I find this restaurant quite interesting because it endured a lot of negative press and online comments after Kro left. And it seems Tube Station does very little advertising in the press, at least the press directed towards expats. But the restaurant has been really rocking recently, with a large outdoor seating area that still requires diners to wait for a table at peak hours. The clientele is probably about 90 percent Chinese, and the service varies as it does at any Beijing restaurant with ubiquitously inevitable serving staff turnover.
The pizza, in my opinion, is pretty good. For 35 quai, customers can choose from any small pizza on the menu. And that small pizza is large enough to fill up the average man. I always get the pepperoni(with extra sauce,a request that requires Mandarin) and my buddy the Greek Momma. The pizza is good enough for me to go there fairly often. I can't taste an appreciable difference from the pizza made under the previous Kro's Nest name.
Kro was really warm and congenial the couple of times I talked to him, so I can see how many people feel a degree of loyalty towards him. And from his latest free-pizza promotion at his relatively new Sanlitun restaurant it seems he still has his old successful restauranteur's savvy. So kudos to him.
I generally go by taste and price. Tube Station is pretty good for both. If you know of a better combination for both, please comment on this post. I'm a pizza lover, so would be happy to hear of other good places. But please keep in mind that a large pizza at one place is a small at others in terms of actual size. (This is a factor that has been curiously ignored by local expat press when it does a price comparison of, for example, a large pizza at an upscale Italian place to, say, a large at Kro's or Pizza Buona; the former is more of an appetizer, the latter gut-busters.) So where is a better combo of taste and price?
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