Cracker Barrel Old Country Store

Ok. A Cracker Barrel is a Cracker Barrel. Or at least it should be. Good predictably tasty food designed to fill you up while you’re traveling.
The difference makers are always management and service. Man is the Bardstown CB winning it with both, and particularly in awesome service.
Our waitress had the best attitude and approach to customer service. We were there on a crazy busy day but she managed to make us feel special, attended to and catered to the food allergy at our table like it was no big deal.
Highly recommend stopping here if you need/​want/​crave a good Cracker Barrel experience!

Worst CB I’ve eaten at in a long time. I ordered the buttermilk chicken wrapped in corn flakes and it was like eating a piece of cotton!!! I thought I would choke to death.
Veggies weren’t much better. This place is not the usual CB that you see across the country.
Do not eat here.

Worst Cracker Barrel I’ve been to. Ordered Mac and cheese and was told it was in the oven. When it was brought out it was cold. I sent it back and it came back out piping hot from the microwave with no cheese. Everything else was just ok. Most CB are consistently pretty good but this one not so much.

Good food at a good price. Sometimes service can be a bit slow but overall you can’t go wrong.

I wish we had one of these where I’m from! Cute things in the gift shop and very fun friendly atmosphere. The food was fast and tasty! I’d love coming here regularly. (This is a review from December of 2012, I just forgot to add it!)

I’ve been to several Cracker Barrels all over America. More than I care to admit. Why I always find myself eating at Cracker Barrel, I can’t answer that. I guess it is somewhat of a love-​hate relationship. I really enjoy their breakfast, I love the choices. I really like the meal that comes with the muffin and yogurt. The dinner on the other hand. Meh. Not impressed, and being raised by a down home, country cooking family I am very picky about «Homemade, Southern, Country Cookin’», which Cracker Barrel is not, in my opinion. This location is just the same you would expect from any other, with one exception. The hospitality. I have had better luck getting great service in the morning. The later in the day it gets, the worse the service gets.

I did not pay for this meal. If I had, I probably would have been more upset at the outcome. As the meal was paid for by my mother, I was a little more judicious in my complaints. I still was not happy.
For the most part, everything was fine. My wife and mother liked their burgers, my kids seemed happy with their food, but they were unable to get my order right, even after two tries. My wife and mother both ordered fish dishes, and they both let me try them, and they were good. However, I ordered a burger, and even though I ordered it done medium, they came out well-​done both times. The second time, I just ate it and didn’t say anything, just because I didn’t want to cause a scene in front of my mother, as it was wrong twice, and I would have asked for a manager.
Beyond my general unhappiness, the place was just a cracker barrel. Nothing spectacular, somewhat inexpensive, and very much the same as all the other Cracker Barrels. I’d much prefer a Denny’s or even a Huddle House for a «get any meal at any time» kind of place. But it’s go good variety, and the country store is pretty adorable.
I’d expect them to get doneness wrong in the future, so just be aware of that if you go.

I’m a Googler. I don’t Bing. I don’t Yahoo. I dig information. Just for the sake of knowing. Beyond food, that’s where my other voracious appetite lies. Mostly. ;)
Where is this going? Well, I really just wanted to know what a «cracker barrel» was. Apparently, it’s basically like the early «water cooler», where farmers and locals would lounge at the country store, swap stories and gossip, around the big cracker barrel. If some of you already knew that, well, bully for you. If not, well, now we’re all better informed.
This location in Bardstown recently opened near the Lowe’s and across from the Walmart just off the Bluegrass Parkway. It seems a natural extension to the Bardstown atmosphere, relatively small Southern town with a welcoming populace, open to tourists, come on in and sit a spell. It’s perfect in that regard and I’m surprised it took as long as it did to get a Cracker Barrel. It works and works well with its homespun, canned Southern charm.
The locals have welcomed it heartily, because as with seemingly every Cracker Barrel in the nation, it doesn’t lack for business. Maybe there is really something to the «crack» in Cracker Barrel.