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Main Street Cafe Steaks

Main Street Cafe Steaks

263 Live Oak St, Marlin, USA, 76661, United States

Tea • Cafe • Cafés • Pizza


"Visited here on a Saturday evening with high hopes. I wanted for them to be open long enough for the new to wear off and give them a chance to break things in. The place has a nice clean interior, smaller than I was expecting. At six o 'clock, it was not very busy, so we were able to pick a table of our choice. Our first impression was being greeted by a child who gave us our menus. Another lady took our drink order: Iced teas. 1 sweet, 1 not, both with lemon. They arrived about 10 minutes later, both unsweetened and no lemon. We asked for lemon and sugar, there was none on the tables. They brought two TINY slices of lemon and could only offer sweet and low sweetener. We decided to order. The menu online showed multiple beef choices (you would expect that for a place with steak in its name). But the only steak they had was a $20 ribeye, so I ordered that medium rare. We also order the mashed potatoes and green beans. The other dinner was a chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and green beans. (At least 5 items had been sharpie markered off the menu) While we waited for our dinners we were asked at least 5 times if everything was ok. All I can say if we are still waiting for food, then no. When asked that many times, it just gets annoying because you are reminded you are still waiting. 35 minutes later they finally showed up. The plates looked good. The chicken fried steak was quite good. Cooked perfectly. The ribeye was another story. While thin, it looked good. First bite showed it was WAY over seasoned and was over cooked. It became obvious that the steak was cut unevenly. So I tried the other side. Also extremely salty, but it was cooked nice. Unfortunately the final nail in the steak was an overwhelming taste of smoky char-coal-ie burntness which to me came from a dirty grill that was in bad need of a wire brush cleaning. The mashed potatoes were basically mashed up baked potatoes with no butter or cream, and no seasoning, so were dry and had little or no taste. The green beans also had no seasoning and were over cooked. We took the chicken fry dinner home. The steak dinner I could not eat even a quarter of. When I told them how salty it was and was inedible, their excuse was that they had just changed seasoning. They said they could give me a discount or could cook another. We did not have time for them to try again. Their idea of a discount was to take $3 off the steak. At $20, it was already $3 overpriced. While I was not looking for a free meal, they should have taken it off the ticket. If I had eaten most of it, that would be something different. I took two bites of potatoes and beans, and four bites of steak trying to find an edible piece of steak. I really wanted to like this place, and was hoping for a new place to get a nice steak on Saturday nights, but between the amateurish service and poorly seasoned food, it looks like I am still looking."