Cotton Patch Cafe

Well, let's say Sunday evening about 4:45 PM and the place is kind of dead, not busy lots open tables. I'm sitting here waiting for my daughter and grandson to celebrate her birthday that was yesterday.

What's she arrived? She was greeted by our server and she immediately ordered an appetizer of chicken, fried bacon, and her drink and kids drink . Our other party ordered a lemonade.

here we go so three adults one child and here we go .
The appetizers seem like it took forever to arrive once it did it was fresh crispy, and pretty tasty .

A few minutes later, we placed our orders and my daughter ordered beef tips with a few sides. I ordered the seafood platter and other Party guess ordered a simple yam.

As time went by and remembered this place is not even busy. It's hard to see who's in charge because nobody seems to be taking the lead looking around not a lot of activity among the servers. It's pretty pretty bland.


Knowing that our food is taking much longer than expected our server brought over a basket of hot rolls on the house, which is very nice of him and refilled our drinks .

Finally would seem like 35 or 40 minutes later are on entrees arrived minus the yam for other party which he said was still being made a baked potato style item that came out last unbelievable. At this point, she did not even want the yam as we were eating our main dishes and it still hasn't arrived. It wasn't until we were almost done that they finally arrived and he apologized. She just took it to go..

As for the beef tips, very disappointing my daughter said they were tough no flavor and there was a french fry inside of it hiding which you can see in the picture. The macaroni and cheese side was nothing greater than typical kraft macaroni It seemed and the mashed potatoes were just kind of hard and not even fresh .

As for mine, the catfish and fried shrimp tasted mostly like oil from the fryer. The shrimp were kind of bad they were OK. I guess the dumpling side was actually probably the best thing that me and my daughter both liked the other sides of mac & cheese again weren't that great and dried out . The catfish was very salty and I even gave away my jalapeño poppers so I got no feedback on those to the other party guest who ate them and they were average.

Bottom line if you're not in the hurry, then this is the place for you but having a lack of management presence and the urgency of the kitchen to get things out much faster is terrible. Our server did the best I think to handle it as best that he could, even though at the end I had to remind him the kids meal came with a cookie, and I was overcharged an extra Pepsi that was refillable on the check that I caught before I had to pay Total cost $70 probably not gonna visit this place again and head over to Cracker Barrel

2 stars

5 stars for my server Talon Boysen!!!
Amazing service, friendly overall!
Definitely deserves a raise of some sort. Kept my drink filled up, brought out food when it was fresh and hot (which is usually a problem for some other servers)
We love you Talon.

i want to thank you for your amazing service...you made my experience the besttt...the food was also very good

The Cotton Patch is my go to restaurant when eating out. The food is delicious! My favorites are the talapia, salmon, steak fingers, and chicken fried steak/chicken. This is home style cooking at it's best. Their steamed broccoli is exquisite and tasty. The Cotton Patch is on speed dial with Uber Eats, and my daughter and I love dining in. The only thing I wish they would bring back is their peach tea! Delish!

So comfy. Cute memories of the day I met my now husband. Dr. Pepper cake. Chicken fried chicken! Sweet service from everyone.

When we arrived we were seated relatively quickly we ordered the fried pickles and chips with questions and salsa as appetizers and they both arrived very quickly and were very good however after we ordered our food they took over an hour to bring our food out and everything was cold and unappetizing I hate to write such a horrid review about a place that I have such fond memories at but this is just absolutely absurd.

This is the last time we're ordering to go from here as it's the 3rd time our order has either been completely wrong or missing half the items. Even more frustrated this time as we paid for extra sides & literally got 4 helpings of mashed potatoes. Like c'mon! Then, go to cut into the chicken fried steak..it's literally FROZEN. When I called, they said they come in fresh, so that's even more worrisome seeing as it's ice cold & hard as a rock. A steak knife didn't make a dent in it. Absolutely inedible. Not to mention the almost $7 piece of carrot cake is literally one bite. This used to be one of our favorite places to eat, but it has gone down hill so bad we'll not be wasting any more money here

Wasted $25 for food that was not edible. Whoever is cooking on the grill has no idea how to grill a chicken strip or a hamburger patty. The chicken strip was burnt on the grill, tough and chewy. The hamburger steak was burnt on the bottom and not edible. The manager never offered anything else to eat.

Food was reasonably priced and service was great. Kids menu had a lot of options. For the adults, you can get 2 entries with 4 sides total for $23. Kids eat free on Thursdays with the purchase of an entree.

All the food tasted as they should. I've definitely had better versions of both the fish/chips and chicken Alfredo but they were still decent. I will definitely come back when in this area and try out some of the other dishes that I couldn't try this time around.

Rude night shift manager
Bloody chicken fried steak
Lied about compensation
Messed up take out orders three times