Bob Evans

This chain has become one of my favorite restaurants. We stopped in to this location for first time several days ago. We were greeted with friendly smiles and genuine charming hospitality. Leslie, our waitress, made us feel right at home. The food was prepared fresh, hot, cooked to order. The rolls were hot and yummy! Wow, I’m not much of a bread eater but these were fabulous. As a woman who appreciates good home-​cooked meals, respects the foods from our gardens/​farms this is as close as it gets. The kitchen/​chefs at this location did a superb job on the «pot roast» meal. For the one who did a bad review, well I just don’t get it. One thing, you never go into a restaurant near closing and expect superb anything. That’s just disrespectful. But the ones with negative reviews leave major facts out! I will now become a regular at this one. My money was well spent here, especially at this location with the chain restaurant. The best thus far!!! High five to all affiliated with this one.

Revisited recently on the road and I have to say that Bob’s was not doing much for me. Kept it fairly healthy for breakfast but it really didn’t matter, the entire place just seemed depressing and the food as well, now I know why

«Breakfast served all day». Except if it’s 30 minutes before closing time on a Monday night. Ordered the Homestead breakfast, which included biscuits and gravy, only to find out a few minutes later that the kitchen would not make any more biscuits for the night. The only positive experience was the apologetic and friendly waitress. It was clear the decision was made at the management level to not provide a signature item on the menu 30 minutes before closing time. Pure laziness. Will not return.

Worst Bob Evans I have been to. Service was extremely slow. Sever took orders after waiting 15 minutes then came back after several minutes to take order again. Ordered soup and salad combo which came on one small plate. Serving size was half the normal size. Server never came back until we had been done eating 15 minutes. Floor in walkway was wet and dangerous to walk on. The bathroom was filthy. Floor was sticky from sods being spilled and not cleaned up. Toilet areas were dirty with tissue everywhere. Do not waste your time eating here!

Legit one the worst experiences I’ve ever had with a breakfast joint. Slowest service of all time. The servers think they’re heroes by trying to memorize everything you order and then they come back asking you for your order again because they forgot. Nothing wrong with writing stuff down.
I ordered coffee and the server brought out a pot of ice cold coffee. He apologized and said he would make more and bring it out when it was ready. He never did. He also charged us for it on the bill.
Girlfriend ordered hash browns with cheese on top. She specifically told the server this three separate times. Of course, the hash browns came out plain.
The table behind us had to tell their server that we needed refills on our drinks because our server didn’t pay attention to us at all. The nice folks at that table gave us better service than the people who actually work there.
Food was nothing special either. I will never ever go back to a Bob Evans.

I spend about 300 nights-​a-​year on-​the-​road. Bob Evans is one of my favorites for dinner; chicken and noodles over mashed potatoes. It is so good that it reminds me of the dinners at the Odd Fellow’s hall and church dinners when I was a kid.
I like the quality and consistency of Bob Evans’ restaurants.

This was my first trip to this restaurant. I was told that I would enjoy it. Well I enjoyed the wildfire grilled chicken salad. But the four cheese grilled cheese on brioche toast was not good. It was bland. And worst of all there was no mayo!!! Who runs out of mayo! The burger was sent back. Disappointed but I hope that it will be better when I return again… one day.

If you are in a rush, I wouldn’t recommend going here.
I thought this would be the fastest breakfast option that has reasonable ingredients. After waiting almost 10 minutes at a table and not being greeted, I went to the counter and ordered out.
That even took 20+ minutes. It was just an omelette!
The staff was friendly though and the omelette was very good.

Walked in craving breakfast/​brunch, walked out an hour and a half later without having taken our order or eaten.
Never going back.

It’s been awhile since I was here and had hopes it would get better. Service was always their week point and I’m sorry to say, it has not gotten any better.
Granted it appears they have done some remodeling in the front which does give a nice open clean atmosphere on entering, it stops there.
We stopped for lunch today after shopping at Northlake Mall. The host was not sure of his seating chart and had to physically go and confirm so there was more than a fair measure of confusion here. He seated us in a booth but apparently no one told our server who did not appear for over 5 minutes going on 10.
She was not very friendly but everyone has an off day. My wife ordered iced tea and I ordered coffee. Can’t comment on her tea and while Bob Evans Coffee is normally very good and they sell it at the counter, my coffee was extreamely weak and had nothing bold about it.
My wife ordered a bowl of their potato soup and a large salad while I had the open faced turkey with dressing, mashed potatoes, cranberries and gravy. I expected a open faced turkey sandwich with dressing, mashed potatoes on the side along with the cranberries. Everything except the cranberries were piled on top of each other and as far as the cranberries, never did see them anywhere.
I had my tablet while I was there so I could check the news but should have gone back to the car to get my hotspot. While their WiFi which the advertize at the door, showed a strong signal, it kept dropping several times a minute. Finally gave up and went back to the smartphone.
All in all, would not recommend to anyone. Poor service, indiferrent and uninvolved management and less than stellar cusine does not make for a sucessful restaurant.

On an early Saturday morning, we were headed back from the recycling center and wanted breakfast. I spied Bob Evans, which we have never visited and decided to give it a try. I don’t know who Bob Evans is, but he must have been a likeable fellow, because everyone working there was either gently polite or bustin’ wide open friendly.
There were a ton of choices on their breakfast menu, and several were surprisingly vegetarian. My husband and I both ordered the Harvest Omelet (I think that was the name). It came with spinach, cheese, mushrooms, onions, and peppers, bathed in Hollandaise sauce. I requested a biscuit with mine; he ordered a pancake. We both chose hash browns.
Well, there was enough food on those plates for an army. And, I received two biscuits, and he had two pancakes. We can’t eat that much! The sauce didn’t taste much like Hollandaise, but it was creamy and good. Perfectly fried hash browns and light as air biscuits, too.
We requested a box for those leftovers and enjoyed incorporating them into our next morning’s breakfast.
So, we would definitely go there again! Thanks, Bob Evans.

I haven’t been to Bob Evans in quite some time. It was busier than I expected for lunch. The service was fantastic and the food was very good. I got the wild fire salad with grilled chicken and it was awesome. My daughter had the chicken & noodles and green beans and loved every bit of it. We got the biscuits on the side and with just a little strawberry jelly were AMAZING. It was definitely a good meal as close to home cooked for going out to eat.

My breakfast here was pretty good. Nothing spectacular but decent for what you might expect from a chain restaurant. They appear short staffed. One woman was hostess, server and cashier for the entire place. One guy in the kitchen. The speed of service and quality of the food weren’t an issue. The issue was the way the staff handles being short staffed. No professionalism. The server repeatedly complained to various customers about how she was so far behind and so busy because the manager apparently didn’t show up to work. I could hear her «sigh» loudly throughout the restaurant throughout my entire stay and could overhear her and the other employee complaining to each other about work.
I get it. Boss flakes out and you start the day digging out of a hole. We all face rough days at work. The key is that the customer is not where the employee gets to vent frustration! The customer wants an enjoyable dining experience without seeing and feeling tension and frustration of others. I don’t blame the server as much as I blame poor management. Lack of support and training from a reliable leader is the downfall today. This won’t keep me from going to all Bob Evans restaurants.. just THIS one.

***Bob Evans is in the style and price range of Denny’s and IHOP though Bob Evans serves a better breakfast than those two restaurant chains; some of the food on this visit was not at the optimal temperature though***
Bob Evans is a very popular family restaurant in the Midwest (they also have several locations in the South like this one in a rural part of Charlotte). Bob Evans is like a countrified Denny’s or IHOP. Bob Evans is most popular for breakfast, which is available all day. Their signature breakfast item is their sausage gravy and biscuits. Their sausage gravy is creamy and filled with sausage. It is surprisingly spicy – at least when compared to the many gravy and biscuits places out there serving bland white milk gravy with biscuits.
The sausage gravy at this location definitely delivered the flavor of this popular item at Bob Evans; unfortunately, the sausage gravy could have been a little hotter. The buttermilk biscuits were similar in quality to what you would get at other Bob Evans locations. Bob Evans’ biscuits have a crunchy top, but they tend to be a tad on the dry side; the sausage gravy helps though.
I also had their scrambled eggs, which were fine, and their crispy shredded hash browns that were topped with cheese, scallions and bacon. Their sausage links were good and better than what you get at most chain restaurants or with hotel breakfasts. While I liked the sausages here, I enjoyed them more when Bob Evans was a smaller chain.
The French toast was below average. It was not as sweet as it should have been and had a dense, undesirable center.
Service was extremely friendly and fitting with the service you get at most Bob Evans locations.
Prices were very reasonable. There were several low-​cost options and their bigger breakfast combinations were not too expensive and featured generous portions.
The dining room here was simple but comfortable. This Bob Evans also has a counter where you can buy packaged treats/​items and Bob Evans syrups, pancake mix and such.
This Bob Evans is an okay breakfast spot in the rural area outside of Downtown Charlotte. If you head to Downtown Charlotte though, I am sure that you will find much better, more creative and more local breakfast spots.
This Bob Evans has its own free parking lot. It is easy finding an open space.

Service and food were good, as expected. Our experience was very pleasant from the time we walked in the door to the time we walked out. Our breakfast was very satisfying and the price was great for what we got. This place is kid friendly, which is a huge plus. We’ll definitely be back!

While I do love their Heritage Chef Salad, I have to give this two stars. It would probably be more accurate at 1.5 but I’ll round up.
The service at this location is terrible, I rarely stiff a waitress but this is the third time we’ve been here and had bad service. No one pays attention to the customers and all the employees hoard around the take out station and talk. My husband ordered the chicken pot pie and watched it sit under the heat lamp for over eight minutes. There were almost no customers, only two more tables there and more than enough free staff to run food. By the time we got our food the pot pie was dried out and gross. I’m not sure why it sat up there as all I ordered was a salad. I used to love Bob Evans but this location we won’t be going back to.

Ssslllooowww service, from the nearly ten minute wait at the hostess stand to the five minutes waiting at the table for our waitress to take our order to another ten minutes to pay the check. The only thing that wasn’t slow was the food — once we placed our order, it was brought out very quickly.
The food was good. Consistent with my Bob Evans experience. Hot, plenty of it and flavorful. I like their turkey dinner, which comes with a good size portion of turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes. Maybe not enough cranberry, but I love good cranberry sauce. Sausage gravy (my wife was in a breakfast mood) had a good amount sausage in it.
Perhaps they were just having an off night.

I really hate that I couldn’t have been able to come on here and just rave about our meal at Bob Evans but it would have been true. We had breakfast and the food was cold and the gravy and grits tasted like the chlorine water that they were made with. You could also taste it in the dry biscuits that we were served. The best thing about the whole experience was the hot coffee and the nice waitress that kept our cups filled and offered to-​go cups. That was worth the two stars.

Not the best breakfast I’ve ever had, and certainly not the best service… but the food was hot, prepared like we asked and reasonably priced.
We stopped on the way out of town for a day trip and I had french toast and eggs and he had a sampler platter that had lots of options… both were good and nice portion sizes.
Not a huge fan of chains for breakfast, but this one will do in a pinch. Clean restaurant, nice location and friendly staff.

Yes it is a chain but not everyone in the world is familiar with the Bob Evans experience. In a world of random Waffle Houses and inconsistent IHOP’s Bob is a beacon in the night.
Biscuits are very good and service is always with a smile. I think their strong suit is their breakfasts but my hubby did like his burger last time and couldn’t finish it.
Their whole wheat pancakes were shockingly good and who can resist their biscuit bowls… basically breakfast in a bowl shaped and sized biscuit.
Went here for my birthday breakfast (yes I am that kind of person who celebrates her birthday all day) and they sang happy birthday to me and gave me a cinnamon bun with a candle in it since it was morning. And it was very very very good.
Bob doesn’t reinvent the wheel but always a solid meal. Enjoy!