Cracker Barrel Old Country Store

SUMMATION: After many years away from the south, I was hankering for southern food. Cracker Barrel is a very good imitation. This location was a very good store.
GENERAL: All Cracker Barrels are pretty much the same and do not require many review details. They have the best mass-​produced southern cooking. We had missed it.
NAME: Cracker Barrel store 315 in Oxford, Alabama
CHAIN: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., Sandra B. Cochran, CEO, operates 630 stores in 42 USA states (2012).
TITLE: «Very Good Cracker Barrel» [Yelp, Parguera Pirate review #543, submitted 12 April 2015]
ALABAMA TRIP REVIEW NUMBER: 4
MY RATING: Very Good (⁴⁄₅)
TELEPHONE: (256) 835‑6700 FAX: 256−835−9555
WEB PAGE:
TAKE OUT: yes
HOURS OF OPERATION: 6 am-​10 pm Sunday-​Thursday; 6 am-​11 pm Friday-​Saturday
GENERAL MANAGER: Jim Jenkins
LOCALITY: 220 Morgan Road, Oxford, Alabama 36 203
DIFFICULTY LOCATING: easy, marked on highway and with a tall sign
DIRECTIONS: in mall north of Highway 20 from Atlanta to Birmingham
PARKING: ample
CUISINE: old southern country
FLATWARE: heavy stainless dinner knife and fork
WAITSTAFF: excellent, knowledgeable, friendly, and manager checked on us twice.
DRINKS: Ice tea was very good.
BREAD: smoothest cornbread muffins I have ever had. Good biscuits.
SALAD: cabbage slaw was very good
ENTRÉE: I had fried catfish [A] and my First Mate country fried steak, which were very good. Presentations were ordinary, flavors were very good, textures excellent, and serving sizes adequate.
SIDES: Fried okra was lightly battered, turnip greens were a bit spicy, corn kernels, and everything very good.
SERVING TIME: okay
DESERT: They did not have pecan pie, but their blackberry cobbler was excellent. Not too large, but potent. Could have had a bit larger scoop of vanilla ice cream.
NOISE LEVEL: Some complain about the loud, bad music, but we did not hear any.
HEALTH: Fried, unhealthy, but very good.
REVIEWS: rated Very Good, 4/​5, 102 reviews (YellowBot), Very Good, 4.2÷5, 30 reviews (Tripadvisor); Very Good, 3.9÷5, 7 reviews ( Unilocal); Average, 3.0÷5, 3 reviews (Google)
HISTORY: Dan Evins founded Cracker Barrel 19 September 1969 in Lebanon, Tennessee (USA). [see more on Wikipedia]
SPECIES: Channel Catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, is an excellent food fish cultured in the SEUSA and particularly Mississippi and Alabama.

Cracker Barrel Oxford Alabama the best one in the state.
People are so nice. Service is the Best.

This used to be our favorite Cracker Barrel until recently. The food is average at best but what caught our attention most was the downsizing of the portions. My vegetable sides were MAYBE a tablespoon each (try 15 pieces of fried okra). Perhaps in this economy, they are having to cut portions to boost their profit? Anyway, the service was average and we noticed that three different servers attended to us. Overall, we were somewhat disappointed This used to be the BEST Cracker Barrel in the area but the portions, service and taste have gone down for some reason.

Same as they all are. Nothing Special about this location

I won’t typically choose a chain restaurant for breakfast/​brunch, but «hawt dog», Cracker Barrel is the exception.
Growing up, we only went to Cracker Barrel on road trips, so I associate it with vacation and family time. Perhaps this is the reason that I find this tacky (because… it is, albeit delightfully so) highway roadside stop to be so inviting.
After discovering that the person I am dating has never had the Cracker Barrel experience, we made the trip! I walked him around the store, we joked at the silly toys and bought some candy dots .
Once seated (near the big ol’ fireplace, per my request), we perused the menu, ordered and played «pegs» (If you don’t know the game of pegs, you clearly need to go to Cracker Barrel.) We decided to split the «COUNTRY BOY BREAKFAST», AKA: More food than any one person should put down in one sitting.
«The Cracker Barrel Country Boy Breakfast® — Country Ham, Pork Chops or Steak* grilled to order, Three Eggs* cooked to order served with Fried Apples, Hashbrown Casserole, Grits, Sawmill Gravy and Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits along with real Butter and the best Preserves, Jam n’ Apple Butter available.»
I KNOW, RIGHT?
We split the meal and still had to roll ourselves out of there.
Everything was up to standard, cooked the way we requested, and well flavored (thank goodness for white sausage gravy!), but unfortunately the service here was just not quite up to the crowd. It took a solid 20 minutes just to get my cup of coffee.
Great for a family breakfast.

The server was very friendly and efficient. Our food came out fast and hot. The grilled chicken tenderloins were juicy and flavorful. The side vegetables were fresh and plentiful. I love the consistency of this brand. You can always count on a satisfying tasty meal.

Just met for coffee here– but it’s cracker barrel. Can’t go wrong… Will rate it when I eat here!!! :)

Always great food but on Sundays, but if you come in late they will run out of menu items… still worthwhile going

Noisy but good.

Being from the West coast, its rare to find a place like Cracker Barrel in CA. They serve southern comfort food at this place and its pretty yummy. Everything is drizzled in my favorite ingredient ‘BUTTER’. It tastes so good.
My only complaint was about the waitress. She wasn’t all that smart. I ordered hot tea and it took her a while to figure out what hot tea was. I guess because its so warm in AL, people usually order cold sweet tea. I threw her for a loop when I ordered Earl Grey tea. It was on the menu dang it. It wasn’t like I was being a west coast dork by ordering somethign that wasn’t off of the menu.
Afterwards, its fun to paruse through the nick nack shop they have attached to the restaurant. It reminds me of a country store. or at least what I imagine a country store would be.
¹²⁄₂₈ okay I’m down grading this review from 4 to 3 stars. This particular location looses a star because the food was just plain gross when I went yesterday. I’m back in CA today and I am still lementing about how disappointed I was with the food. The place seemd much dirtier than I remembered and other locations I been too. Hello, manangement… step up… fix this mess.