Cracker Barrel Old Country Store

My wife and I have always enjoyed this Cracker Barrel. Good food, great location, and very good service. When they get a big group or bus it’s a bit slower but what do people expect. Folks it is what it is and I’m glad it’s what it is. They way their stock performs a vast majority must like it.

Service was perfectly fine but the food needs to be improved upon. I don’t know why bland food counts as a great experience unless they do this because mainly older people go there and can’t handle flavor. And of course the store in front is always fun to browse but don’t go for the food and expect greatness.

Stopped by the other day on my way home from a soccer game for some food. We were a big group, that were super hungry because let’s face it. Soccer players have to eat at some point. We were seated and waited on in about 10−15mins of arriving, which was pretty fast for a Saturday evening. Once seated we were given menus to decide what we wanted to eat. I got the pancakes meal with eggs and sausage. The pancakes were the standard size for this place, which is huge everywhere else. However, my pancakes were a bit burnt on one side. It made cutting them with a knife a challenge. My teammate had the same issue as I did. The okra is okay, from what my other teammate said. It’s not great okra, but it’s okra. That usually means the okra is cooked in something that makes the okra taste bland. Everyone else’s food was okay. Just those two problems that I had.
Service was alright. I had no complaints with the two ladies helping us. I thought they were both nice once they got into the swing of things. I had no problems with them at all.
This place gets 2 stars because of the pancakes and the fact that it’s a chain. Most chains I give a ³⁄₅ because I could go to the same place for the same food in a different town, which is how I felt about this.

Absolutely horrible. The only good thing about Cracker Barrel is the store before you get into the restaurant. Food was cold, took a long time to get more coffee and over 30 mins for orders of eggs, bacon toast and grits. No thanks!

It’s the usual good food that you’d expect at any Cracker Barrel, but I was really impressed by the fantastic service that we received at this location. We were promptly seated and were quickly waited on, and our server provided just the right amount of attention and was able to get us served quickly so we could be on our way. Bravo!

I mean really it is a Cracker Barrel off the highway. It served us ok food at an ok price with ok service. I will give you one outstanding dish I had it was turnip greens made with country ham. Now that was outstanding.

Waiter was excellent, other staff was courteous. Food however, was poor quality for the price. We both ordered the chicken tender sliders. When they came out, they smelled (and tasted) like onion rings. Breading was a bit too thick and chicken was
tasteless. The homemade rolls they were served on were old and dried out, we took
them off the rolls and took them home for the dog. I had a $ 25 gift card and it took all
but $ 4.00 and some change. I gave the remainder of my gift card to the person behind me in line. We both decided a fast food hamburger would have been way better and
much cheaper.

Gotta love a reliable consistent eating establishment. While traveling, it’s always good to know there’s a Cracker Barrel near by.

In all fairness, I’m very much not the target market for Cracker Barrel — I’m not really into kitsch, and I like more flavors than «fat» and «salt» in my food. But in the middle of a cross-​country move, you take your food where you can find it, and this place was near our hotel.
The food experience was… okay, I guess. Kind of bland, and they suffer from the usual chain restaurant «iceberg lettuce plus three leaves of arugula or romaine = ‘mixed greens’» delusion, but warm and filling enough. Poking through the gift shop was entertaining for a few minutes; I found a funny card to send to a friend of mine I’d left in Arizona. The waitresses/​clerks were all friendly, but seemed kind of worn down. Never having been to another Cracker Barrel, I’m not sure if it’s something about the chain or just this particular area.
I definitely had to admire their marketing — enter *and* exit through the gift shop! You already pay for your meal at the shop counter, so why not buy a few higher-​margin items while you’re at it? — but if I’m in another dominated-​by-​chain-​restaurants area in the future, I don’t think CB will be my first choice.

It is what it is. This is a fair, but greasy place for breakfast on a roadtrip. The staff was ambivilant and the food was ok.

I love this place — old-​fashioned, country breakfasts and home town service. We had a Father — Daughter Christmas Eve breakfast here and it was so tasty. Friendly service, too!

I generally love Cracker Barrel. Some stuff do, buy, good food for breakfast and lunch. The only thing I hate is the wait. It’s usually pretty long. One time we went there and ended up waiting at least 45 minutes for our food. But they do get pretty busy and the wait for a table is decent.

Well I only feel partially as the previous review.
I don’t know what it is about Cracker Barrel that…
Well makes me sick. This is not a culinary marvel by any means, it’s barely food. I don’t have to be in the city to enjoy a good meal. But come on at least try.

I don’t know WHAT it is about Cracker Barrel that makes my eyes light up in the given semi-​rural area that I spot one in.
Maybe it’s because we don’t have them in California.
Or maybe I just want to sit in one of the rocking chairs that are always displayed on the porch and go to town clacking some spoons on my knee and actin’ a fool.
In any event… my friend Jenny and I pulled up to this Cracker Barrel on the way back to St. Louis from Chicago. I had been to one several years ago in West Virgina (Virginia?), and it was time to pay another visit!
It was effin’ awesome. There was a «smoking section» for chrissakes, and they had Chicken n’ Dumplins’. I’ve never had chicken n’ dumplins’ before, and the waitress explained that it was chicken with some breaded stuff (bread? YEAH!), so I decided to go with that. The dish came with not one, not two, but THREE «vegetable» side dishes to choose from.
Apparently, macaroni and cheese and mashed potatoes and gravy are considered vegetables here, because I was able to get those (along with some legitimate green beans) as as my «vegetable» side orders.
When they brought the food out, the portions were basically the equivalent of my family’s last Thanksgiving meal. I knew beforehand this was going to be a LOT of food, so asked for a «to go» box when I placed my order so I could eat half of it later (as I do try to avoid consuming 10,000 calories in one sitting).
It was absolutely delicious!