The Explorium Brewpub Greendale

A great place to meet and catch up with friends. Although I am not a beer drinker, we did enjoy their calzone options - YUM. Quick and friendly service too.

Nice spot for a drink or meal, either indoors or outdoors. Service is great, and they have one of the best beer selections in the area. Flights are 3 so choose wisely...or have two! 🍻 food portions were huge, we ordered two apps (pictured) and I ended up boxing my whole sandwich bc I was too full. Paid for a side salad upgrade and wish I hadn't. It was a bunch of huge leaves, which were not very crunchy and awkaward to put in my mouth. The balsamic dressing was meh. Otherwise the food was really good; appetizing and it paired well with the beers, but not spectacular/top tier. You could do way worse for pub food. But also....isn't 90% of dining in the southern mke suburbs just dofferent versions of pub food?!?!?! That being said, I give Explorium a solid 4.6/5. We are repeat customers.

Great bar restaurant. Friendly staff, stand up owners, a great place to have a drink or great quality bar food.

Got a grilled chicken sandwich today, it was excellent!

I ordered the bomb burger that was made with pizza dough and it was so tasty highly recommend it don't forget to dip it the sauce that come with it very tasty. The dough is the best I've ever tried anywhere. The cheese curds are also very tasty and the Buffalo chicken tater tots. Nice selection of beer 🍺 too

Bartender Gage (think that was his name) was awesome, prompt and fun to chat with.

Food was decent and the service was nice. Food came out pretty quickly. Everything was delicious. It was extremely loud is a downside.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Had an excellent time here with my sister last night. I hadn’t been in a while, knew they had a good menu with a good amount of gf options and good drinks— all reasonably priced too.
We asked to be seated outside last night. The fire pit is a nice addition for the atmosphere, and I liked they didn’t seat us right next to another table.
Our server, Nick, was amazing. Really amped up our visit there. All of the staff was very friendly and helpful (asked a food runner a question about our meal and he was able to give me a good answer, and also sent our server back over to confirm the answer he gave us. 10/10 with that).
They make a really awesome Moscow Mule here. Very fresh and light. My sister ordered a mojito and was talking all night about their lemon drop martini.
We ordered 3 food items— the steakhouse pizza on a gf crust, Reuben dip, and truffle fries.
They brought us out fresh fries which was a major bonus in my book. I’m usually not too picky with my fries but Nick had told us those would be coming out a second later than the rest of our food because they were being made fresh. I’ve had the heat lamp fries and you can tell a difference so that was very appreciated. My sister loved her Reuben dip— another item she couldn’t stop talking about. And we split the steakhouse pizza which was so tasty (this was the food item I had a question about— their gf crust was SO good I was skeptical after the first bite. They informed me it was gf and they recently made some swaps to the menu to make even more gf options which is something I did actually notice on their menu. Something I love to see as someone with a sensitivity).
Overall a really awesome time, great food, great spot, and a huge shoutout to Nick for the service!

Dietary restrictions: Gluten allergy— many options available here

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Called to order a carry out and had a very rude female tell us "we don't do carry outs" and slammed the phone down. We'll excuse me, we didn't know you didn't do carry outs anymore...and seriously a bummer they don't. Maybe I missed it on the website if they said no carry outs but disappointment to say the least, we did carry outs in the past with them.

Service: 1

Beer is great, food is good (pizza is very good). Unfortunately their hours on Google aren't correct, they close the kitchen at 9pm on Saturday nights. We've been here a bunch during the week but when we showed up at 9:15 on a Saturday (9/28/24) they told us they just go by how it feels when deciding to close the kitchen and that it closed at 9 that night

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 2

Just spent $80.00 on a dinner for two that was absolutely horrible. This place is a joke and overpriced. We ordered baked English onion soup & the flavor of the day soup which was jalapeño popper. Neither of them had much flavor. Then we shared a pizza and a banh mi sandwich. The sandwich had a horrible odor to it and the pork was mushy and completely flavorless. Nothing like a banh mi sandwich at all. The pizza looked delicious, but that too was very tasteless. The sauce was very minimal and the traces of sauce you did bite into tasted like plain tomato sauce from a can with no spices added to it for flavor. We tried to add salt, pepper, hot pepper flakes and parmesan cheese to improve the taste, but that did not help at all. Needless to say, the only items we finished were our soups. I'm sure our waitress could tell we were disappointed with our meal as she did not offer any to-go containers which we would have declined anyway. We left there feeling very unsatisfied and completely ripped off for the price we paid. Do yourself a favor and skip going here.

The Brussel sprouts were mediocre. The bomb burger was ok, the burger my friend got looked better. The flatbread was decent. My vegan friend got an impossible buger. Service was great and it's a typical brewpub atmosphere. Prices were a little high but nowadays what place isn't? I may go back but there are other places close by that I have liked more.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

Everything was great, but the food.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 2

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Soup

I typically really enjoy The Explorium but this time they fell short in a couple areas. It was Friday fish fry at 6:00 pm but they ran out of mahi mahi?? Which is specifically on the fish fry menu....so then I ordered the baked fish and potato pancakes. When my meal came, they did not send applesauce with the pancakes or the coleslaw/tartar. When asked, the man delivering the food said that the tartar and coleslaw don't come with the baked fish (they do-it says right on the menu) and then when we asked about the applesauce, he said they ran out. I wouldn't have ordered the pancakes if I knew that. Way too dry by themselves. The fish was barely warm, as well. The broccoli was good and my niece's mashed potatoes were as well. My mom enjoyed her chicken sandwich. But overall, it was not the best experience.

We were seated and then waited about 10 minutes before our waitress came. She came, took our drink order and left. Waited a few more minutes and she came back with water and my Diet Coke, set them down and walked away. My friend ordered a mixed drink and the waitress never said anything about that. A little bit later she comes back with two mixed drinks in her hand. Sets one down on our table and then proceeds to walk to the table behind us and set the other one down. My friend and I were talking and hadn't really noticed the drink she set down. A minute later the waitress comes back, takes the drink and then proceeded to set down the drink she took to the other table and takes the drink from our table and takes it to the table behind us. She then leaves again. More time passes and then she comes back to take our orders. We both just ordered the fish fry dinners. We then sat and watched 2 other tables that came in after us get their food. We waited awhile. Then finally someone else comes and drops off our dinners, asks if there's anything else we need and leaves. Both of our fish were overcooked and somewhat dry. We thought about saying something but two things stopped us. One, we rarely saw our waitress and when we did she was helping other tables and two, we waited so long for our food to begin with, we didn't want to wait even longer for new dinners. Our waitress never came by to ask how our food was or if we needed refills on our drinks. I had to flag her down to ask for another soda. Then she proceeded to take my glass to refill it. Call me crazy but that kind of grosses me out when a restaurant does that. Especially when you have a straw in the glass. She did stop by once to see if we were done with the condiment caddy so that she could take it and put it on another family's table. Other than that, no communication from her at all during our meal. Was not impressed at all with the food or the service.

Worst service ever. She completely was not interested in being there. We were never offered refills for our drinks. We had to ask for silverware, and then plates for our appetizers. She dropped the check on the table without a word and we wanted to order dessert. It took us 20 minutes to get her to come back and take our dessert order. Then when it came we had to flag her down for plates and silverware. She was clearly not interested in being there or working. The food was just average. The place was not very clean. We will not be returning.