I certainly enjoyed my meal there: great food, great atmosphere, and an attentive waitstaff all saw to that. Certainly, their wine list was well-considered.

I would argue, however, that it is distinctly embarrassing for a server to have to answer the question of "What beers do you have?" with "Blue, Blue Light, Amstel Light..." Upscale restaurants serving nothing but macro-swill just don't cut it.

Some local restaurants get it. Bistro Europa's beer list is very well thought-out, clearly offering beers intended to compliment their menu items (rather than a random assortment of good beers.) Shango, too, maintains a beer selection worthy of their cuisine. Cole's beers, of course, are far, far better than their food- but finding a good pairing is easy, at least. Still, by-and-large, Buffalo restauranteurs are very much behind the times when it comes to their beer list, and even when a place does offer beers beyond Blue, the servers are often clueless about matching those beers to dishes.

I'd very much like to see Tabree stock some quality quaffables of the beery variety in the future; not to sound uncharitable, but my returning there is predicated on it.

jt1983- it was previously Astoria.

And just to clarify my comment above: I honestly do recommend Tabree (the restaurant, not the feed system), and they are far from the only place I could cast the same stone at.

(I understand that Tabree will be getting their beer on soon, anyway, which of course is great news worth sharing).

I'm just miffed about the general reality, (not-Tabree-specific-reality), of the fact that no upscale restaurant would dare open their doors with only boxes of Franzia and jugs of Gallo on-hand. Yet when it comes to beer, the equivalent is not only permissible, but not uncommon. And no, picking up a random assortment of craft-brewed domestic micros doesn't count: I'm talking about beer-lists as carefully thought-out as the wine list.