The Beer's Fresh, The Food Damn Good & Music Stellar: Uptown Fresh Beer Cafe

Sitting pretty in a corner of the much-famed and much-patronized DLF Galleria Market, Uptown Fresh Beer Cafe is an oasis that lures you in with the promise of fresh, chilled craft beer of your dreams. Come for the beer, stay for the cosy, homely feels and the absolutely smashing music!

Spread over two spacious levels, they’ve got a ceiling-high, swanky bar, a live pizza counter and long, comfy couches for you to sprawl out your weary selves at. Crafted to become your go-to post-work beer joint, this place is so chiller you’ll never want to leave. 

Beer, pizzas, calamari and everything in between - here’s everything we dug into here at Uptown!

Beer Platter (Tongue-In-Cheek)

Presented to us in cute little shot glasses, our beer buds were tingling in anticipation! Up first was their German Wheat Lager, which is also incidentally one of their more popular variants, which was super smooth, light-as-air golden beer that’ll slide right down when you pop your work-wear ass down at Uptown. Bonus points for the hints of raw bananas and clove in this one!

Their Premium Lager was slightly more peppy and acidic - this is the fresh pick-me-up you’ve been craving sitting in that endless meeting. Plus, if you’re a calorie-conscious freak, this one is glycerine-free and low on the caloric content, so chug away!

Third in line, their Brewer’s Special Brown Wheat was supremely earthy and was a combo of dark and wheat beer - gives you a clean, fresh and malty taste that’ll keep you swilling back mug after mug in quick, happy succession!

Their Dark Lager was slightly bitter as compared with the other three, and this one is especially adored by those whole love AND know their beer to a T! This one got a firm thumbs up from us.

Pepperoni Pizza

Golden-browned, crisp crust formed the base for the bubbling, baked cheesy goodness topped by round, fat globes of 100% (don’t miss that) pork pepperoni looking oh-so-delicious and ready to be devoured! These guys have a wood-fired oven where they prepare their pizzas fresh and yummy, so definitely go for this when you find yourselves at Uptown!

Uptown Fiesta (Veg)

A riot of onions, bell peppers, juicy mushrooms, golden corn, jalapenos and fat, plump black olives studded the most delicious melted cheese. Crisp, tart base (owing to their rad live pizza counter) - this one’s a treasure trove of veggie delight for our vegetarian counterparts!

Crispy Fried Calamari

A scoop of crispy, crumbs-slathered calamari coils were served with a big dollop of tartar sauce made to perfection! They also threw in yummy, thoroughly appetizing potato wedges, which simply made us reach for ‘em again and again (and again)!

Non Veg Kebab Platter

A heaping platter laden with everything our carnivore heart desired, in came their heavenly Non-Veg Kebab Platter! Let’s give you a taste, shall we? The first thing we stuck our forks into was the Mutton Seekh Kebabs - soft and tender, these were replete with desi spices and the mutton itself was delightfully succulent and scrumptious to taste!

The Fish Tikka came next - slathered all over with the most delicious, chatpata masala, these were melt-in-your-mouth creamy and soft as a cloud! We plopped whole chunks into our hungry mouths and pronounced ourselves satisfied!

No platter is ever complete without the requisite hunks of chicken tikka, and this one was no exception. The verdict? Let’s just put it this way - apparently, the peeps here at Uptown have taken a blood oath to ensure that every morsel served is fresh and oh-so-tender! This was followed by Malai Tikka, which was just as delicious!

Mushroom Rago

The creamiest white sauce Alfredo held mounds upon mounds of fat and juicy mushrooms, alo9ng with a dome of Cous Cous rice and a couple of wide, thick wedges of herbed and buttered garlic bread. Fair warning - once ordered, you cannot stop plunging your eager spoons into the Rago OMG.

Dal Makhni & Garlic Naan

After having conducted endless food tasting sessions (well over 100!), the peeps over at Uptown have come up with the perfect Dal Makhni. No really, we kid you not! Accompanied by piping hot and satisfyingly buttery Garlic Naan, we happily scooped up their thoroughly unique Dal Makhni and ended our mid-week beer and food fest with style!

A funky, comfy and entirely casual and chiller place that also (YESS!) happens to be a first-rate microbrewery, Uptown Fresh Beer Cafe promises to become your go-to hangout joint for that much-needed gossip and daru session with your work bestie! The music simply rocks (these guys actually hold music choosing sessions too!), the beer is fresh and the food is damn good. Seriously, what’s NOT to love about this place?

Meal For Two | Rs 1,500
Location | 106, DLF Galleria, Phase IV, Gurugram

This article has been written by Mehar Luthra. She's a total Grammar Nazi who eats misspellings for breakfast! A law student, wandering food critic, sarcasm worshipper, caffeine-junkie and serial sitcom-watcher whose abiding passion in life is to write, write & then go and write some more. Let her regale you with some of her musings!