Grain Station Brew Works — Restaurant in McMinnville

Grain Station McMinnville is definitely not what it used to be. I don't like leaving negative reviews but I've been a patron for years, and I genuinely hope y'all get back on track. Today we wanted to sit outside, the host was polite and quickly seated us at a table... full of ants. Ants everywhere. We grabbed our waters and menus and went inside immediately, and quickly got re-seated. The host was upbeat and polite, quick to refill waters, excellent, I wish I could have specifically tipped him. Our server, female, was surprisingly curt and slow in comparison. Every time we've had her as a server recently she's given off the vibe that she would rather be anywhere but there serving guests, this time was no exception. Ordered our food, and my spouse's was fine albeit with not much flavor. Mine, however, was horrible. I ordered the crispy chicken wrap and a house salad. Pretty simple. I noticed right away that my spouse's food was steaming hot and mine was lukewarm at the most, chicken wasn't even hot enough to melt the shredded cheese in the wrap, it tasted room temperature. The tortilla was so tough by the time the food came out that it was actually difficult to eat. I could have made a better version myself at home, which I will be opting to do next time. Disappointed I spent nearly $20 on a meal that I could have made better myself. When we were leaving, we noticed a different host had seated someone else at the table full of ants outside after we told the staff there were ants all over it. Staff clearly not communicating with each other either, I can't imagine being told a table is infested with ants and then letting another coworker seat someone else there without cleaning it and making sure it's food safe. Just a truly baffling...

I’m truly not one to write things like this but I feel like it’s truly necessary…my husband and I had our anniversary on Sunday on the 25th and we decided to come here! We have been here before and the food was good, but it’s been a year or two. It was a mistake to say the least unfortunately…I ordered myself a small pizza as my husband ordered the chicken fried steak. We ordered the cheese sticks as an appetizer which were delicious! But when my pizza came out, it was drenched heavily in grease…so much so I had to take what seemed to have been millions of napkins to soak the pizza off…but it still didn’t do much because the pizza itself was falling apart so I only ate once slice…my husbands food had no flavor and the steak was super chewy according to him…so he barely ate his food as well. The bill for the thr items and two drinks was 68 dollars and with tip it was over 75…we didn’t want to say anything because we’re nice people, but what’s making me make this review is that my husband and I got food poisoning and we’re still feeling it today…it’s now Tuesday.. I guess I’m just disappointed in quality of food and the expense, I understand that inflation is crazy right now, but that 70 dollars could’ve been used for something more extravagant than a pizza and a steak. I hope things change because it used to be a nice restaurant with good food….I’m very sad and disappointed.

The service was good though! As well as the...

Wow, not a place for families. It usually been good, but wow, today, a disaster ! We had kids, school age, adults, and an elderly man. We ordered a few meals and a few desserts. The food finally came after an hour and a half wait! They also informed us, "oh we are out of ice cream". So, no sundae, the root beer floats were warm root beer and a small bit of ice cream, perhaps a teaspoon. The Pie ala mode was crumbled pie and a teaspoon of melted ice cream. The crust on the pie was also burnt. The waitress apologized over and over, said she wouldn't charge for the deserts, she said she wouldn't eat them! My grandson didn't get anything as he had ordered a sundae. The least they could have done was come and let us know before, and not wait till they served the meals to tell us. Some of us only ordered dessert. Oh ya, one of the waitresses that set out our silverware was chewing gum with her mouth open, real class! Anyway, I am really disappointed as they used to be really good, I hate to see a really good place go down, or out. One of the staff told us they had a big change over of staff when a bunch of the kitchen people just recently quit. I'm not sure excuses are what we really wanted. They did take off half the bill. Not sure we will rush back...