Tee Box at Two Roads Brewery Now Open with Golf Simulator & NEW Food Hall Eats

The campus at Two Roads in Stratford has expanded to encompass not just one, but a dozen plus golf courses. At this point the brewery’s “campus” may better termed an estate. The new Tee Box at Two Roads is a private, reservable golf simulator fitting up to six players, but with room for about ten, fully stocked with food and beverages. The available food menu has been fully revamped, with tacos, flatbreads, burgers taking the place of most of the German options at the Food Hall. Scroll your options, tap a button, and presto. I had several of both. What were they? How was it? And is it possible to lose a digital golf ball? THE RESULTS MAY SHOCK YOU.

First, let’s talk a little bit about the place. Two Roads opened its food hall across the street from the main brewery in 2023 in the location of the former, much missed PizzaCo. We gave you your first look that summer, and the new Tee Box is just next door. The location makes it a great add-on to a brewery visit, in a much smaller venue than the tasting rooms at the mothership brewery or Area 2 across the way. You’ll check in at the food hall and be shown into the game room, complete with a bar/dining area, comfortable seating, and a kiosk for ordering from the food and drink menu.

The centerpiece is the perma-green astroturf fairway and a huge, 14-foot screen, at which you drive, chip, putt, and otherwise thwack golf balls with occasional accuracy. Lasers and miscellaneous witchcraft follow the clubface and ball – even keeping track of the angle of strike and taking a little gif video of the moment of impact for maximum learning value and/or burning embarrassment.

I did not bring my own clubs because I’m angry at them, but thankfully Two Roads has foreseen this and thought to provide their own sets for left- or right-handed players. The sim has dozens of courses pre-loaded into its memory, and I chose East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, home course to Bobby Jones, and wildly outside the envelope of my personal skill level. I would need to take a breath, relax, remember it was very literally just a game, and also order between one and eight beverages.

Did I mention Two Roads now contracts with Guy Fieri to make a line of Flavortown canned cocktails? I’d forgotten, so of course I ordered one because their very existence is hilarious, and gave myself further giggle fits choosing between the Fruit Punch and Tiki Town varieties, choosing the latter because imagining Guy saying “I’m gonna take you to TIKI TOWN, brother!” made me laugh the hardest. It pours a sort of blend of Gatorades greenish orange and tastes... good, actually. A sort of impossible to place mango/passionfruit/melon soda... thing, which to be honest would do very well on a hot day at the links. 

Score: 

Two Roads: 1

Me (after three holes): 48

Seriously.

Food at the Tee Box is prepared and delivered from the Food Hall next door, and the menu includes everything from their excellent pretzel braid, to bratwurst, kale Caesar salad, burgers, nachos, and wings. I began with a flatbread topped with Two Roads Honeyspot Road IPA-braised BBQ pork, Road 2 Ruin beer cheese, dill mustard seed relish, and pickled red onion. The bread was crispy, chewy, and substantial – off to a good start already – and the blend of flavors and textures made this one a winner, even taking into account my compound pickiness regarding both pizza and BBQ. 

I ripped a 7-iron into the water despite there not being such a hazard on the hole I was playing, and ordered another Tiki Town.

Food and drinks at the turn included the brewery’s new Dos Caminos Mexican lager, and:

A cup of smokey and herbaceous macaroni salad. Made with elbow pasta and beer cheese, this is a generous helping of chilled macaroni with chopped onion, bell pepper, dill, and chives, and is significantly more interesting than “macaroni salad” implies.

Carnitas tacos. These come in twos for $8, and are worth every red cent. They start with that Honeyspot IPA braised pork, and add cantina slaw, pickled jalapeno, pineapple crema, with a dusting of queso fresco. The flatbread may be a bit much for just one person, but these are perfect taking a few quick bites between wondering just how they got the game’s algorithm to so perfectly capture your incurable slice.

I’d also recommend the spinach and artichoke dip egg rolls, which are exactly what the name tells you they’d be. These are dip without the chip, and are served with another highlight: a surprisingly good roasted garlic and mint(!) dip. Ssshhh, don’t worry about eating lightly fried dip, you’re being active taking all these swings, and anyway that 13 you shot on the par 3 was a long time ago.

The score at the clubhouse was:

Two Roads: 6

Me: 131, with a very nice 69 on the back nine.

I got to play a course I never otherwise would have, and went home with both some tasty leftovers and at least some of my pride. That par on 4 helped. So did the drinks.

See you out there.

Two Roads Tee Box will be open from Wednesday – Sunday between 12pm and 8pm available to rent for $60 per hour or $100 for two hours. To book a tee time or learn more about Two Roads’ campus, visit www.tworoadsbrewing.com.

1700 Stratford Ave., Stratford