Cook E Jar Bakery & Cafe

Just had one if the BEST burgers ever at the Cook E Jar in downtown Casa Grande.
If you like burgers order the Jalapeño Popper Burger, OMG what a great tasting meal.
Hurry down and enjoy

Went for breakfast good prices, good serving and fresh food. Loved the pancakes.

Great café. Soup was good & BLT was probably the best I ever had in a restaurant !
Has a great hometown feel.

Star the first: large menu with delicious options. From burgers, to burritos, to breakfast there are a ton of yummy eats to be had here. Plus, it’s not an expensive joint so that’s very cool. My breakfast was just right — bacon, eggs, potatoes, and toast. Boom.
Star the second: a clean place with lots of AZ personality. I really enjoyed the art work on the walls and the café feel of this place.
Star the third: very friendly and attentive employees. We never had to wait for a refill on our drinks. This place definitely offers service with a smile.
Two big whammies:
1 — no booze. Call me crazy but I like a little mimosa in the morning. Some folks need that Bloody Mary so if drinks were an option this would be a 4 star review.
2 — Slow! It’s not the wait staff that was slow but the food preparation that took forever. I don’t understand how it takes 45 minutes to whip up some breakfast. Maybe the kitchen staff was light on the day we came but the fact that it took forever was a big ding on this rating.
Would I go back again? Yes, but only if I had a ton of time to kill. Over all it was good but not great.

I’ve only been here once but it was delicious! The food was fast, good quality and pretty cheap prices. Also their cookies are so wonderful! :D

A Friend of mine and I dined there today. He enjoyed his rap very much the enchilada soup he said was very good. I had the chipotle chicken sandwich which tasted good but it had way to much sauce on it so it kept sliding all over the place and was very difficult to eat, quite a messy sandwich. Also tried a Chinese coleslaw which was good and something I’ve never had before, service was adequate restaurant appeared clean though quite dated, prices were reasonable and the staff are friendly. Will be back!

Went here for breakfast for the first time in a long, long time and I have to say I really liked it. The food was good and hot and very reasonably priced. My wife and I both had the Biscuits and Gravy Combo. Biscuits and Gravy, eggs and hashbrowns and coffee. Will go back.

Salads are good. The service is terrible !!! I was sitting at my table for awhile before the waitress walked up to us, she didn’t say a word to us, she just stood there impatiently waiting for us to give her our order !!! Really??? It would have been nice if she could have at least said hello !!! I really liked their salads and continued to go back, however the service was rude every time. The only nice waitress is Georgia !!! I won’t ever go back and now I recommend everyone to go to The Big House Café around the corner. I am a business owner in town and I know what customer service should be like!!! The people who say service is good here must be friends or regulars.

I came here with high expectations since so many friends recommended it. However, I was a little disappointed.
I ordered a chicken salad and the chicken was dry. It kind of reminded me of the pre-​made chicken that you can buy in the freezer aisle and just pop it in the microwave to re-​heat. Very displeasing.
You can tell that this place has been here for quite sometime. It was really out dated. Needs a renovation and management/​staff to clean up the place. I don’t think I’ll be coming back.
Only good thing about this place is the cookies considering the name.

Back at the Cook E Jar again! Small, casual, comfy diner with a bit of an eclectic flair. The food here is always good. And the baked treats are mouth watering. Try the cookies. (It is in their name after all!).
The staff is friendly enough but will leave you to your food & work if you are a «work through my meals» person like I am. There are also a few good artisan shops within strolling distance to walk off the meal.

The best Reuben sandwich ever. The bread was toasted perfect and the flavors were spot on. I have had many Reuben sandwiches and this was made perfect. Thank you Cook E Jar!

What a great local place for breakfast, food was simple but prepared perfectly. Our server, Beth, had a great sense of humor and only added to the overall experience. Five minutes after our family walked in we felt like locals. Hats off to the Cookie jar and Beth!

Grease pit with very rude staff. Jeremy below was spot on in his review.
It also has a dirty feel to it. The bathrooms are super dirty.
The cookies are very very good. I recommend picking up cookies, but nothing else.
It is so strange to see a family owned business with such poor service.

Went last Sunday waited an hour after ordering and waitress never said any thing to us so we asked for a take out and that took another 15 min food was ok but how about some communication

Cook E Jar is a uniquely independent restaurant that serves as a cornerstone of the best of what a small historic downtown Casa Grande can be. The food is always delicious and plentiful. The service is great too. The support they give to other local businesses is fantastic. If you want a good meal with some good treats, you must go when in Casa Grande!

Wow this place is really special! We tried a nice variety of breakfast food, all was 5 stars.
chorizo and eggs: we are chorizo and eggs enthusiast but like it mexican style. Asked the waitress if that is how they are served here and she said yes. And they were amazing! Even better than other real Mexican restaurants
french toast: looks like when you get it is gonna be nasty too thin. But the dip they use on it of «french» or whatever you wanna call it has a tasty cinnamon /​vanilla flavor. Really good, and the maple syrup they give you is tasty.
biscuits and gravy: wonderful, perfect biscuits and delicious sauce. Not greasy at all.
cookies: tried the chocolate chip and chocolate cookies. Both were nice and fresh and not too cooked and not under cooked either.

Really good breakfast spot! At times the two-​waitress-​wait-​staff can get overwhelmed and your water glass may go empty for a while. But the food is good. My usual order goes as follows: M/​R steak and eggs, hashbrowns well done, ½ order biscuits and gravy, pancakes, 2 slices of wheat toast and some coffee. Gets me over my hangover every time! Everything is always cooked the way it was ordered and fresh. They also make fresh pastries on sight, but never had the room for ‘em at the end of the meal. One of these days Alice…

I see a few of the previous reviews discussing issues with service, but I have always had good service at this place. I have only been in a handful of times, but we never have to wait very long to be helped, and the staff is very friendly.
I have only ordered salads there, but I’ve enjoyed the three that I’ve tried (Maggie’s, Jamaican Jerk Chicken, and Greek). The salad dressing always comes on the side, which is perfect, because that is how I like to order salads (so I can control the amount of dressing.) My husband loves the pulled pork, although it’s popular and sells out pretty quickly from our experience.

Home cookin at it’s best. This place is a throwback to the 50s. Had a nice lunch here though the waitress (who saw us come in and told us to pick a table) did not «see» us for about 15 minutes after we sat down. I started to wonder if you had to be a «regular» to be served. She did offer us free cookies for our trouble, so all was good.
The menu is mostly salads and sandwiches. I got chicken salad with walnuts. It was good, but with heavy dressing. Also, the walnuts were soft indicating to me that the salad had been made sometime in the past (hopefully not the 50s). Cookies were awesome — more so since they were free…

Hmmm I’m gonna trrrrrry and be nice with this one.
You know those Grease Pit diners of the 60s n 70s? Ya those one’s with decent tasing food only because every single item on the menu was drenched in grease or butter. Its kinda like that here.
The food was okay tasting, I had the Chorizo and Eggs, but I can’t help but wonder how many morning runs its going to take in order to lose the fat ass I surely got after that breakfast.
Service on the other hand, well like those diners of the past that are still around they are typically full of «regulars» and so there is hardly a need for actual service from the wait-​staff. Between 4 of us waving down the 2 waitresses working, we managed to get both of their attention after about 5 minutes and only one bothered to come 5 min later to refill our drinks (in the other’s defense after she took our order she went on a morning break, sat down and was eating breakfast –_​-​).
Those of you boldly daring to venture into the thrilling and endlessly exciting town of Casa Grande… stick to the chain breakfast eateries for now if your thing is standard service and digestible food.