Coyote Tap House

So the manager told us to come back and he would comp our next meal.
We went back during the evening and had a better experience. The managed apologized and comped us ½ our bill.
We soon learned that the owner cooks during the day and according to some employees his level of service isn’t that great.

First off… place is pretty big which was nice, plenty of televisions to watch sporting events. Came here for the Wild Card game specifically SF vs GB. Place was empty so a little concerning and prior reviews not that great.
Service: Pretty good, bartender was very attentive, got us our beers, took our food order, and would continually come out and check on us. However, this was the bartender and there really wasn’t a waiter or waitress which might have been a problem if the place was more busy.
Beer: Only tried the Scrimshaw pilsner, tasted good and it was cold.
Food: Here’s why the review is what it is. Ordered Nachos, Garlic Fries, and a Pulled Pork/​Pineapple pizza. Nachos were like going to a little league game or am/​pm, just dripping with nacho cheese sauce rather than fresh grated cheese melted onto the chips and toppings. Chips were soggy. The fries were limp and didn’t taste fresh, however, the amount of garlic was spot on. The pizza, very oily, not a lot of flavor to the pork, and the crust was cooked unevenly.

I won’t leave a horrible review because honestly this place isn’t that bad. It’s just nothing special! I’ve been to coyote tap house a few times and it’s just not somewhere I’m dying to go back!
There’s a pretty significant stage at the far end of the restaurant but, to my knowledge, no one uses it. If there were a bunch of pool tables and other bar games I think it would really save this place! It always looks empty because of all of the dead space!
If coyote tap house wasn’t really close to my house I would never go. The customer service is great but in downtown sacramento there are too many awesome restaurants, bars and clubs to not have a niche! This place will be out of business by 2015 if they don’t spice it up a little but!

Ummmm. Honestly, I try to avoid this place like the plague. I only come here if I absolutely have to (i.e. league bar for my volleyball team). I have read in other Unilocal reviews that their beers do not taste very good. I have not experienced that. However, I have experienced terrible service. There is one caucasian gentleman with glasses who is always pleasant and provides good service. (He is the reason I am giving this place an extra star). The other bartenders provide horrible service. I usually have to wait at the bar for awhile before I am acknowledged. There is rarely more than a handful of people at this bar so there is no reason I am being ignored. Also, I have tried their food and it is not good.
Based off most of the other Unilocal reviews I hope this place gets their act together.

Not sure what’s going on around here? Ive stopped in several times over the last few months and have watched the quality slip away. The bar service has always been good, but otherwise things seem to be in a free fall.
The bar advertises 50+ brews on tap, but I have never seen more than a handful of customers on hand to drink all that beer.
Here’s a snapshot of my last visit, with Luci N: ordered two craft ales. Our first pour was no good (we’re talking two different brands). Neither was our second. This has never happened to me anywhere!
Moments later, a woman came to the bar with the same complaint about her beer. Next, our nachos (highly recommended by our bartender). The chips were sitting in a pool of oil and the meat was dry from storage, as though it had been sitting around for a long time. Hey, I even finish entrees I don’t like — but these poor nachos were gettin no love from even me.
Are they serving old beer — or even worse, old food? Man that’s gonna kill em!
After reading recent reviews I think there’s a pattern here — sadly I don’t think we will be back under the current ownership, because if the owner is cutting corners on the beer, I don’t wanna know what’s going on with the food!

Awesome place to go to ESPECIALLY if you have a large group, as there is plenty of space for seating.
The bar area is also nice if you are flying solo or with a smaller party.
All in all, the place has a very welcoming atmosphere.

This place is hard to review. I’m not in love, but I’m not in hate with this place. So I guess I’m just in like?
I love the staff and the openness of this place. There’s a great selection of beer and a fantastic bar to sit and catch up with friends. Also, the happy hour food prices cannot be beat! Every food item is ½ off! You can’t go wrong with that.
The food is an interesting variety, including ramen to nachos. I like the variety, thought the openness to the menu is almost overwhelming. I’m not sure what they were going for when the menu was created, but it certainly is interesting. Hey, it pleases everyone?!
The food here isn’t bad. It isn’t amazing either. However at ½ off, I don’t feel like I have much room to complain. A HUGE $ 5 bowl of ramen lasted me two days, and it really filled me up.
They have tv’s set up, so if you’re looking for a chill place to watch a game, go here!

The food here is atrocious!!! I can’t believe I just wasted my lunch hour and money on this HORRIBLE food. My bf and I went here on our lunch breaks. He ordered the kung pao chicken and I the house fried rice and we were given SLOP! His miso soup was cold and my salad was nothing, but a bowl of brown lettuce. His kung pao chicken had all of about 5 pieces (and that is being generous) of chicken that were smothered in undercooked veggies. When I recieved by rice the top portion was okay, but as I continued eating I got a bunch of stale hard grains and it tasted slightly burnt.
I asked for sweet and sour sauce (a staple in any Asian resturant) and I have to wait 10 minute, I dribbled some on my rice only to discovered it tasted like sour kitchen cleaner. Apparently they dont have sweet and sour sauce, so the chef made up this concoction, since it was so bad I had to scrape the rice it touched into a napkin!
The waitress seemed more concerend with socializing than with helping us, which is sad because we were the only people there in the resturant besides her friends.
Next time when I see an empty resturant I will walk on by, because that is the tell tale that the food sucks in a major way!
If I could give this place a 0 I would, because the service sucks and the food is even worse.
Needless to say, I will NEVER be going here again.

So we stopped by this bar on a Sunday night to watch the last quarter of a Broncos game. We drive by this place and it’s always empty so we decided to give it a try.
They have a good set up with TVs, which makes me think this would be a good place to watch some football games. But without a crowd, it seems a little sad. I think if they could attract more 20 somethings to make it a game day spot, it would definitely make the place feel more lively.
Our group ordered some food but the only person working that night was the bartender. He was nice enough but occasionally seemed more interested in his friend that showed up at the bar, as opposed to serving us.
We tried the pulled pork nachos, fish and chips and garlic fries, all of which was OK. The fish and chips were the better option of the 3, but the nachos were definitely NOT something I would recommend.
Overall, I’d come here to for a low key spot to watch a game but for food and hype, I would probably venture elsewhere.

Coyote Tap House, you done me wrong. Sad face.
3 of us popped in around 5 on a Saturday after seeing a show at the nearby Music Circus wanting to get a drink to wait out the traffic, and if drinks had been flowing an appetizer probably would have made its way onto our bill too. It was empty when we walked in but seemed to fill up quickly with many other theater patrons — a good sign! We were seated at a high table for 4 that was wobbly as hell and I mentioned this to the woman who seated us and she just looked at me and walked away. Alrighty.
3 – 4 servers, all female, in the space of 3 – 4 minutes approached us to bring us menus and take our order and we told each one of them we were only ordering drinks and needed a moment. Our final server seemed to be Kailie, who was very nice but flustered and said had just started — I took this to mean her shift, but my companions thought she meant the job itself. Could be.
They ordered beers on tap, I asked for a glass of pinot noir and headed to the ladies room, which was fine. I returned to the table to see a glass of white wine waiting for me. Great. I manage to get Kailie to notice us, tell her I ordered pinot noir, she blames the bartender and returns with a glass of pinot (I assume) with pieces of cork floating in it. I’m so ready for a drink at this point I don’t care — but unfortunately the wine is HORRID. The rancid taste of a bottle gone bad, with crystals on the cork. I know that taste. Everyone else sips it to confirm that it is shit — it is. It is impossible to get Kailie’s attention so I don’t bother. When the bill arrives, the wine is listed as Rail Bridge Pinot. I look it up and it’s a local Sacramento winery — how cool! So I sincerely hope the bar just had a bad bottle, otherwise YIKES — avoid.
I can’t speak on their food even though their menu, a fun offering of burgers, pizzas and asian-​inspired apps, looked promising. There were no food smells in the restaurant to even tempt us. And unfortunately with service this lousy and inconsistent, not to mention weird, I won’t be returning to sample the food. Seriously, TRAIN YOUR STAFF before you unleash them on the floor.

After coming here I can see how this place is rated so low. Funny thing is we didn’t even eat anything. All we had were drinks, and they were still that bad.
We came here after seeing Chicago at Music Circus. We wanted to kill some time while everyone else left the garage, so we don’t get caught in chaos of leaving. We were greeted right when we walked in and when we told them we just wanted a few drinks, no food, they told us we could sit at the bar or a table. Well we couldn’t sit at a bar, because there is three of us and only two seats at the bar, on complete opposite ends of the bar. So yeah, table it is.
Not one, not two, but three girls came up to us asking if we’re ready to order. I don’t know if it’s just amazing service, or if they’re confused about who’s section we’re in. We finally get Kailie. She calmly told us that she just started, and we couldn’t figure out if she meant she just started her shift, of that it was her first day. I think it’s the latter. She took our orders and left. She comes back with our drinks, but can’t remember who got what. Again I’m thinking she’s new and it happens. She smiles and apologizes and gives everyone the right drink. Well Terri got the wrong glass of wine and when she told Kailie about it, she blamed the bartender. She could be right to blame him, or she could just be covering her ass, we’ll never know, but the point is she fixed it so problem solved.
My beer was amazing. Tangerine ale always is. Terri’s mother’s beer was even better. The apricot pyramid ale, AWESOME. Terri’s glass of wine… not so awesome. I’m not a wine expert so I trust Terri’s opinion on everything wine. I smelt it, and tasted it. It tasted very bitter. You could see pieces of cork in it. In the end Terri wouldn’t even drink it. That’s very very bad.
We got the check, and Kailie was running around with mothers credit card, after giving us the check. Then she brought it back and left another ticket book on our table, which had orders for all her other tables in it. She was very scattered which again I put it on the fact she might be new.
Even as we left we walked by one of the other waitresses and she didn’t make eye contact or say good bye.
Maybe you’re trip will be better then ours, but be prepared to be disappointed.

I really want to rate this place higher because my server for a take-​out order was really, really nice, but the food wasn’t great and was overpriced.
I got the Chicken Club, which tasted alright, but the chicken was dry and kept sliding around in the bun because it was an uneven chicken breast (but at least I know it’s real meat?). The fries were ok. The soup of the day was godawful. It was so greasy that I could see a layer of oil floating on top, and so salty that I could barely swallow it.
Not the best dinner to be having the night before the bar exam :\

My friends and I have eaten here a few times, and normally have a decent experience. However my friends went to have dinner today, and this is their review:
Do not eat here!!! Found knotted up hair in food. When we brought it to their attention the OWNER decided to bring it back out to our table and set it next to our food and all but say WE planted it there because THEY don’t have anyone that has hair like that!!!

I agree with the other reviewers that say this place won’t be open long. Went last night after the Kings game for a late dinner. After we were seated, the server told us the kitchen was closed. Side note: I wish food places put on Unilocal what time the kitchen closes! Drinks are easy to come by after 10pm, food isn’t!
They were nice enough to feed us (thanks) and the food was okay. I had the Spicy Thai (not bad, but not swoon-​worthy) and my love had the fish and chips (decent). They had a flyer on the table advertising $ 1 fish tacos, so we ordered a few to try them. Then we were told that deal wasn’t actually running, but with no explanation. We got them at full price and the tortillas were overcooked and they were so-​so. Not on par with $ 2 tacos at the Mix on Tuesdays!
The layout is awkward because of the seats blocking what used to be functional doors near the entrance. The band that was playing was $ 10. Though you didn’t have to pay the cover if you just came for food/​drinks and sat in the entry or at the bar. The band was good, but I heard them perfectly from where i was sitting, so I cant imagine ever paying a cover, especially if I intend to purchase food or drink (to be fair, I’m not sure if the cover is required to sit in the back of the restaurant or if you can alternatively do a minimum purchase amount).
It is close to my house, so I’d possibly come back to watch a game because it is convenient and set up well for that, but I was a bit put off by them not honoring the special that was advertised on the table!!! They need to get their business together and tighten up the food quality and service if they want to survive.

Sport Bar /​Social Bar Scenario
SITREP
It was Oscars night, and I was looking for a fun place to hang out with mi visiting mammasita and watch the Awards Show. Coyote is just a few quick blocks away from my home and so it was an easy little hike.
SETUP
The added benefit on this night was it was the start of BEER WEEK here in Sacramento and so the venue was fully «tapped» with lots of specials. So what rare varietal of brew did I settle upon? That’s right, a 22 ounce Coors Lite for a cool $ 4.50. A bit pricier than I would have liked, but what can you do.
LE MENU ITEM
We were not interested in anything to eat, since I was just sucking down the beer, and mom had her ginger ale. But the bartendress made a convincing argument for their deep fried ice cream, so Mom and I split the Deep Fried Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate and Vanilla drizzles. Take a gander:

NOISE
While we peeps were either watching the Oscars or the Sports offerings on the several TVs that were showing these events, some wise-​ass decided to blast the DJ sound system at the far end of the room and leave it going while he was done testing. None of our pleas to turn it off or even down were heeded. So even with an hour to go before Oscars show finish, Mammasita and I decided to finish it at home where we could hear it.
THE LOWDOWN
Not attentive to customers needs & preferences.

In for Sacramento Beer Week, IPA tasting. Great selection of beers! Although we liked the place a bunch when it was Brew-​It-​Up, it went from a crowded to an empty place but in a good way. a bar greets you in the front, and there is a super looooonnnnnggggg bar on the south wall. Other reviews have criticized the food, we didn’t eat here, just in for the brews, of which I might add were a very good selection and of a reasonable price compared to some of the other venues we’ve dropped into for SBW-​13.
The staff was friendly and attentive, but it seemed as if they had too much ground to cover with customers at both the bars on this busy Sunday afternoon and we had to wait for beer refills. Can’t vouch for the food, but the place is in a good location and has a wonderful selection of craft beers, and that’s what I’m talking about.

This review has been long overdue. I normally come here for happy hour or during the weekend when they have bands performing. They have a great happy hour with cheap bites. Most of the appetizers are close to half off! There is a different special every day! During the weekends they have various live bands performing and it is always a good time.
I would recommend the Spicy Thai Noodle. I would normally order it extra spicy! The service is great and the the staff is friendly. I would definitely continue to come back and hang out!
I know there are many Unilocalers complaining about the high prices, but this place is NOT a fast food restaurant. I think the prices are comparable to other restaurants.

Hearing that the old Brew It Up became a new tap house was not super intriguing, but a tap house/​noodle bar? SOLD!
We went on a Saturday night around 8pm and it was pretty empty (maybe everyone else read the Unilocal reviews and decided to pass?) The new interior is posh but a bit… odd. The way things are arranged and the vaulted ceilings give it a pretty cavernous look, which makes the place feel even emptier when there aren’t a lot of customers. The staff were friendly and service was prompt. 2 bars: nice bonus.
The beer menu was respectable and we both enjoyed a few different selections. We got the spicy garlic edamame as an appetizer and they were SOOO good! The flavor is ridiculously addictive and the spiciness builds slowly the more you eat. I’m a total spicy wimp but I couldn’t stop eating, even as my lips were burning. My miso ramen was fine with decent broth (although thin noodles, WTF? I’m a thick noodle girl! ;D) J wasn’t impressed with his chicken sau bien– mostly because of the absence of serrano peppers that the sandwich was supposed to have– but was amazed with his french fries– they tasted «like the fry version of Lay’s potato chips» which he loves. The fried ice cream made for a yummy sweet end to a satisfying meal.
Overall we had a good experience and would come back. I can see where there’s room for venue improvement but I can’t understand all the bad reviews. I’d give it a 3.5 if half-​stars were allowed. I’ll be back for you, edamame!

We were there for the «soft» opening. Beer selection was ok, but disappointingly not much actually on hand… Food was bland. My noodle dish was good (I was 3 beers in and starving), but a friends chicken salad was a boring heap of romaine with bits of chicken draped across. Did the kitchen staff care?
The place has potential as a dance club with its big empty room if only they’d move the maze of tables. When it’s empty it looks so sadly huge. The former Brew It Up had more cozy spaces to hang out. I hope it works out for this place, but I doubt we’ll be back.

Came here opening night…
When a place opens up they are going to have growing pains so you cant be too harsh but you cant be overly gushy to ensure they continue to exist. It was a soft opening so they were working on things but they need constructive criticism.
The things they had control of that they failed on were: Temperature. It was tank top weather inside when we got there. Thank God I had a T-​shirt under my clothes or I would have had to show my man boobs.
Menu: not sure why they only had 16 things on the menu. Chicken wings, 6 for 12 dollars is ridiculous unless they are chicken legs. Everything was Ala cart. You had to pay for rice (2.50) with the entrée. The thai beef was pretty damn good though. (not enough to fill you up even with the rice).
I saw the burger a few seats down and it wasnt impressive for 12 dollars. Kinda McDonaldish. But, the fries smelled really good.
My buddies 2 seats down had the ahi salad that said was awesome.
Beer: the menu had 50 beers but only 25 were available. Why not come up with a menu that had 25 since you print it yourself? you are a tap house, dont you think you would make sure your taps were 100% before opening? Prices were 6.50 for a pint, 7.50 for 22 oz. Seems a little steep, I believe they would be the most expensive in midtown.
I used to come here when it was Brew it up and they totally redecorated. it looked nice but plain. Lots of nice TV’s. the bar as soon as you walk was cool, though, my girlfriend thought the lobby looked like a hotel lobby.
Of course, i will give it another shot when they grow. I truthfully wasnt impressed.