Brew Revolution

Order the Fleetwood Mac and Cheese at Brew Revolution and you are already two jokes deep: the dish is a pun, and the beer beside it might be called Kashmir or Walkin' on Sunshine. This Stittsville brewpub writes its menu like a record collection — Rage Against the Poutine, Bohemian Wrapsody, the Notorious B.L.T., Grilling Me Softly — and the bit runs the length of the operation, from the tap list to the band booked for a Saturday night to the rock-and-vinyl décor on the walls. The food names, the beer names, and the music are not three ideas wearing the same costume; they are one idea, and the menu scans top to bottom like a setlist.

The kitchen backs the wordplay with comfort food built to sit beside a pint. Fleetwood Mac and Cheese is the clearest anchor — a full plate of mac and cheese with toasty garlic-oiled baguette, big enough to split across a table. Spice Up Your Fry started as a secret staff order and earned a permanent place on the menu: fries under smokey brown gravy and St. Albert's cheese curds, then jalapenos, green onions, pickled onions, and a house chipotle-lime mayo. Mixing Boards arrive in Solo or Duo sizes, stacked with cured meats, cheeses, fruit, fig jam, and the same garlic-oiled baguette that rides alongside the mac. From there the menu fans out — Honey Honey pizza finished with hot honey from Burbidge Apiaries, the Linkin Pork sandwich, a G.O.A.T. burger on goat cheese and roasted red peppers, locally baked Twist n' Shout pretzels from Nat's Bread Company, and naan with the house Mama Kin's hummus. Local where it can be, hearty everywhere.