The Fork

Consistency is a thing of the past. My wife and I have eaten here for years with no problems, however since the change in ownership the quality of the food and service have gone down hill. On two separate visits the food took 45 minutes to get and parts of it was cold. Our last visit, two nights ago, was a quiet night. Only one table was taken. After we sat down the waitress finally cleaned our table after we asked her to (salt and miscellaneous mess from the prior booth visitors which was very visible). She took our drink order (water) and got sidetracked by the other patrons who wanted a piece of pie for their kid. Two other patrons had entered by now and she went and got their drink orders and took them menus. We still had not received menus at this point. She needs to learn to wait on people in the order that they come in. We got up and left and will never return.

Great burgers, even better fish on Fridays. We eat here at least 2 – 3 times a month. Catch them when Katrina is working. The service is still bad, but she makes up for it by being hilarious. Be warned, if you have a bad attitude, or can’t laugh off a few mistakes, you are not going to have a good time. We love it. My 3yo and 5yo get the pancakes, which are awesome. I highly recommend the sweet baby ray burger.

Services is very good, friendly faces and clean place to eat… the pies are super delish, food is good…

Friday nights all you can eat fried catfish. Comes with beans, Cole slaw, hush puppies and fries. Very good fish!

Great burgers with homemade french fries and the best onion rings I’ve ever had. Order appetizers — your food will take awhile to be finished but that’s because it’s homemade by a feisty grandma in the back. The granddaughters are the servers and they are very sweet. Be prepared for them not to have your first option because they run out of ingredients. In addition, be prepared to be there for 90 minutes plus — this ain’t no fast food joint and I really enjoyed my experience.

I really enjoyed this place. I had the Applewood Bacon Burger which was great also I had onion rings and the batter was amazing!!! The reason it’s not 5 star is because it took 30 – 40 minuets to get my food.

Absolutely horrible.
We ate here for lunch today. Arrived at noon. Many empty tables. Waited over an hour for food. When the food was finally delivered, it arrived one plate at a time, with the first person in our party of FOUR finished eating before the last person was served a meal that had clearly been waiting far too long (lukewarm food). here were only about 6 tables occupied. When asked how the meal was, my husband told the truth. His response was greeted with a shrug of the shoulders. No offer of discount off the meal or anything. As we began to leave they were all over the table trying to clean it up – so much so that I had difficulty getting the baby out of the high chair because they were in the way. Never again, my friend.

The food is really good but the service is another thing. The younger ladies that work there are great but if you get the older lady, that’s another story. I ordered scrambled eggs and they were raw and runny and I asked to have them cooked some more and the older lady stood beside the table, took my plate and fork and proceeded to dig through the eggs with fork. She looked at me and said «what’s the problem? there’s nothing wrong with these eggs» I said «they’re raw, could you get them cooked some more?» She sighed loudly and said «Lord have mercy» At that point I really didn’t want her to do anything with the eggs because I didn’t know what would happen to them lol. I told her nevermind, they were fine. She said «Oh noooo, we’ll get you some moooore» Wow. I just was stunned. It’s funny now, but it sure wasn’t then. I haven’t gone back and probably won’t.

This place has the best selection of hamburgers in the area. Not only is there many to choose from but there all taste. This is the place to find the legendary Krispy Kreme burger, and this isn’t as bad as it sounds. The crazy thing is I could eat two of them and be happy with the decision I made. Okay, maybe I will be happy later but I would be during. We go here with a group of friend every other Sunday and love it.

If you are antiquing in Gladewater and your tummy gets hungry — stop at the privately owned mom and pop restaurant –The Fork. It may not look like much from the outside of even the inside but this place has GREAT juicy burgers with homemade buns! The burgers are better than your average chain restaurant. You cannot compare them to Five Guys or Juicy’s, because they don’t even hold water to this place.
Not only did I order a bacon cheese burger but I also ordered a salad with thousand island and the thousand island dressing was homemade and very tasty. Prices are a little steep but being as it is locally owned, I would expect to pay a little bit more.
Words of the wise, parking and seating is limited. I would suggest calling ahead your order if it is lunch or dinner time.

Swiss mushroom burger was great. Kinda wish they’d asked how I wanted it cooked though… it was definitely a little overdone. Coworker said the chicken spaghetti and pineapple upside down cake were good too. Definitely a great price for what we had!

Took a trip to this small town to visit family. There are only a handful of restaurants so we randomly chose this spot.
I got the country fried steak special for $ 7.50 (or was it $ 7.95?). It came with 3 sides and a biscuit, I chose corn, green beans and mashed potatoes… all were pretty good and the CFS was good too. I liked that it did not have too much extra batter. My BF got the omelet which I was not a fan off, the egg was too thin and runny. I didn’t think the service was as slow as other reviewers mentioned.

I really hate to give a small town, privately owned restaurant a poor review but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. And besides, I rely on Unilocal for objective, honest reviews so I feel compelled to provide the same.
This is a quaint place. Charming atmosphere. You feel right at home.
The service is weak. I would have said overwhelmed (which is probably a large basis for the problem we faced) but that went out the door when we started asking questions. We asked what the «Hot cheeseburger» was and she said «I think it has, like, jalapeños or something.» That might have been an acceptable answer but then she said «I only started working here two months ago.» Honey, if you’ve been there two whole months, you ought to know what the freaking Hot Cheeseburger is. Then she refilled our unsweet tea with sweet tea.
We ordered the Gusher Burger which was defined as two patties with molten cheese melted in between the patties. They came out and it looked a lot like one decent sized patty with cheese on top. Maybe there was cheese in the patty but I would have needed a forensics kit to know for sure. My cheeseburger came with exactly 13 french fries. The burger was decent but nothing special and damn sure not worth $ 9!!!
Here’s the rub — from the time we ordered (cheeseburgers mind you) until the time we got our food — 45 minutes. Absolutely no way your going to make it if it takes you 45 minutes to get a cheeseburger out at lunchtime! Sorry.
Maybe I’m trying to offer an intervention rather than a review. I want you guys to make it but if you cant handle a large lunch crowd in a timely fashion, you’re in serious trouble.
If I were in Gladewater, I’d stop in but I wouldn’t make a special trip.
Slightly down turned face.

Small town home cooking. Had chicken fried steak and husband had chicken dumplings. Both were good. Pie was delicious. Waitress was sweet and visited with us.

The chili cheeseburger was large and messy. Pretty good. Fries were ordinary. Had a veggie plate with soup, purple hull peas and spinach. All were good by country cookin standards, overlooked to the rest of us, big portions. The waitress was good, the place is kind of cute and obviously popular as all the tables had been recently vacated after the lunch rush. The pies and cheesecakes in the case looked good but we didn’t them.

Good atmosphere. Clean restaurant. Great service. The burgers were very good. I had the applewood bacon burger. It was very tasty. My only complaint is the amount of fries they placed on the plate. I’m not sure if they were running low or didn’t cook enough but there were barely any on my plate. We had two burgers and the fries between us would have been about right for a single order. I finished my french fries well ahead of my burger. I think they just dropped one order by mistake and just didn’t want to take the time to cook more. I’ll give them another shot but if I get shorted again I’ll change this review to one star.

Best Burgers within 100 mile radius? I think so, I had the Gusher Burger and a slice of Gusher Pie. This definitely is on the same level as Five Guys, In-​N-​Out, and Twisted Root.
Be careful of the «Hot as Heck» burger, the title is very conservative on it’s description of the hotness. I had one bite of it and it was enough to feel the heat for a few minutes.
This is my new favorite when visiting Gladewater to see my family and friends. I can’t wait to try more of their menu when I am in town again.

Great burgers but be careful ordering over the phone. Getting an order home to find your cheese burger to have 2 grilled cheese sandwiches for buns is rubbish.
5 star burgers, 2 star results when calling orders in. I suggest you take the extra time to placing to-​go orders face to face, I have had much better luck that way.
They removed a burger that featured ghost chile sauce which was one of the main draws for this place among my friends. Hot food is unacceptable while a burger with doughnuts for buns is fine for human consumption, go figure.
R.I.P. Hot as Heck burger, you were a good one even if it felt like getting my tongue pierced when I ate it.