A friend refers to the food here as unedible. Go for the beer, and remember that they have to serve food to serve alcohol.

We heard really good things about a Kobe beef burger served at both the Newport and Portland brewpubs, and so we went. Everything went wrong. The dining room was closed for a private party, which is usually the non-smoking space (so, there was no non-smoking space). The beer wasn't as good as other times. And, we went to order our Kobe beef burger ($10 without cheese, $12 with blue) and learned that you can only get blue cheese on the burger. Mind you, their normal burgers offer cheddar, swiss or blue, but order Kobe and you have any cheese as long as it's blue. (that has changed, btw)

So, we got the burgers. They came, perfectly round and flat, as if they had been frozen. They were cooked to order, and on an okay bun. Me, as a fan of blue cheese burgers, loved mine. My sweetheart, who had been denied his cheese of choice, was less happy.

Fries were good. Serving was hearty. But we both like Cafe Castagna's burger better, with its choice of cheese and incredible fries.