Central Station — Restaurant in Fillmore

Would love to give this place five stars. A year ago, friends brought us here and we enjoyed a terrific lunch, excellent, friendly service, and very reasonably priced. We have returned at least 8 times in the past year and brought friends. The last three times (since Feb 2025) there has been a steady decline. Service is always a little slow- it is hard for restaurants to predict incoming and balance with staff these days. We understand- yet, our last three visits, the restaurant only had 2-3 other occupied tables. Waitstaff seems to prefer lurking in kitchen rather than greeting customers and offering menus. This makes for a tedious and sometimes stressful lunch when no one shows up to take an order within a reasonable amount of time. Additionally, the place is looking pretty filthy. Honestly, last week (around 5/13/25) - I almost left before ordering. Every table is greasy and the ones with glass tops over beer coasters were especially disgusting with all kinds of food and crumbs trapped underneath- jettison the beer coasters and clean the dang table tops and underneath- it is gross. The front door was so filthy- seeing the sun shining through, it looked like someone got sick on the the front door after imbibing too much. A severe turn off. I was afraid to go into restroom to wash hands for fear of what it may look like. It is a shame. We have had MANY enjoyable meals here. I hope the owner or manager buys some cleaning supplies for staff and prompts them to clean the joint. We are from small restaurant biz... front of house indicates kitchen keeping- if no one cares that tables have food stuck and trapped, front door has spew all over it and the booth seats feel greasy dirty- no telling what is going on in the kitchen. We are at a loss. We really enjoyed the food here. It has always been fresh, tastey and a nice value ( especially, the lunch specials). The limited waitstaff needs to realize that customers like service and cleaniliness- really, there is no excuse to let a good restaurant (and apparently, a good cook) go to waste due to lack of cleanliness. Loved their french dip- simply the best. I have since learned how to make my own. My aujus isn't quite as good, but I will get there. Sitting at a filthy table in a greasy booth and having to beg for a menu/service isn't worth it anymore. We want to support small, local biz but you are making it too difficult. There is no "value" left to the nicely priced lunch menu when you are made late for return to work- too much stress. the filth? c'mon already- To the waitstaff: is this how you eat at home? yuck. seriously. I'm a good tipper- but not last time I visited.... no way. Tipping is for service. Cleaning is service, and so is greeting customers within a reasonable...

We very much enjoy going to Fillmore as a family day trip. We visit the Fish Hatchery, the Historical Museum and the antique stores. I had been wanting to try out the Central Station Bar and Grill and finally found an opportunity. We walked in behind another family and waited. And waited. And waited. There appeared to be one waitress there, and she finally saw us... And... said nothing. She walked back and forth and passed us about 4 times and even looked at us about four times and said nothing! We waited for about ten minuets, and were just completely ignored. I tried to get her attention, but she up right didn't care.

I see there is another review on here titled, "Where everyone knows your name"". So maybe they need to know your name in order to be welcomed into this establishment. I'm disappointed, because it looked like the type of place I'd enjoy... but if we're not welcome, we're not welcome. Again... it's not like they didn't know we were there. They made eye contact and simply, didn't care.

Skip. Go to the much friendlier Fondita Mexican Restaurant about ten steps down the road. Or Yanni's Best, a short drive away. Very...

Went to this place and it looked nice and it looked like it had a nice live crowd so me and my buddy went in. We sat ourselves and The waitress came by and asked us for our drinks. 2 beers. We got them pretty quickly but then the most unexpected thing happened. When we got our drinks that was it. They no longer came by after that. At all. At all. We must have waited like 25 mins to see if someone was gonna come back and take our food order. Nope. Never happened. In fact we could have walked out and and not paid and they wouldn’t have known about it. But being the stand up dudes that we are we got up and walked right up to the bartender and paid for our drinks even though that’s not where we ordered our drinks from, and we paid our tab and left. I couldn’t believe how let down I was. We were. So I will not be going back even though I frequent at Fillmore often. Love the town. Do better central station.

The only reason I gave it 2 stars instead of one is that it looked...