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| - While not unforgivably unpleasant, my visit to Fire Station was still pretty dysfunctional. As an example, when my friend picked up our table's parmesan bottle by the lid, the bottom half of the jar fell off and spilled cheese everywhere (obviously the lid was not screwed on). Given its location on campus, I couldn't be sure whether this was the restaurant's fault (i.e., sloppy server didn't screw on the top properly) or if some jerk frat guy left it as a prank for the next customer. I wouldn't cut a restaurant's rating down for such a trivial thing, but things got more...weird...as dinner progressed.
My friends and I ordered a few glasses of wine to go along with our meal. When the drinks came out, it turned out that they only had 2 wine glasses, and the third drink had to be served in a tumbler. I looked around the restaurant; only 2 other tables were occupied at this point, so I was left to wonder if they only had 2 wine glasses in the entire restaurant...? (I know that campus bars are the least likely places for customers to order wine, but I'm not sure why it would be offered if the bar wasn't prepared to serve it.)
We also ordered small side salads as an appetizer. The salad we received consisted of 1/2 a cup of shredded iceberg lettuce (the type of lettuce you'd use to top a taco) and 1/2 a cup of shredded cheese. I have never had a salad that was so disproportionate in its lettuce-to-cheese ratio (shouldn't the salad be mostly vegetables?). To add insult to injury, the salad cost around $3, which is cheap for most places, but a bit extreme for what we received. Unfortunately, I think the $1 side salads at McDonald's are superior in terms of quality.
Finally, our entrees arrived. My friends ordered a gluten-free pizza to share and I had the calzone. After the first few problems, I was a bit wary of the food, but luckily my calzone turned out to be delicious. Nicely browned with a cheesy crust on the outside and filled with lots of goodies inside. Also, it was extremely generous for the price (around $6, I think). My friends liked their gluten-free pizza. However, when they tried to order pizzas in other sizes (besides medium) and asked if other items (like the calzone) could be made with the gluten-free dough, they were told no. Obviously, the crust was probably some frozen, pre-ordered thing and not made fresh in-house
Honestly, I have a hard time seeing this place succeed given the competitiveness of food places around campus. I'm sure that their primary customer base (undergrads) probably don't care about things like weird missing wine glasses and cheese salads, but this place tries to present itself as a little classier than the usual booze hangout for underage kids. Unfortunately, it even fails to rise to the level of many of the booze hangouts.
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