Terry’s Place

I love the burgers here! One of my favorite places in Ocala for a good burger and fries. Huge portions never go home hungry.

Place is not much to look at from the outside. But WOW, the food is great and the portions are huge. I almost never take any leftovers home, but i brought ribs, fried mushrooms and onion rings to the hotel.

The portions are amazingly huge… The prices are very fair. The appearance is a little dated but otherwise it’s a great place to take the family.

Maybe the best wings in town! Must get the chicken combo. 10 wings your way and 5 big tenders for only $ 9.99. Service pretty good. It doesn’t look like much but a must try! Other items on menu good also.

Good place overall.
Pros:
Large portions.
A few tasty dishes.
Great place to hang out with friends.
Decent prices.
Very good lunch deals.
Best food I’ve had here:
Chicken sandwich (their dressing is awesome).
Curly fries when crunchy
Fried Shrimp (my friend said these were great).
Cons:
Expect higher service time. Going there at lunch time will result in lot of delay.
Loud trivia nights on Tuesday and Thursdays.

Food generally good, serve sucks. Had a problem next time with all you can eat fried fish. Waited 20 minutes to eat the food and re-​order 2 more pieces. After waiting another 20 minutes got 1 piece. Manager says that’s all you get is 1 piece at a time. Guess it’s a good way to control costs.
They don’t understand who pays the bills.

Lots and lots of food! Great prices and huge portions. You can’t go wrong with this place!

Took a date out to here, have never been before even though I’ve lived in Ocala for a quite awhile. So anyone that have not gone here yet are missing out. I was very impressed, the steak was juicy and cooked to perfection. The order came out quickly and well prepared. The staff was very polite and they always checked up on us it couldn’t have gotten much better on the date as well. I have to say I will definitely be back to the fine establishment very shortly.

As an ‘update’…I don’t like Terry’s Place QUITE as much!!! All prices have been raised… not a little, but a LOT… in many cases, more than at least WE will pay, considering that this IS Ocala after all!!! The ‘daily special’ lunch is up $ 1.00…the fish dinner for 2 up $ 3.00…on and on across the whold menu! We STILL like Terry’s for all the OTHER reasons… beer specials for instance are still affordable… and you DO still get good sized portions & don’t go away hungry… but the new higher prices, well, we won’t be going there as often as we did. You do still ‘get a lot of food’ but the actual value is greatly reduced by the much higher prices. The usual surley ‘service’ still applies, but considering the higher prices, it’s harder to ignore & enjoy anyway!!!

Going to try to be completely objective here…
Pros: Large portions, nice staff, reasonable prices.
Cons: About the food, I was excited because I heard about their awesome cheeseburgers and was really craving one so I went tonight for the first time. It was huge and so were the fries (you have to pay separate) but was disappointed in how BLAND it was, even the fries. I added salt and pepper but it didn’t help.
About the staff: The lady sitting next to me was smoking an e-​cigarette (which are banned in Marion County wherever regular cigarettes are banned). I asked the waitress to ask the lady to stop but she looked confused and said something and left. I figured she’d be back to say something to the lady, but instead came to me and stated” the owner said they voted on it but it hasn’t passed yet”. I knew this wasn’t true so I Googled on my phone to show her an ordinance that passed over a year ago. She took me to the manager, who is the owner’s grandson. He was a very nice guy that was apologetic; however, his story changed. He said he was aware but that” no one had ever complained before” and that he would tell his grandad. While this is happening, the bartender called the sheriff to see if the ordinance was true and at this point, people were starting to look at me and asking «what’s going on?».Thankfully I got out of that situation quick, thanked the manager, and finished my meal. No one ever did tell the lady next to me that she couldn’t smoke her e-​cig inside as she continued to smoke.

Good bar food overall. Except for the giant salads, you will not find many vegetables at Terry’s that are not fried. Big burgers with homemade bus, steaks, chicken, and fried fish. 4 out of 5 times I have had good food. Last visit, I had a tasteless burger, soggy fries, and a flat beer. It must not have been in the cards that day… LOL…will give it a bit before we try again. Would be nice to see a makeover one day and give the olé girl some knew life. Still can’t beat the big ass salads.

My husband and I decided to go to Terry’s for dinner and drinks, bad move the service was horrible we sat for 15 minutes before I had to finally get up and get a waitress to send someone to our table, and mind you 3or4 waitresses just looked at us and didn’t even acknowledge that we were there and then she was rude about sending someone to our table, the place was dirty the food so-​so and I, We will never go back they are all rude and nothing but a bunch of hillbillies who are trying to run a nasty dirty and unorganized bar/​restaurant !!! Call Jon Taffner Or do you not know who he is !!! O and fire your cleaning crew if you have one !

Pros– they have recovered their tables. The servers were both very sweet. The buffalo chicken and Philly cheesesteak sandwich were great. The French fries were very good. One basket is enough for 3 – 4 people. The portions were huge, doggie bag = lunch for work tomorrow! I didn’t like the meatball sub, my family tried it said it tasted good so it was my taste buds apparently. The waitress noticed that I didn’t eat it and refused to let me pay for it. She was tipped well for going above and beyond.
The shrimp PO-​boy was outstanding.
The prices are very good.
Cons– too dark for me, had to use flashlight app to read the menu. The homemade bread tastes good but I threw a lot of it away… Wasteful (I know)

Huge portions of decent food at a fair price. You won’t leave hungry. Mediocre service that you usually wait and wait for. Good service is hard to come by here. Pub atmosphere, pretty dated with worn out finishes.
Full liquor bar, a few taps of mostly standard domestic beers. There is an outdoor patio in back with a separate bar but its usually closed.
They have some kind of trivia one night of the week with regulars that come play on teams. Its probably ok if thats what you came for but for everyone else it is obnoxious and loud. There are also pool tables, several large tv’s, and a jukebox, if you’re into that sort of thing.
All that said i still come a few times a year. It isn’t bad.

The Philly beefsteak is to die for! One order will feed two or you can buy one and save it for the next day. This is a must have when in the area. The service varies depending on the day but the food is a sure thing every time.

Terrys is kind of dive bar that has good food.
The portions are huge and tastee, we would always split our order
and was still enough to fill you up. Probably not the cleanest
place since its an older bar and restraunt. We ate here several times winter 2009

Great wings (sampler 5 breaded, 5 naked, 5 tenders). Great burgers.

Current health inspection report: 17 violations.
Where to start. Hmmm… it’s dark… very dark. I can understand that for the bar portion but not for the restaurant side. It was difficult to read the menu. Being dark didn’t deter my sight for a cleanliness problem though. Walking in, I see rips and holes they have in the vinyl that has covered up the old table tops. The food from many patrons ago line the cracks in the booths. And some kind of smudge on the walls next to the booths, are of different sizes and colors. Ick!
Service was fair to poor. I didn’t appreciate it that my server was also cleaning tables and cashiering in between delivering my food. Did she wash her hands in between handling money, dirty rags and handling my food? I was disturbed when I observed another server pouring the end of one tea holding canister into the other tea holding canister. But the worse part had to be the food. Yes, the shrimp was hot on the outside, but it was under cooked on the inside. All of this… especially the quality of the food, barely rates 1 star.
Did I mention that food and bacteria gets built up in those holes & rips in the vinyl as the servers are wiping it down? Oh noooo!

Terry’s is a great place to go, just don’t go thinking you are going to get a window seat. Terry’s is dark and a hole in the wall, but it has some of the best food you will ever eat in Ocala. Their chicken fingers are amazing! They aren’t skimpy slivers of meat, but huge pieces. Their burgers are about 4 inches tall and oh so delicious! Their hot subs are more than a foot long and more than enough for two meals. I cannot have a meal there without their amazing sweet tea and curly fries. They also have great onion rings.
Trivia night there is a blast! And they have tons of pool tables and TVs to catch the game on.
I would give them a 4.5, not a 5, because you have to seat yourself and sometimes the waitstaff is not that attentive.

My friends took me here to grab a bite to eat. I was excited since I had pulled out my iphone Unilocal app to see that it hadn’t been Unilocaled yet. It was a sports bar kind of place that had booth seating in addition to the bar stool seating and a bunch of TVs. I was told there was a back patio also, but I didn’t get a chance to check that out. The place was full of locals that started filling the place up at around 7. We had sat down right before 7 and wanted to get a few drinks since happy hour ended at 7. The waitresses were slow, and when one finally showed up, she said happy hour had ended, and I looked at my clock and it said 6:53! She said «we have to go by the bar clock» what the heck. wuteva.
I ordered the cheeseburger, which was ½ lb of meat for $ 5.25! It was good but too much to finish since I was also throwing tons of fries down my throat. This place would be a cool place to hang out, they had all you can drink beer for $ 6 on Monday Night Football game days, Live music on Wednesdays. Overall i’d give it a 3 for my one time experience. A 3.8 if I was a local.