Lengthwise - Bakersfield, California

W O.

A brewery with plenty of beer options and delicious pub food that pairs excellently.

The cheeseburger was perfect and delicious as you would expect. Large portion with plenty of fries. Surprisingly the calamari was also delicious. I highly recommend purchasing a flight of beers to sample the plenty of beer options they offer. The brews or not produce your but rather in a different location. Service was great and friendly. Plenty of seating areas both indoors and out. An easy-going vibe.

Cheese T.

There are 3 locations in town for Lengthwise Brewing Company. Being a local business, they have quite the following in town for their locally-brewed beers. The food is just OK. It’s standard bar pub food (burgers, appetizers, salads). But people come here for the excellent local beers and not the food. There are a lot of TVs and music going so there’s always something to look at. It’s a great place if you want to have a large gathering. When I was here, there were about three large parties of 15 or so. It’s very easy to move the tables around to your liking. The Marketplace location has a wonderful wraparound patio and is pet friendly. There is also a large outdoor patio at the location on District Boulevard, so I would imagine that one is pet friendly also. I dined in as a solo diner, aand my only complaint was that the service was not very friendly. I felt like I was bothering them to place my order. The gentleman behind the bar never smiled once and looks like he hates his job. The person who brought my food over never came back to check on me. Maybe if you sit at the bar the serving issue is not so noticeable.

Mami F.

Local breweries(?) with 10 or more kinds of tap beers. I tried Yuzu IPA, it’s so fresh taste. Hamburger and calamari was so tasty. I super recommend!

David W.

Would that I could review the food, which looked good from their website. That coupled with the numerous great reviews here got me to give it a try when I was passing through Bakersfield on a road trip.

Unfortunately, I walked in at around 8:10 on a Wednesday evening, the patio had lots of people and inside were several tables with patrons. A server appeared to be helping one table when I walked in, so I sat down at the table next to that group.

I walked out at 8:30, having not once been approached nor even acknowledged for service. In fact, I never saw another server even walk remotely close to that area of the place (I did see one server -- perhaps, hard to tell for sure -- going to the patio). The bartender came out a few times to clear glasses from tables and chat with other patrons. Seemed to look right at me a few times, but never came over. I didn't see any other servers on the floor at all.

It's not like the place was completely packed, as I say the outdoor patio looked maybe 80% full, the inside maybe 30% full. No roaming servers? Nobody to notice a new (potential) customer?

I might have flagged down somebody to ask for help directly, but the fact that I didn't even see servers working the floor to assist the other patrons told me this was not going to be a good night for service.

I see lots of reviews raving about the service here... maybe it was just an off night, but based on what I saw I'm not inclined to try again if I'm ever in the area.

BTW my backup plan also had a wait, but there I was greeted at the door, and they took my name and explained immediately that it would be 10-15 minutes. All fine, that place was in fact quite busy and I understand -- no problem waiting as long as I know *they* know I'm there and will get to me!

Jasmine

The food was good. Only thing is that the server was a bit in a hurry, he came by and put the food on the table saying he was in a rush and didn't have time to find out who's meal was who's. We didn't really care because we usually eat family style anyways but I'm sure others may care about that.

We tried the wings, stinky fries, stinky burger, tri tip sandwich, and fish & chips.

Karrie R.

I’m not a beer drinking but their sours sure changed my mind. Nice place, great atmosphere, and good beer. The staff was great for our large group.

Corey S.

I liked it. The beer was a little above average to be fair, but the food looked and tasted really good. The service was also excellent with friendly servers and bartenders. The facility was clean and had plenty of seating. Special shout out to the deep fried twinkies as they were awesome!

Matt R.

The beer is good but the food was okay didn't really enjoy there lightly toasted tri-tip