Ale House - Haverhill

I visited Ale House recently once to have to have dinner with a friend and then to have dinner with my brother . I am a huge fan of this restaurant group. When I lived here previously) I patronized the Barking Dog at least once a week. I had also occasionally visited the Ale House and found it good. The two recent visits to Ale House we're disappointing. To start service was good, the staff where attentive, and made us feel welcome. The food was not as expected. The 1st meal, a Taco Salad, was very disappointing. It was a big bowl of romaine, a thin slab of chicken, a few tomatoes with a small amount of chili ranch dressing. Ultimately, once we tried to mix in our chicken there was not enough dressing. We both ate the chicken, the sparse amount of tomatoes and onion and left the nearly full taco bowl filled with romaine lettuce. I would not order this again. Of note, the salad was as described on the menu. I missed the fact there is a limited amount of ingredients. The salad was almost all romaine with very few other ingredients. Should the Ale House either add more ingredients to the salad or take it off the menu? Yes! My 2nd visit was 2 weeks later with my brother a big fan of Barking Dog too) who had never visited Ale hHouse. We ordered Fried Pickles which were good and arrived to our quickly. For our entrees we both had the Pork Dilla, which we both found disappointing. it was super smokey to the point we couldn't taste the pork. Again, the entree had the ingredients as listed. We both felt that the could have been additional ingredients like cilantro, scallions, sour cream, salsa and guacamole. It was super smokey, tasteless and not good. We both left at least 1/2 of the entrees. Thank god for the pickles. After considering this review, I believe the reason we found the meals less than acceptable is the limited ingredients and the Dilla was over spiced. In the end, I am not sure we will return, meals are not worth what we had to pay for them. This is sad as the other restaurants in this group are excellent. As a note my brother and I went to the Barking Dog the following night and it was excellent.

Food and beverage selection were very good. The wait staff was a litte slow but that's to be expected on a Friday night.

Had bot been there in a long time. Good food friendly staff

One of the best places in town hands down. Hell I went in and fixed the toilet handle and they paid for my meal lol.

Love this place.....wish they were open for lunch...