Ribeyes

The food is amazing, but the service is horrible. The discouraging part is that they do not care that the service is bad. I’ve literally heard people complain and the owner has told them that if they don’t like the service then they can just leave. I’ve also experienced the owner telling an elderly lady that she was charged 18% gratuity because she had 6 people in her party. When the lady said she had never been charged that before the owner raised her voice at her and said, «well clearly you don’t get out very often and have never eaten in public. Plus your grandkids made a HUGE mess that my waitresses will have to clean up.»

Don’t come for the service come for the food. The ribeyes are amazing, the ribeye burger is amazing, the mushroom Swiss burger is something else piled high with mushrooms, frys are great, chedder cheese biscuits. This is a family owned restaurant husband cooks wife servers and kids help out at night.

22 dollars for a burnt steak! This place is outrageous. The owner couldn’t care less, she said «this is how we do it here»

Best ribeye steak I have ever had. But the wait takes forever. Even if you call in advance. Thankfully the food is worth the wait though.

Poor food, very poor customer service. Don’t know how this place is open.

Steak and bread are good. as long as you don’t mind overlooked steak. and don’t plan on sending it back because the owner and his wife are apparently God incarnate and never make a mistake! Really not sure how this place stays open with the terrible service and terrible customer service…

Hotel recommended. Arrived and «girl» said «lucky you got here, its closing, almost, but yull havta sit out here». The place was filled with smoke and my sister has asthma, so I asked if we could sit elsewhere-​reply «its all like this cause we been busy, good thing you wernt here howr ago, you couldnt see for smoke.!» We just keep openin doors!” Asked if hood vent isn’t working «yow it just cant keep up wer so busy». We sit down, my sister & I ordered ½ hamburger steaks (10.39) with that you get 1 side & bread. We ordered a salad, extra $ 2.29. My salad was caesar — approx 1 cup of salad, two croutons, ¼ tsp of cheese and bottled salad dressing in a side container – Ok rip off on the salad! Then the steaks come out!!! My sisters was so burned! They had piled high with grilled onions & mushrooms to hide burn. So black/​crusty and dried out — inedible! We told the server (used loosely) and her response was «thats way I like em, we all eatem here like at, my daddy fixes turkey at thanksgiving and I nuke mine some more so its dried out». My sister, being so nice, said well I am sorry I can’t eat this. Server-«Well I am sorry and walked off» By this time we are all speechless, eat the baked potato and this time tell her we will pay for potato but not meat. Server «well that aint up ta me» Well could you get the owner, «aint here» a manager then. Wait and out comes another «server» and this one looks mad at the world and says «which ona you asked for me» I am not kidding here!!! We explain and even pick up the meat –Response «Thats the way we have to cook them here, no pink and that aint burned just cooked dun. We cant take money off, cause thats way we cook um, dun.» We try to explain, thought she was going to get the gun! Explained we tried to send back but «server» walked off. This one continued with the BS and we finally told her we would not pay for it, end of this conversation of 15 min. So ok, she said would take off, but she was going to charge us for the bread!!! Guess what, she did! No difference?
Please do not go there, is a Longhorn across street! The hotel staff was horrified by our treatment and we will be calling owner of Ribeyes when we get back home. In all my travels, have never met anyone in restaurant business such as these, have eaten in bad ones and 5 stars! Ribeyes– awful food and service is indescribable. Oh, my sister had to get up, take a chair and open the front door to let smoke out! The grill area is in front of this tiny place, each time anything was on grill, smoke billowed out-​evidently no hood vent or smoke alarms! Three dinners not eaten, no wrong, the potato was good, we did not touch bread! Unbelievable horrible experience. Closed at 9:00PM (?) but kept lights on, people still came in and sent away, but kept the light «open» on? Our fault — should have walked out at smoke! Hotel will not recommend again-​others they sent complained too.

Ate there for my birthday once. The food was good (I got chicken strips). The staff was friendly, and the owner was nice to us. The atmosphere is neat if you like an old fashioned western feel. It’s a nice place to eat in Cornelia.

food was excellent and server was nice and talkative. Helped us with the menu. The building looks like a shack but lots of times this is where you get the best food. My filet steak was perfectly cooked and the twice baked potato was awesome! It was covered in cheese and was great. The salad could be a little more doctored up but what we got was good. My hubby had the BBQ and said it was delicious, as well as was the home cut and fried potatoes. Iced tea was excellent. Building is very small but we went early and didn’t have to wait…

Found this place on Unilocal stopped in for lunch and it was fantastic will definitely be back for dinner! Burgers for lunch are great… hand cut fries… service was fantastic couldn’t ask for better!

Amazing food. Wonderful service. Will be returning regularly, love the atmosphere.

So, after hiking Hogpen Gap to Unicoi Gap on the AT in a day, my husband was famished. Wanting a steak, we turned to Unilocal to find something along our route home in Athens. When Ribeyes popped up, we were excited to try something new (we’ve been severely disappointed by the Longhorn chain around here).
Driving up, it was obvious that the place is a local favorite. At 7:45 on a Saturday night, the parking lot was packed and there were three other parties waiting to be seated.
The menu is fairly basic, with your general steak, chicken, and seafood entrees. He got a 12oz ribeye with baked potato and mushrooms. I went for the half order of grilled shrimp with a baked potato. As we waited for our food, we heard more than one regular patron tell newcomers (like us) that we would absolutely love the food. Low and behold, they were right. My shrimp was PERFECT, not undercooked and not rubber. The seasoning was nice, too. The baked potatoes were HUGE. My husband’s steak was full of flavor and the mushrooms were delicious. What they didn’t tell us (and I didn’t notice on the menu) is that they also bring out biscuits. When the waitress sat them on the table, I was speechless. There is truly only one way to describe these biscuits… think Red Lobster’s Cheddar Bay Biscuits on steroids! Seriously, each one is a HUGE muffin of cheesy, bready goodness topped with a fantastic garlic butter that leaves you wanting more.
The only thing keeping me from giving them 5 stars is that the service can be kind of slow. They were running behind and it took nearly an hour to get our food. Neither one of us typically orders a salad or appetizer, but wish we had just to tide us over. Honestly, I don’t mind that kind of wait when the food is fantastic. And the food was definitely fantastic. The next time I get a steak craving, we’re driving the hour from Athens just to hit up Ribeyes again!

Awesome food and service. Very nice place to eat.