What hapens when your the only restaraunt which tries to offer some class in an area which is transitioning from blue collar to white collar? Go to Pear Street and you'll find out. Pear street is some of the better food that you'll find anywhere in the Pinole/Herules area. However, it's not great. But Pear Street apparantley thinks of itself more than it ought.
They are pushing the boundaries when it comes to profit margins. They don't even offer a glass of wine for less than $10 and their selections do not warrant such high prices.
Over the last months I've gone and it seems the food gets progressively worse and it's preparation a bit lazy. The 32 oz porterhouse steak for $32 dollars was more like 6 ounces of meet and 26 ounces of fat and bone. Not much care was taken in selecting the meat and I suspect another effort to get the most profit out of the dish.
The potatoes were barely cooked.
Frankly, what Pear Street neeeds is some competition. Hopefully, some places will open in the new Hercules waterfront which will help Pear Street wake up and realize that they aren't all that. Then maybe they'll try a little harder and either adjust their pricing or actually prepare food worthy of such high prices. Something that is not the case now.
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