The Elm Taphouse & Kitchen

3833 Elm St, St Charles
(636) 493-8111

Recent Reviews

Sean D.

I don't as pleasantly surprised when my family stopped in for dinner on a Weds evening. I was a little skeptical as the place was empty but over the course of our meal patrons trickled in. We caught a happy hour special, half off apps- so we started with buffalo chicken dip. This family is a lover of buffalo chicken everything and this dip was pretty good. My wife thought it was cheesier than most dips and I thought the buffalo sauce reminded me of a Sybergs style sauce. The dip was served with warm pita bread triangles. Our orders were the 4 chicken strips, the Elm Tap House Burger, regular cheeseburger, sidewinder fries and tots. The food was great across the board with only one gripe. The burgers were delicious and cooked perfect, the tots were great and I loved the sidewinder fries which were like thick spiral cut potatoes that were fried crispy on the outside and pillowy on the inside. Loved the sidewinder fries. My son loved the chicken strip and wife reported her burger was very good too. The single gripe? Portion sizes were all on the small side. Not enough pita triangles to finish the dip. Chicken strips looked small and thin, a small portion of the sidewinder fries and the burgers felt on the small side. That said I would rather have great food than an abundance of sub-par food. Also worth noting the delicious and massive selection of beers on tap! We each had a few and were pleased with variety of brews provided. Would definitely return, it was a delicious experience!

Mary Bridges

We have been dining here since before the name change!! It is a great restaurant with an amazing variety of food. My fave....the sidewinder fries with the chicken club sandwich (literally so big I can ever finish it).

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Alexis T.

Excellent food from scratch kitchen, tons of beers and wonderful service. Stopped in to check it out on a Friday night. I was shocked it wasn't busier but it was after dinner rush. Quaint/cozy feel but enough space to bring a larger group if you want. The food was excellent! Thys was at the bar making us laugh and serving up all the beer we could drink. I appreciated the samples when I was sure which beer I wanted to try. I love that you can get 4, 8, 16oz pours or even growler if you want. Great happy hours and oysters for $1 on Thursdays!!! Can't want to go back.

Jeremy Paschedag

Fun times. Great selection of beers. And some good food too.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Kathy Atwater

Didn't eat here, but beer selection is great!

Atmosphere: 5

Service: 5

Cindari M.

The place was empty when we walked in. That should have been my first red flag. We ordered the chicken Caesar wrap and Buffalo chicken wrap and a side of coleslaw. My wrap had a weird chemical taste. Maybe it's just me, but when you get a chicken Caesar wrap you're thinking cold salad, warm chicken breast, right? The lettuce was hot, and the tortilla looked void of all color. The Buffalo sauce smelled and tasted weird. It was not like any Buffalo sauce I've ever had. The coleslaw....my gosh- it's vinegar sugar water soaked cabbage. It was so disgusting I spit it out. We ordered a soda and a water. The water came with no ice. I was ok with that, but how odd. Room temp water in a room temp cup. Like, why?Will I come back? No.

Rebecca Waggoner

We're from out of town and this was a great place to enjoy a cold beer & dinner. The jalapeño poppers are awesome, the burgers were just as good! We loved the beer selection and the staff were amazing too!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Burger, Tater Tots

Melanie Elick

Wow! 50 beers on tap! I'd love to give this place more stars, but not this time. Here on a Sunday afternoon and a few at the bar, so not very busy. I asked for the chicken avocado sandwich to be made as a wrap and was told that people ask for that, but they don't do it because the wrap breaks??? They did try using two tortillas, and it worked just fine. The chicken was pretty dry, but overall, it was a decent wrap. The buffalo chicken dip wasn't spicy at all, and no Frank's available to spice it up. I had to request ketchup for the fries, and salt that I never received. We also tried the pretzels, and those were pretty good. We may try again as the burgers looked amazing. If you don't want the food, at least give one of those 50 beers a try!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 3

Shayne Evans

Went here based off of Google reviews and we are glad we did. We are just staying the night in town as part of a road trip.The service was great and the place is nice.I didn’t have any due to already being tired and driving early the next day, but they had large beer selection that I would have liked to try.I ended up having the black and bleu burger. Kiddo had the cheesesteak wrap. Wife had bbq burger. We got pretzel with beer cheese for an app.The pretzels went fast. They were nice and fresh and the beer cheese was really good. Wife really liked her burger. Same for the kiddo and her wrap. Wife tried her wrap and really liked it too. I love my burger. I just wish it had s little more bleu cheese on it. It reminds me of a burger that I used to get at a steakhouse back home and is my favorite burger. Again, love it.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Y3767IGjohnf

Very disappointed we drove 45 mile for there happy hour oysters I called earlier to see if there shipment of oysters came in and they said yes. What kind of place only orders 40 oysters we got there at 5:30 and didn’t see anybody eating oysters and they said we were out. We should have got up and left but we drove so far we stayed to eat we had hamburgers ordered them medium rare and they were over cooked and dry. I would not recommend this place

Celeste Custer

Onion ring sauce was Excellent, the flash fry left them crunchy. Sidewinder fries also not done. Great tasting craft beer, tried Chestnut Zwikel and Mango cart. Chicken Quesadilla way too spicy. Carnitas queso was good. They were "Out of Chili, Potato soup and Oysters."

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Samira Ak0k0

yummy...had to pick the bacon off the brussells, but still tasty

Karen B.

good variety of beer - didn't know they had so much on their menu for food, i would have tried it by now

Tyler L.

Got the fried chicken sandwich for takeout. It was fried alright but idk about the chicken part...

Michelle H.

As I always say we come for the beer. It was a good selection of beer and we were happy to try a few things we don't get in our neck of the woods. The description I saw online was for 100 taps and it wasn't that many available but enough to satisfy any craft beer lover. My only disappointment in that area was not enough stouts or porters. Two of the beers I ordered had the keg kick which isn't necessarily bad it means they don't have it sitting around, there is turnover. Food was nothing to write about not bad not incredibly good either. The 2 guy's working one front of house doing everything and other in back were phenomenal. Worked as hard and fast as they could and it was fairly busy. I hope this place makes it but I worry for them. Not utilizing all the taps and so so food makes me think something should be done soon to put them on an upswing.

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