The West End Taproom, owned by Illumination Brewing is an amazing location to relax with old friends and meet some new ones. Nestled in the West end of Allentown, originally a plant nursery, which encompasses a functioning greenhouse, presnting a unique atmosphere. Relax and enjoy delicious woodfired pizzas and other amaing small plates while sipping Funk Brewing craft beer, Illumination Brewing craft seltzers and select Pennsylvania wines and spirits.
Mamadou Sakho
The food was good, the drinks were great, and the service was excellent. The staff is super friendly and warm. The vibes is pretty dope honestly it has a 360 glass view basically where you can get a good vantage point of outside. It happened to be snowy so it looked like a winter wonderland story honestly.
… moreValerie Smith
We LOVE the West End Taproom! The food is always incredible, service is always outstanding and SO GLAD they added some cider options to the draft system (keep ’em coming, please 🙂 )! Our favorite local place and even our picky kids love coming here. All the servers know of my daughter’s ‘quirks’ and ensure that she gets her ‘tap water’ and chicken nuggets with honey every time.
… moretodd shaw
Pretty chill atmosphere, greenhouse section is unique. We sat at the bar. Employees were pleasant. We ordered two
APP’s and both were good. Beer from Funk was good.
… moreNeil JoeB
We enjoyed some hand tossed, wood fire pizza. Both were delicious. They have a great beer selection of their local craft beer. The Citrus IPA was refreshing. On a previous visit we had the Hot and Honey Chicken sandwich and my daughter would highly recommend them. You have to use a kiosk to order food and there is no table service. However, the staff is very friendly and helpful. Thumbs way up and look forward to future visits.
… moreUrsula Kemmerer
Update: We went back again. It’s still super good. We got an order of wings this time along with our pizzas. They were also really good. You just can’t go wrong with this place!!!
It’s one of my top 3 restaurants! I can’t say enough good stuff about this place! It was our second good experience. This time, We arrived right at 4:00 when they opened. We were the only people there. Armand waited on us. He informed us the order yourself kiosk was gone ( which was the only thing I didn’t like the previous time). I told him im a coors light girl. He gave me a sample of 2 beers he thought I might like. The grape shandy was really, really good. Then he suggested the pickle pizza. IT WAS SLAMMIN! I had half regular and half the dirty Richard ( you will understand when you read the menu). BOTH sides were my favorite. My husband got the notorious P.I.G. also slammin. The cook Lenny really takes his time to make it delicious, and you can tell he really cares about the quality of the food he makes. He came over to ask us how it was. Super solid place. If you haven’t gone yet, stop reading this and GO!!!
… morecrescent fallen (crescentfallen)
**EDIT** Came in for a quick bite and a few beers. This place is happening.. Busy, attentive servers, polite staff. Walk in seat your self and enjoy…
Tried this spot for lunch.. Got a smash burger which was pretty good. Would prefer medium temp but I get it, it’s a smash burger. The interior is nice, clean and lots of tables. The kiosk ordering is strange but whatever works I guess. Will have to try this place when I’m off the clock. Would like to try the Brews.. Price wasnt bad but definitely a bit more compared to the other local spots.
… moreNoel M
Great funkin place to stop in for a drink! The atmosphere is fantastic with tons of seating room both indoor and out. The food was pretty good, we had the Hot and Honey Chicken Sandwich and the White Pizza. Really liked that they had to-go boxes that you could help yourself to. Cocktails were pretty good too, I’d recommend the Chance of Cloudiness if you’d like a lighter version of a Dark and Stormy. Of course there was plenty of Funk beers on tap and you can never go wrong with Surfsides and Statesides on the menu. Overall a really great place to have a drink and some pub fare! Def coming back, cheers
… moreTiffany Green
We absolutely love it here! Brittany is the best waitress, super friendly and on top of everything. We had a birthday party here and the service was excellent. They have the best pizza. Can never say enough good things about all the staff.
… moreJimmy Alotta
Beautiful new taproom for the Funk beer brand brewing out of Emmaus since 2014. A bunch of their fantastic beers on tap and in cans, solid rotating cocktails, and a varied food menu of high quality pizza, burgers, cheesesteaks and wings. Nice relaxed atmosphere and the food menu is sourced locally and definitely above average for a brewery. Great option for fresh local beer and tasty pub bites!
… morebrian loper
Beer and food was good. Service was kinda lacking. As we are sitting there 15 to 20 minutes before close they seemed more concerned with socializing with eachother, and putting up all the chairs as to say “time to leave” which is a pet peeve..leave the chairs down till we bounce at least. But at the same time it took us a while to get another beer and at the end our check so we could actually leave as the flipped chairs would suggest. All in all they were cool and were playing some good old school hip hop. The vibes were chill. But we just kinda felt ignored.
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