I've been stopping here every time I drive through Ohio for years. Â It's one of my favorite stops on the long drive between California and New York. Â The food is very basic but done well. Â The fried Chicken is great and with all the food that you get with it, it is well worth the price. You never leave this place hungry! There are about 9000 different kinds of pie available that the waitress will rattle off for you at a speed that you won't catch half of them. Â
Last time I drove through here In October of 2010 Clark's was sadly missing from form it's location at route 13 and 40. Â It will be missed. Â If Clark's has moved and has a new location I would love to know. Â Anyone?
This place got glowing reviews in everything I read about it so I was quite excited to be dining there. We ordered the standard fried chicken with mashed potatoes and green beans with salads to start. For starters the salads arrived with rotten pieces of lettuce in the bowl. First I tried to pick them out but they had made the whole bowl rancid with the taste of bad lettuce. When I pointed this out the the waitress she got me another bowl and assured me it had just come from the BAG. Right there on top was another nasty wilted slimy piece of lettuce and she hadn't even noticed. Then the fried chicken arrived and it was decidedly NOT fried in an iron skillet as advertised but deep fried to a cardboard consistency. The leg and thigh that was our order was so small that either Clark's buys miniature chickens or bantams. There was so little meat that after a vigorous deep frying cardboard was all that COULD result. Â The mashed potatoes were from some quick mix and the gravy was probably from another BAG. Â The green beans had no flavor (not the slow cooked in bacon that was promised) and the cornbread appeared to have been purchased from some day old store as it was cold, mealy and stale tasting. Â I gave up at that point but my husband perservered with an order of pie which he said was good, not great, but good. Â All in all someone from the area needs to do a revisit and rewrite the reviews as it has all changed from the days when Mrs. Clark kept a watchful eye on what went out of her kitchen. Â For the price this was an all around disappointment.
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