Fernson Downtown & Totally Rad Eats is pulling double — maybe triple — duty on South Phillips Avenue, and it actually works. Craft beer on tap, coffee in the morning, food worth showing up for, and a room that shifts energy depending on what hour you walk in.
The brewpub side means you're drinking Fernson's own craft beer alongside cocktails that didn't come from a well. Totally Rad Eats handles the kitchen — burgers built with some conviction, breakfast worth skipping the drive-through for, lunch that doesn't feel like an afterthought. Dinner and late-night round it out, so this is genuinely a downtown Sioux Falls spot that functions across the full day rather than just one slot of it.
They're not asking you to pick between a good beer and a decent meal — you don't have to. The menu and the taps were designed to coexist, which sounds obvious until you've been to a brewpub where the food is clearly embarrassed to be there. The café corner means morning people aren't left out either. One room, a lot of range, no part of it phoned in.