that is the only nice thing I have to say about it. There where only a few occupied tables and despite the fact the place was nearly empty, the whole staff was farting around basically doing nothing yet it took them about 20 min to realized we where there, an they only did so because I got so sick if waiting I got up to get my own menu. They where nice enough and apologized but a major part of being a good server involves talkin to your fucking customers on occasion! Finally they took our drink order but it was about another 20 minutes before she returned to get our food order. We each got a burger and for some reason they don't have fries. You have a choice of potato chips or pay more for soup or a salad. Weak. Then we had to sit there for another 45 before we recieve our food. It's a fucking burger! There is no reason why it should take more than 15 min to make a burger when your restaurant is practicly empty. And it obviously didn't because my burger was fucking charred and barely warm. In addition to the slow service an crappy food, the whole time we where there there was a vent underneath our table blowing out subzero air freezing our legs and it was a really cold day. This was the worst experiences I have had eating out in a long time, save yourself 2 hours and alot of grief, this place sux!

So I really don't understand it: does the fact that the servers make minimum wage in this state give them reason to say "To Hell With My Tip, I'm getting paid anyway?" I recently went to the Bridgeport Alehouse with my girlfriend 12/20/07 around 7pm. The place was not at all busy. In fact, there were several tables that were vacant the entire time we were there (one hour and twentyfive minutes). Despite bringing our menus quickly and taking our drink orders promptly, our waitress disappeared for 20 minutes before taking our meal order (2 burgers medium rare). While we were waiting another waiter came up and barked at us to see if we wanted any drinks. When we replied that we had already placed an order he turned away, and in doing so, rudely flung two coasters onto the table as though trying to enact a fade away jumper on the frisbee golf course. The next 45 minutes was excruciating as we questioned why it took so long to cook our food that we had requested to MEDIUM RARE. Which denotes, if anything, that it should take actually a few minutes less to cook. At this point, I'm looking for my waitress because I've been sitting here for over an hour and she hasn't even served me water. Much to my dismay, I see her taking 3 trips to serve 6 beers because she can't find it in herself to use a tray. What fucking server at an ALE HOUSE can't use a tray. When our burgers finally came, they were overcooked and tasted like cardboard. The overstacked overcooked burger was so large it necessitated a fork but since I'm being served by the doofus express, she'd only provided us with knives. It takes us so long to flag her down, we end up going to the bar and getting our own water and our own silverware. We left completely unsatisfied and vow to never spend another dime at the Bridgeport Alehouse where the only service we received that was worth a damn was our own.

First off they have had the beer specials advertized on Bar Fly. 2nd waitress was a total bitch

Nice live music in the corner off of stools. Lots of plastic yuppy like people, but their fun to watch. Beer is your usual Bridgeport excellence. A little less pretentious than Starbucks, but the yuppy women are good on the eyes, just glad I don't have to put up with their whiny shit.

Though it's a bit yuppie in style, Bridgeport is a great place to go for beer and especially for food. Love the chicken breast sandwich. The french onion soup is a bit too sweet, but the salads are all very good. I like the clean feeling for change too.

The Bridgeport Alehouse in Southeast offers great happy hour prices, as well as excellent opportunities to people watch, or stop in ater a day of shopping on Hawthorne. There is also another Bridgeport in N.W., on 14th and Marshall, I believe. This one is also cool, but much different atmosphere. Both have pretty good food and an awesome assortment of beer.