Cracker Barrel Old Country Store

Cracker Barrel is an old stand by for breakfast for me and my husband. We only come here for breakfast! I love that they have a big menu and its all day! The prices are really good for the amount of food you get. I love their hashbrown casserole, its perfectly seasoned and cheesy. My other favorite is their pancakes! They are moist and thin and have a perfect crisp to their outer edges. They also give you real maple syrup and don’t charge extra. They have a lot of healthy options as well, which is nice. Throughout the year they have seasonal specials which look fun. I like their coffee too, not too strong, not too weak. Classic comfort foods at a decent price, and with pretty quick service! Can’t beat that!

This is NOT the Cracker Barrel experience I’ve come to expect, and enjoyed HUNDREDS OF TIMES since my first visit in the fall of 1988.
We went in today for a late lunch /​early dinner and I went with the over fried chicken with broccoli and baked potato. I was warned this takes the longest to prepare, which I accepted and took as a good sign of a tasty meal! While waiting the 15−20min for my chicken (not a problem!) I ordered iced tea and we waited. While drinking my tea I tasted something strange… just not right… I dont add anything so eventually the long spoon got annoying, and when I removed the spoon it was caked with something gross — I almost threw up on the spot! This was obviously unpleasant… People apologized of course but the damage was done. Still starving our food finally came out, and my special fried chicken was pretty much shake&bake and the shake just fell off the chicken… Because mine took so long all the sides and my wife’s fish was cold.
I know CB does great breakfasts and I’ve even had a few decent dinners there too, but today was awful.

My favorite place to go to remind me of home. Great southern cooking from cheese grits and catfish to pot roast and country fried steak, the staff is friendly as ever. Our waitress had a son in my old unit from Florida… what a small world. Love this place!

Probably the best Cracker Barrel my family and I have ever eaten at. The food was excellent and the service was great! Highly recommend!

just went and got the cutest halloween toys for my baby its hard to find halloween things in august and found a few here. food was good bacon and eggs grwat coffee wasn’t hot enough but nothing to complain about thanks for breakfast

Ooohhh buddy, the good olé Cracker Barrel, am I really entering this place for breakfast? Yup, this PNW girl is in the Midwest and about get her grub on here, finally:)
I love to visit restaurants that you see and hear about that aren’t local to your own area and this place is one of them! Walking up the place looks like a big old barn and upon entering it’s a like a gift shop before you get to the restaurant, crazy cool and smart since I’m sure this place has a line sometimes.
As I took time to look over the menu, I couldn’t really decide what I wanted, everything looked so good and I’m traditionally a biscuits and gravy gal but I wanted to try their grits and hashbrown casserole too! So I went in and got a lil bit of it all and it sure was delicious! The service was great as well, prompt and attentive.
Beat’s IHOP and Denny’s anyday!

Ate lunch here today and enjoyed my meal. I always cringe when invited to office luncheons, especially when I’m trying to watch what I eat. When I heard Cracker Barrel, thoughts of chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and gallons of gravy raced through my mind. I was surprised when I opened the menu and found lower calorie options available. I chose the apple smoked chicken breast with broccoli and sweet potato. It was very good! Now that didn’t mean I didn’t have to watch other people chow down on fried gravy goodness and suffer from inevitable food envy. I did, but at least I had a choice. The food was prepared quickly for our large group and the wait staff were friendly and on the spot with drinks and cornbread. Good stuff.

While this is the average store with nice and pleasant folks working here. It’s decent food and atmosphere.

Had the country boy for breakfast and it was FANTASTIC!!! Country ham, eggs, bacon & biscuits w/​gravy. I’m full till dinner!

Cracker Barrel breakfast is the best in town. Easy to order and was ready to go as soon as I got there.

LOVE! The Mama’s French Toast breakfast is the best!!! Had it once and have been hooked ever since. Their chicken and dumplings are great too. It’s got a great environment and the staff is really friendly too! Good luck escaping the store without buying anything.

Service was slow. There was some sort of a mix up in the kitchen with our order our server didnt let us know until our food came out (30 min later) would of given 4 stars if we would have recieved any compensation for our wait.

ok in my book. this is one of my fave Cracker Barrels. #1 is in Arnold.
the server Deb made all the difference. Chicken fried chicken for breakfast. YUMMY!
The hostess oddly enough was not so friendly.

First of all, I would like to say that this place has great food items on their menu and they are quite delicious. I enjoy coming here for lunch or dinner because of the delicious food. I do not, however, enjoy the service which saddens me terribly because like I said, I love their food and their pecan pies during the fall.
Every experience I have had here has been disappointing when it comes to the service. I have been to the one in Caseyville, and Troy but I have been to this location the most. Regardless of the location, I get the same low quality type of service. The waitresses always seem very lethargic, stressed out, rushed, and not very friendly. I have been there during different hours of the day, including times when they aren’t busy and yet I have never had a server who actually looked like they even remotely have any interest in serving their clients. Unfortunately, these horrible experiences have been embedded inside my head that sometimes, even when I feel like going there for their food, the memories of bad service holds me back and instead takes me somewhere else.
To the food, I love the cracker barrel sampler but I have also had their country fried steak and they were all good. For the price, you’re really getting a great bargain and they give you three sides of a long list of sides which is really awesome because you can try out different things.
I also have to mention that this place does have a great feel to it for dinning and the food that they serve compliments the atmosphere. I definitely commend them for doing a great job on that part. However, in an overall rating, I would give the service a 1-​star and the food a 3-​star.

This place is VERY good! I have been to many Cracker Barrels, and they sure do like to fill you up! I never go away hungry and I love their country store as well. I would go here ANY time! Great place, also love it in the winter and fall when the fire place is going! Love the setting it makes!

A great place to eat!

One of the worst places I have ever eaten. The food was disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Why the f-​ck was this place so crowded when we went?! Agghhh… Husband and I came here on a road trip from San Diego to Ohio. We don’t have Cracker Barrels in California (maybe for good reason), so we were curious. Should’ve known better– they don’t say curiosity killed the cat for nothing. Anyways, we saw like hundreds of these restaurants throughout our journey, so on the last day of our trek, we figured we try it. Major regret– all of the food I ordered was terrible. The biscuits were desert-​dry, the chicken tenderloin was flavorless, my poached eggs were way hard-​boiled (how can you be a chef and not know how to poach eggs??), the hashbrown casserole was mushy and just plain disgusting in taste, and the gravy was like cream of bland soup! Bland really is the best description for their food– completely bland, tasteless pile of… you get the picture. Never, ever, ever coming here again! If you are craving some cheap, fast, diner-​style breakfast, just go to Denny’s!!!

Eh… So my wife and I were on a cross-​country trip from San Diego, CA to Dayton, OH. On the way my dad sent me a message and told me to make sure we tried Cracker Barrel because one of his friends recommended it and that it was similar to a Denny’s. So on one morning of our trip we decided we wanted some breakfast and I suggested we finally try it. We saw the parking lot was packed so we figured it was a Sunday morning so there would be a wait because of the church rush. We walked in to the store… It just looked like… A toy store, haha. We put our name in with the hostess and we were told we’d be seated shortly, nice! So we took a menu and took a seat outside on the display rocking chairs until we were called. We maneuvered through the toy store entry and were seated. We had both decided what we wanted so we ordered right away. I was feeling hungry and wanted to try what they had so I ordered the Country Boy Breakfast with the Steak.
Our breakfast was served and it was so much food! I’m not a huge fan of grits so I tried them and they were just as I remembered… not that great. I went right for the steak and was excited, but my steak was still cold and undercooked and had absolutely no flavor. The eggs were okay and the cheesy hash browns were pretty good and eating these with the steak were the only way to make it tolerable… The biscuits were hard and the gravy was disgusting. The fried apples were also okay, but did nothing to make up for the rest of the disappointing breakfast. Don’t think I’ll be back anytime soon…

Ok, I have to write this review sheepishly… what will my SF friends think when I find out I like Cracker Barrel… a place where even the vegetables aren’t vegetarian!
This Cracker Barrel is pretty new. It’s nice, good service, and you know what to expect from Cracker Barrel… all sorts of food replete with butter, oil, and more butter. Living in California, I had a craving, and we had to stop on the way home from the airport in St. Louis. It’s sort of like the «opposite-​day» version of Californians craving In-​N-​Out. You’ll never come here for fine dining, but for what it is, it’s actually pretty good. Service is incredibly attentive and friendly in a genuine midwestern way. Oh, and those super greasy corn muffins… mmmm…absolutely excellent cholesterol goodness covered with blackberry jam.