The Whaling Station Steakhouse

Staff were friendly and quick to take our order (even having a larger party). This is an old fashioned type steakhouse that you'd expect your grandparents to drag you to since they've been going there the last 50 years and haven't bothered to find a new spot. For the price, this place is a bit tired and needs to update their menu to be competitive with similarly priced steak places in Carmel and elsewhere in Monterey. The French onion soup was overly sweet and the steak rolls were greasy. They may just be banking on tourists being hungry after a day at the aquarium? One of my party ordered their filet rare and it came out medium well. For $72 at a steakhouse, you would expect the steak to be cooked accurately. The waiter was quick to fix it, but it should not have happened.

Had dinner as part of a corporate dinner event. Great service and food. We were set up in a separate room due to the size of our party. We had a pre-selected 3 course menu with several entree options. I opted for the filet, the server made accurate recommendations on the steak cooking temps. I look forward to comeback here and check out the full menu m.

The food was amazing, drinks were all perfectly made, all the wait staff went above and beyond to make sure we were all happy with our meal. They were very attentive. The calamari was perfect. The lobster was the best I have ever had.

Came here for my anniversary, the food is good and price is pretty decent. They also gave us free cake since it's our anniversary. The server was nice to our table too. 10/10

This place charges for things and doesn 't tell you. Charged 6 dollars for a bottle of water and I didn 't know until I got the bill. This was not on the menu. Our server offered to substitute our sides and did not tell us we still had to pay full price for both entree and the substitution . I ended up with 1 less side and 12 less dollars. This was also not explained on the menu. We had a birthday in our party. Our server offered a dessert for the birthday (we figured it would be comped because of the way they presented the offer) and brought us the dessert menu. They were all the same price so we selected the dessert we wanted and ended up being charged full price for it. The food was decent at best.