The food is pretty standard. Â We like the fried pickles, burgers, and chicken fried steak. Â Once you get past that you can have.....
DESSERT
Yes, dessert. Â Oh my goodness. Â Each time we go in we can't wait to check the chalk board to see the daily dessert specials. Â You could quite possibly become diabetic in one trip.
Do not order half lemonade/half sweet tea. I'm not sure why, but the waitress seemed to take offense that someone would want drinks mixed and said they don't do that there.
Now that's off my chest, the Grain Bin was meh.
The good: They carry Yellowbox and other knick knacks which my wife and daughter went nuts over. The desserts, oh my the desserts.
The bad: The food was just middle of the road.
After getting off on the wrong foot with 1 of our 2 waitresses, she got all of our drink orders save one. I'm not sure what happened but she never asked him for his order on the first go round.
We ordered some fried pickles before our meal. Pretty good pickles, about like the ones everywhere else.
For dinner my wife had the 8 ounce steak and I had the hamburger steak with onions and brown gravy. Sides were baked potatoes and salads.
The steak was kinda puny and flat. Just looked rather sad on my wife's plate. For the baked potatoes, they brought out a whole bowl full of the fixins instead of putting it on for you which was awesome. I have a soft spot in my heart for the old triangle sour cream we used to get with potatoes, being able to add just the right amount was perfect. My hamburger steak was good, had no problems with it.
Dessert, oh my. At the table we had: Big Red Cake, Brownies, Peach Cobbler with Ice Cream. The big red cake was like a white cake mix with big red poured on before being cooked. Both people that got it had huge (3"x3") slices and loved it. My son had the brownies... the bowl had decent sized brownies and a scoop of ice cream, we had some of the brownies for breakfast the next morning. I had the peach cobbler. Looked to have been made with canned peachers but was good anyways.
We'll probably be back, I won't make the mistake of ordering half n half again. I want to try the burgers or the pork cutlet next time.
This place reminded me of a small town cafe, very comfortable and friendly. Â Hub and I ordered chicken fried steak. Â It was huge! Â It was over cooked and we actually should've split it. Â Mashed potatoes and green beans were awesome. Â We took home a piece of coconut buttermilk pie that my husband said was the best he ever tasted. Â Very friendly staff, the owner was our waitress. Â For the ladies, if you're in to bling, its the perfect place to shop for a gift or for yourself. Â We will return and hopefully the cook will turn the heat down and not over cook our item.
Review Source:The food you'll eat at the Grain Bin has little to do with grains -- at least, not in the South Austin, Whole Foods sense. But it's tasty nonetheless and a decent value.
We stopped here mid-afternoon on a Sunday. We were hungry and we wanted something with meat in it. Preferably meat with cheese.
The place itself is has a Texas country theme that might turn off more cynical city folk, but if you were expecting to find anything more urbane on this empty stretch of Hwy 123 south of San Marcos, then you're just an idiot. Still, Grain Bin's local owners did a fine job revamping this former ranch-style house (we think) into a gift shop and restaurant. Walls are lined with worn, salvaged lumber, and rusty corrugated roofing material makes up the wainscoting. You've seen this look dozens of times before, but it works just fine.
What works even better is the food. This is straight-ahead gut-filling stuff....plenty of fryer items, along with steaks and burgers. Total Woman and I both ordered a Swiss mushroom burger and we split an order of "bottlecaps" -- jalapeno slices battered and fried and served with ranch dressing. The food arrived quickly and was excellent. Yes, the iceberg lettuce on the burgers was a bit white for my tastes, but you could actually taste the Swiss cheese, and the substantial 1/3-pound burger stopped the growling down under. Â (One ding: We asked the burgers to be cooked medium, and thy came out nearly well-done. They were still good, but cooking a burger to order shouldn't be a problem. This isn't McDonald's.) The bottlecaps, too, were a real find. Each was just hot enough to deliver a kick, but their small size meant you could keep popping them without serious repercussions. A nice and spicy alternative to fries or onion rings -- and the heaping basket was plenty for two.
For dessert, we shared piece of pecan pie with vanilla ice cream. The slice wasn't huge, but it was just enough. I think Total Woman liked it more than I did -- I detected in the crust a slightly stale taste -- but I fought for my half like a champ.
Service, too, was genuinely friendly. The young waitresses here were just delightful. Even though they'd never seen us before, they made us feel just as welcome as the obvious locals who chatted with them constantly.
Based on their inability to cook a medium burger, I'd probably question their prowess with steaks. But for burgers and bottlecaps, Grain Bin is worth a visit.
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