Best catfish I've ever had...and I've eaten plenty. It was fried, but the batter and the fry were…read morelight so that I enjoyed the flavor of the fish without any condiments added. I ate two whole fillets which is a lot for me. The cook/owner helped us from start to finish and was wonderful. Ignore the surroundings and go eat some great food-

Best option for seafood around. Even for a "small" portion, the crab boil was more than filling.read more

Here's a smoother, polished version of your review:…read more I've been here twice, and each time the food has been delicious and the service terrific! The menu is extensive, which makes me excited to come back and try something new on my next visit.

A fine little small town diner. Service was fast and friendly. Menu consists of all the finest…read morediner fare with breakfast all day. Good stuff!!

The service we received today at lunch, September 27, 2025 was so overwhelmingly incompetent and…read moreinept, you couldn't pay me or the other members of our party to ever consider coming back here. I can't comment in the food, because after how long we'd been waiting, and how many times our server messed things up, we had to leave to get back to our conference at UNI. We finally had to request to get our orders in to-go boxes, and when they arrived at the table, half of what we ordered was missing. What was in the to-go boxes was pretty much the ingredients just hastily thrown together. It took our server TWELVE MINUTES (!!!) to total up and prepare the bills for five small orders. It's the first time I left a restaurant on an empty stomach, and we had been there for an hour when we left. Our server and the manage repeatedly reminded us that it was only that servers third day on the job. That doesn't excuse taking twelve minutes to ring up orders, leaving half the items off our orders, and it getting to the point where a party is so frustrated that some opt to go hungry and leave rather than wasting even more time waiting around. The incompetence of our server was sobering, I'd rather have had someone cold and curt over someone who obviously could not handle the job. There were only seven other tables when we were there, how will she handle is when it's a packed restaurant on a game weekend?? I hope that if others experience this poor of an experience from this server, that management gets it that she's probably just not a good fit for working in a restaurant. Lastly, we were offered 10% discount cards for if we came back. That felt kind of insulting. After some of us not even getting our food, and the extraordinary, sustained dysfunction of our server, they should have at least offered a complimentary meal card.

The mint mojito was perfect and the mole chicken delicious!! Service was great and the restaurant…read moretemperature was comfortable. I'm looking forward to trying the shrimp with avocado...

Went to the Cedar Falls Brown bottle. Two of the meals were inedible. Manager never came over. We…read moreonly mentioned one to the server as the chicken was not cooked enough. The prime rib was obviously rare, but the server never came back to check and we gave her the chicken at that time. It took so long to get a replacement pasta that we just decided to take the raw prime rib home and cook it the next day. When we got there, many hosts/servers?standing around the host stand. The booths at the front of building where we sat had a lot of dust on the metal art. Unappetizing

Delicious food. Friendly service. Relaxed atmosphere. Love the spaghetti. Highly recommend.read more

Worn plastic trays with raw meats. Waitress handing out…read morestraws with bare hands & no straw wrappers. 1 person in the got sick. Server added $50 to my bill for cranberry juice. We paid our bill and left all of the food.

Sushi was ok not packed very tight Noodles and chicken was…read moregood Service was ok Atmosphere was good

This place had a true hometown feel. The service staff were super friendly and calling everyone by…read morename, it was packed, and the food was the centerpiece of it all! Homemade pie slices for $2.99 in this economy is WILD, but was the posted price with a whole laundry list of flavors! YUM! This is a breakfast/lunch spot and they close at 2pm except for a few evenings that they do dinner evidently. It is ABSOLUTELY WORTH making sure you get there even with the odd times!!! The French toast is amazing and I love french toast, I had some with my omelet. The omelet is a thinner version. Cooked on a flat top, folded and filled beautifully with all the goodies I requested. It was delicious! I ate far more of both the omelet AND the french toast! Yummmm. My partner had the sampler (top left on the menu). The server said you had to try it. It had eggs, meat, a side of French toast, AND a 1/4 biscuit with gravy! We took a bite of the sausage with a bite of the biscuit and gravy which was perfect! All the food was good as was the coffee (which had beautiful full flavor and wasn't watered down... momma likes some STRONG COFFEE and theirs was perfect! Our server was also wonderful, happy, helpful, and so nice. Wish I was better with names! They were packed but moved people in and out efficiently so go give them a try!!!

What a great breakfast spot. The service was fast and friendly. The environment was clean and even…read moretoned. And the food was amazing. The Panther Plate is wonderful, a mix of omelet, hash browns, country fried steak, and biscuits and gravy in one GIANT 4 egg omelet. So stuffed!

I ordered the sweet and sour chicken meal and they gave me a ounce of sweet n sour sauce for all…read morethis chicken and when I called and told them about it and still didnt offer to change or help and I order this meal often and I usually get a large container

Great food, lovely people, and outstanding service!! So many options to choose from, must stop by.read more

Very tasty! Would definitely go back again. We stopped by for a late lunch during Christmas week…read more The lunch rush was over, but they were still busy with holiday shoppers. To drink, my husband had a Modelo. I tried the strawberry margarita. It was a bit sweeter than I'm used to and may have preferred a salted rim to sugar, but it was good. After our meal I asked our server about one they call the Flu Shot and I think I'll try that one next time. The chips were fresh and crunchy. Great corn flavor. I wasn't a big fan of the salsa but my husband liked it. A self-appointed burrito connoisseur, my husband was delighted by the significant variety Rancho Chico has to choose from. He chose the Express Burrito with ground beef. When it was brought to the table, we were both amazed by the immense size. The plate on which it's served is large and, you can see in the photo, it went all the way to the edges. I tried the sauce and it was quite tasty. He enjoyed the whole thing - literally! I ordered the Mariachi Bowl with steak - a truly beautiful dish. The steak was impeccably seasoned and delicious. I tried to eat all of the components separately, but quickly found the best bite was created by stirring everything together. I couldn't eat it all and was quite happy to bring home leftovers. I love trying something new each time we visit a restaurant, but I'm not sure how I will avoid ordering this one again and again.

For starters I am from Arizona.. so I'm a bit picky about Mexican food. I've seen this place all…read moreover my feed recently so I ordered a few things because I was really craving a specific kind of food and Rancho Chico did not disappoint. So the whole reason for the order carne fries w guac.. Oh My Goodness I ate almost the whole plate (ok more than shoveled into my mouth) before giving myself a stomachache..(WORTH IT). It had everything I wanted a little spice and some amazing queso. We also ordered pollo con queso (my spouse is basic but he said it was DELICIOUS). We got some carne asada street tacos and the churro cheesecake (we may have fought over this one! So good!). The carne asada was super tender and those salsas were so good!! I was not expecting the green to have as much of a kick as it did but it made me sweat a little, the red was fine but I don't normally go for that kind anyways my kid enjoyed it a lot.