Cracker Barrel Old Country Store

Had the pork chop diner, with mashed potatoes, green beans and slaw. Chops were dry, taters old and not really warm. Was brought out with no gravy. I told the nice waiter about it and said for him to let mgr know.

Susan provided such a great first experience of the restaurant! Manager was very hospitable and offered me a free game and candy for my first time at a Cracker Barrel:)

Great friendly service. Great food. Clean bathrooms and restaurant area. Will come again when in the area.

I just don’t get it!
Sorry if this hits close to home Cracker Barrel, whose world headquarters are literally 21 miles from this store, but this place is crap! Some members of my family like to eat here, and unfortunately I’ve received my share of gift cards over the years.
If you are going to bill yourself as the official national chain of country-​style restaurants, there are three things you have to get right. You have to make good fried chicken, you have to make good fried catfish, and you have to make great biscuits. I’ve tried all three of these at Cracker Barrel on several occasions, and they’re all terrible! Please put me out of my misery!!!
There are so many places in Nashville to get MUCH better chicken, MUCH better catfish, and MUCH better biscuits! Why would anyone go here, much less wait for a table???

Only giving one star because it won’t let me do anything less, NEVER AGAIN will I return to this location. I get up at 7 am every morning and work TWO restaurant jobs until 930 pm EVERY NIGHT. I arrived at this location with my boyfriend at exactly 935. While waiting for our food to arrive my boyfriend stepped out for a cigarette, before 10 pm, and when the food arrived I let the waitress know that I was going outside to get him. She responded with, «everyone that goes out past 10 can’t come back in», granted it was only 10:05 pm at this time. My boyfriend had the money and they would not let him in to pay for the meal, they wouldn’t let us box it up, they wouldn’t let us even pay for it!!! Crazy!!! Absolutely rude. WILL NEVER WASTE MY MONEY AT THIS HORRID ESTABLISHMENT EVER AGAIN.

We stopped by here on a Saturday afternoon around 1pm. The place was PACKED. My sister & nephew had come to town to visit & Cracker Barrel is one of the few places he will actually eat. I remember road trips as a kid & we’d always stop at a Cracker Barrel. I enjoyed the food as a kid but I haven’t had it as an adult for years.
One thing that has always bugged me about these restaurants is if it’s busy, there’s literally no where to stand. The spacing and walkways in the gift shop are are small, it’s hard to pass people or have double flow traffic. It’s impossible to be able to find one spot to stand & feel safe in that personal space. You have to wander around on a constant walk. It’s annoying but I guess you seen more of the store & buy stuff.
We were sat about 10 minutes after putting our names down. Our server was bubbly & explained her stars on her apron. I ordered the catfish dinner, catfish grilled with Cajun seasoning. My sides were mash potatoes, hash browns & cole slaw. I think it’s $ 10.99. Not too bad because of the amount of food. My fish was good. The hash browns & mashed potatoes tasted kind of old. Both weren’t too warm either wish was disappointing. Cole slaw was yummy. There’s is more sweet than mayo which I like.

For the price ridiculously good!
Trout with three sides and great service to boot — definitely coming again.

Great place, great food, wonderful atmosphere. The people in this Cracker Barrel are genuine and they work hard to please us (the customer) My eggs are almost always perfect the coffee has always been fresh. What I love about Cracker Barrel is that I can smell, taste and feel the Holidays. I love me some Nashville.

Every time we do a road trip my daughter insist that we go to Cracker Barrel. This one happens to be where she is in school at so I see many more trips here. She loves their biscuits! I really don’t have too much to say about Cracker Barrel all of the food was really good and I do have to say the biscuits were on point. Service was good and it was nice and clean.

Amazing food! We’ve been to Cracker Barrel a lot but this was so delicious! Sasha was a wonderful server. She was very nice and took care of us.
Thanks for a great experience!

Ok we had a party of 17 so I’ll just say the servers did a great job and made up for anything we were unhappy with but I still have to mention it here. I have never been a part of a large party and ordered my OWN food only to have part of my order show up as a community dish… Just because I am sitting with people doesn’t mean I want to share dishes with them. I’ve never seen this done at Cracker Barrel or anywhere else for that matter until this visit. Unless ordered that way I mean. This wasn’t. My meal came with biscuits and gravy but they brought a community bowl and plate. Odd to say the least and hard to decide… Do I get my left overs or should I leave it for the other 3people I am being forced to share with? The servers working their hurts off made me let this go but I was not happy with it. I also bought a jar of their Apple
Butter to take home because it was so amazing. We opened it a couple of days later only to find it is spoiled my dad made a whole batch of biscuits specifically so we could have the apple butter with them. Sad pandas, and wasted time. I have no clue if I will have time to find a cracker barrel in this area to try and exchange it before I head home. Just sad.

I had a mixed experience. My server wouldn’t even give me the time of day. She wouldn’t even make eye contact with me. I saw her for a total of 5 seconds. Luckily, my day was made by another server! I didn’t catch her name but she was a bundle of joy. She noticed that I had been waiting 15 mins without placing an order or a drink. She got right on it for me. She even brought be some hash browns for my troubles.
Later on, she noticed I had been waiting for my lemonade to be refilled and for my meal. She alerted my server and my server brings me room temperature lemonade with no ice. Are you kidding me?
After I ate, my server rushes to give me my bill and didn’t even make eye contact. I was flabbergasted! Hopefully she was just having an off day because I didn’t deserve that kind of treatment, especially not on the 4^th of July. I pray that whatever was on her heart be mended and made whole.
As for the other server, you rock! Thanks for making my holiday a memorable one!

We traveled 10 hours today! We are all tired and ready for bed. BUT first we wanted to have a little dinner. This was the closet place.
We had a waitress who was unable to understand what we were saying. She kept saying, «huh» with a horrible look on her face. Seriously a pet peeve. After she FINALLY got the order… IT TOOK OVER AN HOUR to get our food.
The food was okay. Nothing special!!! It was fresh but not great. Won’t be returning… thank goodness!

This is right down the street from where my wife and I live. The service is always friendly and welcoming. It is not often crowded, but can be from time to time. The food is always fast and fresh. What more could ya want… oh yeah… Take out please.
On a related note, they have the 2^nd best Mac n cheese I have been able to find. Luby’s has the best.

Great place to eat. Even when they’re busy their staff is on top of the game. We have a 2 month old baby and a 2 year old and they were fast enough that neither of them started fussing.
Everyone is friendly, and I mean EVERYONE. I love the manager table visits. I’m glad they do it. If you’re considering to go to a Cracker Barrel– this is the one to go to.

This location is right by where my husband and I live, so whenever we are craving Cracker Barrel for lunch or dinner, we always frequent here. The service… it normally depends on how busy it is. If it’s not busy, the service is fast. But if it’s crowded, it can be a little slow. However, the service is always still great and the food has always been delicious.
I will continue to frequent here!

This was my first (and likely last) Cracker Barrel visit, and clearly, they didn’t get their reputation based on the kind of breakfast my friend and I had yesterday. No way… or are all of those gitchy country knick-​knacks blurring the tastes of their diners?
Problem: food items like grits and gravy that sit too long before being served will develop a thick layer of film over the top of them when they aren’t stirred. Liquid gluten turning into a solid. This is a natural occurring problem you can experience at home just as easily. So when the order comes to the table and there’s a bowl of each and you have to poke through it with a fork to get to the source then you know its been sitting *in that bowl* for some time. In other words, these bowls were pre-​filled then sat until our order came along. Kind of gross. I’d guess these had been bowled up as many as 10 – 15 minutes ahead of time which is unacceptable. No one in the back was on watch. Hello, supervisor?
The country ham had an unusual amount of barnyard to the taste. Not sure what was going on there. I buy plenty of cured ham both from stores like Kroger and small local custom butchers (blue collar and prissy pants, there ya go). Something a little strange was going on with our cuts (we had the same meal). The eggs and cheesy hash browns, those were darn fine, and the coffee was sort of the truck-​stop grade I’d expect. No complaints, just not my thing. The biscuits were hard on the bottom, difficult to cut with a fork. Guess from a lot of years of cooking: sitting since very early a.m. in a warmer and got cooked twice. Nothing difficult to figure out there.
So, I finally experienced the Cracker Barrel. Can’t say I’d come back and was only here because my friend is a big fan, but even he agreed (he’s eaten at dozens) not one of their better efforts.
Oh, kudos to the two nice young ladies that served us. Suggestion: make one of them a supervisor. They could certainly do better than whoever was asleep at the wheel yesterday morning around 9:30 a.m.

There are Cracker Barrels peppered all over the Nashville landscape. This; however, is «my» Cracker Barrel. My husband has always been a huge fan of their breakfasts. He orders the same thing regardless of the time of day. Every. Single. Time. He feels special because what he orders is not on the menu — the Grandma’s Breakfast Sampler. It is a multi-​plate mélange of two eggs, ham, bacon, sausage, hash brown casserole and then a plate with three pancakes done his way — covered in warm cherry compote and slathered in whipped cream. How he polishes off two full plates of food without the button of his jeans popping off and blackening my eye is beyond my comprehension. But I digress…
If it is morning, I usually join in on the breakfast bandwagon and get eggs over easy, hash brown casserole, turkey sausage, biscuits and gravy. It is a good, solid, country breakfast and I am usually set for the rest of the day when I order this. If it is lunch, I tend to lean toward the country fried steak smothered in the white gravy. I’m a Texan and do miss my chicken fried steak with cream gravy. While the country fried steak is okay and satisfies my craving (I haven’t lived in Texas for over three decades), it does not compare to the real deal of actual chicken fried steak at some place like Tip Top in San Antonio. But since it is what I have accessible to me, I’ll take it and I’ll like it. :)
I’ve always been a fan of their country style veggies. I do love me some greens with pepper vinegar and potatoes and gravy are always satisfying to me as well. And the service? It has always been solid. I rarely have an empty mug or glass and food comes out quickly and hot. The price is nothing to quibble over either.
But I do have to say one of my highlights of any visit is taking time to peruse the things on display. I am a Sock Monkey fanatic. I have sock monkey wellies and a sock monkey phone cover. Yes, I am a grown woman in my 40s. Cracker Barrel helps fulfill my addiction in spades. I have become the proud owner of all sorts of random sock monkey paraphernalia and have also hooked my five year old niece in while I’m at it. It never ceases to amaze my husband what I will buy because there is a sock monkey emblazoned on it. I have Cracker Barrel to thank (or sass, depending upon how you look at it) for that little nugget.

Meh. Pretty good, but not great. I got their sampler breakfast and liked about half of it.
I’ll be back, but only for the chicken fried steak.

I will usually eat at either a Cracker Barrel or Waffle House whenever I’m in the Midwest. They serve the usual breakfast items… toast, eggs, hash browns, bacon, etc. They have those items in almost every combination imaginable. The food is decent and pretty inexpensive. The service is good here. When you’re done with your meal, pay for it up at the cashier in the gift shop.