Browns Socialhouse - Okotoks

Met up with our adult child's for a week day dinner. Sat in the very nicely appointed patio WOW this has to be one of the nicest patio 's anywhere.The food is good to very good depending on what you order. It is a chain restaurant so the consistency can very from visit to visit depending on staffing, but they have a nice menu and nice decor.

The atmosphere is very nice. We chose to sit at the bar for our early evening meal. We were given menus and advised that it was Happy Hour and all appetizers would be $4.00 off during Happy Hour time. My husband and I looked at the menu and decided that we would share an order of nachos. The menu price is $18.95..$14.95 was more realistic for us. When our server brought us the tab an hour later, I questioned the $18.95 price for nachos when they are in the appetizer section.The server looked at our bill and said "Oh, I see that I forgot to give you Happy Hour prices on the wine as well." My husband had 2 bottles of beer. After her adjustment, our tab came down from approx $50 to approx $40.00. I should not have had to ask for that discount. The nachos were tasty enough but simply not enough cheese spread out to the perimeter of the plate. Cheese was dropped kind of Centre. Outside chips were dry and bare.

Very nice décor. Our server was fantastic. She was extremely pleasant, helpful with the menu and didn't rush us. The food was good but not fantastic and was overpriced for what you got.

Hi,, So I was out in Okotoks yesterday for a meeting and I was on my way to the Brewhouse but I saw this place in the same parking lot so I figured I'll try it. Got in right way, looks nice, cool patio thing .... Grabbed a beer and ordered, went with the usual Calamari and then I went for the beef dip because $25 bucks for a 5oz steak sandwich seems nuts. :-) Anyway the Calamari got there and it looked a bit odd, it was all very small pieces and had the entire tentacle clusters fried up whole and mixed in. Kinda odd because most people don’t wanna see that after all it’s squid! (grin) Not me, bring it on and I love the dim sum steamed version but for the squeamish ….. theres no way in heck that they'd want to eat it if they saw it like that.Anyway I thought it was under cooked at first but I was hungry …. so it was, I dunno odd or off a bit ? The tzatziki was OK but the Calamari was just different. I wouldn’t order it again but try it and tell me I’m wrong …. but it just wasn’t right but I couldn’t be bothered to take a picture because I was still meh at this point.Then the sandwich arrive and it LOOKED good! After picking it up though I could see why you got a soup bowl size of “au jus” that bun was brown I think because it was a brick! That sucker was rock hard it was either leftover rolls from dinner or maybe it sat too long in the warming station because it was not good, but again it did look great tho ….. too bad that didn’t count. The beef on the bread was interesting, you could not actually bite thru it, the edges were OK and cooked but the inside was undercooked a bit but because of the cut of the beef or the quality of it? Your teeth could not actually bite through it, you had to stretch and tear it off, and then unless you had some bread or something in your mouth to help, you couldn’t chew it up. Very sad, and it also had a blob of weak cold paste of horseradish or something in it. I know most people like horseradish with their prime rib but I don’t but either way this was a mixture of something, and at the end of the day it didn’t help at all. So at this point I got over being meh and whipped out the camera for a picture because it was at that level, the Calamari I could live with and it was not good but two sad dishes was enough, it was also bad enough that I felt I had to get pic of the bill just to prove this review was legit.The fries that came with it we also odd, the longest piece was an inch, it was almost like they were deliberately small to fit in that steel cup but they were OK and that was the best tasting thing in the whole order. Last but not least the Au Jus was made somehow I think because if it was from bullion it would have had some flavor, it really didn’t, but you needed it to make the bread edible. For me that’s pushing it …. I usually write about two things - one if the place is spectacular and I’m willing to vouch for it OR if the place is really bad and I want to warn others off ….. unfortunately this falls in the latter …. and to be honest I can’t see ever going back to give them a second chance.Here's hoping it was just a bad day ......

Good food, outdoor seating, with heaters if needed, good drinks and food. Seating offers choices of tables or couch. Very relaxing.