Oh my gosh this place is awesome. Quick, great service and a wide variety of food and drink. Have been there a few times now, with and without kids, and both experiences were a pleasure. Their salads are HUGE, but my husband is a fan of trying a different sandwich every time. Hot tip: anything with pimento cheese goes great with their IPA. read more

Great patio, good beer, not bad cocktails! Food is pretty good. They have lots of staff but seem disorganized. I get that it's only been open a couple months....we had a table of 3 an waited quite awhile on our beers. When you walk into this place it is impressive so you naturally start to expect impressive in every thing. It will be fun to come back an see how the journey evolves! read more

Food is tasty and decently priced, the staff are very kind and quick with service. Nice modern feel though at times a bit loud

This quickly became my kiddo and I'd favorite mini mom/son date spots! We always love the food we order (don't sleep on those fried pickles!). Never a bad way to end with a root beer float or chocolate chip cookie sundae! The staff is ALWAYS quick, and helpful! Can't wait for many mom and son dates in the future here! read more

We were seated quickly, received our drinks and appetizer quickly as well. That's the only good thing. We waited over an hour and our food never arrived. Our wonderful waiter came and said the kitchen was having issues, but tables seated after us were receiving their orders. We stood up and left.We are locals and come often, never again. So disappointing. read more

Shared the Ploughman's plate and bacon cheeseburger with fries with my husband. Excellent smoked salmon, and burger. Could use more seasoning but the meat quality made up for that. House distilled gin was fantastic! Prices were comparable to what we pay in most restaurants, and the service was great. Reading reviews after our meal, we were shocked by the racist remarks we read on Trip Advisor in particular - hopefully, those will be removed. Restaurants in this region struggle overall, but not because they are tribal. Talking Cedar will be a regular spot on our coastal route from now on! read more

Great selection of beers to try. Service is fantastic. Came with a large group and servers were attentive, energetic and accommodating. Highly recommend this brewery! read more

No beer . I specifically took Kai to this new brewery. They had 12 beers on tap. The one he was going for was their highest IBU of 80, however, they were out. He did it in a can, but the PacificNW style fell short on the hops. I drank the 'Fall Leaves' in winter! Gin, cranberry, Cinnamon, Lemon Juice. Tasted like a chilled mulled wine. It was good. The NW Ploughman's plate is a deluxe charcuterie plate-- very good. I do recommend it. Kai liked his Ceaser salad with salmon. The Salmon is a 10/10. I ordered the pulled pork sandwich with the spicy aioli for my fries. All was good. Great atmosphere. read more

They are very friendly and helpful and it's great that they have outdoor seating. I have eaten there 3 times and they have a good variety on the menu but I feel like the food is lacking. The burger was excellent but each time the fries are always cold. The Mac n cheese was blah. The steak was very dry with no flavor. The cheese curds were good. The service has been up and down depending on who is your server. I've had great and not so great. Three different times we had asked for an item to not be included, like no hot sauce on burger, or gravy on the side, no cheese, and each time those items were on our foodI will try again because I know it takes awhile to get the kinks ironed out. read more

Food was great! Little pricey and the service just a tad on the slow side but worth it. Chicken dinner was amazing. If you are ever in this direction it is a must. read more

We just had a late lunch. Indoors! Beautiful facility and the food was great. Tomato basil soup is excellent. Hubby bad the Bacon Bleu burger with fries, he is picky but loved it...just a touch of hotsauce on it. We tried a flight of their beers, good flavors and very interesting choices. We will be back. read more

Good beers and very good pub food. The pretzel was truly giant and our picky eater loved it. Much better beer and food than the nearby water park restaurants. If you're visiting the water park go here for lunch or dinner instead at least once. read more

No good! Bad soup. Bad cheese curds, not kidding. 1 inch of grease on the bottom of the bowl. We couldn't eat our lunch and waitress never inquired as to why we didn't eat our meal. Three of us got sick later that day! Very expensive for food we couldn't eat. Also water was tap w heavy chlorine Gross. read more

This was a really cool distillery/brewery/restaurant. We really enjoyed our time here and our waiter/bartender Stuart was fabulous! Would definitely come back here again. We ordered the meatloaf dinner, chicken dinner, small house salad and a cup of tomato basil soup, all of it was wonderful! read more

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Wow what an incredible place to eat! The atmosphere is fresh and new. The service was attentive without being annoying lol. Me and my wife had the home made pretzel for an appetizer that came with beer cheese, stone ground mustard and pimento cheese, yes I said pimento cheese and it was awesome! For our entrees I had a juicy Lucy hamburger with that incredible pimento cheese and the wife had a beautiful salad, beer cheese soup that will blow your mind. YOU MUST STOP BY AND EAT HERE IF YOU ARE IN A FIFTY MILE RADIUS OF THIS GEM. read more

Great food,amazing service, excellent atmosphere will definitely be back again! Thanks for being amazing!

Amazing food! The architecture of Talking Cedar is also incredible, makes for a comfortable dine in. Service was awesome, they were friendly and always have my orders out fast! read more

Talking Cedar Restaurant - Talking cedar brewery - Distilleries Near Me - Rochester, Washington

Big sign, big nice looking new building....I was looking forward to trying their food. Ended up being disappointed and probably won't go back. Ordered a burger and fries. Quantity was good....but 'nothing' for taste. The $15.00 hamburger was very bland. I think McDonald's has more flavor. The fries (although sprinkled with 'something') had very little taste also. The meal was served on a 'flat 8"x14" platter. When you pick up the burger, the juices drop onto the platter and splattered all over the table. 'Looking cool' fell totally flat (pun intended). My buddy is a 'beer lover' and he was NOT impressed with his beer. read more

I really wanted to like this place. Heritage is based out of Eugene which is the area I'm from. Seated quickly, and after waiting 15 minutes went and spoke with hostess. Then the table right next to us was attended to whom was seated close to 10 minutes after us. Also, waitress passed by us several times and barely smiled and certainly didn't acknowledge or help us. We were totally ignored. Spoke with manager and Although she was apologetic, she offered zero. Super disappointed. Staying at GWL, and left after being ignored. Ended up going to Marichi's Mexican Restaurant and we were seated quickly and had excellent service. My tip reflected that. I'll be posting a glowing review for them next. Save your time and go to Marachi's! read more

If you like to drink, this is a good place. If you are into food, ya might be a bit disappointed. It's OK and considering the area. The pears in the pear salad went ripe and the fish was overcooked. read more

Horrible service never got to the food. Heard the same from others but thought "let's go see" hopefully an isolated incident. Trash! Hired those from the staff that got fired elsewhere. read more

Hands down the best tasting drinks and food. My new favorite place to dine. The service and atmosphere were a perfect 10.

The establishment was clean and looked amazing but looks can be deceiving when it comes to the food. I ordered the Cuban Sandwich with a salad ($2 up charge)... it was nothing to write home for although it was edible. My companions ordered the salmon, tri-tip, and the pulled pork plates. The salmon was over cooked although the potatoes and green beans were ok. The tri-tip had some weird ketchup tasting sauce on it and the collard greens were cooked in some sort of vinegar/lemon something. The mashed potatoes were flavorless. Lastly, the pulled pork had some sort of under cooked flour gravy. It was the first time my friend said something about a dinner that she had to speak to the management. read more

Place has a great atmosphere. Bartender was attentive and very generous with offering samples of brew and distilled products. Food was GREAT. Grand mound / Rochester has been in desperate need of this venue. read more

The bartender, Collin (sorry if I misspell) was amazing. so upbeat and friendly, and willing to help out with recommendations and taste beers we have never tried. He was an awesome server and overall guy, would be back for him alone. read more

Great new place to eat. Our second visit was as good as our first. Food was delicious and well prepared. Only reason I gave four stars was because of our server. He was not as attentive as we would have liked. Our iced tea and water glasses went unfilled and we could never seem to find him. read more

Been here twice so far and we have zero complaints. Friendly service,good food and drink!

It only takes 1 word to sum up RUDE!!!! Food might be good, I'll never know!! Rude hostess, rude manager and very unprofessional!! We will never go back!! read more

Honestly, what a step up in the restaurants for the area! Big win for locals! This place is really big and clean. It is a great environment to enjoy drinks and good food with friends, for sure! The menu was refreshing. They have items on the menu that you don't see at every single restaurant in the area lol. On top of that, the items they have happen to pair nicely with beer! Staff was amazing and kept an eye on our table - made sure we were not lacking! All around, yum! Gotta check it out! read more

I will start by prefacing that I understand Covid has really made some things hard to navigate as a restaurant and I give a lot of grace for that. What I also expect is a staff that seems to still care about its customers affected by rules that a restaurant doesn't have a good way of enforcing that makes sense. When we arrived to the restaurant after packing the kids as quickly as possible inside we were told a table wasn't ready and to wait outside. After imploring with the hostess that it is February and freezing cold, could we instead wait with our baby in the very outer edge of the very large, very empty lobby? She simply stated no, you're welcome to wait outside of the door in the cold or go back out to your car. Ok, I understand, but could you have at least cared? Why doesn't your site say to wait in our cars if that is your practice so I could have prepared the kids. No other restaurants I have been to have made us do this and they are much smaller and manage to social distance just fine. In tow is also our ASD son who does not understand why we went into the restaurant and now he must turn around and go wait in the car. Note: If you don't have a child with autism, you won't understand. Ok, we deal with the crying and screaming and calm him down outside. 3 minutes later after huffing the kids back across the parking lot in the cold A** wind we get the crying settled and them back into the vehicles only to immediately be called to come back into the restaurant. Awesome, let me now tell my son that after struggling to get in the car 30 seconds later we are going immediately the other direction while the baby (who has now been out on the cold a substantial amount of time) is screaming. This is so fun! We come inside to the totally empty lobby and are greeted by the same apathetic hostess who tells us to follow her, but oh, wait she has to go check to make sure our table is ready? What the world? Why did you call us back in here if the table isn't ready? At this point my ASD son is now extremely agitated and the baby is thawing from being a popsicle after being forced to be transported 3 times in the parking lot out in the cold which has now soured their moods and mine to enjoy ourselves. I was so excited to get out for once. Given Covid, I Myself, and I'm sure most everyone else, don't get to go anywhere very often. When we do we want to go to our local restaurants and support them. What we don't want is to be drug around and stressed to the absolute maximum. Our food turned out to be mediocre at best and the only saving grace of the evening was our waitress who was extremely kind and attentive. What blows my mind the most is that as we leave we have to check out at the register (in the lobby) where everyone and their mother pile in to check out?? So you let everyone pile in when they leave the restaurant? We were allowed to wait for each other to check out with plenty of other customers checking out, but we couldn't wait right there for 3 minutes when we came in to avoid confusing the Sh** out of a 4 year old boy and freezing a 9 month old baby? Covid sucks and everyone's ability to apply logic in a world with Covid sucks even more. I guess the answer is we all have to stay in our houses forever because if we leave we risk either getting sick or getting treated like crap because everyone has lost all common sense. read more

The food here is great. The fried pickles are wonderful. The service here is awful. I've been on the patio twice and had to go to the bar to get my water refilled. Our server just disappeared and when she finally showed up she told me they were in the middle of shift change and that caused her to be gone. I hope they get the kinks worked out because the food is so good and the atmosphere is awesome. read more

We needed to get out of the resort we were staying in so we thought we'd give this a try. From the moment we walked in, we were impressed. The staff was friendly, food was good, beer was awesome, and it was a fun atmosphere. Our dinner was half the price as our previous meal at our resort and twice as good. read more

Excellent service! We arrived 5pm on a Saturday and were seated right away. Brianna was quick to offer us the beverage menu. Throughout our meal (wedge salad and a burger with extra fries) Brianna was friendly and quick. She anticipated what we needed and made the whole experience excellent. The prices are reasonable and the juicy IPA is one of the better IPAs we have had in Washington. Thanks Talking Cedar and Brianna in particular for a great experience! read more

This place atmosphere is fantastic the bartenders are the bomb.com very engaging with your visit. Food has been off the wall tried the fried Chicken, Cuban and the Pork Schnitzel oh my lord to die for. Very good vibe here will most def come back and back when ever back in town. They make you feel like family. read more

I was part of a very large party on Saturday night, Memorial Day weekend. The atmosphere was great, food was fairly good, but I was impressed with our waitress! She was a great server and handled our large party fabulously. I actually had never heard of this restaurant before. read more

We had a great dinner at Talking Cedar on Saturday. Service was great. The chop salad was fresh and tasty. Grilled cheese and tomato soup was a favorite in the group. The fried cheese curds were a hit. Blood orange vodkarita was a hit with my husband. I enjoyed an IPA. Kids had the cookie with ice cream and bread pudding. We asked them not to lick the plates. We will be back soon. Thanks TC staff! read more

This is the 3rd time I've eaten here. First time was top notch, second time was okay, 3rd time was very disappointing. The service was a poop show, took 45 minutes to get our food, the food was over cooked, the steak was tough, green beans were way overcooked, one of the waiters dropped something and said ..ck very loudly. The whole thing was a comedy of errors. If it wasn't for being the only place to meet my family half way, I'd save my money for the DQ across the street. I'll drink my dinner next time, they were good. read more

Don't waste your money eating at this place. Food was terrible. We had a party of 7 and there wasn't one meal worth eating. I personally ordered an Amber beer, the beer I was brought was totally different. I I said to the waitress that is not an Amber and she said we're out of Amber so I just brought you something else! Wouldn't you go ask the customer if they wanted something else? Food was way over cooked. My chicken sandwich was fried so much the chicken was not present in the sandwich. Fish and chips old and rubbery. German schnitzel was over fried and no taste. Waitress had an attitude after beer incident and management didn't care the food was bad. My bill was $148. read more

My friends and I have really enjoyed Talking Cedar. I feel they are doing a great job with the Covid restrictions. The food has been good and they are willing to tweek an item if possible. The schnitzel and bratwurst take me back to Germany. The staff is attentive. My one complaint is the brisket I had Friday. Ugh. Fatty, similar to a sponge but I didn't gag! The dog really likes it! The collard greens and mashed potatoes were cooked just as I like them, so that filled me up enough. All the other friends' food looked wonderful so just one item I won't order again! Nice setting and a welcome addition to this area. read more

This establishment was terrible took forever to get an order in and then when I get my burger there was a hair in it.. fun environment, ok service, bad quality food. sadly will come back cuz it's in my hometown read more