Foster's Coach House — Restaurant in Town of Rhinebeck

Needing a quick bite, and just down the street where I was doing a job.. I stopped into Foster's. I hadn't been here in a long time and it didn't seem familiar. As I entered from the street, I saw there specials and decided to order the Slider Special for $8.00

The "front" was quite noisy, so I ask the hostess for a quiet place to sit. It was a nice roomy table. The waitress appeared immediately, I asked for a glass of water and ordered the sliders. She asked me what side I wanted, and I selected potato salad.

She brought the water quickly. The sliders took almost 15 minutes, before they appeared. On the plate with the two sliders was a ice cream scoop of potato salad and an even smaller "size cup" of cold slaw.

The sliders were really well done, and not juicy. They were supposed to be "covered" with melted blue cheese - no where to be found and some type of buffalo sauce, do not know what it was or where it was.... Personally, I never eaten a drier "hamburger" - and by the way; their size was about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches in diameter and about 3/8 " thick.

Time was of the essence, two bites and one gone and a few more bites the other gone. At least it tasted like beef.

Then I waited about 10 - 15 minutes till the waitress came back and handed me the check.. for $10.00 I did not have the time to argue, the fact the special sign said $8.00 and the tax should have been 65 cents for a total bill of $8.65

To add insult to injury on the way out, the special was supposed to be served with french fries!

Talk about a place that needs a "Restaurant Stakeout."

It will be quite some time I'll go back, and Yes I inform my Rhinebeck friend to look out and should be reluctant to...

We stopped in on Sunday for lunch after visiting a local college. It started off okay and got progressively worse. We ordered 4 sodas and when they were brought to the table, they were flat. I let the waiter know and he said he would check on it. He came back after a little while and said it was the way it should be. Bad answer. I guess soda is not supposed to be carbonated in Rhinebeck. Quite frankly I don't really think he asked anyone at all. We ordered wings and asked that they be crispy. Nope, not crispy. Strike 2. My chicken parm arrived and the chicken had a very strange texture, like it was made of silicone rubber or something. The meatballs that came with my daughter's spaghetti were not right either. After eating 3 of them, she asked me to try one as they had a strange flavor that she has never tasted before. I tried half of another one and immediately spit it in my napkin as it was spoiled. The strange flavor was rancid meat. After the episode with the soda carbonation, I did not bother to tell anyone but rather do my review here. There are several other places within a short walk of this place and I would highly recommend you go somewhere else. Anywhere else...Too bad, the reviews were radically different than the...

Came here expecting some generally good food and instead got met with an awful server and diner quality food. We order an $11 shrimp cocktail and it came with 4 shrimp laid out on some dirty lettuce with a plastic cup of cocktail sauce. The server came over to us just to ask for food and to bring it to the table, she never asked how the food was or if we needed anything else. They weren't even busy only other people in the "Tavern" interrupted our server asking for our drinks to say he had been waiting 20 minutes and no one came to serve him. We ordered the Rueben's and it was just a blob of pastrami on barely toasted mediocre rye bread with actual diner fries. Had to get the check from the hostess and we asked for the manager who she said was " in a meeting upstairs". She then came back to make sure we wanted to speak to her. The manager came down and proceeded to tell us that's just how it is and you cant find a better price on shrimp anywhere else. When we told her about the bad service she quite literally shrugged it off and said "She's been here many years" like that makes her a good server? Overall just disappointed in seeing what used to be a good restaurant turn into a cheap poorly run "tavern" in the middle...