{"id":435,"date":"2007-10-02T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2007-10-02T15:00:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T15:00:45","slug":"a-negative-review-of-station-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2007\/10\/a-negative-review-of-station-house\/","title":{"rendered":"A negative review of Station House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a letter I got vis a vis my review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/rest\/other\/station.html\">The Station House<\/a> at Point Reyes Station.  Apparently I&#8217;m not the only one who finds the food bland.  I encourage my readers to comment on my blog or e-mail me about the restaurants I&#8217;ve reviewed (whether agreeing or disagreeing with me)<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\nHi Margarita<br \/>\nI should have checked your review before visiting the Station House cafe but<br \/>\nalas I did not and it was our loss. We decided to have dinner there as it<br \/>\nwas recommended by a local but it was very disappointing to say the least.<br \/>\nTo start with, our hostess seemed to have a bit of an attitude when we were<br \/>\nseated and it went downhill from their. Our waitress came to take our order<br \/>\nand had to ask the chef about what we wanted three different times; Could<br \/>\nthey just steam the veggies? could we just have garlic with no butter on the<br \/>\nMussels? and could we have the salad dressing on the side.<br \/>\nMy wife had the 1\/2 pound of steamed mussels, a salad with no dressing and<br \/>\nand steamed veggies, I had the special of the day, chippino and a cup of<br \/>\nclam chowder. We waited about 1\/2 an hour for our food (no popovers or bread<br \/>\nwas served and no one returned to fill our water glasses).<br \/>\nWhen the food finally arrived my wife&#8217;s steamed mussels were on the short<br \/>\nside (more like 1\/8 of a pound) and the dressing was on the salad. It took<br \/>\nabout 5 min. to get the busboy to take the salad back and get another, that<br \/>\nwas the last we saw of the salad! We asked for some bread and the busboy<br \/>\nfinally got it for us.<br \/>\nMy chippino was ok but not worth the 20 dollars we paid for it. The clam<br \/>\nchowder was watery and it was difficult to tell if it had any clams in it.<br \/>\nThe service was very bad and as you said the food was insipid. The waitress<br \/>\nchecked back with us once towards the end of the meal however it was a<br \/>\nprefunctionary walk by. The best part of service was the busboy who was a<br \/>\nlot more attentive and even apologetic.<br \/>\nNeedless to say we will not be returning to the station house cafe.<br \/>\nBest regards<br \/>\nStan Gelber<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a letter I got vis a vis my review of The Station House at Point Reyes Station. Apparently I&#8217;m not the only one who finds the food bland. I encourage my readers to comment on my blog or e-mail me about the restaurants I&#8217;ve reviewed (whether agreeing or disagreeing with me) &#8212;- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}