StoneOven

Food was pretty good and decent value, you get a good sized portion with a free side. Service was terrible though, the person making our food looked to have no sense of urgency, moving extremely slowly, usually I have patience but they really could have been just a little faster. To top it off, while waiting for my food a guy walked up to pick up his food and reached over the glass to pick up some trays and napkins and even put a napkin back while both workers stood there and watched. Then when I picked up my food I saw that they gave me one single napkin for two meals and it was the same visibly dirty grease stained napkin the guy put back with only 1 fork…

Absolute junk, too suggy and very bad quality. Hell not recommended F rated

Food: 3/5 Service and Setting: 1.5/5 Value: 3/5 Sometimes there are cravings that only one specific restaurant can scratch. For me this weekend, that was Stone Oven. Stone Oven in Fashion Island is the soul of the mall. To me, they are synonymous. The foodcourt space they occupy is large and the overall cooking space seems clean. The dude helping us was honestly a jerk, more like a word that starts with “d” and rhymes with swoosh. He didn’t seem to want to listen to my order and even put it in wrong. The food came out pretty fast I think, but they don’t have a good system to notify you if your order is ready, so they just yell when it’s time to pick up your food. Make sure to sit close by and have a good view of the restaurant. Garlic and Basil Chicken Sandwich: 3/5 I always get this sandwich and regret it. The garlic and basil mayo (basically pesto, they just trying to be fancy, but isn’t saying pesto fancier?) is bomb and super delicious. I would make sure to ask for extra on the side next time. The bread is also super good and baked to order. It is the perfect texture between crispy and chewy. Toppings are all super fresh and went well with everything else. The chicken though. When I hear jokes about white people cooking dry unseasoned chicken, Stone Oven manifests and creates it. Dry, tough, bland, the chicken alone dropped this sandwich into the 3/5 territory. Overall, this sandwich is good without the chicken, but because the bread is flat and hot, be prepared for all your toppings to fall out. Pesto Pasta Salad: 4/5 Objectively, this pasta salad is bad. Soggy noodles, bland, watery and totally soaked dressing, and no other additions will make any Italian nonna cry and have a funeral for the poor farfalle noodles that met this fate. BUT, this was the craving. Something about the blandness, the sogginess, the coldness, resonates deeply in my gut and it is unexplainably soothing. The first time you eat this you might be mad because it is bland, but as you keep going it grows on you like that one cousin you never talk to at the family gatherings. Potato Salad: 3.5/5 This potato salad straight-up tastes like those tubs you buy from the super market except with more potato. Sweet, tangy, and not overly dressed, I love this potato salad but cannot objectively give it any more points. If you like the taste of traditional potato salad this will be for you.

Great Chinese Chicken Salad, and it comes with excellent fresh focaccia

I miss this place in SD!!! The salad and bread is to die for. It just suckssss they closed all the locations down in SD