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    Station House 81

    4.1 (58 reviews)
    Closed • 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

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    STATION HOUSE 81 ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for groups
    Happy hour specials

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    Gouda Mac Bites
    Nate J.

    Walked into the establishment and we were allowed to choose where we wanted to sit. The place was busy, which is good! Waitress was able to give some really good recommendations for appetizers and food since this was our first time being here. Ambiance is a small town local joint. Loved the local pictures of the fire trucks for the old station. Appetizers were really good would recommend the fried cheese curds. The chicken parmesan sandwich was excellent, not the patty you would get at a school cafeteria but fried and delicious. The fries were much like those at the county fair. Delicious, nice touch of grease, fresh potato taste which make you want more. Drinks were never empty, and even gave use drinks to go. Would recommend this establishment!

    One of each slider, fresh cut fries, coleslaw, rum and Diet Coke, extra BBQ sauce.
    John C.

    A no frills small town restaurant that feels like a bar. However, they are known for their house smoked meats so I tried their basket that had one of each in it (pork, chicken, beef), along with some actual, not frozen, fries. Each was very good, though a bit dry. I had them bring me some BBQ sauce, which she said was store bought... The coleslaw was better than many. Service was busy place, Saturday night, bar casual, good. My server said I should try the wings, which she said they are known for, so I may if I go back. My rum and Diet Coke was acceptable but nothing exceptional.

    Delicious Garlic Parmesan Wings!
    Scott F.

    This tavern is a little gem located in Commercial Point, Ohio just south of Columbus a couple miles off Hwy. 23 south. Their meats are smoked to perfection and the service is warm and friendly.

    Mac n cheese
    Barry H.

    Decided to check this place out. Small time place in Commercial Point. Has 9 tables and a bar area. 2 pool tables. Music going. Plenty of Tv's. Today was slider special, buck a piece. Rachel was my waitress, super personality and more than helpful. Checked on me often and did refills often. Onion petals we're hand made with Chipotle ranch dipping sauce. Yummy. Mac n cheese was definitely home made, a blend of 3 cheeses, good flavor to it. I tried each of the sliders, chicken, pork and brisket. Pork and brisket were outstanding. Had 2 ribs which cooked perfectly and they put BBQ sauce on, not tough at all. The chicken wings were also smoked with a nice spice coating and some BBQ sauce on them. Baked beans were quite different, had pulled pork and chopped onions in them, also a blend of BBQ sauce, Worcestershire sauce and brown sugar. Sides are huge servings.

    Daily specials board
    Tom H.

    Carryout review Love the Thursday wing special(see pic). I have only so far sampled the sausage sandwich(see pic), and the wings. Lot's of wings. My co-workers comments on his Swiss-Mushroom burger are as follows. Juicy well portioned burger on a non-descript bun. He could not recall if it was toasted. The swiss was so melted, that much of it had slid down on to the fries. I saw the separate boxing of the LTO. I thought it looked minimal. He did say the fries were crisp and well seasoned(even after a 12min car ride). The sausage sandwich I had once, needs work. Nice smoked sausage, and grilled, diced onions & peppers. The improvement could be, not splitting the sausage to let all of the moisture get grilled out. I think it needs a better roll, maybe grilled. It also needs a spicy brown mustard to compliment the smoky meat flavor. The wings are traditional bone-in, non-breaded. Standard sizes. Nothing that was organic tiny, or steroid huge. They are all smoked with a house rub. Sauce is added after. There is no fryer involved. I do recommend the wings plain with no sauce to get the full taste of that smoked flavor and seasoned rub. As I work my way through the combinations of flavor offerings, I am currently on plain with extra rub and some of my own hot sauce. Let it be known that they only use Frank's. A missed opportunity to use someone locals recipe sauce. I found the BBQ wings to be especially sweet and sticky. Usually the result of molasses. It's good enough, just not my choice. Many of my co-workers will order no other flavor but the BBQ wings. Carryout drinks are in Styrofoam cups off the bar soda gun. To bad cans or bottles aren't offered. The woman working lunch behind the bar has been very friendly, and helpful. On the phone taking orders, bagging orders, and cashing out multiple rendered payments. She is always the utmost professional and courteous with a smile. So the $.60 wing special on Thursday lunch is a tremendous value for a great tasting wing.

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    1 year ago

    Run in often for food. Always fresh and good. Smoked wings and meats. Service is always friendly and attentive. Great value.

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    Great wings and friendly staff. Enjoy going there or getting food to go is fast and easy.

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    Always friendly service and pretty good food. Fine for kids , but more of a bar atmosphere. Could be cleaner, especially the bathrooms.

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    4 years ago

    Great bar food and drinks. Reasonably priced. The service is usually pretty slow, but everyone is so pleasant it's not a deal breaker!

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    6 years ago

    Nice little gem in Commercial Point. Good food and nice daily specials. At times hard to find a seat. Friendly bar tenders and patrons.

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    4 years ago

    Fast courteous service and their food is excellent!! I'll definitely go back. With my family.

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    4 years ago

    Not much to look at when you first walk in but great smoked wings. Prices are reasonable.

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    Great food! Great service. The pork belly bites were outstanding. Nice selection of beer and good live music.

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    6 years ago

    Small bar setting. Okay ribs, great fresh cut fries, mac-n-cheese was a little different but good.

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    Pick’em Up Joe - Cheese Danish and Turkey sausage kolache

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    5.0(13 reviews)
    0.1 mi

    Of course when I heard there was a new kolache place, I had to go. And though I meant to go to…read moretheir Grove City location, this weekend I was near Circleville and thus this one was handy. Located on the corner in the heart of Commercial Point, this looked pretty popular on a Saturday morning. Decent parking, a table or two outside, a few inside, and a steady stream of customers. Half a dozen sweet flavor kolache, plus a few savory ones, plus a few other baked goods. And coffee, and lots of it. I didn't need that, and though I wanted to try everything else I just got two kolache, a Nutella and a sweet cheese. Nutella for Kid K, of course. I ate the sweet cheese. And yes, I was comparing it to Kolache Republic. Slightly different, much bigger, and proportionally more expensive. Soft sweet dough, not quite the same as KR or my family's but close. Sweet creamy cheese filling, again slightly different but close. And I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite. KR has more imaginative fillings, though they also have the standards which Joe's has. Service was great. Prices are reasonable. Was in and out quickly. I'd love to have this nearby, and am glad KR is handy enough for me. If you live on the far south side of Columbus, or down towards Circleville, this will be more convenient.

    Great service always!!! Best sweets!! My favorite is the…read moredelicious cinnamon rolls and the coffee is always good.

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    McDonald's - McCrispy Strips

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    2.1(34 reviews)
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    Surely I've reviewed this; we've been here a couple of times. Oh, well…read more Handy on 23. South Bloomfield has grown, of course, and doesn't seem to be the speed trap it used to be. Today we came in because they have Minecraft Happy Meals. Kid K was thrilled. Service was friendly, but slow, and there were several mistakes on our order. It seems like there are a couple of people here who know what they're doing and a half dozen others without a clue. Issues were fixed. K liked her standard order (nuggets, fries, apples.) The toy was cool enough. There's an adult Minecraft "happy meal" so I will have to get that next, sigh. I got the new McCrispy Strips. I assumed they would be pretty standard chicken tenders. Nope. Extremely processed meat like the nuggets, extruded in long flat strips. Edible but not really pleasant. And a small portion for the price. Don't bother. Also, a special sauce for Minecraft month, Nether Hot or something. Moderately spicy, but one-note flavor, basically a hot pepper sauce. Meh. The place was a bit dirty, crumbs on tables, sticky floor in areas, etc. All the kiosks were down, and there was a wait at the one register open. We'll be back because it's handy and we have a kid, but otherwise I would pass on this one (and to be fair, I'm not a big McD's fan anyway.)

    I moved here eight years ago, and I have to say that I don't have a high opinion of the owner. I…read moredon't know any of the employees personally, but I have observed what they go through and it's torture. Their nerves are shattered. They turn on each other and copy each other out, the place is so small and claustrophobic and all the beeping noise's are out dated & unnecessary. have to cause so much pulse traumatic stress sensory overload & Fight or flight. I would last at best two days. I just don't know how someone doesn't go ballistic there. I think the managers are overworked probably underpaid understaffed and they're downing so much caffeine juice They're becoming super temperamental, causing people out their hand shaking their face is sweating and I am super afraid they're going to have a heart attack. I understand they can't rely on other people to do their jobs well or to even show up because they're so busy gaming. Everybody is becoming so obese there because they're eating that crappy chemical induced junk food In a restaurant that claims to care about children. What a industry of making people sick. I think the managers need to be over the top Thanked for the job. They are doing. They need to be given paid leave vacation to resort like hotel or somewhere to decompress. Other businesses do that. And another thing I think auto ship needs to change because they're so uninvolved and so greedy they even cut down the only shade producing trees because they want their restaurant to be seen. The trees were not the problem. It's the ownership in the size of the kitchen. It's very outdated. In a hostile Work environment. I'm not necessarily picking on the staff. I'm picking on ownership and McDonald's. The staff is working working so hard it's inhumane. It must not feel very good to work somewhere that has such terrible reviews because it's a horrible environment to work at that. Nobody wants to show up to.

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    Not happy !! Coming up heading home. We stopped here for…read morelunch. We both ordered a footlong coney, but they don't sell them here anymore. So we had to change to the regular dogs. Then we paid wife got her ice cream we was told to go to slot 2 for our food. We sat there for about 30 minutes they finally brought it out to us. There not happy here people are rude . Parking lot needs work as well The hotdog had no taste with the can chili sauce on it tasted poorly. Thank god we have a real DQ in Marion Ohio we go all the time where it tastes right and still have footlongswith coney sauce. NOT WHAT they have at Bloomfield. We won't be back ever!!

    If you're driving on Route 23 between Columbus and Circleville or points south, you have to drive…read morethrough South Bloomfield. This little town is a "wide spot in the road, and is host to several grab and go eateries. Among them is this DQ. I found it interesting that they did not offer a footlong hot dog but when I asked I was offered two standard sized hotdogs instead. My first choice before the footlong was to ask if they had barbecue beef sandwiches, as it is often a standard item on DQ menus - I didn't see it on the menu - sure enough, this sandwich was also not available. Once I worked out my selections the food I did purchase was well prepared. They appear to have a dining area inside but I used the drive-thru window. The employees were friendly and it wasn't long before I was back on the road.

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