Tommy's 4th Street Bar & Grill — Restaurant in Corvallis

Solid 4 stars. Atmosphere is great with an OSU theme which is a big plus, and the food is good. Average pricing, but they have a system where you get $5 off every $50 spent so if you go there regularly you can essentially take 10% off all your purchases (not including alcohol) which makes it more reasonable. Both times I have gone I sat in the bar area, which only had one person trying to juggle the entire bar contingent which can be hectic at times due to all the gamblers trying to make transactions, so service can be slow if you sit here. The second time I went I ordered drinks and forgot to ask for a water, and the server ended up never coming back to check on us before we decided to leave, so don't sit in the bar area if you want fast service.

While they have a full bar, they don't have any liquor specials, only beer, which means when out drinking I'm going to be going somewhere else. One attraction here, however, is the Beaver Buster Breakfast. It's $23.99 but free if you can eat it all in one hour. That's extremely expensive, but when you see how much food you get it's actually a good deal (there are pictures on the wall of 'before' and 'after' attempts, to gauge how much food you would be getting). Trust me, unless you are a professional eater you're almost guaranteed to fail this challenge - only 3 people have ever succeeded according to the waitress. Taking on this challenge would be perfect for a Man vs. Food episode. I can eat a lot and I know I would have no chance at succeeding. You could probably split this with a friend and by the end you would both be completely stuffed and still have food left over.

Overall, this place could easily be a 5 star place if they improved bar area service and had a good happy hour & daily specials...

Don't go unless you have a LOT of time to kill, but their Corned Beef Hash is worth 90 minutes...

Honestly, the wait for service AFTER being seated was THE longest I've ever experienced without leaving.

We were out of water and ready to order for over 15 minutes - maybe longer - while their staff was all over the place, adeptly trained in avoiding eye contact.

When the server finally came to the table to take our order, it was with no water or coffee, and just as I was dialing the Angry Beaver (a bar I saw out the window) to make sure my son could get in so we could eat.

Both before and after ordering, we watched plates of hot food get stacked literally three high - no lie - under the heat lamp while the 4 servers seemingly did the best they could, but prioritized cleaning tables and seating customers and putting in new tickets over delivering the hot food.

It made no sense. The cooks were nearly 100% caught up with no pending tickets almost the whole time, and I saw them chatting and laughing through the window as they had no place to stack but higher!

Once it came, the food was pretty good. Home made corned beef hash is hard to find and this was REALLY great. Unfortunately, after sitting under the heat for well over 10 minutes, all of our over easy / and medium eggs were hard - definitely a downer for the hash.

Never could get a check, so when someone was near the register I ran up and asked to pay - When I paid, I asked if it was crazy because of OSU freshman move-in day, or if maybe they were shorthanded, but she said no, and that it's always really busy. Nothing was out of the norm she claimed.

Regardless, I'll probably go back if I have 90 minutes to spend at breakfast, but it could be WAY better and cycle more customers...

I ordered their "Strawberry Crunch French Toast" and I'm here to tell you that whatever it was that I recieved, it was certainly not French Toast. Though there was bread, it had a uniformly colored very fine crumb coating that I can only describe as what covers children's chicken nuggets in a very cheap meal. There was no taste of egg or proper batter, no grill marks, grease or any sign that it had been cooked by conventional means. I can only take that to indicate that the bread comes to them with this chicken nugget coating and they heat it in the oven or microwave from frozen.

The next most troubling thing was that in the midst of strawberry season the topping applied to these uniformly nugget crumbed pieces of bread was grayish in color and clearly came from less than savory containers of preserved strawberries. It seemed totally unnecessary to serve strawberries from a can when they are flooding the markets everywhere.

To top it all off a small line of whipped cream not an inch wide bisected this humble offering, clearly nowhere near enough, forcing one to carefully ration it out or just go without.

I'm only offering 2 stars because as I ordered the French Toast in a platter and the extra crispy bacon I ordered was actually thick cut and cooked perfectly. As well my father who went with me quite enjoyed his omelet, which though visually it made me skeptical due to the unbrowned gray meat, he said tasted fine.

Perhaps this is a lesson that you should only order omelettes and meat at a restaurant such as this, but regardless I'll not be going back, and if others choose to take the risk, I only suggest they don't order the...