This place should be packed every meal! Bright open seats with comfortable booths…read more We inhaled our food and the servers were so quick and friendly. The bread was warm and so good.

Wow! Just WOW!!! Was recommended by the local Chevy dealership (which is also awesome by the way -…read moreI drove 4 hours to buy a truck from them). Small town restaurant at its finest. They've been here for years, and I know why. The food is fresh made from scratch and this is the best salad I may have EVER had. Chicken fiesta! Wow. Amazing service too. Highly recommend

Graduated from OSU in '03 and hadn't been back to Tommy's since the college days until recently…read more Food and vibe brought my right back to the good ol' days. It's tasty, filling diner food and I can't get enough. Highly recommend.

We ended up here for breakfast because of the coupon provided to us when we checked into the hotel…read morenext door (strong move). It was an interesting place and had a very local feel but the food was nothing to write home about. I just recently started ordering biscuits and gravy (previously I had sworn off anyone but my grandma's) and this was exactly what I was trying to avoid. It was floury and pretty tasteless. If I have occasion to be back in Corvallis again, I will partake of some of the downtown cafes instead. Sorry Tommy.

The tots are amazing and had a fun time here. Went her for my brothers 21st birthday. Has a great…read morevibe and service was amazing.

This particular McMenamins has cool sink art connected with pipes on the wall and pipes in the…read morebathrooms. Plenty of seating but difficult parking as it is street parking only and it is all metered parking. You end up parking on side streets unless you get lucky. There is plenty of seating and two levels with tables and booths. The prices of burgers and tots seems pretty expensive to me, but we did stumble upon happy hour and got a little break, else it's mostly $18-$20 burgers. I happened to get a discounted $5 beer they were advertising. The food was good, and our service was great.

Love this dive! Also the service has been rad any time I've ever stopped through there... Even more…read moreimpressive is I'm remembered even though I've not been there often!

Worst food i have ever had. Your fries will taste like fish, and so.etime your fish taste like…read morechicken. It's a gamble.. food is soothing from both ends

First time there. Food was good, server very nice…read more I liked the atmosphere and will definitely be going back!

The food is always good for really large portioned bar food…read more The service is decent at best. The place is loud and kinda small but not overly small where you feel crowded.

First time here and we will definitely be back. We sampled a few of the small plates and they…read morewere all so good. Our server, Cecilia made recommendations as we are first timers and she nailed it all. She ensured we had a wonderful first time visit.

The reason we were in Albany was for our daughter's college graduation from Oregon State…read moreUniversity, GO BEAVS! Anyways, we had called a few restaurants in the area hoping to get some dinner. This was the only place that said,"Yeah, we can seat you!" So, hubs and I make our way from our roadside motel (Studio 6, review will be posted) to downtown Albany. The parking situation was a little confusing, but we found parking a few blocks from the restaurant. We got a table, yay! The place is pretty cool, it was a bank back in the day. They have a nice limited menu which offers options for all sorts of food preferences. So, our table was full of carnivores, lol. Hubs had the special which was a smoked prime rib, daughter's boyfriend had the Wagyu Brisket burger and my college grad had the filet. I also had the filet. Everything was super tasty! I would totally recommend if you aren't in a hurry. The servers were great.

Fun little taverna. Our server was delightful. The menu is simple. The atmosphere is noisy but not…read moreannoying. I had a couple drinks, a focaccia, and a few other dishes. We left satisfied but not stuffed (that is a compliment) and everything tasted fresh and delicious.

The first thing to note is that the 2 star reflects my view of the restaurant given it's posturing…read moreitself in the market as a gourmet, upscale restaurant, as evidenced by relatively high prices for relatively small portions. The restaurants ambiance has a soft, intimate feel to it, but neither the chairs nor tables have the element of class one would expect. In fact, the perimeter of the seating area has wooden benches which make sitting comfortably relative to the table a trick. Meanwhile, the actual chairs reminded me more of modern living room chairs as opposed to dining chairs. As for the food, we found the two main courses rather tasty:one being a steak kabob and the other a lamb kabob. I have had the lamb kabob on another occasion and both times it was cooked so the lamb was juicy and tender: rather delicious. However, the lamb kabob only came with one skewer of meat. On the other hand, the wagyu beef kabob was very tasty in it's own right and this was two skewers worth. I had trouble squaring that discrepancy in my head - so be it. As an appetizer, we shared the calamari dish. I am used to large plates of breaded, fried calamari cooked to perfection from my days eating at Italian restaurants in New York. This appetizer came in a small cup, which appeared to be an 8 ounce size (the cup was fancy and black, consistent with the image they are trying to project). The calamari dish was good, but not anything special. Thus, without considering that this restaurant markets itself as, a high end , gourmet restaurant, I would rate the food portion of the review a 4 star. However, that must be adjusted to reflect the food preparation relative to marketed expectation and that knocks it down to a marginal 4, at best, probably a 3 in my book. The real killer was the service. I will say it was both pleasant and polite. However, this is the type of restaurant that is marketed to appeal to the romantic dinner crowd with high end expectations: the professionalism of the service fell far short. To begin with, the host and waitress sat us at a table directly next to another couple. Note that I had made a reservation for 7. When we arrived there were only three tables occupied. However, we were sat directly next to another couple even though we could have been sat another two tables away for far greater privacy and a more romantic experience. Then the waitress exhibited zero personality throughout the evening. In addition, she came over while we were still eating our main courses and asked if we wanted the dessert menus, even though the restaurant would be open for another hour. All in all, I feel that the server was a nice person, but was obviously not very experienced and added nothing to the experience - not what one expects in a place that is marketing itself as upscale. I had a restaurant business and used slow times as an opportunity to observe and teach. I noticed nobody making such an effort in a situation that called for it: a big oversight and lost opportunity for three parties: the server because they are not being assited to grow, the patron because the service impacts the consumers overall quality of the experience and the owner for the obvious reason that it impacts business long-term. I call it the win-win-win formula and this restaurant would benefit from applying this concept to training the wait staff so they are at the patrons expectation level. In summary, if this were a casual restaurant I would rate it a 3, but because of how the business is slotting itself into the market with it's pricing, portion sizes, ambiance and menu presentation - I believe it only merits a 2 star review in that particular market segment. I do not believe you will be disappointed with the overall experience, but neither time have I left their feeling wowed, and both times I left feeling that the experience did not meet the expectation for the cost nor for the intimate, romantic feel they want to project as providing

First timer at Fay's Cafe, I love trying new places. I took my daughter here for lunch. Menu was…read morekind hard because there is nothing listed under any of the burgers, just the names, so you have no clue what's on them, besides the obvious hamburger and cheese burger. I ordered a bacon cheeseburger, an order of crab rangoons to share, and a mountain dew. My daughter ordered a hamburger and fries with a chocolate milkshake. The rangoons were actually really good, lots of filling but kind of burned. My burger was ok but it was covered in seasoning salt, it was pretty much the only thing I could taste. My daughter really like her burger and fries. Her milkshake was good, but was really really thick, almost too much chocolate. The soda tasted like carbon water and not mountain dew. I'm glad we tried their food, but probably wouldn't come back.

Run down and dirty. Food was mediocre at best. Fry's were served limp and cold. The fried noodles…read morewith chicken was actually ok.