The Heartland Brewery at Union Square is an excellent micro-brewery and restaurant. I’ve been there twice on visits to NYC and enjoyed each. The service is friendly, but not over-bearing.

They have an excellent selection of ales, stouts and lagers - I didn’t have time to sample all of them, but really enjoyed the Oatmeal Stout (nice and heavy) and the Corhusker lager (incredibly light, refreshing).

From a food perspective, I had a burger the first time and beer-battered fish & chips the second. Both were cooked to perfection.

My only gripe about the whole place is that it’s incredibly dark inside. Like a lot of bars in NYC, they seem to prefer to keep daylight outside wherever possible. This makes a return to the sunshine all the more painful…especially after you’ve been sampling their beers all afternoon!

I’ll definitely make a return visit next time I’m in New York.