Iron Skillet

Great food, hearty portions and friendly staff. Right off the 5 and the store and gas station are all connected. Great one stop shop!

Best pork chops I’ve ever had. Clean buffet and delicious food. Great customer service as well.

Food was good, but took forever! From the time we got there and we got our food was almost an hour. I also hated that the ketchup, salt and other items were all dirty (very gross). Very good customer service.

I have been stopping by the Iron Skillet regularly for the past two years during the dinner shift. I’ve always been given especially great service by Erin, Meagan and Jamie, their wait staff is the best. Their on duty managers also jump right in if they get busy. They always take care me and their other customers needs and I have seem them go the extra mile for a customer many times. Iron Skillets food is also right up there. It may not be a New York 5 star restaurant but for a country boy like me, it rates high in my book.

My Truck was in the shop for repairs, since last night. The shop gave me a Complementary Voucher for a meal, so I decided to have some breakfast.
I decided to have the 14oz Top Sirloin & Eggs. It was GOOD, more than I could eat, saved ½ of it for later. Brook my waitress was Very Attentive & Friendly, always making sure all was well, or if I need anything. It was Good, so Stop in if you are Hungry & Enjoy!!!

Good food at reasonable prices. We stop here for breakfast anytime we are coming through Corning and always enjoy the chicken fried steak. It is a huge portion so we usually split the meal.
Today we were here at lunch time so hubby still had a breakfast and I had a delicious chicken club. It wasn’t put together like a typical club but more like a burger which was great without all the extra bread.
The service was superb — friendly, efficient and accommodating. Guadalupe is a wonderful additional to the waite staff. She is observant and extremely efficient, constantly keeping empty tables cleared and stocked. She seems to always have a smile for even what I observed as a somewhat difficult customer. As a person who has worked in restaurants, it is delightful to watch a young person demonstrate such good skills.

Love the food was delicious come and check out the buffet best of all the price is right

Stopped for gas and walked over to iron skillet for a to go dinner. I really wanted a salad but there were no salads on the menu They did have a salad bar but I didn’t want to make it (to much work for a salad). So the girl at the counter said she would make me one! Yay! It was one if the best salads I’ve ever had. The grilled chicken was cooked and seasoned perfect. The other to go order was good too! Great food, great service! Thanks!!!

Always has the best salad bar with the exception of Baker City, OR. Place is clean, service is great. Always eat there when parking in Corning…

Had the buffet, which was really good. Mom loved the menudo and I the fried chicken. Waitress was very sweet. Will stop again on my way up to OR

This was our first Iron Skillet experience and probably the last. You can get soup and salad, here, but you don’t see that until you’ve already been through the buffet line. At 12:30, most meal selections were lukewarm, with only one or two servings remaining. Our vegetable choices amounted to some overcooked green beans. The salad bar, which is what I was mostly interested in, consisted of a few pieces of chopped head lettuce floating in a large bowl of cold water plus a choice of various sad-​looking toppings.
The «iron skillet» theme sounds appealing, but what it amounts to is cast aluminum serving plates with handles. Some people might find this appealing, but it assures that if your food was ever hot it won’t stay that way for long.
There aren’t a lot of on-​the-​road choices with a salad bar and if they spruced theirs up a little, the restaurant might be a good soup and salad choice. Chilled aluminum salad bowls aren’t such a bad idea.

It is truck stop food, so you really cannot expect much. They service is usually pretty good. The last time my family ate there is was bad though. My husband and mother had the pot roast and they both got sick that night. They had not eaten anything the same prior that day so one could only assume it was the roast. I had a good meal on the other hand. This one bad experience will not keep us from going back, we will just not be ordering the roast ever again.

We were passing through on our way to Yreka and decided to stop here very early for breakfast. The food was really good and served impressively fast. I had huevos rancheros and can say nothing but good things about it, which means alot coming from me since I am somewhat of a snob when it comes to huevos rancheros! There were plenty of options to choose from on the menu, as well as the buffet, and it was very affordable! The waitress was friendly and kept my coffee cup full, and the restaurant was clean and tidy. The historical local photography on the walls was interesting to look at. The connected shop (s) were also fun to look at, with plenty of souvenirs, trinkets, gifts, and practical items as well. I wish I was a local, I’d come here all the time!

omg. we had never eaten at an iron skillet before. unfortunately, there are only 4 in california and none of them close to home or our regular travel routes.
hubby had a denver omelette — loaded with fresh baked ham chunks. he asked for one slice of toast and guess what, megan listened and gave him one slice of toast. :)
i had some chicken noodle soup which was oh so delicious with big chunks of solid chicken, salad bar with lots of my favorite items, all fresh! and a blt wrap. they didn’t scrimp on the bacon, the turkey was fresh. it was totally awesome.

My husband and I stopped here on the way home from a trip to the mountains. I was surprised to find they had a buffet.
Waitress was very attentive and service was great. Their menu is very large.
My husband had a bacon cheeseburger, which he loved and it was certainly big enough.
I decided to go for the buffet. They were just setting out the dinner buffet, so I figured at least I was getting fresh food. It was steak and shrimp the waitress told me. How could I pass that up?
Salad bar was just ok. Not bad, but nothing to get too excited about. The dressing was a little on the runny side and so didn’t have as much flavor as I would have liked. But the veggies were fresh.
I had a scoop of the clam chowder. It was better than I expected, good sized clams and had a good flavor. Only complaint would be that it was very salty.
On the buffet were a couple of kind of gross looking casseroles that I skipped. I was a little disappointed that the only kind of shrimp offered was the deep fried breaded little shrimps. But they weren’t bad.
My steak was not horrible. I didn’t expect it to be amazing, of course it was a low grade cut. The plus was it was not overcooked. But it was not seasoned at all. It was as bland as could be. I had to make it editable with salt & A1. They sell their own special brand of seasoning… they should have used some on the steak!
The mashed potatoes and gravy were just ok. Again, not horrible, but not great.
If we ever go back I will order off the menu & add just the salad bar instead of the buffet dinner.

Excellent food. Service was stellar. Food is tasty and buffet is plentiful and filling. $ 78 for four adults and two children. Truck stop has lots of fun trinkets and they make candy that is delicious.

I didnt expect much but the food was very unremarkable and when I found a rock in my potatoes the waitress– its overcooked hashbrown and headed for the hills. Never saw her after that. Avoid this place!!!

We decided to stay the night at a nearby hotel and stopped in for dinner. I had the Steak & Potato Skillet w/​sourdough bread. It was delicious and very flavorful, I was stuffed by the end.
The place is cute, it’s set up as a store/​game room/​candy shop/​restaurant. It’s a little dated, but has cute accents. It caters mostly to truck drivers, but the staff is incredibly friendly. My dad’s silverware looked dirty (soap residue), so the waitress quickly replaced it with cleaner silverware and profusely apologized.
Overall I liked the place, the staff was great and the food delicious. If you’re traveling through on the 5, it’s a great place to stop off.

After reading the reviews, I still had doubts; however, since my buddies and I were already here, we thought we would give it a try.
When we came inside, a waitress told us to find any seating we wanted, which were quite plentiful.
Although there were plenty of workers there, we didn’t get menus at all, so we ended up grabbing some after five minutes of waiting.
After we were inside for 10 minutes, we were finally asked about drinks. After another 5, two waters came as requested, but mine took an additional 5.
A friend and I got the buffet. The other had steak and eggs, ordered medium rare; however, that didn’t came out as requested, but instead came medium well. The meat tasted quite normal as any Denny’s could possibly serve. The toast, eggs, and hash browns, all normal. Nothing spectacular.
So, how about our buffets, right? The best part was the beginning. The salad. It was just downhill from there.
I tried a little of everything to figure out what was good… NADA! Maybe just the chicken enchilada was good; everything else, just decent or below average.
The salsa (pico de gallo) tasted like it was made 5 days ago.
The fried chicken, although I got it minute after it came out the kitchen, tasted like it was reheated.
The roast beef was dried out, so they left it in the au jus liquid to rehydrate it for your pickings.
The mash potatoes were decent. As well as the sauces, both white and brown.
The meat loaf is the only protein that might be worth it, but age does nothing wrong to it, so cannot tell if its old for that flavoring to occur.
Ok, I was wrong on one thing, the baked chicken was actually the best protein. It was freshly out the kitchen and tasted as so!!! Only part of the buffet that was right, other than the clean salad bar!
NOTE: If you go here, enjoy the ride… Cause it is definitely a sketchy wooden coaster.
Tip: Skip the soups and desserts altogether.

I am not a road warrior. So on a trip to Mount Shasta that required me to be stuck in a car for almost 4 hours, I was going to need a few breaks. I was checking Unilocal all along our route in a quest to find some lesser-​known gems in some lesser-​known towns.
Along came Corning and the Iron Skillet. I wondered if this was where they made the dishes and cookware of the same name.
After briefly checking out the truck stop mini mart next to Iron Skillet, I immediately noticed the buffet set-​up inside. Could it be? Here???
See, to the detriment of my waistline, I love buffets. Not because I like to stuff myself silly, I just love CHOICES. It actually makes a lot of sense for a place that caters to truckers when you think about it. As nice as it is for impatient me to not have to wait around for the food, I bet it’s great for them to be able to eat & run.
The food was much better than I expected and the selection was impressive. They had an egg scramble that was one of those «kitchen sink» kind of dishes. Ham, chorizo, potatoes, peppers… you name it, it was in there. French toast and pancakes weren’t very fresh, but there were biscuits & gravy, sausage, sliced ham, cereal and yes, even a salad bar to make up for it.
Although we both went for the reasonably priced (about $ 10) buffet, there was also a menu available.
The bathrooms were spacious, clean, and had a surprisingly feminine touch. There were oodles of goodies by the register to tempt on the way out. Homemade fudge and chocolates, saltwater taffy, and mints in personalized tins were just a few of the check-​out counter offerings.
People were friendly even as they watched the weird girl taking pictures of the buffet. Never did find out if this is the home of CorningWare.