Rams Head Tavern - Annapolis

I don't give everyone five stars... but tonight you guys deserve it. Came w/ a party of 5 to see Dave Tieff/Laughing Colors acoustic show at Rams Head Onstage/next door and had dinner here before the show. I ordered a plain Reuben on a burger bun w/ cheddar cheese and fries and they knocked it out of the park. My friend had the pulled pork sandwich and you couldn't get him to talk because he didn't want to stop eating it. His son had the fish and chips and said they were as good as another place we frequent that has amazing fish and chips, so that about sums up his dinner. My wife had the Shepard's pie, which I tried and really liked, but was lacking a little on taste/flavor? So 8/10 for the Shepard's pie... I will ask for extra gravy if I come back and order it for myself. Our other friend ordered the taco chicken salad and that was also a walk-off home run. Our server was prompt, checked on us periodically and the kitchen brought our food out in a surprisingly short amount of time, too, for a packed Saturday night. Bonus for the Tavern - we ran into some friends on the way into the venue part of the building and asked them how their dinner was and all four said "fantastic". Can't beat that advertising. One suggestion - If you're going to see a show and want to eat at the tavern, use the app to make a reservation a few DAYS in advance or you'll have to try your luck at Stan and Joe's or find somewhere else to eat: They had to turn people away at the door who didn't have reservations. Thanks guys for a fun evening!

Service was attentive and good was mostly fine. Steak was nicely seared, juicy, and well seasoned. Salad was well assembled, with crispy greens, fresh toppings, and good proportions of ingredients. Crab was the sad, dry, jumbo lump with nondescript flavor usually found in south Asian pasteurized crab imports rather than the sweet blue crab common here, succulent Dungeness often substituted, or other even the cheap but flavorful Jonah, used in both the crab dip and cake. Even surimi would have been an improvement. They should 86 the crab items if they can't source ingredients worth using.

Nice selection of dishes. I chose the Bison Meatloaf in a tasty brown gravy. If a person has tickets for a concert next door make you make a reservation so that you get a 10% discount on your meal. I had read about the discount but never saw you need to make the reservation so they wouldn't give it to me. Oh well.

Our server was very rude. Disappointing. Don’t remember her name. Probably a college aged kid. Tall-ish, thin, shoulder length layered blonde hair. She’d actually be really pretty if she wasn’t so unpleasant. From the start, she wasn’t very friendly, but we thought, poor girl probably is just having a bad night. Stay positive, maybe she’ll come around. When we came in, we ordered our drinks. She left the drinks, and said, the kitchen is closing so you have to order fast. We said, no problem. Ordered a burger and salad. When it came out, the usual question is - is there anything else. She didn’t ask. That’s fine. So I asked, may I have an extra side of ranch for my salad. She was like, well, I just saw them going to put everything away. So probably not. So I said, would you mind trying. And if it’s been been put away, no worries. She gives this disgusted look, storms off - pouting and very visibly shaking her head, and when she comes back- without making eye contact - she slams the dressing on the table and storms off again. My husband and I just looked at each other, sort of stunned. What a bratty little girl! I will say, her entire mini-tantrum to the delivery of the side of ranch took about 15 seconds - which says something about her speed of service (when anger is a motive), and that the blessed side of ranch was still, in fact, readily available. We’ve never seen anything like that. How bizarre.