Jolly Pumpkin Café & Brewery

Great IPAs, pizzas, and beignets. Highly recommend the brussels sprouts. Excellent service and great atmosphere.Food tasted fresh and craft style. Joe was fantastic and extremely personable. We will be back.

My friends and I wanted to sit outside so we were seated upstairs on the roof. To be honest, service was pretty slow. They really took their time and they forgot to get a water for one of my friends. They also ran out of 2 different beers that we wanted to order. So not off to a great start. We got:- crispy potato croquettes: these were just fancy mozzarella sticks.... It came with 5. I would pass on these. - brussel sprouts: these were good! I would reorder. - kale Caesar salad: there was too much dressing. - truffle pizza: I prefer this pizza than the other one we ordered. - fire and smoke pizza: This was fine.

Great spot! We really enjoyed this place. The portion sizes for both the food and the beer were huge, our service was amazing, and the ambiance inside was really nice! I got the steak frites, which was truly delicious! The aioli on it was excellent. I got a side of tomato soup which was good, but nothing to write home about. My husband got the carnivore pizza, which he also really enjoyed! To drink, we got a pitcher of local beer that was great! And it made 4-5 cups which was nice!

Horrible food and horrible service. While I was there I saw the manager harassing someone standing on the sidewalk outside. Stay away.

It's Restaurant Week in Ann Arbor! My partner and I decided to visit the Jolly Pumpkin Cafe to explore their lunch menu. What a fun spot! We were greeted by a fantastic wait staff. The ambiance and decor were warm and welcoming on that cold winter day. We shared the fries and the chicken sandwich. We're glad we tried out this new place to kick off 2025!

Classic Ann Arbor beer spot! If you are a fan of sours, you must try Jolly Pumpkin. I always enjoy the beer, whether in person or at home (can find their beers in retail all over). You can also purchase beer to take home from here. Food menu I would describe as slightly elevated bar food with some twists. In general I find it good, but not amazing. My favorites are probably their chicken nachos and truffle fries. Salmon burger and chicken sandwich are tasty too, and some will say their burger is a contender for best in Ann Arbor. I tried their Pozole Rojo large plate for something different this visit, and it was good but a little underwhelming. Good flavor, served kind of lukewarm/room temperature, and smaller on the meat portion in the pozole. Tasty with the chips!

It's been a while since I've visited Jolly Pumpkin because the service was never great and my last visit confirmed that nothing has changed. The servers always seem inattentive and like they would rather be elsewhere (I get it, but food service isn't the place to work, then). Whenever I end up here it's because of the patio, which is a wonderful space in the summer and can be shaded depending on where your seat is. They no longer have cocktails, which is disappointing, but the tofu sandwich is always tasty.

Stopped by to sample their beer and food and sadly was underwhelmed. We ordered the crispy potato croquettes which were more like soggy, greasy cheese sticks and not paired well with the "charred tomato basil sauce" was more likely they tomato soup!! Not a very large beer selection for a brewery and the few I did try, were warm which on a hot day is not great. My daughter opted for a mocktail and it was so wet that she didn't drink it at all. Service was very slow and pretty much non-existent after we were served our app and drinks. They didn't even bring us water despite it being a hot day or ask if we were enjoying our order!! The prices were a little steep as well so overall not a positive experience

Super delicious sour ales. They make their own sours and there's so many to choose from!They also sell them in bottles and they have them in the grocery stores as well. Server was super nice and gave us suggestions on what to choose for their beer flights. They can do a max of 5 in the flight. Very clean and the mugs hanging from the ceiling are super cool. Definitely a place to visit if you enjoy sour beer like me!

Jolly Pumpkin is a fun place for a group and has been around for some time in Ann Arbor. The service was pretty good, but they were out of several drinks so I resorted to a cocktail (I don't recommend the Old Fashioned, sorry). The prices are a bit steep ($18 for my sandwich) but overall, the food was very good. I got the Warm Artichoke Sandwich with a side salad. My one friend got the Truffle Pizza (she said she always gets it because it's so good, I need to try it!) and others got salads or sandwiches & were pretty satisfied.