Joe's Cable Car Restaurant

Diners, Drive-ins and Dives is a show I watch religiously and I always wished that I could go to some of those restaurants featured. So, I saw that episode on the Food Channel featuring this restaurant and I got excited. I mean, I live about an hour and a half away from San Francisco and I planned a trip to go there just to eat at Joe's with my family.

When we get there, it's exactly what the show featured. Over decorated but had a fun feel to it. Opened the menu and a 4oz patty melt is over 11 dollars and to upgrade the patty to a 6 oz is an additional $3 or if you'd like to go bigger and get an 8 oz it's an extra $5. I figured this must be a delicious patty. SOOOO NOT. First of all I ordered it medium rare and I got a patty that was still mooing. The size of the thing was so not worth it either. At the prices they were serving those things for, I should have been eating the thing with a fork and spoon on pretty faltware. They serve their food on paper plates. Oh, and the burgers don't come with sides, they are sold seperately. So, of course, extra money if you want fries. You want cheese? Extra. What? You want a refill? Try getting the attention of your server while they're in the corner of the restaurant chatting away with their co-workers.

Hey, I'm pretty easy to please and I've never been to a restaurant where I really regretted going to but this place is a joke. I've had better burgers at a lower price. It would have been worth it if the service wasn't so sh**y. I didn't want to curse but there wasn't any other way to say it. Those who have had great service here, lucky you. Maybe we were being discriminated, I don't know. Please don't tell me I need to be a regular to get better service.

Lessons learned? Don't trust Guy Fieri and never eat at Joe's Cable Car again.

I know Guy Fiere did a special about this over rated , over priced, no community giving , rude , no respect for neighbors man. I have had better and paid less . The e-mail Guy Fieri must have received was probably from someone in his family. Oh he looks the part but, he is such a phony and did not deserve that spot on the food Network. He treats his employees like slaves and is constanly yelling. at them .Guy must be running out of places to go.

I was surprised to find that a 4oz burger was $11 and that was without fries! If you want a "small" plate of fries, add $2.95, want cheese? add another $1. Burger was okay, nothing special really. I got the vidalia onion burger and thought it was the wrong burger, but they pointed out the onions were in the meat...oh. So, $29 and some change for two small burgers, one small fries (very small order), one soda was sooo not worth it! I would much rather have a delicious burger from Kirk's Burgers! Mmmmm.

You've gotta go try these fresh ground burgers..they are like nothing else I've tasted!! I love the place so much I'm having my bachlorette dinner there before we head out for our pub crawl. The atmosphere is bright, lively, eclectic and the staff are super helpful and totally down to earth.

I should have read some of the reviews before I went there. It was definitely overpriced and food was ok. I didn't like the fact that they charge $6 to share a burger. The only reason we went there was because one of my kids saw it on the Food Network and she wanted to try it. My wife and one of my kids are not burger eaters so they just wanted to get a bite from our orders. The waitress was very curtious in explaining the $6.00 sharing policy. I believe this policy makes it an un-family friendly establishment. If I knew before hand I wouldn't have gone there. Now that I'd tried it, I wouldn't go there again.