Hickory Tavern

Very good location, just not consistently. The BBQ Chicken Nachos are fantastic and plenty of beer to choose from. Service is hit or miss and there’s often a wait for a table, no matter what time you arrive.

Hickory Tavern has been our go to spit for kids and friends. They changed their menu so watch out for the $ 6 «side salad» well over half the price of my full meal. When I asked the female manager she said that’s the menu price. Next time asks the price before you buy.

We reserved the private room for an end of a basketball league team dinner way in advance. 35 of us. They gave us 1 waitress! After an hour and a half, many of us still did not get our food. Many of us had our orders completely wrong, overlooked, cold etc… after 2 hours many of us still did not get our complete order… the manager stated we are getting the food out as quickly as we can and never showed his face to us again. They did nothing for us and simply did not care. Food and service the worst I have had in 35 years! Do NOT eat here!!! Rudest management ever!!! If they could not accommodate a party this size, they should have told us this at the time of the reservation. Food was so cold and horrible after the wait. Would have given 0 stars if I could have!!!

Sub par. Steak was over done but fixed that with a smaller steak.
Waitress was wonderful.

I’ve been to numerous Hickory Tavern locations around the city of Charlotte and surrounding towns and this is probably the least impressive location that I have been to.
After being seated — we waited a total of 10 minutes before someone came over to our table to ask us what we would like to drink. The food is overpriced for the quality that you receive. I ordered a buffalo chicken sandwich with fries and the sandwich was incredibly bland and it was served with a side of blue cheese dressing. The dressing looked and tasted as though it had been sitting under a warming lamp because the temperature of the dressing was rather hot and there was a film that covered the top of the dressing. I chose not to use the dressing.
Needless to say I probably won’t return — which disappoints me because I was pretty happy to see an establishment open in Indian Trail with a good amount of craft beer on tap.

This place used to be great when they opened a couple years ago. Now the menu had changed to be smaller and the prices have gone up considerably and too top it off the food usually takes 45 mins no matter what time you come in. If you have a larger party service turns into crap. It’s unfortunate because this place is so close to my house, but to many disappointments for me to come back here. Hopefully they get the hint with these not so stellar reviews.

Started off with a dirty table only to be cleaned by the hostesses poorly. Food took. Way too long and most of it came cold. Waitress was ok.

The short of it: Rude wait staff = lost revenue for this place.
Decided to try this spot after a movie at the theater in the same complex, huge mistake. While it is understandable that a large party can cause some potential wait times but I did not expect to be treated so rudely by the hostess. Without giving us the option to wait while the staff arranged seating, the hostess first attempted to seat my party (6 adults, 6 children) at two separately located tables in the bar area, when this initial plan was shot down, she decided to walk us to a table with 10 chairs (for a party of 12) and then just walked away from our group back to the hostess station without any notice or attempting to get us the extra chairs that we needed. At this point, as I surveyed the family dining area and saw three empty tables right beside one another that would have worked for our party… I decided that my family and our friends would not be spending our money in that establishment and departed (a decision which I felt completely justified making when the hostess decided to start complaining about us to the staff around the hostess station while we were still within earshot). The BTs Burgers two doors down turned out to be great and a much better choice; I will not be visiting this restaurant again.

Awesome atmosphere for the game & great service. Reasonable prices and good food. Incredible beer selection too. Lots of locals & crafts on tap and in bottle.

Wow what a terrible experience this time around the worst customer service ever, the food was cold and the waitress was out there like came to the table 4 times in 2 hrs. Food took 50 minutes to get to the table.
Not happy hopefully the next visit will be better.

The food is good haven’t been disappointed yet. My only complain would be that it takes them quite a while to get the food out.

Literally the largest junk beer menu I have ever seen. Granted there are a few staples as well as a few locals on there, so all is not lost, but for crying out loud it is the dead of winter and style-​wise all ya’ll got is Guinness or a Milk Stout? One of the most popular NC breweries is Olde Hickory — it’s a no-​brainer you should be serving a couple of those. To top things off, my waitress did not know the menu. at. all. When I did finally get a beer, my Chimay Blue was served to me in a Pint glass (!)
Whoever created the beer menu needs to get out in the world or read a beer magazine… something. I guess the beer list is a good match to the clientele…

Nice bar, crappy bar food. Go to watch a game, not to take the family to dinner.

I’m visiting Monroe on business, and Hickory came highly recommended by my North Carolina colleagues, so I decided to try it out. I’ve eaten here three times this week! So far, everything I’ve tried has been great. The lobster roll is possibly my favorite entrée; it’s superbly prepared. I’m about to rave about something that most people won’t care about, but let me just say I absolutely LOVED their «build your own» salad. So many restaurants want to fancy up a salad with weird, unidentified green vegetation, nuts, fruits, etc. Sometimes, you just want a normal, iceberg lettuce salad with some more down to earth ingredients. Also, they’ll toss the salad for you with the dressing, so you’re not sitting there with a little container of dressing trying to stir it up with a fork without spilling lettuce everywhere. That was great. Our servers have been awesome. The beer selection is respectable.
The drawbacks — the bathroom floor has standing «water» — at least I can be optimistic and hope that it’s standing water. I think we know that it’s water mixed with a lot of something else. I almost slipped and came really close to falling face down in a urinal — not cool. They should really fix that.

The service is OUTSTANDING if you go ask for Lidia C.‘s section. Food is good but took a bit to come but once it arrive I was pleasantly pleases with my Cedar Plank Salmon. Delicious.

I go here a lot with my family to eat good food. The waitress was needing a little more training on how to wait on tables. We put our order in first thing when she said hello it still took a good while to get the food. When I asked her if she knew how long it would be her response was «its working» the proper way is to go find out then give me a time frame, since my 4 year old has an internal clock of about 30mins max attention span. She did check on us consistently which put her in the plus one category to even out the negative. Overall a good place to eat depending on what you order. My favorite is the buffalo wings charred with blue cheese.

Yesterday was my first time at HT. The beer list was great, lots if options. Being a vegetarian it is usually hard to find things to eat at a place like HT. Me and my boyfriend both ordered the veggie burger with additional toppings, for lack of a better word it was, mediocre.
I do need to point out the staff though. It just so happens that the host we should of had was an ex of my bf (I’m not putting names). Anyway, she made a big deal about us being there. Hid in the back and made us feel like we weren’t welcome. It took at least 7 minutes to get greeted then seated. After 5 years you would think she would be over it.
Needless to say we probably won’t be back.

As far as family dining/​pub hybrids go, Hickory Tavern is usually a safe choice. as a chain, you know what to expect. My thoughts on this one is that the owners went a bit too far when calculating what people liked at other locations. Specifically, the place really isn’t that big, but it has 25 Televisions. It is just too much. The flashing images from literally every direction became annoying to me.
There are some cool quotes on the wall. I like that, but the bar itself has creepy lighting. I mean that. Like «The Shining» creepy.
The service was pretty quick and friendly. The pint of beer I ordered was so cold it had ice crystals still on the glass from the freezer. I always like that.
All in all, this place is fine for a beer before catching a movie, but I wouldn’t want to spend too much time. Also, if you are looking for a social place, both times I visited, the place was fairly empty, but both times were weeknights at about 10 PM or so.

A solid place to watch sports and get quality food. An added bonus is the local breweries on draft! The wait staff is typical hit or miss with good and bad ones, but this will get better as time goes by. You can hang out with adults or bring the kids. I love that option. A solid choice on any night.

Love this place. Only place local in the Indian trail/​sun valley area with a good beer selection. Typically have several taps featuring local breweries (triple c, birdsong, noda, etc). And the bottle selection is pretty good.
Food is fine, typical bar food with some extras added in. Great salads and entrees as well.
Wait staff is always great and now that it is warming up the patio is a fun place to eat. Plenty of televisions I watch the days sports as well.