Prison Brews

Prison Brews does a good job playing on their historical uniqueness and proximity to Jeff City's slammer. Restaurant decor is themed around the cell block. Our mid-week trip to Prison Brews in December was relaxing and low-key which allowed everyone in our group ability to talk and hear each other. With the bar, fairly robust food menu, sports on multiple TVs and downtown location, Prison Brews has been busy and lively during fair weather. Nice outdoor patio seating in the courtyard with strings of hanging lights. Inside is a unique restaurant and craft brewery with your basic ales, stout, porter, and full bar. The menu offers a solid variety of unique sandwiches, burgers, wood-fired pizzas, and various entrees, soups/salads and apps. My prison burger which I ordered medium-rare was served

Things were a little slow this night we stopped. To be fair they had a large table of about 20. The tenderloin sandwich was really good in my opinion. The kids grill cheese though was really heavy and greasy. Daughter was not a fan. My wofe got the chicken Philly and the special sauce is a pesto blend.... not really what we thought it would be. The buffalo chicken dip had good flavor. But was made with whipped cream cheese. That made it really lite and fluffy. Again. Just not our thing. We will try again and try the burgers or pizza.

This is one of the most unique brewery concepts I've seen. It plays well with the neighboring and now closed down Missouri State Penitentiary. The concept inside is fun and gives it a unique vibe different from other breweries. Beers were good. Food was decent.

Overall my family and I have experienced eating a prison bruise while we were in Jefferson City was pretty cool I ordered the supreme pizza with duck wontons and Buffalo to start with. The duck wontons were not very impressive and the buffalo dip was more forward on cream cheese and sour cream then I would have preferred. I also ordered the supreme pizza and my daughter ordered the barbecue brisket pizza they forgot to put the barbecue sauce on her pizza so it had to come out on the side but both pizzas were really delicious. Overall my experience here was quite fantastic and I really encouraged and you when it comes down to grab a flight and try their local bruise that brown they have is some kind of delicious. Overall very happy just wish our server would have even taken the time to ask

Great atmosphere, I love how it is set up like a prison, food was good and the flight of beer was full of flavor.