The Green DragonI have got a lot of things to say about this place. One the whole, I've been disappointed by it. They have 20 taps for different beers, but there have been a few times when I visited this establishment where only four or five of the twenty taps have been on.
They are a brewery as well as a bar, they have been open for about nine months now and I have seen no word about their house beers. They distill spirits as well, and I've seen none of those either (I've heard through the grapevine that the permit to serve distilled spirits is tough to get, but the whole thing seems like bad planning to me.)
Their food is pretty unexciting; it seems like they're trying to do some fancy dishes when they don't have the kitchen to really execute them well.
I have had a few good beers there, and they change their tap list all the time, but I have never been blown away by their selection. When I go to beer bars that have 20 taps, there are usually three or four beers that I really want to try, but when I go here, for some reason, I can barely find one.
It isn't a very comfortable place. The place is really big, but it always seems kind of lonely in there. Sitting at the bar, I feel like someone is going to come up from behind me and beat me up or something, it's hard to explain.
I haven't been to the Dragon for a few months now, so they may have started serving their own beer, but I don't really have a good reason to go, even thought it's a ten minute walk from my house.
The Final Word: Just because you have a lot of taps and you keep them rotating all the time doesn't mean you're good. A good beer bar needs to be constantly critical of their selection. Maybe a handful of really solid standard beers on tap isn't a bad idea.
