Even if you don't consider Penn Station an architectural monstrosity, chances are that you wouldn't chose to dine there. The chain restaurants that occupy its sub-Madison Square Garden corridors are ... well, transit station chain restaurants. Despite recent efforts to make its offerings more appetizing, the city's fancier local chains have yet to leap into Penn Station contracts.
Where else would one go to discuss a poor Penn Station dining experience? Yelp, of course. Some choice examples include:
This gentleman cautions his fellow epicures to avoid one Penn Station establishment even if it is literally the last place in the world serving food.
A pizza shop patron who admonishes fellow Penn Station travelers to avoid a pizza place "at all costs" (and as we all know, the costs in situations like this can be very high), because of greasy pizza and eye-rolling servers.
Craige M. narrates the presentation of a lunch which includes "creepy" chicken, and also paints a vivid picture of the thing he would have preferred to eat in his review.
And finally there's Jeremy W. who feels grateful not to have been killed by the food at a Penn Station sushi establishment, though it appears that his girlfriend, while still among the living, was the victim of a pernicious shrimp wrap at the same location. He makes an astute, if world-weary, point: "It's Penn Station sushi, what could we have expected?"
