Longstreet Cafe

Dried out, overpriced, overcooked cafeteria food. Not impressed, and supposedly this is supposed to be a staple in Gainesville. Golden Corral has better food and cheaper.

over priced food and not worth it for the quality. it’s country food, no brainer.

I love home-​cooked food. This restaurant serves great food daily. I love the fried chicken, mashed potatoes, and especially the black eye peas and cornbread on Thursdays. The super friendly staff learns your name and recognizes you and greets you by name every time you come in the door. Its not just a meal it’s a family dining experience.

As of this trip, I can finally say I’ve finally been to both Longstreet Café locations. Puts Ryan’s and OCB to big shame, and beats Golden Corral (don’t hate you GC, and since you at least didn’t plunge in quality unlike Ryan’s/OCB). And of course, I’d pick them over Cracker Barrel too.
Great meal, and I can’t think of a single thing wrong here. Well actually, it’d be nice if they could serve biscuits and sausage also for lunch, besides during breakfast hours. And why I passed over something that looked like peach cobbler for dessert, I’ll never know. Will let the biscuits and sausage factor slide, since I still love Longstreet as much as ever.

Some nice people from church brought me Longstreet’s menu last Sunday because they were well aware that where good Southern cooking is, I want to be pronto. Since Ann and I were going to have «fun in court» at the Federal Building in Gainesville at 3PM, we decided to get there early and try out the vittles. The fried chicken tenders are amazing, the butter peas are little pearls of tongue-​wagging goodness, the pole beans made my teeth whistle «Dixie», the turnips were mule-​pullin’ good, and the cawn breyad was made to sop pot likker with. Table wine of the South (iced tea) was a perfect belly washer. No room for deezert! This is the newer of two locations, and is kinda small, so you’d best come early or late. PS: The other parties didn’t even show for court, so we won by default. I guess they heard we were gonna show up well fortified. Fried pork chops next go ’round!