Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery

DoubleSimcoe

New York

4.5/5  rDev +8.4%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5 | $

I've been thinking about coming here for so long but never got around it. Three Floyds is not too far, Chicago is just down the road... and the beers never looked terribly exciting.

Today I finally did, and hey, what a cool place Flossmoor is! Located at the train station (trains literally fly by the brewpub's window) of this overtly cute, sleepy village, the restaurant is an airy, spacious building with plenty of light and different areas for seating and dining.

I sat at the bar, plugged my laptop and hung out there for a while. There's just a nice, neighborly atmosphere here. No pretension, no rush, no FFF-style darkness or loudness.

14 beers on tap, nothing super exciting or boozy but damn good beer! I tried the Rail Hopper IPA, 1/2 Day Hefeweizen, Full Day Hopfenweizen, Kirsc Von Blucher Dunkelweiss, Pits&Pois&Apples Sour, Iron Horse Stout, Station Master Wheat Ale (the only one that disappointed me a bit). All of them were really good (if unexciting), great for a late-summer day in the suburbs. The Hefe is outrageously good- spicy, full of banana flavor and just so thirst-quenching.

Didn't have food, but the menu didn't look too appealing. Basic pub grub, probably just right to go with the beer.

Service was friendly and efficient, beers were fresh, ambience was great. Flossmoor is a lil' out of the way, but I will come back! Great place to spend an hour or a whole day. Oh, price was fine too... two 12-oz brews plus a five-beer sample was $15 plus tip. Not bad!!!

08-31-2011 21:29:59 | More by DoubleSimcoe

4DAloveofSTOUT

Illinois

4.05/5  rDev -2.4%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | food: 4.5 | $$$

been to floosmoor station many times for food and beer events finally getting down to reviewing this place.

really cool brewpub with a restaurant attached. Visually appealing with the train station right next to the building and no big surprise a train theme going on here.

Food has always been a tasty treat and never can remember I time I did not like the dinner or appetizer they sent out to me.

Beer is always high quality. BA hi fi Rye is among the best beer i have tried from this brewery!

A bit pricey for someone who does not live in chicago, but the prices are probably in line with any other place you would go to eat at in chicago.

08-15-2011 15:37:08 | More by 4DAloveofSTOUT

zeff80

Missouri

3.98/5  rDev -4.1%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4 | $$

Stopped in for lunch in the middle of the week. I love the building and the surrounding neighborhood. The restored train station looks great. The beer ranged from solid to really good. I was not wowed by their Zephyr or Station Master. However, they had two great seasonals - a witbier and a sour that tasted outstanding. Plus, their IPA is quite good, too. Food was good. I rarely eat fish but I enjoyed the catfish po'boy and my friend enjoyed his fish & chips. Our wives had salads that they enjoyed. Nice selection of beers about 12 total with about half being seasonal. The service was prompt, friendly and helpful. They even hooked me up with a free sample. All in all, it was a worthwhile stop despite sitting through never ending construction on I-80.

07-03-2011 19:45:20 | More by zeff80

woosterbill

Connecticut

4.6/5  rDev +10.8%
vibe: 4 | quality: 5 | service: 4 | selection: 5 | $$

My one visit here was on Dark Lord Eve, so things were a bit different than I'm sure they usually are.

A: The "Station" part of the name is immediately made clear upon approaching the establishment, as it is clearly a retrofitted train station. This lends an obvious and well-exploited theme to the decor, but has the downside of having regular trains passing by quite loudly. An antique engine out on the patio is a nice touch, but some extra space out there wouldn't have hurt - particularly on such a special night. Overall I really enjoyed the feel of the place, but thought it was poorly laid out to support a capacity crowd.

Q: I tried their Rail Hopper IPA, Saison & Garfunkel, BA 666, Raspberry BA 666, Pomegranate Sour, and a couple others. Everything was truly top-notch, and honestly the array of one-off barrel-aged specialities served outside was nothing short of epic. Fantastic.

Service: Everyone was appropriately friendly and helpful. No complaints, but no particular raves to push the score any higher.

Selection: This is a score that gets a major bump because of the unique circumstances of my visit. If limited to the tap lines at the inside bar, I wouldn't have gone above a 3.5 - pretty standard, kind of boring, and no guest beers. Because of the barrel-aged rarities available outside, though, it was one of the absolute best brewpub selections I've ever had the pleasure of sampling.

Overall this was a great place, and did an awesome job putting on a great, fun, welcoming event. Good show, Flossmoor!

05-05-2011 18:13:11 | More by woosterbill

htomsirveaux

Texas

3.83/5  rDev -7.7%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 4 | service: 4 | selection: 3.5 | food: 4 | $$

Got dinner here around 2100 hours on 27 Apr 2011.

I sat at a small table table for two just a U-turn to the right of the front door. Was a bit chilly with a draft from the window but not too bad. Slightly older more professional crowd than the one at FFF the night before. Brick floors. Friendly waitress. No barrel aged anything, weak!

I had the reuben, a pint of the alt (waitress said it was Stamosh(?)), and a 12 oz. pour of the Iron Horse Stout. The reuben was tasty and quite filling, would have been fine to split this with someone.

Got two bottles of Killer Kowalski to go.

05-04-2011 02:32:28 | More by htomsirveaux

cadaugherty

Illinois

3.43/5  rDev -17.3%
vibe: 3.5 | quality: 3 | service: 4 | selection: 3.5 | food: 3 | $$

Atmosphere- Kinda kitschy and folksy. Feels like there should be doilies on the tables. Not really my taste but it is clean and uniform.

Quality-The beers are fine. Recently (see last 2-3 months) some of the recipes have changed and I don't really see most of them moving in a direction I love. The BA Collaborative Evil was truly awful.

Service- It's always been pretty good. They misplaced my credit card once but found it after a few minutes.

Selection- Pretty standard but somehow I usually feel I only have a few choices.

Food- Meh it's standard pub fare and a bit bland.

05-04-2011 00:50:20 | More by cadaugherty

jale

Michigan

4.5/5  rDev +8.4%
vibe: 4.5 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4.5 | food: 4.5 | $$

Stopped here for the pre-DLD event. This is such a great place to have a beer when the weather is nice. The first time I visited here and the Metra roared by, it scared the shit out of me. That is part of the quaintness of this place. The small town setting of the brewery is wonderful. You are close to such a big city, yet feel as though you are far away until the trains remind you otherwise. The food is always good with a nice selection. The wait staff are very friendly and attentive. I always feel welcome I soon as I arrive. I love history, and the fact that they saved a historic rail station is great. Flossmoor brewery is truly a place to stop for anyone, not just a beergeek like myself.

05-03-2011 16:33:24 | More by jale

MbpBugeye

Ohio

3.68/5  rDev -11.3%
vibe: 4 | quality: 3.5 | service: 4 | selection: 3.5 | food: 3.5 | $$$

I got to stop here after visiting Three Floyds on the day before Dark Lord Day.

They were having a pre-Dark Lord Day party of sorts with a selection of their barrel aged beers available in samples outside. There was live music and bratwursts. It was a little funny because the ordinary Friday evening stuff was going on inside the restaurant/bar completely separated from our little beer geekery going on outside.

The inside is very big. Lots of tables in many rooms. The rooms seemed to just keep on going. The decor wasn't as cool as I had hoped from an old train station, but oh well.

The outside patio was pretty awesome though. It was a really chill, relaxing spot, right by an active set of train tracks. We had nice weather and the neighborhood is pretty and upscale.

There were a few guys working the table of firkins. It was pointed out to me that one of them was the head brewer or brewmaster. He seemed very young, and it made me jealous. He was very informative though and seemed to enjoy answering questions for people and telling them what to expect from each beer.

05-02-2011 20:19:38 | More by MbpBugeye

IchabodcraneIpa

Illinois

4.2/5  rDev +1.2%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | food: 4.5 | $$

Tried their rail hopper IPA a couple weeks ago and decided to head on down to try the food and drink. It's located in a pretty nice old fashioned looking part of flossmoor, and it is in the old train station I believe. You can smell the heavenly aroma of the food here while walking outside which also led me to believe I had come to a great place. Once inside we were seated promptly in the dining area. The atmosphere at the station is very comfortable to me and it instantly became one of my new favorite craft beer destinations. If you are sitting at the bar the metra train tracks are right outside the window, which allows for a nice spectacle as the train goes past from time to time. There is also a little model train in the ceiling rafters above the bar that chugs along on the tracks above. The beer here is very complex to me and each brew that I've tried has had an amazing and complex flavor to it that has made me fall more and more in love with it each time I go. My favorite is the rail hopper, but the panama red limited is also very
good in my opinion. The food here is incredible, and the beer-b-Q sauce is one of the tastiest sauces I have ever tried. The beer battered fries also are fantastic with an excellent crispy shell around each fry that went perfect with my station brew. The daily specials are also pretty diverse offering plenty of different goodness no matter which day of the week you venture out. I my friends will return here often and have already been 3 times the past week.

02-27-2011 21:42:06 | More by IchabodcraneIpa

TMoney2591

Illinois

4/5  rDev -3.6%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4 | service: 4 | selection: 4 | food: 4 | $$

Made the trek down here to check the place out and pick up a couple bottles of the just-released Killer "Kapowski" Baltic porter. It's housed in an old train station (hence the name), which lends not only a bit of charm but a heap of references from the world of trains for the beers. The place was sorta crowded for the late Saturday afternoon, but I easily found a seat at the bar and was helped by the bartenders. They were all very genial and seemed rather knowledgeable about the beers, which ranged from a light honey-based ale to a couple fruit beers and a bourbon barrel-aged spiced Belgian red. Good times. The quality of the beers varied slightly, but all were pretty solid. Nothing was overtly bad. Even better, the lunch special (chicken enchilada plate) was very, very tasty. Service was attentive, but slightly swamped near the beginning, so I didn't really expect too much from them; things got better later on, anyway, allowing for more contact with the staff. The prices were pretty fair. Overall, I had a great time and look forward to visiting again in the near future.

01-17-2011 00:59:42 | More by TMoney2591