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Boxcar's Cafe

5.0 (4 reviews)
Closed • 7:00 am - 3:30 pm

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6 years ago

Delicious!!! We stopped on a whim for lunch. This place is your typical small town cafe and it did not disappoint us!!

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8 years ago

Real friendly staff, and a pleasant experience. The breakfast was phenomenal!

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Langer's Bar & Grill

4.9(22 reviews)
8.0 mi

In the area staying over for the night. Saw on yelp & thought we'd try it out. We are always…read morelooking for a great prime rib! Bloody Mary was 1st! Slice of bacon(real), pickle and olives, rimmed with celery salt & pepper. This was delicious. I ended up having 2! Ordered the onion rings with house made ranch sauce. Love the ranch. The rings were more like strings (which I love). Big ol heap! Loved these. Main course! I got the prime rib with parmesan fries and green beans. Parm fries were crispy and tasted great. The prime had great flavor but was a lil tough to cut. Nice thickness though. The au jus tasted more like pre-made but not quite sure. The green beans were quite rubbery & squeaky but not a huge deal as I had already eaten my weight in onion rings & fries. My other half had the prime rib philly. He said it was good and had great flavor. Wasn't a bad choice. The atmosphere was part bar & grill and other half was quiet sit down type. It was a confusing entry. I think we were suppose to be seated but there wasn't a sign and nobody really acknowledged us when we walked in the bar side. No biggie, we found our own booth. If we would be in the neighborhood again we of course would stop. They had a good crowd. I would suggest to try it out. Oh and I was too full to try the cheesecake but wish I could've.

A nice place. Service was some of the best I've ever had. Food was solid, but not the best. I will…read moresay that I think it is as good as I expected it to be, but I always hope it'll be better thus I am not leaving a 5-star review. Fried pickles spears with the rock n roll sauce were great. I wouldn't have ordered these except my server recommended them out of all the apps, so I went with that. Fried things at places like this usually lack flavor and are just salty, fried bar food. These had some kick. The rock n roll sauce was like a Mayo with Frito's Chili Cheese Twists, so they were yummy. Tilapia on wild rice was ok, but it's tilapia, so how amazing can it be, right? Broccoli wasn't too over cooked and it still had a healthy green color, so I was happy with that. And the fries were a tad greasy, but they came out hot and crunchy. I think if they let the oil drain off them a bit more under a heat lamp, they'd hold their crispness a bit longer. Oh, and it was an entire plate of fries, so portions were generous. Lastly, everything was served very quickly. The place wasn't super-busy, but it wasn't dead and I was happy about the timeliness. I ordered an app first then placed an order for my entree after munching on that. And I was out done in 45 minutes. Granted, I was eating alone, but still. If you enjoy meat, I highly recommend giving this place a shot. I am a pescatarian (mostly vegetarian) and I have a sneaking suspicion that their beef and chicken options have much more developed flavors.

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2.5(2 reviews)
10.4 mi

We went into this bar/restaurant and were greeted with their Tuesday specialty, a platter of Fries…read morechicken. We were with a group of 19 people who called ahead but we were not part of that original 19 people. We called ahead earlier in the day as we knew that the group of 19 had already. We did so because we knew that they would be busy. We called them and were told to come in and order then. We came in at the same time that the group of 19 came in. We should have known that there would be a problem as the group of 19 had no water glasses or pitchers waiting. I thought that was weird since they knew at noon about this group. Anyway, so we waited in the back for someone to come back to take our order and nothing. We waited probably 20 minutes and considering it was hot out, we were thirsty for beer. A friend of mine and myself went up to the bar to order the chicken and the beers. We were yelled by an older lady to go back to the back and sit down we will get with you. Well, now the chicken didn't look to appetizing. I have been in retail for over 25 years and I've never yelled at a customer that we will get to you to go back there and sit down and shut up. I don't understand it even now as they were not that busy as there was probably four other families there. It was just that the lady didn't wanna take our order for some reason. This is something that they are supposed to be known for so if they were busy which I didn't think that they were as the chicken was already done for the group of 19 there shouldn't have been a problem serving us. I also found out later that night that there was some people in the group of 19 who want a T-shirt as they remembered that restaurant when they were younger. They were told that the T-shirts are in the back and they were unwilling to go back there and get them because they didn't know the sizes that they wanted. So, they lost out on our chicken order and beers which probably would've been at least $50-$60. Then, they lost out on probably selling at least 10 to 15 T-shirts of that bar because they seem like they're in both cases that they were too lazy to get off their butts. I don't understand why they would want to turn away probably around $300 of merchandise and food but I guess that's their thing. Especially, when they're supposed to be known for having really good chicken and they were not busy. There is a newspaper article that I saw that they did over 70 chickens one night. So how they were too busy to serve four or five people is mine blowing. Hopefully, they're lazy attitude towards people improves.

This place is AWESOME! Best broasted chicken you will find in Northwest Iowa. No frills place and…read morethey can get by with it because their chicken is just that awesome.

Boxcar's Cafe - breakfast_brunch - Updated October 2026

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