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    Union Whiskey

    4.0 (26 reviews)
    Open 5:00 pm - 12:00 am (Next day)

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    What's the vibe?
    Live music
    Outdoor seating
    Good for groups

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    Patrick B.

    Great vibe here. Can only talk about the drinks, but the cocktails were good and fairly priced and a couple local beers on tap. Great service. I understand the place is relatively new but I'm sure it's a great addition to Olean.

    The don't really have "Dinner per say however we ordered a few apps and sliders and left pleasantly full
    Brian G.

    They don't have a dinner menu per say however we ordered a few apps with the sliders and left pleasantly full

    Bavarian Pretzel with Bourbon Honey Mustard

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    Nice place to chill. Great beer selection on draft, cans and bottles. Great cocktails. Happy to see some nice vegan food options.

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    Food was terrific. Great atmosphere, with live music and outdoor seating. A great choice in town.

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    8 years ago

    About time Olean had a hip place to grab some drinks with friends! Foods not bad either!

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    8 years ago

    Ordered 7 drinks. 3 were "mixed drinks" and 4 were canned/draft beers. Have been waiting for 30-45 minutes. Terribly slow.

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    Eatery

    Eatery

    4.0(20 reviews)
    0.1 mi

    The food is TO DIE FOR!!! I had a slice of pepperoni pizza (that's it) and OMG it was amazing! The…read moreservice was so good!! Very polite and nice! The ambiance was PARTY! I love it in there! And to top of my excellent review was one of the best coca colas I have ever had.

    You could improve pretty much everything. Two of us ordered…read moreclassic poutine. What we got was a sloppy mess in a bowl of cold dry pot roast on top of hard red potatoes with a little bit of mozzarella, cheese and gravy. That was the most disgusting mess ever and if I wanted to pay top dollar for pot roast I would have ordered pot roast. Another person in our party got a hot honey chicken pizza. When we ordered it the waitress didn't even know what it was. That was so inconsistent. It wasn't even funny. Three of the pieces had nothing on it while others had tons of cubed canned chicken and very sparse hot peppers. I think we counted 1/8 in pieces of hot peppers on four slices. Another in our party ordered a burger and she found that to be tolerable and the other person got the lobster Po boy. Kind of hard to screw that up. If you don't mind kids free-ranging running around then this is the place for you. Even after saying the pot roast was cold, dry, and definitely not poutine. We got charged for it anyway Of all the restaurants we've been to on the East Coast, this is definitely the most disgusting one ever. The tables.. every single one of them had a folded up piece of cardboard under one leg because they don't sit right. One of the girls in our party got a sliver in her finger from the edge of the table. What a hot mess of a place After a 7-hour drive to get to Olean New York, this was more than a disappointment.

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    Eatery - Stuffed banana pepper pizza was  served cold lacking mozzarella and sauce flavor

    Stuffed banana pepper pizza was served cold lacking mozzarella and sauce flavor

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    Black Smoke - Everybody Loves Bacon (with a piece of candied bacon!)

    Black Smoke

    3.8(46 reviews)
    48.5 mi
    $$

    To start, I was able to make a reservation very easily online. I was even able to select outdoor…read moreseating upstairs, which was great. Upon arriving, the hostess told us that the outdoor reservation actually means nothing and its first come first serve for seating. So, that wasn't great. As always, the space was great. The rooftop bar was fantastic - great weather and a live DJ made it a really fun place to hang out on a Friday night. The bar upstairs didn't have as good of a cocktail menu as inside, which was okay! We ordered our food directly at the bar. Black Smoke used to have a delicious BBQ inspired menu. They have recently updated their menu, and I wasn't impressed. We ordered the Mac and cheese croquettes, the steak flatbread, and the chips and dip. The Mac and cheese balls were good but they were very heavily seasoned with Italian seasoning - it was a little overpowering. I had heard great things about the steak flatbread - steak, goat cheese, caramelized onions, and fresh spring greens. The flatbread arrived and was cut into these little triangles and was stacked on top of eachother and the spring greens seemed like they were cooked on the pizza instead of sprinkled on after. This made the flatbread taste kind of swampy and completely negated the delicious onion and flat cheese combo going on. If you got a bite without the spring greens it was tasty. The chips and dip were the one thing I had no issues with. The chips were thick and homemade and the dip was creamy, oniony, and delicious! Overall, the bartenders were amazing, the drinks were good, and the vibes were top tier. I just won't be back for dinner any time soon.

    I only give it three stars as my relationship with this review comes strictly from being a…read moreboyfriend assisting my girlfriend with a place to eat as she travels 12 hours back home. She needed a place to eat and as I was looking at her location I seen this wasn't too far off from interstate 90 where she was. Read her the menu options and she wanted mac n cheese. I called it in and explained that she's handicapped and I am ordering this for her. They were super accommodating and even brought the food out to her when ready. I surprised her with pretzel bites which she enjoyed. Her only real complaint was no utensils came in her bag so she had to wait to eat the mac. I had some when she finally came home, we reheated it the next day. I thought it was ok. I enjoyed toasting the pretzels in the toaster more. I'm sure a good dine in spot with a vibe but.

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    Black Smoke - Black Smoke Old Fashioned

    Black Smoke Old Fashioned

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    The Empty Bottle - Cider House Mule - made with any spirit of choice!

    The Empty Bottle

    4.0(2 reviews)
    47.3 mi

    We enjoy going to Souther tier brewery. The food is very good and the beer selection is not bad…read more Everything has to ordered at the bar which can result in quite a wait when it's busy...and it's always busy! If the service was faster we would go more often.

    I love Southern Tier Brewing Company's beer, especially their Pumking (though their limited Rumking…read moreis even better...) but I've also fallen in love with their Bourbon Smash cocktail-in-a-can they sell. The Empty Bottle is STBC's distillery and, to be honest, I think was more fun to go to compared to their bar/restaurant, The Empty Pint! Some family and I were visiting Jamestown for a weekend and after we had a few drinks and some food at The Empty Pint, we stumbled over to The Empty Bottle to sample some of their harder spirits and maybe some cocktails. Plus, we needed to escape the incredibly loud live music playing at The Empty Pint... Right from the start, it's a more intimate setting and was much more relaxed. We grabbed a table inside with no trouble at all and ordered a flight of their "Draught Cocktails". The ladies working behind the bar were incredibly fun, friendly, and enthusiastic and really brightened up our night! We enjoyed all of these drinks but we really loved one called "Transfusion", which was their vodka, Welch's Grape Juice, lime juice, simple syrup, and ginger ale. We all wanted to buy a few bottles of this, if they made it, it was absolutely delicious! The price for the flight was very reasonable too and they gave you a nice pour for each. If you want food though, you'll need to take a short walk over to The Empty Pint, though I'd recommend just grabbing some appetizers, do a bigger meal elsewhere. My advice to anyone visiting Southern Tier Brewing Company would be to first come to The Empty Bottle and enjoy cocktails and the harder spirits then round out the evening, once it gets a little later, with a Pumking (while it's on draft) at The Empty Pint, up the road a few steps. I'm really looking forward to coming back to The Empty Bottle the next time I'm in the area!

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    The Empty Bottle - Pumking Carver - a fall cocktail on draught made with both Pumking Whiskey and Pumking Ale, local apple cider, and ginger ale

    Pumking Carver - a fall cocktail on draught made with both Pumking Whiskey and Pumking Ale, local apple cider, and ginger ale

    The Empty Bottle - Phin's Old Fashioned - our top-selling cocktail

    Phin's Old Fashioned - our top-selling cocktail

    The Empty Bottle - Wild Apple - one of our fall cocktails on draught

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    Wild Apple - one of our fall cocktails on draught

    Rose Tavern

    Rose Tavern

    3.9(155 reviews)
    80.5 mi

    The food was excellent. Brussel Sprouts were great and the lobster risotto was very well done. The…read moreservice was friendly and quick. The layout was fun and you can see into the kitchen and out onto the lake.

    Would give them 3.5 stars. Agree with some other reviews that the view and atmosphere is nice but…read morenot worth the upsale price. We came as a larger group and they were nice enough for us to order from the breakfast menu as they switched over the lunch menu at 11:30am. Our table enjoyed the food but all agreed it wasn't worth the price point. I tried the chocolate croissant with homemade butter and maple bacon jam along with the Canadian bacon Benedict. The chocolate croissant was nice with the maple bacon jam but definitely not worth the price point of $12. The croissant was quite smaller, like the chocolate croissants you can get from Costco or Starbucks. The Canadian bacon eggs Benedict however was delicious and I really enjoyed it! I just am not sure again it was worth the high price point. However I definitely felt the service was missing. As we were the only ones in the dining area, I felt the service was missing the mark. The server saw we were carrying a baby in the restaurant but didn't ask if we wanted a high chair. My mother-in-law spied it in the corner and then we had to ask for it and we proceeded to set it up at the table. As I was with 2 young kids, I ordered some simple items before the main course like their chocolate croissant and fruit cup. I assumed the server would ask if we wanted those ahead of time but that didn't happen. He also had forgotten my son's drink order and which my son actually had to ask him after some time "where's my juice?" My older son had ordered the s'mores waffles and it looked good when it was delivered but as I cut some of it for me to try later on, I soon realized the batter was uncooked in the middle of most of them. I was thoroughly disappointed he had eaten some of it before I discovered it was uncooked. The server throughly apologized and they remade the order which in the end, we ended up taking home with us. They also didn't take the order off the check for us which normally that would happen. For such a classy restaurant, we would think they would know how to make waffles and for more top-notch service. I think next time we will just enjoy the nice views and choose to eat somewhere else when we are in the area.

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    Rose Tavern
    Rose Tavern

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