Clarksville Station Restaurant

Outstanding food, atmoshpere, values (farm to table) and very fun, ecletically awesome boutique.  Definitely find your way here and enjoy!

Ok, it is freezing, and while driving home with my cousin, she remembers a "Neat" restaurant in Clarksville which is 30 miles out of the way, but what the heck, we are in Hannibal and there truely are no great places to eat a nice lunch there.

She cannot remember the name of the restaurant, but we drive around Clarksville (not a lot of driving if you catch my drift since the population is only 443, and cannot find the restaurant.  We get on a residential street and ask a couple of local citizens who direct us to the Clarksville Station.  We had missed it by a block.

I was shocked, the Clarksville Station is very new, stylish with a wonderful patio, which when it isn't 7 degrees out is probably pretty nice.  The dining room is beautiful and we were the only patrons at 1 P.M.

The menu is wide and varied, with the server telling us about a panneni special, which sounded great.  My cousin and I both ordered it.

I don't know wha the folks at the Station did to make it so tasty but it is a wonderful addition to a great looking menu and probably should be a regular item.  I have to admit it was the best tasting Pannini I have ever eaten.

The restaurant is clean, has a magnificent book and gift store attached, and the service was quite personable.

All in all I will definately take the 60 mile drive from St. Louis to enjoy this great stop in a truely unlikely spot.

Oh, and I don't know why but Clarksville station which is on the south end of town is also known as "Overlook Farm."  You cannot miss it if you are coming up 79 from 70, and it is  really worth the visit.

Sadly, this place has so much promise but they have such terrible service.  Typically, we just expect the extremely slow service but this time the food had problems as well.

To begin with... the place is very large and has two separate dining areas and a large patio.  We typically visit during the week at lunch and they are always understaffed.  Today there was one waitress for the entire place.  She was so busy it took forever to be able to place an order.  She was very polite, but did not ever come back to check on us.  Since the place is so big we couldn't even find her to track her down without getting up and seeking her out.  I saw several other people go in search of her to have problems with their food corrected.  When our food came we asked for a bottle of ketchup and extra dressing for the salad and she never brought it or came back until she dropped the check off.  

We ordered the shrimp bisque, crab cake sandwich and a BLT Cobb salad.  The description of the salad had onions, hard boiled eggs, bacon, tomato, lettuce.  When we got the salad it was lettuce, bacon and tomato.  The crab sandwich had no aioli on it as described in the menu.  The crab also had shells in it.  We tried to wait to flag the waitress down but we had things to do, so we just ate it and left.  

We have given this place a chance over the past few years and it just can't seem to get it together in the service department.  The food could be pretty good if someone was more careful in the kitchen.  

We had to laugh because this restaurant sits beneath the Overlook Bed and Breakfast and we truly felt "Overlooked".