Old Stone Station — Restaurant in Cambria

On Saturday 6/22/19, following a delightful visit to Hearst Castle, I went with my wife and daughter to the Old Stone Station in Cambria for lunch, arriving at 1:30 PM. We could have done much better.

The restaurant did not have many customers and we were offered the choice of either sitting inside or outside on their dining terrace. We chose to sit inside and were placed at a corner table that had not been thoroughly cleaned following its last patrons (Sticky and salt spills). After a decent amount of time a server came to take our drink order. We told him we were ready to order our meal, but he declined to take the order by saying that our waiter would be with us shortly. He did not make any attempt to wipe the table nor did he notice that there was no silverware or napkins present.

He returned fairly quickly with our drink order, and was followed soon after by our waiter who took our food order. but still no silverware service and still sitting at sticky table. My daughter ordered the “fish and chips”, my wife the “clam chowder in a bread bowl” and I ordered the “calamari sandwich with fries”.

A this point, still no silverware service had been provided.

The food items appeared quick enough, and at that point we had to ask for the silverware service, which had still not been provided, and which for some reason took a few more minutes to be produced.

While waiting I started to nibble on my french-fries, which I found were stone cold ! I asked my daughter if her fries were cold, and she said (and I verified) that they were not. I checked on the calamari sandwich, which was simply a microwaved disk of squid sliced into smaller sections and place on a toasted roll …. And found that the calamari was also stone cold. (Not frozen, but still cold) My daughters fish was advertised as being fresh hand battered filets, but was in fact frozen and breaded, not fresh and battered, and was a lesser quality than want a person could obtain from McDonalds by ordering a fish filet sandwich. I believe that her fish item was likely something akin to what you would find in a cardboard box the frozen food section of your local market.

I actually stood up and walked into the back of the restaurant to find our waiter. I asked him to come back to our table where I showed him the meal I had been served and told him that the two items were cold. To his credit he offered to replace the meal. Which he did, but which was not served for another 20 minutes. My wife and daughter had completed their selections before I was finally served.

On the positive side, my wife said her clam chowder was excellent.

I would not recommend this place unless you want to overpay for frozen and then microwaved food. You will get a better product (and service)...

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