Sam’s Station

LOL! I’m positive that this place has the weirdest servers on the planet. The greeting consisted of a confused-​sounding «May I help you?», and the waitress brought my cinnamon roll cold and still wrapped in plastic. She seemed baffled when I asked her to take off the plastic and warm it up, and even more astonished when I gave her a 10 for an 8 buck breakfast. I’m guessing this was the first tip she ever received. Incidentally, the cinnamon roll tasted like raw dough with a sprinkle of cinnamon for garnish.

Best breakfast in town! The last time we were there we waited 45 minutes for a table. It was worth the wait! Loved the ham and cheese omelette, and the homemade sourdough toast was scrumptious!

Ate lunch here the other day. Wonderful turkey salad sandwich and turkey noodle soup. Great bread! Service was good too.

It’s really a hit or miss with this cute brunch/​lunch joint. The first time I’ve ever been here, I was really impressed with their pan fried yukon gold potatoes, huge cinnamon rolls, and their hobo hash. Service gets slower and slower as more people are seated and they get backed up in the kitchen. For example today, the waiter forgot about our coffees and I had to remind her ~25 minutes after she took our order. Service is always really nice though. I’m a huge fan of their muffins and their espresso drinks, I recommend the early riser or Mary’s peak! They took the hobo hash off the menu sadly and added in more omelets and shirred eggs. I had the Eastern Oregon shirred eggs today and they’re baked eggs in cream with veggies. I wish the egg wasn’t so cooked because I like to dip my toast in the yolk.

My eggs were not cooked. They were raw. I was actually concerned that I ate them. We waited 30 minutes for every item we requested. 26 MINUTES FOR WATER. I waited to politely express my concern about my raw eggs but no one came over for another thirty minutes so we ended up just throwing cash on the table and leaving and no one noticed. I work in the service industry so I’m sympathetic with servers and busy morning rushes but I’m sorry, this was unacceptable and I won’t be returning.

We waited 15 minutes for a table. When we finally sat, we were not greeted or welcomed. After sitting at the table with no service for 10 minutes we left. An extremely disappointing experience at a local business that used to be so great.

Have been eating here for a while and sadly will not be coming back. Took the family out for breakfast and waited 50 minutes for food to hit our table after the orders were taken. Coffee came fast, but after fifteen minutes of looking at my empty cup, I had to approach the counter to request more for me and others. Service has always been slow here, but this set a record. When food finally came, salad dressing that was ordered did not appear until 5 minutes later, and the condiments requested did not appear at all until I made an additional request. Post-​meal, the check still did not arrive promptly until I went to the counter, again, to ask to pay on the spot.
‘Well, it must have been busy,’ some would say. Midway through our 50 minute wait, however, there were five open tables at one point, and all of them were never filled up during our stay. A family near us, who were seated just after we were, still had not received their food after we’d already got ours, ate, and left. Perhaps they never did. I’ve eaten at great restaurants. Busy restaurants. Popular restaurants. They’ve often bee packed and, if the place is well run, there’s never much of a wait once seated.
I will say the wait staff was very nice, friendly, and pleasant. I blame management here. The food was good, so no complaint there, but hardly gourmet. It strikes me, however, that a two egg breakfast should go for something under $ 15 a plate. There used to be less expensive and basic items on the menu, but those are gone with a recent menu change. I blame lack of competition for some of this, for if a place opened across the street that got the basics right: good food, decent value, and prompt service, then Sam’s would fold in a hurry as they approach the first but fail in the last two outright.
Finally, I approached the manager (owner?) to tell her of our experience, her response in its entirety was «OK.» If that was my response to a courteous and honest customer who offered a respectful but dissatisfied critique of their experience, I’d have been fired from any job I’ve held. What that communicated to me was that she feels she can serve any pedestrian fare she pleases, price it as if gourmet, and make the customer wait nearly an hour, to boot. My response? There are plenty of other breakfast joints in town that serve decent food, don’t overcharge, and serve it up in a fraction of the time; I’ll be taking my business elsewhere.

I was sold on coming here just because I read about the French toast made of a cinnamon roll. I came expecting to wait and have bad service because of the reviews I read and had neither. Abi was our server and a very good one! She was sweet, came and checked on us several times. I’m a new fan of this place and would definitely come here again!

Sam’s has made some changes recently and it has not been for the better. They have taken multiple items off of their menu and ordering is confusing now.
Their drinks are not included on their basic menu. They also took out the cute little archway that was in the parking lot on the corner.
Sam’s had a good thing going. They should not have made all these changes. The change has definitely been for the worse.

50 minutes to get our order! Do not order shirred eggs! Twice now it was a hard boiled egg in a lot of water.

Service was very slow, just shy of a hour from ordering till we got our food. Price is just okay. Do not order steak and eggs dish! Two thin strips of steak, you might as well just ask for two sausages instead.

Had brunch at Sam’s yesterday with two girlfriends. The food was excellent, the service was very slow. If you are in no hurry, then all is good, provided you are not waiting for a table.
The fried potatoes are awesome! The «Matts favorite» was also excellent (potatoes, sausage, pineapple and fried eggs). I don’t know that I would have liked the shirred eggs, but my friend said they were good. The French toast was made with sliced up cinnamon rolls, and looked like a flat version of monkey bread.
They also had just plain eggs, meat and toast for $ 8.
The baked goods have been good in the past, we didn’t sample more than a quarter of a snicker doodle (good!) this visit.

Overpriced mediocre food. Not worth waiting over half an hour to get served.

That’s was very good, however you have to wait for a long time before getting your meal. The place is little beat loud even though there isn’t that much people.

My waitress was so sweet and very on top of my needs. She gets an A+ on her interpersonal skills. It didn’t hurt that she got my order right AND that it was FABULOUS. Though they manage to keep their menu pure & traditional, it was obvious there is no such thing here as «just» a turkey sandwich.

I don’t get to eat here very often because of the hours they’re open (or closed, I should say), but it’s always a treat. I’m only updating my review because I can’t believe the people griping about the service being slow. It’s slow because this is a small restaurant making everything from scratch. They aren’t microwaving prepackaged food like Applebees.
I chose Sam’s Station for lunch today because I was meeting a friend I haven’t seen in a while, and I knew we’d be able to linger. Sure enough, three hours later, we finally left, full of delicious soup and sandwiches. They always bring a little baked treat out with the check, which is a good way to sucker you into buying dessert. I would rather wait longer for my food than have an impatient waitress ask me how I’m doing every five minutes.
Definitely try their soup/​sandwich combo. I haven’t had bad soup here yet. But don’t come here if you need to eat and run, because it takes time to prepare really good food.

Big fan of this place. Wait staff is on point and perfectly witty and charming for a brunch spot. Who wants either flat or uptight for breakfast or brunch? If mimosa was a personality these chicks would have it. Ordered apple and sausage omelet sans sausage and it was terrific.

I am feeling so sorry for fellow reviewers who missed the attentive, but not intrusive, service I had along with my great meal at Sam’s. In fact, they seemed a bit over-​staffed as two different people kept our cups of on-​site roasted coffee full. Unilocal works?!
The bright, inviting place (with a stunning display of fabric art on my visit) and ambitious menu make it a hidden gem. Just don’t bring a big vehicle; the parking lot can be a bit of a jigsaw puzzle!
My mother, a gourmand-​y world traveler proclaimed the shirred eggs (yeah, who offers those anywhere??) the best she’s ever had. Consider the to-​die for baked goods (not that I had room after my eggs and Yukon Gold poatoes). I had been to a week day lunch a couple years ago and am thrilled it was still there to wow my mother on her visit.

Well. It Took them 45 mins (not exaggerating) to get us coffee and tea — yes hot water and a tea packet. Then they ran out of items and didn’t let us know — just brought our food out, after over an hour had passed with substitute items.
Poor employees were under staffed.

RUN. Run far away, this place is TERRIBLE!!! I’ve had bad service, but this was just ridiculous. We were a party of six and ordered a couple of salads, sandwiches, soups, and one Eggs Benedict, and several coffee drinks. Twenty minutes later, we were told they’re out of pastrami, english muffins for the egg’s benedict, and roast beef. The folks in our party settle for something else.
We ended up waiting AN HOUR AND A HALF for our food that was mediocre at best. How does soup, salads, eggs, and sandwiches take that long? I honestly thought we were on a TV prank show. One of the people I was with had hyperglycemia and was almost passed out because his blood sugar was so low– I had to give him gum because nothing was on the table. They are so lucky he didn’t faint or anything.
Another friend I was with had her sandwich delivered and the waitress said it was made wrong, takes it back, only to bring the same plate back five minutes later. The chicken salad sandwich was more or less bread, lettuce, and a thin layer of mayonnaise heavy chicken salad.
When our check came, the waitress made no apology and nothing was comped. I went in with a few others and the owner/​manager/​old lady with an attitude that was at the register basically just blinked and said «what do you want me to do?» Something tells me if we were ten or twenty years older we would have been treated differently.
Again, no apology they started making excuses and said «We’re a small establishment» «It’s a Sunday, our busiest day» «You came during the Church Rush»
um, I’ve worked in food service at small establishments— this is UNACCEPTABLE. You don’t make excuses to the customer and give them attitude. You own up to the fact that your service is rotten and the food is OK at best. When all is said and done, they took off the coffees and two sandwiches. Big deal. If I wasn’t with friends I would have left after waiting 20 minutes and wouldn’t have given them a cent. There are so many other places in the area, please whatever you do don’t waste your time or money here.