Tarentum Station

Just had a great dinner here. I always get the salmon; it is the best I think I have ever had anywhere. It is served HOT and comes with a great sauce that is good with the salmon and makes the great bread rolls taste wonderful, too. The wedding soup was very good.
I love the cheesecake here, as well. It’s a nice big piece. I didn’t care for the strawberry topping though.

I really wanted to like this restaurant, which is a converted train station but the food wasn’t great and wasn’t worth the price. I really liked their menu options and was torn between the eggplant rollatini, salmon, or flounder stuffed crab. The waitress recommended the flounder stuffed with crab but I was very disappointed in it. It had almost no flavor. I couldn’t finish my meal and I wasn’t interested in finishing it, which for me is a rarity. The side of broccoli was served in a pool of butter and again wasn’t seasoned correctly, no flavor. I also ordered a twice baked potato. Was very excited to see that on the menu as a side option but after having several bites which were good, I discovered there was bacon inside it, which I don’t eat. I thought they should have indicated that on the menu in case you were a vegetarian or don’t eat pork. An important disclosure, is that I was the only one who didn’t seem to enjoy my meal (perhaps because I was the only one who didn’t order steak?). For the price, there are better restaurant options in the area (although perhaps not directly in Tarentum).
No complaints about the service which was great and the atmosphere was nice. Plus they have patio seating.

This transformed train station is very inviting inside. It’s deceiving from the outside since it looks like a run down train stop… however like i said the inside has a very warm feel to it. It is a bit cramped and I had to make my mother get up to let me past since her chair and another tables chair were blocking me into a corner but the food and service made up for it. I love the «finer» dining experience they have and the holiday decorations were beautiful. I was able to sample 5 different dishes since we were a party of 4. We ordered the bruschetta to start which was very tasty, and I ordered a wedge salad which was actually very good the blue cheese was rich and was some of the best bleu cheese I’ve ever had. (I’m very picky about bleu cheese). I tried my husbands Chicken Romano which was delicious and my mother’s Cajun dish which was Cajun shrimp, beef tips and scallops and it was EXCELLENT. My dish was a vegetable pasta with a garlic and olive oil sauce. I wasn’t as much of a fan, it was a little bland… but I may have also not been prepared for this dish, as I had wanted a richer pasta like Alfredo in the first place. I still enjoyed my experience and absolutely loved everyone else meals. I’ll be going back again to try a different dish. My parents are there once or twice a month and are very big fans and claim they’ve never had anything they didn’t like so I will have to find out for myself.

A converted train station, this is a surprisingly good restaurant. I ate their Ahi tuna with risotto, and it was awesome. My dining companion had some kind of pasta special with garlic, and she complained that it wasn’t garlicky enough for her, so if you’re a major garlic-​aholic, you may be disappointed.