When It All Started
About 20 years ago, a young cook stood at the line between the moment of chaos and calm that every cook experiences every Friday night in every restaurant across the country. The ticket meter began its mechanical song and the Chef's voice rang out in a thick French accent: "Hold onto your panties, girls." As he began to call out "One duck! One foie! Two steak, bloody and well! Four scallop!" the young cook looked at his co-worker, another lowly comis, peered into the dining room, looked down at the freshly tattooed black widow spider on his forearm, thumbed through the last of his paycheck in his pocket and said "good food is wasted on people who can afford it."
This is where it all began. The concept that good food, prepared by professionals who are passionate about their craft, who spend their off time learning new techniques, who get giddy during morel season, should be made available to everyone. Whether you are thumbing through the last of your paycheck or whether you're sitting on a million dollars, good food is a necessity, not a right, and it is The Refinery's mission to provide just that.
What We Do
We buy as much as we can from farmers and suppliers who do it right. Sustainably and ethically right. Then we refine this already beautiful product into something even more amazing and we change it up every week.
The Bar
Our beers range from the "blue collar beers" that we grew up on, like PBR Tall Boys and Miller High Life to sophisticated craft and micro brews that now, we enjoy later in life, like Triple Karmeliet and Cigar City Jai Alai. We're a little cheaper than you may have expected because we want everyone to enjoy beer because beer is good, real good, damn good. Our wines are from small vineyards and are a true bang for the buck, many listed at $18 a bottle with weekly $15 per-bottle nights.
Hours
Bar: Tue – Thu 4p – 12a | Fri – Sat 4p – 1a | Sun 11a – 10p
Dinner: Tue – Thu 5p – 10p | Fri – Sat 5p – 11p
Brunch: Sun 11a – 3p