Cracker Barrel Old Country Store

Why can’t a business be consistent? Sometimes, you get good service and other times, not so great.
This time the service was so disappointing and slow, I felt like walking out and going someplace else. When a place is slow, service seems to be slow too. The hostess was slow, the cashier was slow, everything was like slow-​motion? I wasn’t even in a hurry.
The server didn’t pick-​up the dirty plates. Yuck!
The prices were ok for the portion size.
Ambiance is cool, like an old general store with home style cooking. Their gift shop area is fun to browse, filled with candies, clothing, lotions, and other random gifts.
Why did I ever think their food was any good? I usually eat their breakfast, which is ok. Dinner was chain restaurant quality, duh! I wished I had gone to a local eatery instead. No more Cracker Barrel for me.

What a great experience we had at this Cracker Barrell! Not only was the food great, but the service was impeccable. Our food arrived within 10 minutes of ordering, and no troubles occurred whatsoever. We were also pleasantly surprised with the healthy options that were offered, and thoroughly enjoyed our meals. We will be back the next time we are traveling through here!

Service sucked. Food was better than I have had at Cracker Barrel in the past. It was Friday so I had the fried chicken! Super awesome! Pepper fried goodness!
Server couldn’t answer my questions and made me feel like an idot for asking! Um I’m from Cali and we don’t get the pleasure is eating here in a regular basis!
If sweet potato casserole is available-​get it!
Kids shrimp is a lot of shrimp and crispy pepper breaded since I didn’t get the correct answer I thought I’d share with y’all!

I haven’t been to a Cracker Barrel in many years. In my mind the food was tastier than my breakfast was. It was OK, just bland. Service was acceptable. If I was out on the road I might stop at one just because it is a known quantity.

Good food, my husband loves the sweet
Tea and hash brown casserole! The yogurt parfait is delish! Our server was Cynthia and she is very sweet and helpful! Always enjoy shopping while the food is cooked! True Americana experience!

Perfect family restaurant… I love their breakfast specially their new strawberry lemon French toast, is the perfect combination of sweet and little tartness from the lemon. Each bite is full of flavor that just melts in your mouth … The customer service is superb …

Just came here for dinner for the first time and I must say not bad! I had the sirloin and mashed potatoes with a salad and everything was great! There wasn’t too many people here either which was nice. Not only would I recommend CB for breakfast but hey also do well for dinner also. I will definitely come back again for both.

Server was irritated that we were there, she must’ve had other things to do. She was slow and rude. Dropped our food and never came back. Flagged others down for more coffee and water. Also had to wave her down to ask for check. Service not good, food mediocre. Hash brown casserole is gross.

Great food for the price, had the 2 Catfish dinner with 3 side dishes, finished the whole meal, very delicious, service was great, will probably go back today since I’m staying at the Holiday Inn Express next door for a couple more days

It’s a Cracker Barrel. There’s nothing noteworthy about this particular restaurant. That’s not a bad thing. If you have eaten at a Cracker Barrel before, you know what you’re getting here, too. Decent service, kind of a cattle-​car mentality to that. Solid food, and far too tempting candies and trinkets in the country store. I like Cracker Barrel, but with so many amazing restaurants out there, it’s hard to give one more than 3 stars.

Disappointed with my meatloaf dinner. Looked good but was cold. The mash potatoes too.
Sent it back and they replaced the mash and warmed up the meatloaf. Meatloaf was still like warm at best.

Good points:
*My apple BBQ chicken was flavorful and delicious.
*2 out of 3 friends had a delicious meal as well (chicken and dumplings, and catfish)
Room for improvement:
*The waiter wasn’t clearing out dishes as our meal progressed.
* Drinks weren’t being refilled unless we asked for it.
*The third friend in our group ordered the meatloaf with mashed potatoes and it came out cold (not even luke warm). When they reheated it, the meatloaf was still not warm.

Since Cracker Barrels are perpetually overrun with old, white, overweight people I felt sure there must be something about them. Big portions at bargain prices? Southern fixins with a modern sensibility? Great ambiance at least?
Sadly no on all fronts. I ordered the catfish with three vegetable sides: the fish arrived on a plate by itself with no garnish at all and the three vegetable sides in stingy, lilliputian portion finger bowls. The «mixed vegetables» amounted to over-​steamed broccoli, the king of cheap vegetables.
I recognize that southern food is not exactly healthy living by nature but the corn bread that arrived was so oily that my fingers glistened after touching them.
Our table had no napkins or jelly for the rolls. We had to wave somebody down to get those as a special request.
Pretty much soul-​less chain-​restaurant culture at its worst: the food sucked, the portions were tiny. Where the giant Caucasoid people ambling in here slowly are getting their calories, I just don’t know.

Coming from out of town, I take every opportunity I can to come to this place. Showed up on a Monday morning, and the wait seemed fairly long for a late morning. Took about 20 minutes to seat 2. Waitress was extremely helpful and knowledgeable and was on top of everything. It’s always worth the wait.

Never a problem with this location. The food meets the standard of previous cracker barrels that I’ve visited and the staff is friendly as well. There is another CB further west but this location is much better.

After a very depressing trip up to AZ from CA to watch my Packers have arguably the worst game of their lives, my friends and I stopped here to eat before heading back to Los Angeles (6 hr drive). I had seen people pin recipes from here on Pinterest so I was always curious.
The low down is this is good ol home country cookin. 2 of my friends went with the country fried steak and my boo went with the chicken «dumplins». I went for the Sunday special, home style chicken. Biscuits come with everything and I think everything came with 2 sides. My chicken was so good, 2 fried, juicy breasts. Then breading was amazing. It’s too bad the dish I ordered wasn’t a normal menu item and only a once a week item. Anyway, I got mashed potatoes and mac n cheese for my sides. The mac was soooo good, potatoes were just ok. Everyone enjoyed their food. We were all so stuffed (portions were great) but we all were bummed to not be able to try the Coca Cola cake (just a really delicious chocolate cake), so we decided to split between the 4 of us. I was so good, hot and goey. This place isn’t anything fancy but it is delicious comfort food for sure. Glad I got to try it, pretty sure there aren’t any remotely close to LA.

Were sat at the entrance and ignored for 10 minutes. Never acknowledged or offered a drink. Ended up leaving and unsure if they ever knew we were there. One star rating is pushing it, they didn’t even seem to be that busy. Hopefully others had a better experience. Just reminds me why I do not eat here, what was I thinking?

They have changed the way they make their oatmeal, stopped using REAL maple syrup, pancakes were horrible. Coffee watered down.

Since there are no cracker barrels in CA, I must stop at one if I’m in an area that have them. To my surprise, AZ has an abundance of cracker barrels. This location is very clean. Our server was very friendly. I love the country store area where you can find knick knacks of all sorts. Get the hash brown casserole!

This used to be my go to place when crossing the boarder. It still packs up but the service and quality of food is my what it used to be. I had an issue last time I came and today they actually served me some burnt bacon that falls apart, by the time the replacement came to the table, the eggs/​hash browns etc. was cold
I’ll think twice next time about coming here. Such a shame
Angelo

Well its Cracker Barrel if you don’t know what you are getting I can’t help you ha. This location is like all the others and produces good quality food.
While they say country food like chicken and meatloaf it lacks the seasoning of a mom and pop southern place. They definitely appeal to their base of children, and older diners.
I do like that as you travel they are consistent.
My fav thing is the oven baked chicken breast. It comes with seasoned veggies or steamed broccoli and a choice of one side. It is pretty healthy for a casual dinning restaurant.
The only reason I give this location 4 stars is the service is up and down. Sometimes good sometimes just ok at best. It has never been our right bad.

Most expensive breakfast in town. $ 160 when all was said and done!
This isn’t because of the food, it’s because of that awful gift shop that just has so many things we absolutely loved and dresses for my wife, jars of goodies, candies, toys, knick-​knacks, rocking chairs, games, oh for the joy of stuff stuff stuff!
We’ll be back, Cracker Barrel, and will use your plentiful parking, easy access off the road, to have more yummy food and buy more goodies afterward!
Men (or equivalent other half thereof), guard your wallets! :)

Had breakfast here on Sunday. It was very busy so I was surprised they were able to seat us right away. As we were shown to our table, my boyfriend pointed out there was some syrup residue on the table. The hostess asked me if I wanted her to clean it. Did she really have to ask that? Why not «Sorry about that, I’ll clean it right away!»? Ugh. Then she comes back with a dry napkin, like that’s really going to clean up sticky syrup. Whatever. Once our waters came, my boyfriend wiped the table himself. Great service here… The restaurant was very noisy.
For my breakfast I decided on the Sunrise Sampler with scrambled eggs (well done), biscuits & gravy, fried apples, hashbrown casserole, and a sampling of sweet ham, sausage, and bacon. I told the server I didn’t need the grits. It was a lot of food! The eggs were cooked right and the hashbrown casserole and apples were yummy. I took a small bite of the sausage patty and didn’t care for it. The flavor reminded me of beef jerky. I enjoyed one biscuit with butter & jelly and gave the other biscuit to my boyfriend. I didn’t try the sausage gravy. I also ate half of my boyfriend’s pancake with my cinnamon apples of course!
I liked my breakfast overall, but I can’t rank it above any other breakfast establishment. I do enjoy walking around the Cracker Barrel store and looking at all the different things.

Cracker barrel is definitely one of a kind. I want to always be able to bring my son for a Sunday breakfast or any time I need some good Olé country cookin. Fish fry Friday is great, the lighter menu chicken is great, the yogurt parfait, breakfast… pretty much everything.

My boyfriend and I have heard nothing but good things so we wanted to try then out. We showed up at 11:45 am and we’re called to be seated at 11:55 which was not bad at all for how busy they were. After about 2 mins of waiting to be seated. The hostess sat us instead of waiting for someone to come get us. We sat down and waited, 15 mins later still no one said «hi be right with you «or anything of the sort. No drinks were taken … all tables around us were being serviced .
We ended up walking out …

I used to live in the Deep South and miss the food.
Sadly, this Cracker Barrel is not the place to go for authentic Southern food.
I ordered the chicken fried steak breakfast with biscuits & gravy. The eggs were OK, the biscuits were subpar, and the steak itself wasn’t bad – though it seemed more microwaved than fried.
However, the country gravy was truly unfortunate. I like thick gravy. However, it is possible for gravy to be too thick. When I tried to dump the little bowl of gravy on my biscuits, the gravy didn’t pour out; instead, a gelatinous slab of albinoid gravy slid out of the bowl and settled atop the biscuits, admirably retaining the cylindrical shape of the original vessel without so much as a wobble.
Even this could have been forgiven, if the gravy had not been utterly bland, without a hint of savory, sour, sweet, bitter, umami or any other scent or flavor detectable by human taste buds or olfaction. It was the gustatory equivalent of white noise. In terms of texture, imagine a mouthful of smooth yet flavorless phlegm.
The pecan pie was acceptable, but we made the mistake of ordering it a la mode, so it came with a little ball of freezer-​burned ice cream that hinted at artificial vanilla flavoring.
The kitschy décor reflects nostalgia for the rural South of past decades, though without any representation of African American people or culture.
The place is soulless in every sense.
Country & western music plays constantly.

I have eaten at Cracker Barrel once or twice before (long ago), and just had to visit one before heading back home to Los Angeles where we don’t have any nearby.
It is a store with lots of knick-​knacks and a restaurant with good old-​fashion country food.
There are a bunch of rocking chairs you will see as you walk down the long porch/​patio to the front door. There are some for sale. Such a cool country feel to it. Sit a spell and relax. You can play checkers while you wait. We had to wait for our entire party to arrive before we could put our name on the list to be seated. Once they arrived, we were seated rather quickly.
They were busy and our food arrived at the table cold. We had 7 in our party. The service was okay, I think our waitress was there and then disappeared and then reappeared later on.
My husband ordered a breakfast combo with scrambled eggs, sausage, & hashed browns. It was rather basic. I got the Blueberry Pancakes, they were really, really, really delicious! They bring out individual bottles of maple and blueberry syrups. I got the blueberry syrup and was surprised that the syrup contained real blueberries! It was deliciously awesome! My daughter ordered french toast with maple syrup. If the food had arrived promptly to the table, it would have been ideal!
When you are ready to settle your bill, you have to take the ticket to the cashiers in the store to pay.
The store is full of cute things! There were a few items I would have bought, but I restrained! The pig salt & pepper holder was cute! I would have liked to taste the Divinity although it would not compare to my mother-in-law’s fresh divinity! They had their Easter items out as well as a religious section of goodies. There was a big poster announcing the sale of the new Casting Crowns CD, which I thought was rather neat.
If I ever return to this Cracker Barrel, I sure hope the food is hot when it is brought out to the table! I should have told the manager when she walked by and asked us how things were. We asked for more syrups and she then went and had the waitress bring them out. I guess she herself doesn’t get things for guests. I was really hoping this would warrant 5-​stars, but it just didn’t measure up.

We come here whenever we’re in town… Love the rocking chairs out front… And the store at front as well, with all it’s random items.
Came here on a weekday, late breakfast, and we were able to be seated right away.
The place has a southern, casual, backyard patio type feel… Large dining area, clean…
The few times we’ve gone here, I’ve only tried their breakfast items. Their menu is a bit large…
So this time I opted for a healthier option and ordered fresh fruits, tomatoes, and scrambled egg beater. No complaints, it is what it is. But I was disappointed that their fruit bowl was soooo TINY… I did try bites of their biscuits and pancakes, now those were tasty. Both light and fluffy. Yum! Try their hash brown casserole. It’s cheese and yummy.
Service was friendly and timely.
In conclusion, the food itself is good, but the atmosphere is what makes this place worth trying.

My sister and brother-​in-​law had not eaten at a Cracker Barrel in 10+ years so we were excited to stop here on the way back from the rodeo in Wickenburg.
Shopping, family atmosphere, great food… I was stoked. I eat at CB regularly in the east valley so how was I to know this was going to be AWFUL?!
My brother-​in-​laws eggs were wrong, DH’s ORDER was wrong, my egg sandwich wasn’t cooked through at all, had no mayo (which is standard) and the mayo that was brought out tasted like lard, my sister’s fries had NO flavor and my stepson’s kid burger was burned to a crisp. We got DH’s order fixed but the rest wasn’t worth complaining about. Drinks sat empty, apologies were made for the cooking time (we sat a LONG time with no food while maintaining good spirits).
I will never go to this location again and it’s safe to say that my sister and bro-​in-​law will probably never eat at a CB again. Way to go!