Brewco used to be a regular with many grad students at UCLA (in the past four years I've even had a seminar or two held out on the patio over beers), but we're moving our happy hours to BJ's these days. Since Brewco changed management and got rid of the microbrews (which were okay but not great anway), they have also shrunk their menu, seemingly reduced their wait staff to the only the stupidest but good looking girls they can find, and built a new bar which I'm sure they thought would increase alcohol sales, but in fact only seems to reduce seating in an already crowded place. A few of my friends and I tried to go there the other day and no one was around to seat us, so we grabbed a table that had been recently vacated. All the dishes from the previous occupants were still there, but the place was filling up so we wanted to get what was available. We waited for service for a long time and finally flagged down a waitress who said she'd send someone our way. A busser finally cleared the dirty plates away while we sat around some more. We waited a while longer and flagged down another waitress who told us that the table we were at didn't get waitress service (which was funny since I had been there a week before and been served at that exact table). We moved to another table in the back corner which was about 100 degrees, and waited another 15 minutes for the sole waitress in that area to realize we were there and wanted drinks. Ridiculous! A quick beer for happy hour turned into a two hour ordeal. We are not going back.
Pros: some of the appetizers are half price during happy hour
Cons: bad service, parking in Westwood is never a happy experience
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