The Pub by Wegmans – Allentown

One of my favorite Lehigh valley location. I really can’t believe that there are so many poor reviews for the pub. Every dish I have had there has been fantastic. The hot turkey sandwich, the fish tacos, the fish and chips, the turkey burger, the pub burger. All of these options are very good. The fries they serve with your meal are seasoned well and have whole cloves of garlic which are great. I have yet to have a poor experience here. Also if you’re low on cash and go at happy hour you can get the quesadillas for $ 4 and they will fill you up. Also to compare, the pub has 4.2 star overall review on opentable with 174 reviews so I guess people just like to complain on Unilocal

Pros:
It’s in Wegmans, so you can shop afterwards
Cons:
Food is terrible
Wait staff is slow
Manager is annoying & condescending
Terrible experience @ the Pub. Disappointed is an understatement. Wegmans usually does everything right, but they have swung & missed on this Pub big time. Management is terrible, food is awful, service is awful, and it’s expensive. Plus, I really don’t understand that they use dishes that you can buy in Wegmans? The mac & cheese is the same exact Mac & cheese you can buy right in the grocery store. Nothing different. Same with a couple of other side dishes. I find that very strange, since we are regular shoppers @ Wegmans.
Anyway, beer selection is decent, so they have that going for them. Only reason this place is open is that it’s connected to Wegs. If it was on its own, it would’ve closed months ago.

This place has become a giant Wegmans grocery and market café. We couldn’t find Boston market.

Everything is always freshly prepared and delicious! I live close to here and I love popping in for a quick bite. Staff are really friendly and ready to give good recommendations.

Wow that was bad… First time and last time… Deducted a star for the eh food. Deducted a star for the overpriced eh food. Deducted a star for the incredibly incredibly slow service. Deducted a star for the incredibly incredibly slow service when the restaurant was really really empty…

We have always enjoyed it here. The arugula salad is consistently good. The fries are amazing, as is the beer selection. The kids menu is very nice. Always service with a smile! We always leave saying we should come more often.

Sadly I have to write a bad review. We started eating here back when they had their” burger week” we had such a great experience we kept coming back. The last couple times, not so much. Last night my wife and I stopped in for a burger. It was late. But we are pretty easy customer’s. The first issue came with our drinks my wife ordered sweet ice tea. That’s not what we got. No big deal. Just add sugar. Then we were asked if we wanted bread. We said yes! Never got it. Ok. Late night our waitress might have forgot. Disappointing but I can cut some slack. Then our food came. I rarely send food back. But we heard our waitress say medium. Mind was burnt, over cooked, and so dry when I cut it it crumbled… I couldn’t eat it. And our waitress had her back to us for about 15 minutes till my wife went to the bar to get her attention. She halfheartedly apologized and came back saying” they don’t understand how it happened they pulled the burgers off at the same time.” well my wife’s were slightly better in the middle but horrible on the edges. She didn’t realize till the end and she didn’t want to go through having it remade. My second one still was burnt in the bottom but at least medium inside. At that point I just sucked it up and ate it. Add the fact there is NO season on the burgers. And the fries on both plates completely over friend and hard. I’m pretty sure that is the last time we eat there. The place has that gastropub feel. A decent menu. But the execution is terrible. All around. Skip this place and just order a sub from the grocery store

Drove 20 minutes to pick up a 6-​pack but was turned away because the area closes at 10pm on the weekends. Kind of arrogant to have the product out in the open but shooed away by a rude employee a few minutes after «close».
Took my business elsewhere.

If it’s marginally busy, service won’t be good.
Also, if you go at happy hour and order off the happy hour menu at 4:27, you’ll be charged full price. Lame.

If I could give the Pub a 2 ½ I would. We didn’t get any drinks per se but we tried two things for dinner. My wife got this amazing BBQ Steak Salad (Mixed Greens tossed in Ranch Dressing, topped with roasted corn, tomatoes, cornbread croutons, green onions, cucumbers & BBQ sliced sirloin) This was a monster of a salad and could definitely been eaten as a meal, my wife couldn’t finish it. I tasted the steak and it was delicious. If we ever eat there again that’s what I am getting.
I on the other hand tried the Lemon Garlic Chicken Sandwich (Cheddar Cheese, Avocado, Applewood Smoked Bacon, Parmesian Aioli, leaf lettuce, vine ripened tomato) served with Tuscan Fries (Rosemary/​Sage/​Italian Parsley/​Garlic)
Let’s start with my bland sandwich. with all of those flavor notes mentioned in the menu how was it bland? I didn’t taste ANY LEMON OR GARLIC FIRST OFF. if the chicken was seasoned in that. I honestly think they forgot it? Second the aoli probably shoulda been spread on both the top & bottom bun, because the lettuce wiped out the aioli completely. As for my fries .i think the only herb i tasted?! was the parsley which was toasted.
So for what I thought would be an amazing meal was horrendously boring.
They say their food is prepared by the same chef’s that do the food in the market café. i think they use the lackey sous chefs for the pub.
The service was eh. took kinda long to get out food and it wasn’t that busy.
Clean and has a weird ambiance to it because it’s not it’s own area, the «walls» are draperies within the market.

First off our device was just fine. Prompt courteous and pleasant. The Calamari appetizer was good. My lobster roll was sort of tasteless unless you count celery. And there were just tiny bits of lobster like they get the cheap frozen kind. The fries were good and nice to find garlic cloves mixed in. Nice touch fried garlic. Food priced right. I am short and didn’t care for the high table with tall seats. My feet dangled.

The food was much better when they first opened. It still takes FOREVER to get your food!!! And it always seems no one is happy to work here and it definitely shows in the service and the food and I am a Wegmans grocery shopper every week but I will stick to the buffet the food is always great from the buffet, last try for the pub!!!

I would not recommend coming to this place. Wegmans is great but they should stick to being a grocery store. Or rather, they should bring over the friendly cashiers to work at the restaurant instead of the people who they have working at the Pub.
Food was OK but the service was mediocre at best.

So the Wegmans in MD does not have a pub, nor do they sell any kind of alcohol, due to our laws. So needless to say whenever I see a good store that sells beer I get overly excited.
When I see that it’s a Wegmans that sells beer AND has a pub? It’s like I found Jesus or something. My mom and I decided to have dinner here because seriously, we don’t have this magical thing in MD.
Service was great! We were seated quickly and our server was fast, polite, and not overbearing.
Mom got a salad, and I got a chicken quesadilla and fries. The food was good. I mean, I’ve never had a bad meal at any Wegmans so I’m not surprised. My blueberry beer was also good. All in all we spent $ 20, not bad at all! I wish there was one closer to me in MD!

The quality is generally good and the wait staff works to please, but I’ll no longer becoming here because I had wings with amazing sauce once that made me think «this place is great» only to find now that they have curtailed anything bot mild or spicy humdrum wings. Me? Coming to a joint just because the wings were great when I generally don’t even like wings? Yep! They were that good, and now they are gone. Sorry Wegmans. The rest of the food is ok fast food stuff I like other places like Mint better for if I’m going out to eat.
I hate when something is special, then gone. finis

I was surpised to read everyone killing The Pub. I had a great visit… how could anything be bad when you combine the best supermarket ever with a bar? We sat at the bar, and took advantage of the great Happy Hour specials. The beer was nice and cold, and my wife enjoyed the Pino Grio they offered on tap. We each had three drinks and the total was $ 25. Score. I also enjoyed watching everyone cook in the open kitchen.

At first I was like — lunch in a grocery store? But it was a really nice meal at a decent price. It was a business lunch for six people and we all had different items from the menu. We all had some sort of sandwich from vegetarian to a really good looking pub burger. The service was friendly and prompt and the server knew a lot about the menu, specials and ingredients.

Great food. We did the buffalo shrimp appetizer and it was terrific! The shrimp were so plump, golden brown and crispie, ladeled in a mild buffalo sauce… mild with a KICK! :)
We fell in love with our entress — fish tacos and my guest did a turkey burger. Oh my oh my. The fish tacos were so flavorful and delish. Delicate white fish, with a zany, zesty fresh pico degallo, and some fresh cliantro, with a big squeeze of some sort of a chipotle rannnch sauce that just pulled it all together. Also a fresh lime on the side ! Omg so good! So fresh and refresshing! and decently priced.
The fries are truffle fries. So crispie and well seasoned, and perfectly cooked and plentiful, but me and my guests could not finish our fries!
My guests turkey burget was succulent, moist, flavorful, and not too fatty or greasy. It has fresh grill marks on it and it was very pleasing to the eye. The bun was a crusty, rustic, chiabatti roll, and it was so fantastic. I took a bite and I moaned ! LOL
Service was great. I took off one star for price. While the entrees seem afforable, the drinks are expensize, almost 3 bucks for a coke? Please! Other than the put off of the soft drinks prices, we were pleased and will be back.
Hey, and I am from Rochester NY, grown up with Wegmans my entire 35 years on this planet, Rochester does not have a PUB like this Wegmans does. They did it right!

The bad — Our server seemed very overworked. She was always unavailable and never around when we wanted additional drinks or when we needed some extra help.
The ugly — Someone in my group ordered the soup of the day, which was supposed to be a bean/​chorizo soup. When it was dropped off at the table, it was nothing as expected and turned out to be some kind of beer/​cheese soup. We tried to find our server, but once again, she was not around.
The good — We were seated next to the hostess stand. Whenever we needed something, the hostess seemed to be more than willing to help us out and get us the right soup or answer our questions. The hostess was definitely the star of the evening.
The meh — The food was so-​so. Nothing amazing. I had a turkey burger and it was just what I would expect, but nothing completely amazing.
Other thoughts — There was a guy with a guitar playing music, but I felt bad for him, because he was stuffed in a corner far away from where anyone could actually hang out and listen to him. It would have been nice if he was featured more prominently, since he was pretty decent.

I was excited to dine at The Pub because I love shopping at Wegmans! However, the service at the restaurant was terrible! The wait staff and manager seemed inexperienced and clueless. It took about 45 minutes for our entrees to arrive. The waitress went to get the manager (because she felt so bad about the delay… it wasn’t even busy). The manager came along and apologized profusely. When the food finally arrived, my friend’s food was very hot, while my dish was cold. She told us the entrees would be taken off our bill because they took so long, which was fine… but we were so disappointed anyway because the food wasn’t that great for the price. I got the salmon. The worst I’ve had in the Lehigh Valley!
Not worth the money.