Newmans at 988

Wow. Oct. 20. 2015. Amazing dinner at Newmans. I highly recommend this wonderful restaurant. We had crab cakes which were great, then the lobster ravioli and the beef medallions, both very delicious. Service was perfect and the ambiance very romantic. Can’t recommend it highly enough.

The only thing that keeps me rating our train wreck of a dining experience a one star is that Newmans is located in Cannon Beach which is one of the greatest beach towns in America. However, Newman’s was ordeal dining in my book. My wife and I were celebrating a significant award she received at work decided to try Newmans. We arrived for our reservation time only to have to wait 20 minutes to be seated. Then we were ignored by passing wait staff for another 20 minutes until we saw a menu. We ordered two glasses of red wine, waaaaaaaay overpriced at $ 10 and $ 11 each.
The crowning event of the better part of an hour into our «Hello Newman» horror show was when the wine finally arrived, it had been poured into those dinky small glasses with a tiny mouth that are sold at the dollar sale. When I asked the server for a Cabernet glass, I received an icy glare and was told quite condescendingly «we only offer them (larges glasses) to people who order a bottle of wine». In dining out for many decades, this was truly a first.
Another half hour for entrees to arrive which were forgettable. At some point in «ordeal dining» one becomes so anxious waiting for overpriced and poorly served food that all desire to eat is lost. When the food did arrive approximately 75 minutes after entering, it far less than warm and mediocre at best.
I have been dining out in Cannon Beach for three decades and have a full and complete understanding of the ups and downs of coastal dining. When I relate the exchange with our waitress about providing larger wine glass to friends who ask about dining in Cannon Beach, the shared response is «what could she have been thinking» to seethe such disrespect to someone spending $ 125+ to dine there.
Never, never again…