Newark’s Country Kitchen

I just love visiting and learning about a family restaurant like this. Owner is a stickler for quality food and goes hunting himself for the best. Nothing fancy on the inside and a great small town diner feel. Love the fact they open at 5:30am. Recently brought dinner hours back for Thu — Sat until 8 pm. Dawn is so friendly and the waitresses love to be busy here. They told me they only make mistakes when they’re slow. Make a visit soon and be amazed with the love coming from the kitchen. You’ll often find the owner in back on the grill, his kids run his other spot, the Harvester Café in Plano.

This small town Jem has been around since 1954. It is a little family run local spot. There are about 10 booths and 5 tables. The décor was county hunting.
I had the biscuit and gravy skillet. It came with two eggs over easy, cooked to perfection. It took over 10 minutes for the food to come out so it was cooked to order! It also came out with hot buttered toast, so attention was being paid to when everything was ready to serve. The gravy was light colored and plentiful. It mixed well with the base of hash browns.
The staff was curious and welcoming. The attractive attentive waitresses made at least 10 passes with offers of coffee refills. This is the type of service you only find in small town places or over price city restaurants.
Over all I would come back and head out of my way off of 80 or 55 to stop here for a bite to eat.

Biscuits and gravy skillet is so fantastic! Love this place on a quiet Sunday morning. Friendly staff and delicious food!

Don’t all small places have the best food? Well this one is great. The service is kind and quick. Not a lot of people here. But it is great. Very clean. The Google maps and Waze app were both wrong about the location. It is located right next to the BP and subway stores. I had the burger. The best I ever had. The spaghetti and meatballs were delightful too. Come here! I know I’ll be back.

Thought I would enjoy this place… would have had they got my order right. I ordered a Ruben how do u confuse that with a patty melt. Staff was rude when I called and women who answered the phone asked the waitress what I ordered and funny how she knew I got a Patty Melt instead of my Ruben before I even said anything!
Do yourself a favor and keep driving by this dump

When I walked in the diner I was completely perplexed because it was the complete opposite of what I expected. I expected a diner atmosphere with a counter overlooking an open kitchen. Nope! The waitress obviously picked up on this by her facial expression and quipped… «sit anywhere».
After the initial shock, I studied the extensive menu… too many choices!
So, «Ham and Eggs please».
When my breakfast arrived, my frown turned upside down! Ham cut off the bone! I was in Smoky Mountain Heaven!
Country Kitchen serves one hell of a fresh tasting breakfast, unfortunately it’s in a cafeteria style atmosphere.
A Country Kitchen should have a Kitchen to view.

Pretty damn good homestyle food! Had the corn beef hash breakfast in the late afternoon/​evening. Peaceful atmosphere– considering is 1 of 2 restaurants in the area/​town. Friendly service, good food, calm atmosphere– all essential for a small town. Would go again if I were ever to be in the area again.

Nice quaint family restaurant. The kids meals were huge. My wife liked her turkey sandwich, but not to die for. My sandwich on the other hand was the Turkey Bacon with thousand island. It was amazing. A 10! It is a little pricey for what it is. I’d say it is $$ not $.

You know that you’re in a real small town restaurant when you’re the youngest one and the only person not wearing overalls and a trucker hat.
Prices were a couple bucks cheaper than I’m used to as you’d be hard pressed to find an entrée that was $ 10 or more. Even the steak and eggs were affordable as I believe were $ 8. I vied for the country fried steak that came with a potato side and 2 eggs, which was only $ 6.99.
Never had country fried steak that had chunks of sausage on top of it, which was an added bonus. You simply can’t beat that price and are guaranteed to walk out not wanting to think about food for a while. Everything tasted delicious by the way! That and 2 oj’s came to $ 10.
Local History lesson: The town was originally founded as Georgetown by George B. Hollenback about 1833. The name was changed in 1842 to avoid duplication of another Georgetown in east central Illinois. The town’s name was possibly named directly for Newark N.J., but more likely for Newark Ohio, itself named for Newark, N.J.