Windmills
Windmills brews its own beer and cooks upscale Indian food in the same fourteen-thousand-square-foot building at Grandscape, with a grand piano on a stage at one end of it.1
Why go
Diana Spechler's own attempt to describe the place is worth reading as it stands: It's a brewery. It's an upscale Indian restaurant. It's also a library? And there's a raised stage with a grand piano on it, so sometimes it's a concert hall.
1 Brian Reinhart carries it as a flagship pick in D Magazine's brewery guide, as a brewery, restaurant, cocktail bar and jazz club at once.2 The beer verdict comes with a caveat attached and both halves matter: The beers are hit or miss, but the hazy IPA is a knockout.
1 The named plate is the fenugreek paneer.1 It sits in Grandscape, the same development as WorldSprings.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: the hazy IPA, and stop there on the beer.1
- Order: the fenugreek paneer.1
- Avoid: working through the rest of the taps on trust.1
What locals & experts say
- Diana Spechler, D Magazine, 2025:
The beers are hit or miss, but the hazy IPA is a knockout.
1 - Brian Reinhart, D Magazine, carries it among the flagship picks in his brewery guide for the metro.2
Good to know
- It is in Grandscape, which puts it in the same development as WorldSprings.1
- One room covers dinner and drinks, which in the northern suburbs is rarer than it sounds.2
Verdict
could-visit — A fourteen-thousand-square-foot building at Grandscape that brews its own beer, cooks upscale Indian food and puts a grand piano on a stage, which is the only room in the northern suburbs doing all three. Order the hazy IPA and the fenugreek paneer, and treat the rest of the beer list as a lottery.