The food was awesome but the best part was the nice lady who helped us. Very friendly and helpful…read more This place is awesome the food is so good. Give them a try you won't be disappointed. C

Waited about 50 minutes to get our food, we saw our server about 3 times total, when we finally got…read moreour food it tasted good but it was really cold.

For years I have wanted to try Payne's since I have driven by the sign on the interstate so many…read moretimes. So glad I finally did. The restaurant was a lot more kitschy than I was expecting, which I loved. Our waitress had a wonderful energy. She was very knowledgeable about the menu. The menu had several unique items. I ordered a Scottish soda called IRN BRU. I love trying food and drinks from around the world. It tasted like an Orange Crush soda. Our waitress said they were known for their Cauliflower soup. It was cold outside so soup sounded perfect. I also got a pepper jack grilled cheese. The soup came in a huge bowl. The combo of the soup and grilled cheese was very filling. My friends ordered the sticky pudding. I had a bite and it was delicious. I cant believe it's taken me so long to eat here. I throughly enjoyed it and cant wait for my next road trip.

On our drives from Carmel to Michigan this wonderful, amazing, restaurant makes our long journey so…read moremuch easier. We love Payne's and have told everyone about it. In fact it is my favorite restaurant of all time. Sunday we stopped again. I had the British chicken curry and the fatoush. It was amazing as usual. That fatoush is so refreshing! My wife had the pork chop which comes with these amazing mashed potatoes with mustard seasoning that will blow your mind. She can never finish because it's so much food, which is OK with me because I help her out some. My favorite way to eat this is to mix a little mashed potato, mustard and pork chop together into one delicious bite. We were too full for dessert, but the times that we had the dessert here were spectacular as well. Thank you to all the people that work at Paynes, please don't change anything, you are the best!

Juan's in Chesterfield is owned by the same family. The food is good and fresh at both places. I…read moream grateful they respect vegetarian cuisine and have such a selection.

Very good I have to limit the times i order from them otherwise id eat there everyday and be broke…read morelol. Service is great and I feel like im in little Mexico which is alot of fun.

Train Station Pancake House is a family owned, local restaurant that sells way more than pancakes…read more The menu is broad with hamburgers and tenderloins and prices are great. The restaurant is in a renovated train depot. The decor is a mix of styles. We were seated in a comfy booth by a window. Daily specials were listed on a board. Our server was attentive and friendly. She was busy with the lunch crowd, but managed to check on us frequently. I had a patty melt with a side salad. The salad was huge and fresh. The patty melt was covered in fabulous fried onions and melted cheese. It was a tasty and filling. My husband had the tenderloin with fries. The tenderloin was hand breaded and delicious, but could have used a bit more seasoning in the breading. The fries and pickles were good and lunch was filling. The restrooms are clean and gorgeous. There is ample parking in their private lot. I recommend and will definitely return.

Would not recommend!!! First and last time going. Takes our drink order and comes back with the…read moredrinks and still no high chair, meanwhile holding on to my two year old and trying to keep him from touching everything or running off. My boyfriend asked for a high chair again and this time the lady cleaning tables kindly got one for us and no apology from our waitress. Our waitress comes back for our food order and mid order runs off to grab sweetener for the other person with us and then takes the rest of the order quickly asking no questions about preferences. The food came out cold, the Mickey Mouse pancake was not even close to Mickey Mouse shaped and huge for a kids menu. Never once asked how we were doing, if we needed anything or how the food was. I would not recommend, they were not busy and there were plenty of people working at the time. Prices are somewhat high for the quality you get, I could have made better at home for less. Tables and decor is outdated and worn, but cute. Side note: they threw out a pair of someone's prescription eye glasses as well after two days.

Such a great little diner! Food and service were excellent! If you like local diners, be sure to…read morestop in and enjoy breakfast!

Norms's has a true family atmosphere. Norm's isn't just a name, he's actually the cook. The food…read moreis very good and the portion sizes are good for the price!

Went in on a Friday , service was great. Food was delicious. Cute little hole in the wall bar.read more

If you like traveling through small towns, definitely make a stop here…read more My friends and I stopped here for lunch on our way to Muncie. It's your typical small town bar and grill, but the food is above average for the type of establishment, the customer service was excellent, and the portions are large for an extremely fair price. I was looking for healthy-ish fare and ordered a chicken quesadilla with crinkle fries. The food was fresh, and the chicken meat in the quesadilla was good quality. In addition to the food, the bar owner and staff were extremely happy to see new faces in town. They were extremely kind and accommodating. The other locals were friendly and asked us about our journey. This is truly the best small town America has to offer. Note that this is a bar and grill - not a diner - so it has a bar atmosphere. They also allow smoking inside, but not many people were smoking so it was not bothersome to us.

I don't want to be hyperbolic, but Concannon's makes the best donuts that I've eaten, ever, in my…read moreentire life. Ever. One hundred percent. Nay, one thousand percent. You guys. I don't play with donuts. I'm a donut-eating fool. Donuts are my thing. I have glaze running through my bloodstream. I've never eaten better donuts than the ones I got from Concannon's in Muncie. In fact, I'm planning another trip to Muncie JUST to visit Concannon's and get some donuts. What's a two-hour round-trip drive when you can be rewarded with amazing donuts during your journey? I visited Concannon's by myself, and although I wanted one of each of the donuts they had in the bakery case, I limited myself to three donuts: a glazed pretzel-shaped yeasted donut, a blueberry cake donut and an old fashioned donut. My go-to at any donut shop is usually a glazed twist, but they don't have glazed twists here! Instead, they have a glazed pretzel-shaped donut, which turned out to have all of the elements of a glazed twist, but it was just bigger and more twisty. It was amazing, pillowy, slightly sweet and even more delicious when you pull it apart with your fingers and eat it bit by bit. The blueberry cake and old-fashioned donuts were my favorites, though. These melted in my mouth, especially the old-fashioned. It was so tender and fresh. The old-fashioned is one of those kinds of donuts that I wish I enjoyed with some coffee, but instead, I ate it solo while dancing around delightedly in my hotel room. Concannon's has lots of other sweets, desserts and baked goods, like cakes (including mini cakes and individual cake slices), cookies, whoopie pies, chocolates, popcorn, candies and all sorts of other goodies. There is also a cafe with coffee and other beverages available. This is a must-visit if, like me, you love donuts, but also a must-visit in general because it's such a Muncie institution.

This place is amazing! One day I'll expand my horizons and try something new, however i love the…read moremaple bacon donut from here, it is the definition of perfect savory and sweet!

Very countryesque. Down home cooking with great service and really good food!…read more The portions are huge! From the menu I thought my meal would be on the smaller side. I am not a big eater at all and the menu Pic is definitely deceiving! I could only manage a little under half my plate! I would definitely stop here again while in the area. The only thing I can say that wasn't what I would order again is the biscuit. While tasty, it was a bit on the dry side and dense.

My son and I ate at The Fried Egg for breakfast during a baseball tournament. Our server was very…read morefriendly and attentive. I had THE BEST Corned Beef Hash ever. The biscuits were ridiculous. They did not have the traditional biscuit texture. Very light and airy. My son had a massive waffle covered in berries. He couldn't eat the entire thing. Very good place for breakfast.

What went well?? EVERYTHING!! I've been in town to see my daughter for a little over a month…read more Everyday my daughter wants to come here for breakfast!! I have had the bacon, scrambled eggs with cheese, sausage links, French toast, pancakes, oatmeal with brown sugar and cream, the BBQ Burger, potato soup (better than my mom's), and iced tea. Everything is absolutely delicious!! Not one complaint!! The waitresses are so friendly, the bus boys are so polite and their hair cuts are amazing by the way! The service is so quick and the food is always fresh and delicious. It's hard to even decide what to order!! Thanks to the owner, the cooks, the waitresses, servers, hostesses, and bus boys!! This is exactly how things should be!!

We had an overall enjoyable and quick meal here today. There was a snafu with our reservation, but…read morethey quickly made up for it and got us a table when we explained. The table ordered a variety of items; grilled cheese, BLT, gyro, and chicken and waffles. Everyone was happy with their food. The only negative was the water tasted a bit odd like the dispenser maybe needs cleaned..

I love their food is really great the people are so sweet and kind I would like to go there…read moresometime soon

You walk in to see a counter with seating for four people, high back, swivel chairs. There's a…read morediner menu letter board up on the wall, yellow with age, announcing the flavors of milkshakes and ice cream. It's from the 60s and probably hasn't changed since they put it up 65 years ago. There's a whiteboard on the back wall with the special for the day written out. Bacon egg and cheese omelette or a sausage egg and cheese sandwich on toast. Five dollars. The kind of place with a few locals sitting at a booth having their morning coffee, one of the waitresses offering Jim the last donut because they know he will want it. He accepts it. This is, in my mind, a classic American small town diner. The kind of place I grew up, eating in my hometown of 500 people. It's not high cuisine, there's nothing fancy about the food although I did come across a few things I had never seen before on the menu. Fried mush. Meat grits specials, like the scuttle butt and the chili Bob. An age old, but perfected recipe of eggs, meat, cheese, and a starch either potatoes ( homefries) or toast. The coffee is weak and not much flavor to it but, to be honest, it's exactly what you would expect in a place like this and there's something comforting about that. Honest, simple food made day and a day out, catering to the local crowd and a few roadway, travelers like myself who happen to come across it. There's a certain charm and depth to places like this that have been lived in day and day out by the same people for decades. For those like up rounded, there's the nostalgia and connection to the many other people having the same experience day after day in communities across the United States. Forgive me if I wax nostalgia can get a little sentimental here, but this morning's dining experience definitely elicited that for me. I hope you can find your own version of this sometime today or in the near future.