Bob Evans Restaurant

This is a solid Bob Evans. If you've never been to a Bob Evans before, just think solid country cookin'. I particularly like the pot roast hash (pot roast over home fries with egg and cheese), and for desert try the cinnamon blossom! My wife likes the green beans and ham side.

I do not normally eat at this kind of restaurant but ended up eating here while traveling with a relative back in February of 2011. The food was diligently prepared, the service was very polite and prompt, and the restaurant was very clean and well kept. The ambience was also especially nice and we were seated next to a window and had a lovely view of the snowflakes falling and drifting about outside as we dined. My companion was especially delighted with the expeience and that was even more of a joy to me than my own personal experience. The said companion said he enjoyed his dining experience so much that he would gladly dine here again on future trips to the Ohio area.

My companion was epsecially thrilled with the food so the five stars for the food comes from his love of the cuisine. Though the food was good it isn't the kind of food I normally eat so it was good and I would eat there again if travelling with the same companion but it might not be my first choice otherwise. I personally rate it five stars for the ambience and the service. Being dressed in foreign attire often isn't well received in many places and the people here didn't even bat an eye or treat me any differently than any other American in the restaurant. To me that alone is worth five stars. I gave a tip and this is saying something because normally I am very stingy about tips and I do not give one unless I really liked the service.

I wish the owner of another diner I recently reviewed would read this.  I stopped at this Bob Evans for a late breakfast after the hotel never delivered the breakfast I ordered up.  Turns out, this was a much better breakfast.  Everything I had was freshly made and excellent.  The biscuits are made on site, and even though it was almost noon by time I stopped, they had just recently come out of the oven.  Very tender, very fluffy, very warm.  Unlike the cold, premade refrigerated biscuits I had a few weeks back at the "Best Breakfast In Cranberry."  My eggs were done perfectly, and the sausage had some substance.  Not the 1/8" thick precut sausage I had a few weeks back at the "Best Breakfast in Cranberry."  And the hash browns were also freshly made, not a quick fried patty from the freezer like I had a few weeks back  at the "Best Breakfast in Cranberry."  But the best part was the sausage gravy.  I could tell it was freshly made by the slight brown color it had picked up from freshly cooked sausage, with just a hint of grease for extra flavor.  Not too thick, not too thin with a good balance of flour and milk.  Not the disgusting sausage gravy from a can like I had a few weeks back at the "Best Breakfast in Cranberry."  

The owner of the shop that puts out the "Best Breakfast in Cranberry" said that he did not know if any restaurant did 100% from scratch.  Probably not, but this Bob Evans is close.  And it certainly wasn't 100% from the fridge and freezer.  I''l be back at this Bob Evans when in the area again.