Gaslight Brewery & Restaurant

15 South Orange Ave
South Orange, New Jersey, 07079
(973) 762-7077

I went to visit a friends who had just moved to South Orange and they were within walking distance, a big 2 blocks away, from Gaslight. I'm thinking "Cool, I guess I'll be down here to see you guys all the time". I think I'll need to revisit that thought. They have a bar area and a side room with a few tables with some tv's which we opted for. I started with the Oatmeal Stout and pretty much stayed there. It was a good creamy beer with a nice bite. And then it all went downhill from there. The aps were fine, but I ordered some southwestern chicken ravioli concotion that ran me $15 and had 5 (count them 5) actual raviolis in it. It also had 4 bread stick pieces, one on each side of the inside of the really big bowl this was served in, each one pointing inwards towards the slight amount of food provided. The 4 bread stick pieces forged a target to show you where your miniscule amount of food was. $15, for 5 frickin' raviolis. I would get more out of a can of Chef Boyardee. Putting the food thing aside, the server knew absolutely nothing, zero, zip, zilch, nada, not a dang thang, about the beers. Sure he could recite the names of them, but you know what? I'm perfectly able to read them off the blackboard on the walls too but they have cutesy names like "prince of darkness", what does that mean to me? Can-you-tell-me-about-your-beers?? Telling me that this one is a darker color than the other ones doesn't actually qualify. I had to call this "owner looking guy" over to give me the lowdown on the beers, which are a variety of English style beers (a mild, a strong ale, etc). And then my server is giving me an attitude for having had to call the owner over to describe the beer varities that he could not do himself. Not a great experience.