Hop’s House Eatery & Pub

Outstanding meatball slider and grown up mac-​n-​cheese! Bartender really knows the menu and his beer assortment. Fantastic find!

Atmosphere is very nice in the bar area and the bar keep knew his beer! Our waitress was fantastic and the food was good too! You can tell the food is fresh and from original recipes. There is no reason not to give this place a try for a change of pace from the others in town. Overall great place!

Very cute place with great ambiance. We sat in the bar which was very cozy with a fireplace. The service was excellent. Our server, Becky, was great and very attentive and the owner also checked in on us. They have some fun signature cocktails and a great beer selection. Our food was very good, especially the trout. I’d definitely recommend coming here for drinks and food.

Visited 3x before writing this review.
Upshot:
OK food and service for a small town, but misses the mark on some key points of restaurant experience
The good:
1. friendly service
2. house salad seemed to have fresh, possibly local ingredients
3. beer selection is good (~20+ microbrews on tap) but prices are a bit high relative to other places nearby
4. separate dining area that’s good for groups of 10 – 12
Areas for improvement
1. service basics: forgetting to bring you napkins/​utensils, handing you glasses with servers hands touching the top of the glass, where you drink,
2. prices of specials not matching your bill ($ 4 Wisconsin beers showed up as $ 5or $ 6/​beer on bill)
3. ambience and lighting in back room could be warmer.
That said it’s nice to have another restaurant in town. Seems they are improving… despite the negative reviews from others, my companions enjoyed their burgers, and my plate wasn’t cold!

Good beer with a lot of variety, good service, average food.
I like the bar, even though it’s fairly small. There are a lot of tap beers that are rotated frequently. Lots of micro-​brew and local items you don’t really find in bars generally. There is not a large stock of liquor, mostly rail items. There is some seating in the bar area, but an additional dining room as well. The acoustics are really lively, so if there are a lot of customers, it can get noisy.
I’ve eaten here once and the food was ok, but nothing spectacular. The chicken sandwich I had was served on a brioche bun. It would have been better on ciabbata or something a bit more sturdy as the juice from the chicken and spread soaked into the brioche and made it soggy and crumbly. I needed to finish up with a fork because the bun fell apart. I will say my son’s Chicken nuggets were great! it seems like they were fresh made from real chicken, not frozen compressed chicken. It was a generous portion and they weren’t overcooked. Perfect for a toddler!
The desserts here are pretty good and that was the redeeming grace from my meal. They make a root beer cheesecake served with a root beer reduction that is quite fantastic. For not being open very long, I think they are on their way to creating a solid establishment. Definitely a good stop for a few brews and dessert.

Great beer selection. Stopped in two weeks after they opened. Burger was tasteless and below average. Not sure how a restaurant can screw up a burger.
We want this place to be successful and we will go again but if the food all sucks we won’t be back. Owners. .do you actually taste the foods you are serving? Cook/​chefs credentials?

Good beer selection
Not good planning for seating groups — we are a couple put in a room with families and a large group and had a hard time having a conversation above everyone else and had walked by another room with just one table
Food was fine but nothing worth coming back for — dry brioche for both of our sandwiches
If we return, it will be to visit the bar only

Friendly service, nice drink selection and great food.
I got the jambalaya etoufee and it was a delicious approach to the classic. Shrimp and pork belly were cooked beautifully. My only suggestion for improvement would be temperature, it was a little cool (the plate was stone cold so it was probably what cooled sauces, etc down so fast)
Will definitely be back.

Worst service ever. We thought our waitress went home! The beer cheese soup was too spicy. How do you screw up beer cheese soup! The sliders were overdone. Total washout!

Very friendly staff. Rustic atmosphere. The Hop burger was a wonderful burst of flavor and was cooked to perfection.

While this restaurant is very new it shows tremendous promise as the choices they make — mostly local ingredients done creatively — are spot on. This would be a good debut in Madison but for Mount Horeb this is huge… no Sysco truck here! Oh yeah, and the on tap beer selection is among the best I have seen. The remodeling job is tasteful and comfortable, a place I will return to often. Mount Horeb now has 3 great options for dinning, breakfast/​lunch at Schubert’s, casual lunch/​dinner/​craft beer at Hop’s and upscale dinner options at Bistro 101. It’s a great time to live in Mount Horeb. (BTW, Grumpy Troll around the corner is just fine, but Hop’s takes it up a notch).

I’ve been here twice now and I like what they are doing. I’ve had a steak salad and the chicken caprisi sandwich here on these occasions. The steak salad was very good, the chargrilled steak was properly done sirloin and served with a nice vinaigrette. The chicken sandwich was also very good except for the bun choice. Again a very good chargrilled chicken breast with a nice tomato and mozzarella and a proper amount of aioli. However a croissant bun isn’t hearty enough to hold up to the juiciness, I would suggest a nice chewy hard roll if they read these reviews. It was served with some very nice seared brussel sprouts cooked with a couple of apple slices.
Service at the bar was very good when I sat there. The dining room service was OK but they are new and seem
to still be figuring it out. I expect it should improve as they mature.
They have 22 beers on tap and a couple of ciders. A bit heavy on the pale ales, which is my favorite style, they could use more porter and a lager or two. A good sampling if WI beers though.
Pricing is OK, $ 5 for a beer and food prices are appropriate. You can an get a Hopilicious or Fantasy Factory for $ 0.50 less down the street at Main Street or the Firehouse though.
I like the spot and there is potential. I’ve heard some of their deep fried grub isn’t that good. I guess it is good I try to avoid that. I would like to see a few more healthy choices on the menu. It is a bit limited but they are still learning.

Sliders consisted of 2 very small overdone chicken sandwiches. Expected 3 for $ 12 sliders. Portobello appetizer was overdone. Burger was so-​so. Bar was small and hot. Even though the kitchen asked first our feedback, which was incredibly awkward, they still charged full price for food that we literally couldn’t eat. Flies all over. They are new. Maybe in time things will improve. Just go to the reliable, good quality, good service Grumpy Troll in town instead.

Lots of beer to choose from.
Beef balls flavorless cooked well.
Cheese soup good but small cup for the money.
Portobello mushroom decent not the best but not the worst.

Our group of 7 ate at here for first time tonight. We found atmosphere very comfortable and homey.
Night was busy as people poured in after the beer fest but staff seemed prepared and our service was excellent.
Appatizer round was beer balls and potabella sticks, both very good but think bet balls were best. We’ll seasoned flavorful meatballs. My wife and I got a hop house burger and the deconstructed jambalaya. Burger was a good combination of flavors. cooked to order very enjoyable. But the jambalaya was awesome! Shrimp pork belly combined wonderfully with the spicy risotto cake and sauce. A creative take on one of my favorite dishes that I will go back for.
A great dinner in a comfy place, will be back many times and I didn’t even go into the bloody mary an d special bacon pancake cocktail.

Best damn burger in town!!! They are new right now so help the staff out. Great people that love to serve you! The owner is wonderful and will meet you at the host stand. Delicious fresh food!!! Come check it out. Great atmosphere of an old building from a former Italian run restaurant.

Went here yesterday and loved it. Great menu, very different from other «pubs». I had the chicken sliders, they were top notch! Everything was very fresh tasting. Everyone at my table had something different and we were all very happy. I will be back soon to try new things. The Beer Chicken dish is next on my list.

Great place, wonderful fresh ingredients from the local farmers market, friendly staff!

After anxiously waiting for this place to open up, I got my chance to try it last night… and it did not disappoint! Hands down, best pub food in town and highest quality kids menu. The food was very good, and the service was excellent. Their selection of beers is the best in town, and they source many of their ingredients from local farmers, etc. We need more places like this!
Both my husband and I had the portabella burger, which came with an excellent aioli. He had a side of mac & cheese; I had the rosemary garlic mashed potatoes. Both were very good. My kids had the chicken tenders; one had a side salad (yes, they actually let kids get a side salad if they want!) and the other had fruit (fresh fruit cut earlier that day). Flavor on all was excellent. One tiny, tiny negative — because the food is served on white, large dishes, a beige burger and beige potatoes or pasta kind of get lost on the plate and it makes the portions seem small. When I first got my food, I felt the portions weren’t very big — it was my husband that pointed out the plate sizing — but I was satisfied when I was finished. If they had oblong or smaller plates, coupled perhaps with a slice or two of their house-​made pickles, that would really round it out. And sides are cheap; just pile them on! :)
However, I’m not looking to take pretty pictures of my food; I’m there to be served in a reasonable amount of time, and to eat good-​tasting food that’s «real» and preferably local — it’s a rare find to find all of that in one package. Just may become our go-​to restaurant in Mt. Horeb!

Great experience today! My husband and I are road tripping for our 7^th anniversary. Had Caesar salads with shrimp and chicken. Fantastic. Beer choice is awesome. A great little restaurant.