Front Porch On Center Ave

I have gone to the Front Porch for years and always enjoy it. The founder sold the business to a former chef some months ago and I feared that food quality would suffer. That hasn’t happened, but some new items have been added to the menu. Many of the long-​time waitresses are still there as well.
I generally have the Blue Plate Special, but you have to be there pretty early to insure that you have the full selection. Today, for example, the twice-​baked potato was gone by 12:30. It’s a good place for lunch in Dickson and is always full of locals and folks who come to town to browse the antique shops on Main Street.

Sunday dinner with a choice of Potato Chip Chicken or Roast Beef and Gravy, 3 sides (lots of choices and all looked delectable), a dessert and coffee or tea. All for $ 11.95. Everything about this place was a 5. We will be back.

Great local restaurant! I was so happy to find a non-​chain place to get lunch. The place was packed when I got there (always a good sign). They had a list of specials on a chalkboard and I ordered the grilled cheese and tomato soup off of it. Perfect for a cold day. Both were very good! The soup had a great taste. It came with a piece of corn bread and a roll with, maybe, maple sugar on top– something like that. It was sooo good– like a dessert! I come to Dickson for work every once in awhile and I will definitely be stopping here again.

Were looking forward to eating at a ‘local’ place instead of the usual places at the exit. Reviews convinced us it was worth going out of the way a bit. Imagine our disappointment when found it closed. Sign said lunch served til 2, M-​F, though Unilocal indicated it was open. Lesson learned… Call to check on hours.

Took my mom for her birthday. She loved it. Great food great atmosphere and the chocolate pie was wonderful. Come early they do run out of food.

Great food with all original and homemade recipes. Good atmosphere for lunch AND there is an outside porch to sit and relax.

Ate there on a tip from Unilocal.Wish we had saved room for the mile high pies. A delightful diversion and well worth the ten minute drive past the chain restaurants near I-​40. A highlight was the brown sugar and butter glazed hot rolls that come with every meal.

We had a business meeting in Dickson today and wanted a good lunch after. We came across Front Porch and absolutely 100% LOVED it!!! The staff was wonderful and very helpful!!! My friend and I each got the same thing (which was good because I would’ve been jealous!)…we had the fruit tea (iced tea, orange juice and pineapple juice), the pork special with chipotle mac & cheese and sweet potato casserole. EVERY SINGLE BITE (& SIP) WAS DELICIOUS!!! We travel a lot for work and try to find cute, fun, local spots and this is by far one of the best we’ve been to! We live in Clarksville, where there are very few local places, so it was great to find a small, local spot for lunch! We will definitely be back when we are in Dickson again for business! Wish we lived closer to visit more often!

We stopped in for lunch while moving/​traveling. It had been a while since we had a home cooked meal and boy did this hit the spot. The owner takes great pride in her restaurant. She was constantly cruising the dining room to make sure guests were well cared for despite the Sunday rush. Highly recommend this place… Well worth the 10 min drive past chain restaurants off the highway.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE little local restaurants and the Front Porch was the perfect local restaurant. I am so lucky my work travels took me to Dickson and someone had the good sense to take me here!
So it is an old renovated house and when you walk in it looks like a house with tables set up in each of the «rooms». The décor looks like a grandma’s house. Light yellow walls with white moulding made everything seem bright and happy. The tablecloths were in bright colors and the chairs matched. Everything was just so happy feeling!
Then I looked at the menu and felt even more happy. They have sandwiches, salads, and the blue plate special or veggie plate. Specials are listed on chalkboards at the front door and in the dining room so you can see them as you try to choose from all the offerings. I ended up getting the hot chicken casserole with purple hull peas — it also comes with cranberry «salad» — like jello basically. The casserole was full of chicken and was creamy and topped with breadcrumbs. I also noticed something crunchy in there that seemed to be those water chestnuts I used to love in those La Choy Asian meals? Anyway, it was comfort food at its best. They also bring out a bread basket with cornbread but also these yeast rolls that are topped with a sugary topping. It was almost like a dessert but OH MY GAAAWD they were addictive. Everything else on the menu looked awesome too and I hear it is THE place to be on Sundays after church in Dickson so get there early!
You pay at the counter when you get done and that is when your eyes will take you to the cooler where their meringue pies are — coconut and chocolate. The meringue is a mile high — how DO they get it to stay up that high? Anyway, I was too stuffed to try the pie but it looked like something that would be worth skipping dinner for… dessert for dinner!
Overall just a charming local place with really delicious home cooked food. I want to come back here again next time I’m out in Dickson!