Ann Arbor Travel Center

It’s not a bad place after a long haul. Place is clean and spacious (outside of the parking nightmare) and servers are nice. Country songs flow in the background as you eat your food and in some spots, outlets for you to charge your devices.
The food is hit or miss here. By rule anything on ‘special’ means it’s close to expiration and needs to go. For me that was the sirloin. Undercooked and under seasoned, and with a lot more gristle and fat than you should see. I would visit again but pick something suggested or well known.

We stopped here last night after picking up our car in Ann arbor from the repair shop. I got the soup and salad bar ($ 6.99), along with the pasta add-​on for an extra $ 2.99., while my wife got the BLT.
Well, the salad bar didn’t have any type of diced chicken, ham or turkey, just the stand fair you would get on a side salad.
The soup pots were mostly empty and not very appetizing, but that could have been me.
Then there was the pasta dish. The pasta I got from the cook was especially frustrating, since it didn’t show up for almost 15 minutes, it wasn’t hot and he was cooking it from their mobile pasta station no more than 8 feet from us.
As I previously state, the overall dish wasn’t hot, more like barely warm when I received it. The pasta tasted old. That taste & texture you get when pasta has been sitting for awhile, that rubbery chewy texture. The Alfredo sauce as I said wasn’t very warm and had little to no flavor at all.
I asked for chicken and mushrooms to be added to the dish. My mistake.
Well, the chicken appeared to be old, since it had that dried out texture, the kind of texture you get when it has been warmed up a couple of times. The mushroom seemed exceptable, but that might have been because I was focused on other aspects of the dish.
Maybe it was a bad night for them, maybe this is a standard night. I don’t know, but I do know that within two hours of eating, I was firmly planted on the porcelain throne, with Niagara Falls flowing at a brisk rate from my south bound side.
So, I believe that this food establishment will be written off my list of places to dine anytime in the near future.
But, I did drop 10 pounds. (Just kidding, it was more like 5 pounds.)

I like stopping here late night after a movie to grab a bite and talk. The breakfasts are top notch and affordable. Pancake and Egg Combo is my favorite.

This place I will always hold in high regard. Having stopped here many times in the past when I used to drive trucks for a living.
Huge parking lot can fit 200 trucks easily, fuel for trucks, a garage staffed 24 hrs if you need help fixing that truck of yours. Certified mechanics for Freightliner trucks, a CB shop to tune that radio of yours, excellent showers not the showers that dribble but water with force! After a long day or night of hard driving this is the type of shower one wants to wash the pain and grime away.
Country Pride restaurant, T/A’s best, however this particular restaurant was terrible back in 2003 – 2007. Then they did something probably hired a new cook for the food is 100% better now.
I will recommend this place to all my friends and family if they want some great truck stop food while on their journey!
The T/​A is on exit 167 in Dexter MI. Off I94.

Three stars because the parking lot is oddly structured, but WOOHOO to there being a Popeye’s!!! I’m so glad I don’t have to drive all the way to Detroit to get my fried chicken fix (KFC just doesn’t cut it).