Rubys Inn & Restaurant

I’ve been spending a lot of time in Purcell the last couple months. I’ve been eating out around town and trying all the different options. While I haven’t been everywhere, I’ve been to most. I must say that so far this is my favorite restaurant in town.
It’s not fancy outside or in, but it was clean and well maintained.
All 3 of us had a burger today. I had the double with cheese and bacon. What a treat. The patties seemed hand formed. It was cooked on a flat grill and had a nice sear to the outside. While it was done all the way through with no pink, the sear helped it maintian it’s juices. A perfectly cooked burger. It was huge too! Seemed like the patties are ¹⁄₃ lb so the double was a smooth ²⁄₃ pound burger. Awesome!
Potato salad had a good flavor, but was a bit to smooth my my tastes. Id prefer something with more chunks in it. I still ate it all.
As we were eating I saw a chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes dish go out. We will be giving that a try on our next visit. It was HUGE and looked homemade. They said they fried them on a flat grill, not in a deep fryer. Yum.
You could tell there is a lot of coffee drinking done there as they had their own mugs and I saw a server carrying a tray with a lot of them on it out of the back to the dining room.

Really love Ruby’s it’s a great place to go for breakfast or lunch or even dinner. Why many people focus on the exterior of a restaurant how flashy it is how much noise the music can make, Rubie’s continues to focus on just good food. When I want to go to lunch or breakfast with a friend of mine and we want to be able to talk, not being constantly interrupted by the waitstaff and just really have a good time we go to Ruby’s. It says something about the restaurant when your wait staff has been there for 30 years. They know the regulars and even if you’re not a regular they always treat you with genuine hospitality and respect. I recommend this restaurant over other options, especially chains. Try it for yourself.

We had breakfast here while in town for a rodeo. The waitress was great as was the food. We will be going again in 2 weeks and will see if the people are as friendly and the food and service as wonderful as before.

We usually eat somewhere else when we are in Purcell at mealtime. Yesterday, my father in law was with us and recommended Ruby’s to us. We were served some of the best hamburgers I have had in years! Patties were crispy around the edges, the buns grilled, and overall just delicious. My compliments to the grill master. I’ll be returning soon, I imagine.

This place may live off of local mystique but it is far enough off the Interstate that I doubt it gets enough traveller business to make up for the negative reviews. From my experience here, I have to deduct that the negative reviews are plants and intentional attacks. Granted, Darcie got the lunch streak; it was bland but cooked correctly. But that is just added support of my policy to NEVER order steak a restaurant. They are never worth the money and you could always have done better at home. I got mother freaking turkey and dressing in the middle of July. The dressing was a little softer than my personal preference but it tasted amazing. Service and management were on top of their jobs. The clientele was on the ancient side but old people won’t bother you if you don’t bother them. We are tattooed, pierced, and wear bright, scary colors. They didn’t seem frightened by us, so you should be okay, too.

There are currently 3 reviews on Unilocal for this long time staple of a diner for locals, and travelers alike. All three are negative. My family has a long history of dining here — as we grew up in OK, although have been in CA for 10 plus years now. Last week, we came through on our recent road trip to Louisiana, and wanted a delicious breakfast. We purposefully skipped Norman — full of places to eat, and drove out to Ruby’s. Once again were met with friendly service, delicious food, amazing low prices, and a clean facility.
I am sure there are things that are not perfect, and bad days happen. But I am giving 5 stars to try to average out the deliberate low ratings. I will for sure be back, if ever in the area. I want to have as many biscuits and gravy from Ruby’s as possible.
I bought a mug last week, to keep them close at heart. Stop in and have a great meal, and friendly conversation.
My review is solely for the diner.

One decent experience after church on Sunday made me want to go again with family from out of town. It was a disaster and embarrassing. They sat us at two tables far from each other allthewhile a huge table remained empty for over 40 minutes with 2 people holding it for others. Oh, and that non existent group got the last of the biscuits and gravy that we could have had. They didn’t even attempt to replace them with toast or modify the price. My son’s steak was honestly rotten smelling. He couldn’t even cut through the meat it was of such poor quality.

My husband and three children are in OKC for a softball tournament. Last night, our original hotel at I-​40 and Meridian was in the direct path of a huge storm producing multiple tornadoes. We made the decision to put our children in the car an drive south to attempt to avoid the worst if the storms. We made it as far as Purcell and stopped for a break and dinner. After hearing coverage of the destruction on the radio, we made the decision at this time to book a room, just in case we couldn’t get back into the city. We chose Ruby’s Inn because it was the ONLY place with rooms still available. The storm ended up catching up with us and we hid in the WalMart for a period of time. Thankfully we were all safe, but exhausted having been outrunning this storm for over four hours. Our kids were a mess — tired, scared, cranky. We decided to use our room at Ruby’s. We drove to the hotel and my husband went inside to check in. He came out 45 minutes later and informed me THEY GAVE OUR ROOM TO SOMEONE ELSE!!! After we had already paid for it!!! They didnt end up charging our credit card and we did finally make it back to our original hotel around midnight. I am SO thankful we didn’t give them any money. What a horrible thing to do to people! They were unapologetic and rude! I wouldn’t give them a penny if I had read a review like this!

I only rated this with 1 star because there wasn’t an option for 0 stars. First let me start off with the fact that this place only being $ 60 on Thanksgiving night should have been hint enough. But we had to have a place to stay, every where else was booked (hint 2?). I didn’t expect the Ramada or Holiday inn, but I didn’t expect this night mare.
This is what to expect. We go in get the key, the lady was nice enough to say ‘its back over there’. Ok. So we drive over and find our room. We go inside and turn the heat on. Fortunately there was a sign informing us to turn it on low for a bit then high so it will work. I’m thankful they left instructions because I would hate to have been sitting there an hour later freezing still. Then we notice flies buzzing around. Thankfully they left a FLY SWATTER on the counter for us!!! I AM NOT KIDDING.
But thats not the best part. I go into the vanity are and almost throw up! Because there was a disgusting, filthy towel ON THE COUNTER (!!!) with a sign, similar to the heater sign, stating «For your convenience, please use this towel for your extra dirty jobs». WTF, OMG. I had no idea what kind of place I was subjecting my children to. Lesson learned for sure. I hope you read this before staying at this place if you are like me. I don’t want to know the people they expect to stay there. It was a nightmare. I didn’t even shower because I figured I was better off just getting the heck outta there ASAP. We left several hours before we planned due to how nightmarish this place was. I didn’t even want to sleep. =/​
BTW: There is no microwave, no fridge, no blow dryer, no shampoo/​conditioner etc. Bring your house if you plan to stay here. I would also strongly recommend bringing your own linens and a bag to store them in until you can get home and clean them.

this place makes there money off the interstate!
So they don’t care if the food is good or not, and the server will get around to you when she feels like it, Food is not good, so its not worth the trouble of stopping at this place!
you anit missing a thing, like Wayne B. said «Ugggh»
just keep driving there has to be something better down the road…

Ugggh, so not good on so many levels. Save yourself the nausea and head across the street to Jo’s