Cafe In Stow

Service good, food bland. The café needs to be remodeled, brightened up. New additions to the menu would be helpful.

It was good service but a bit outdated on the restaurant. The food past mustard but needs to also be ramped up.

Great service but very bland food. Fish was very small and tasteless, «wild rice» was boring boxed rice not even close to wild rice, and over cooked baked potato. Disappointed will not go back.

I work just up the road a ways, and have eaten many lunches at The Café In Stow during the past couple of decades. Always the staff is friendly, the service is great, the food rates «good» or better. I recommend this as a fine place to relax and eat good food in comfort. Be sure to get their soup, as they’re all excellent.

I think I can count on 1 – 2 fingers the amount of 1 star ratings I have ever submitted. The Café in Stow has earned the 1 star status. To be honest, I didn’t even have high hopes of this place to begin with, but I didn’t expect it to be as disappointing. Boyfriend ordered a waffle and it came with a nice long, thick black hair. It was sent back and he ordered something else that wasn’t memorable. I think I got bacon and eggs and both were horrible! I ordered hot tea and the waitress had to go find a tea bag in storage, which made me think it was going to be old. The place is very dusty and the rest room is pretty bad.

While the ambiance here is nice and works well for the older crowd (sub-​50 and you’re basically out of place) I can’t recommend the food at all. The Café isn’t very far from a Sam’s Club and Giant Eagle is right up the street and you can put together the same meal for less money that way. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with that, I’d like there to be something remotely interesting about the meal I’m eating and I have yet to get that here.
Restaurants in the area are usually pretty hit and miss for me and while Rockne’s is probably the king of the «I could have made this at home no problem» restaurants, Rockne’s at least has some good items on their menu. Absolutely nothing, from the bacon to the eggs even to the cheese, at the Café stands out as anything but boring, unimaginative and bland. They will butter the heck out of your toast though! So, there’s that.
It’s a nice place to visit, but I can’t recommend eating there.

Went for Sunday breakfast and was not impressed with the service or the food, out of a can taste. I will not be back.

Very good family restaurant with good olé American food. The breakfasts are very good and consistent. Lunch and dinner are also very good.
Big hang out for older crowd (50 and up) so their rush hour is much earlier for dinner. My grandfather use to say, «if u find a restaurant where a bunch of old people are, the food is usually good, cause we are picky eaters»
Downside? Men’s bathroom is not very clean. Not as bad as those pics I posted for Daves tip top, but still alot of work needed here

I like The Café in Stow for a quick lunch occasionally. Their chicken salad is tasty and it is a nice little restaurant. We frequent it at least once/​year.

The reason I’m giving this place two stars and not one is the service. The people are great, friendly, and timely here. The food however, was not so impressive. I really wanted to like it here, since its right down the street and its a cute local place. I got a burger, which wasn’t terrible but I felt I could have made a better one myself. Or gotten a tasty one at Swensons.

Probably my first and last visit to the Café in Stow. The service is fast and friendly (the only reason why I gave it 2 stars), but the food is flavorless and sub-​par. I went t during lunch hours, which may have been the mistake, especially since others rave about their breakfast. I ordered the grilled whitefish with steamed veggies and wild rice. My husband (a lover of pulled pork sandwiches) ordered a BBQ pork sandwich with skinny french fries and a dinner salad.
Let’s start with my plate first. I prefer my steamed veggies a little crispness. My vegetables were overcooked, soggy and flavorless. All the salt & pepper in the world couldn’t help those vegetables. Next, the wild rice was nothing more bland rice pilaf. I know the difference between wild rice and rice pilaf, since I only eat brown rice or wild rice mix. Finally my grilled whitefish with cajun seasonings was 3 measily pieces of whitefish, which I think they took 1 fish and split 3 ways. The fish was definitely not fresh, probably a frozen filet and the cajun seasoning was nothing special.
Now, my husband’s dinner salad was nothing more than a mixture of bagged iceburg lettuce and lettuce greens. There was 1 thin slice of cucumber, 1 slice thick cut green pepper and croutons. My husband deplores bagged lettuce, cucumbers give him indigestion and he isn’t a lover of green peppers. I guess he liked his fries because he ate those. Finally, his BBQ pork sandwich leaves nothing to the imagination. I don’t eat meat but, to me it looked like that Lloyds pulled pork (in the round container) you can get at your local grocers near the meat section. The old man was not impressed. If I give them a second try it will be for breakfast because lunch is definitely not their strong suit.

Great breakfast with friendly servers

Cheap and good. Never disappoints.

The Café in Stow is a great little place if you are looking for an inexpensive, classic American meal. Most of the diners are either families or a much older crowd, but I enjoy the laid back, dineresque atmosphere.
My favorite item on the menu is the grilled cheese which always has a great buttery flavor at reasonably low prices.
It won’t win any awards with the outdated décor, but I enjoy it just the same!

Great comfort food and reasonable prices.

This is the «in» place for retirees. The food is good quality, there are two daily specials, and meals come with soup and salad (or side-​dish substitutes). Very popular on Friday night (when they have all-​you-​can-​eat fish) and on Tuesday (swedish meatballs over noodles). I also like their chicken steak with sausage gravy. Most entrees under $ 10, dinner for two is $ 18 – 20 dollars. Try the home made root beer.