Newmans at 988, located in Cannon Beach, Oregon, features local ingredients in its classic French Italian cuisine with a focus in the Piedmont and Genoa areas of Italy.
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Always Wonderful
My wife and I eat here every year for our anniversary and have never been disappointed. This year there was a new menu with many new choices to explore. The service was top notch, food excellent and a good value for a nice night out.
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Nice Restaurant in quaint old house
The restaurant is in a small two story house and the wait staff have to be fit to go up and down the stairs all the time. The prior chef was in several cooking show contests and was something if a celebrity. Sadly, he died young and his successor is cooking lovely meals mostly from the old chefs recipes. This is a nuce dinning experience.
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Underwhelming
We’ve been to Cannon Beach three or four times and never had been to Newmans. Heard a lot of positive reviews in the past so we wanted to try it out. Atmosphere is very cozy. We had a table on the second floor. Kind of secluded, but okay. Erin was our server and did a great job. Our disappointment came with the food mostly. We found it uninspired and very pedestrian. We ordered Lobster Ravioli, Grilled Romaine salads, Halibut special, and the Chicken Marsala. Each dish was edible, we were just expecting something better than what we would get at an average restaurant, and it just wasn’t. The Marsala sauce was overly sweet and not rich tasting, the Halibut and mushroom risotto was pretty bland, and I guess everything was just lacking savoriness and flavor. Again, this isn’t a bad place, I think it’s just lost some of it’s luster. The service was good, the setting is okay, the food just needed more pizazz.
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Perfection
This little yellow building is unassuming and belies the great experience that lies ahead. We ordered Foie gras, prawns with risotto and chicken marsala. Everything was better than perfect, including the service. As good or better than any meal we have had anywhere in the world.
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Expected More.
We usually frequent this restaurant when we go to Cannon Beach (once or twice a year) Normally I would rank it a 4 or 5 but the last time was not what one would expect for the prices. We were seated at a table that was close to the door and the breeze from outside was blowing directly on us as they normally keep the door open. II had to ask them to close the door which they did but the door was constantly being used and not always closed afterward. The food was mediocre at best. My Eggplant was charred to the point of being slightly burnt. The roasted potatoes that mu wife had were overdone and hard. The vegetable on the plates was kale, weak at best. We asked to see the desert menu which was delayed by our waitress chatting with a couple at another table. Not normally a problem but she talked to them for over 10 minutes while we sat and waited for the menus that she held n her hand. The cheesecake was terrible. It was a ricotta cheesecake that was not very good. I asked for coffee and the waitress brought me a cp of cold coffee. She later stated that they had not brewed any fresh that night so I was out of luck(she did not say out of luck she was more pleasant that that) . All in all a disappointment and we will not go back in the future. I recommend that there are better restaurants in the area for the price.