Cafe Barron's

In town from San Antonio visiting family. Barron's has always been a solid choice for good food and atmosphere literally for decades. My first time in this newer set-up and it was great: excellent service, terrific food, clean restaurant and bathrooms, etc. A very good experience for our party of 6. Keep it up, Team Barron's!

Had my first visit at Cafe Barron's a couple days ago. Was there with a large Real Estate group about 25 or so. Generally the service was good, as was the food. Although I did not actually get what I ordered. Still it was good. Had a choice of chicken or fish. I chose the fish. Was oven backed and breaded. Heard the chicken was tough from a couple people. There were covid-19 precautions anywhere that I could see. The wait staff was good but it didn't seem great to me and could have been a lot better. I would want to actually visit again without a large group of people and just have it a couple of us. Then see what the service and food is like. It seemed as though the atmosphere was probably better outside the main conference room where I was seated so I really couldn't even say much for the true atmosphere but I have a feeling it's better than what I experienced. I will plan to go back and try it again one day. I'm not even sure what else is on the menu other than Fish and Chicken. Would be interesting to find out. If you're in the area, give them a try see what you think of them.

Made reservations for 745. The place wasn't as packed as I anticipated considering it was Valentines weekend. Shocked when we were sat at a tiny, corner table behind some doors that literally faced the wall. My Husband's view was a wall. Running joke of the night was, "Nobody puts baby in a corner." Service was a bit slow and we were told why several times by our waiter. Food was excellent though. We decided to cut our time short and split an entree just to Save on time. Maybe we will try another time.

The fish was good. The service was terrible. The food took forever to arrive and the vegetables and potatoes were room temp at service. The waitress must have been having a really bad night as she was not friendly and bordered on rude when taking our orders. She never checked on us once the food arrived, never filled our drinks until we were ready to leave and asked for the check, there was trash on the floor from the moment we walked in that was never picked up, and there were tables that remained dirty and un-waited during our entire meal. My empty salad bowl also remained on our table throughout the meal. I normally START tipping at 20% as I know from experience how hard waiting tables can be. Tonight, I left 10% and that, I felt, was overly generous. We were hoping to find a nice place for “special occasion meals.” We’ll keep looking.

Cafe Barron's has a consistently excellent menu including their one of a kind Hot and Crunchy Chicken which is the special on Fridays. The atmosphere is great for a date or good friends having lunch. They have expanded the restaurant and it now has a bar with seating. I had the Wonton strip salad with Grilled Chicken and an amazing honey-soy sauce dressing, and a cup of Seafood chowder. I was too full to finish it all. I've only had one poor experience here in the last 5 years and it was handled with excellence. I definitely will continue to dine here in the future.