We were out celebrating the 4th of July and decided to stop in to Steak on a Stone for our first visit. As we pulled into the parking lot, we had to zigzag through the maze of pot holes in the pavement...not little holes either. This should have been our first clue as to the philosophy of the owners to put money back into the business for upkeep.
We walked into the foyer and noticed that the baseboards were beat to heck and there was peeling paint on the bottom of the walls. It looked really bad and was not a good first impression of the inside of the building.
Then we opened the door to the restaurant itself and were hit with the smell...and not a good smell. I would expect a steak house to smell like steak. This smell was foul. It smelled like old fish. Since there were very few people there, the hostess greeted us immediately and began to walk us to a booth along the back wall. This gave us a chance to walk across the whole carpeted floor. We both had on tennis shoes and our feet stuck to carpeted floor the entire way. Do you have any idea how much skank you have to have on carpet to make your feet stick to it?
We sat down and didn't even look at the menu. We both just said to each other "I can't eat here." We got up and left. On the way out, I did tell the front desk that the establishment had a really bad odor and that our feet stuck to the floor.
If what we saw is any indication of how they maintain the "public space", I hate to see what the kitchen looks like.
If I could have given them zero stars, I would have.
My recommendation to the owners: spend some money and clean that place from top to bottom.