The Coach Stop Restaurant & Tavern

I ordered one of those meals that was out of my comfort zone and failed.  I ordered the Portabella Mushroom burger and didn't like it at all.  The beers were good and we had some apps that were good.  I like the deck upstairs and we have friends that are regulars.  We will be back!

The Coach House, a quaint, little house is warm and inviting on a cold-winter's evening.  The service is sufficient and our waitress was attentive and polite.

The food was hit and miss however.  Upon seeing a wedge salad on the menu, I immediately ordered it as it's my all-time favorite salad.  It is supposed to be a crisp wedge of iceberg lettuce, with bacon, sometimes a bit of tomato and bleu cheese dressing.  The dressing should be the star.  Finer establishments use Maytag bleu cheese, the king of bleu cheese.  Meh...not even close.  They used watery, no flavor cheap bleu cheese similar to that used at a salad bar.  It fact, the dressing was inferior to those used at salad bars.

My steak oscar was spot on, however.  It was cooked perfectly and extremely tender as a filet should be.  The bernaise sauce was delicious and the chunks of lobster were wonderful.  The asparagus was large and woody; but, that's what you get with ordering asparagus off-season as it's a spring vegetable.

My dining companions did complain about belly upset because of their salad dressing which leads me to believe that the restaurant uses inferior salad dressings, in general.  This is a shame because it's not difficult to prepare fresh salad dressing or at least invest in a higher-quality purchased variety.

I might return here; but, maybe not.  A three-star review is just that: not bad but not spectacular either.

Ever since the new deck opened, the Coach Stop Tavern has been reduced to a wannabe sports bar on weekends. I've never seen it so crowded full of rude and impatient clientele. The staff has been taking it on the chin and working very hard to keep up with the new demands.

Sadly, their hardest working bartender was fired due to a customer complaint. I have to question the wisdom of letting a hardworking bartender go who brings in tons of business and handles it professionally.

I wonder if anyone considers that for every petty customer complaint there are 10 other customers who leave happy and look forward to coming back for more first class service.

It seems that the best days of the Coach Stop may soon be a thing of the past ...