Pig Minds Brewing Co.

4080 Steele Dr., Machesney Park
(779) 423-2147

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Migeov

How can you not like a full vegan brewery with delicious menu! Worth the detour if you are around. Go there blindly, you won't be disappointed

tsjmh

Love the variety of items on the menu. We had the Rueben sandwich and it was very hearty and delicious! Our server was friendly and efficient. It was also a pleasant evening so we enjoyed sitting outside on the patio. We will be back!

Grovean

Happy Cow makes traveling so much easier! We would never have found this place on our own. Food was delicious and the beers we tried were very good. The blueberry-lemon crumb cake was amazing - save room! Our server Ashlyn was excellent. Will definitely return if we’re ever in the area again.

NinjaKitty8390

As a vegan, im sad not to give this a higher rating. In fact I’m being generous with my rating, because I feel somewhere offering vegan food should be given major props!

We’ve been going here for years and when they were newer they were great!! (I would have given 5 stars). However, the past year has just been a slow downfall for us. They were unique when they made their patties in house and had faux chicken from tindle (which my kids loved!) now they seem to focus on impossible and beyond meats which are horrible! And just boring. We drive from Madison to visit and when we saw the amount of impossible and beyond meats on our last visit we were turned off. Kids gave it a shot, and they weren’t happy either. Not to mention there’s always a waitress there that has been rude to us or tries to seat our family of five in a tiny table in the front room. We typically try to avoid her because the rest of the staff is great! I get it, you guys get busy, but we clearly are an annoyance to her when we ask to wait for a larger table. Overall, it use to be worth the drive on a weeknight, because beer is great (nope, amazing!)! Food use to be! But now I’d just see it as an option for a vegan if you happen to be driving through or in the area.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Beer Sample Flight

Troy Schmitz

The pizza was so spicy we could not eat it. We brought it home and let or friend try it and they agreed. Our experience over the last year is the spice level of the food is all over the map. There is no good reason to make pizza or most food this spicy unless you advertise it that way.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 4

Michael Murray

My spouse and I were there for bingo night.had to stand in line for 15 minutes to place order for drink and food. Was buzzed for food and when I went down to get food it was sitting out in the open next to the bar and I had to ask other costumers to move to gain access to the food that we ordered. I this to be qiut unsanitary.

ada lovelace

Hate having to do this, because we love this place. The food was great, and the following has nothing to do with the waitresses and bartenders. The food and drinks were both very good and regular service here is great too. However, we played trivia tonight, and we have played it here since they started having it. Instead of having it be on pen & paper as usual; it was on phones which ruined the charm. They had tech issues all night and it was very slow and confusing. Each round took ages and the presenter could never figure out what was going on with the tech issues. The rules changed every round and no one was having fun. It was not a fun time for girls night and there was no spirit to it anymore. The whole vibe changed and we are sad because we loved pigs mind and how it was run before.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Jumbo Pretzel

L

For years my partner and I have ordered their holidays meals and while we had problems here and there (missing crackers, instruction sheet missing, etc) this year was too much. Two sides undercooked and cheesecake burnt. Paying $36 per meal we expect better quality and any sort of customer service. Emailing them we received no response. I see we're not valued as customers

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Brycew

For being so rural it’s surprising to find a completely vegan restaurant serving American comfort food. The beer is out of this world! Great selection and friendly people.

Daniel Breems

Came in with a large group(11). Everything was great. With one exception. There was a band playing who were good. The issue was it was so loud it was borderline painful to be in the room. Very hard to order and could not talk to each other at all.

Hope to return without a band playing or just a lower volume.

Tasty food and beer!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Amy Stachowiak

Yum! We drive over an hour to come here!! Worth it!

Beth Costa

I love going to Pig Minds! I was nervous about it the first time I went, because I am not vegan and worried everything would taste weird after a flashback to some of the first vegan burgers that came outany years ago. My friends, let me tell you that vegan food has come a LONG way in flavor and texture!! I have been back many times and tried a wide variety of the menu. I haven't found anything bad yet. My husband loves their beer, in addition to the food, so it's not a hard sell to go there for dinner, even though it's a solid 40 minute drive to get there.
The only reason I gave 4 stars for service and atmosphere is because it's usually so busy there that the serving staff always seem a little overwhelmed and it gets a little too noisy once in awhile from the acoustics of the space.
I highly recommend setting aside any preconceived ideas of what you think vegan food tastes like and just go try it for a wonderful surprise!

Vegetarian options: All of it!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: The Impossible Burger, BBQ Porky Sandwich, Chickn Sandwich, Sandwich, Beer Sample Flight, Korean BBQ Tacos

Monty Klatt

Awesome place, a little slow service during busy times

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Laura Sandberg

Our waitress was incredibly nice but you could see she was stressed because they were understaffed. The food was yummy but luckily we weren’t in a hurry because they were very backed up in the kitchen.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Beer Sample Flight

Cecile Berende

The servers, the service. the vegan food were top... It was the best vegan place have been too... Maybe more dessert choice would be great... For the rest we had a great time.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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