Crossroads Cafe — Restaurant in Acton

Crossroads cafe in Acton is like the Pleasant Cafe in Roslindale and the Hilltop steakhouse in Saugus had a sweet love child and stashed it away in scenic Nagog Park to keep the society ladies from knowing the truth about their torrid love affair.

The spacious and classic dining room is reminiscent of the old and now gone Hilltop steak house, with tall booths and dark wood and rugs. The bar was built in the classic post prohibition era style, with mirrors, gorgeous brass speed racks, and low boy steel coolers.

I’ve tried quite a few things on the well rounded and extensive menu and keep going back to the steak tips. Some other stand outs include the salmon burger, the meatball appetizer with its ribbons of pasta, the scampi appetizer, and the Caesar salad, which they subbed out tomatoes for croutons per my strange request. Their house made Italian dressing is noticeably better than your run of the mill restaurant staple ken’s, no shade to Ken. They also somehow have the fizziest soda of all of the local restaurants. I don’t think they serve from soda city, and that’s a rare bird, folks. They don’t have pizza like the pleasant, but the aesthetic and preservation of mid century bar culture is there. The bartenders carry themselves like they are always wearing bowties, but they are not.

Speaking of the mirrors, I’d recommend any of the drinks printed on them, especially if you like anything spirit forward. The bartender didn’t even have to look up what was in a Spanish coffee.

Service is friendly and consistent, and takes an average amount of time for a normally paced leisurely meal. If you want something faster, go to Denny’s or the like.

It’s a great place to catch a game or enjoy a meal or some apps and drinks. I’m not sure if the owner, who can usually be found table side cracking jokes, has actually known everybody there for 20 years, but he treats you like he has. It’s a shame to think that within the next few years they’re gonna pave paradise and put up a parking lot, but don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone. I can’t be the only one excited for another Acton car dealership. In the interim, be sure you can catch me at...

Not terrible, not great.

Except for the bread and butter to start. That was great. Slightly warm bread. Thickly cut, flavorful, perfect texture, generous portion. Butter arrived cold but soft enough to spread easily after a minute or two. Yum.

My husband had the hamburger au poivre, which he liked a lot. He ordered it medium-well, and I could tell by looking at it that it was indeed cooked medium-well. Perfectly cooked, which is actually not as common as it should be. He said the sauce was okay.

My daughter ordered a house salad and onion soup. The salad was served in a gigantic bowl, but only filled half of it. Still, it was plenty. Her soup was overly salty, but otherwise a typical onion soup, with a gigantic mushy crouton and lots of melted cheese.

I ordered the vegetarian fajitas. Meh. The flour tortillas were oddly small and thick. And cold. The sizzled vegetables were all right. Cooked nicely as far as doneness goes, but seasoned with whatever seasoning all chain restaurants use. Not as good as even cooking this at home with no fajita seasoning, but no major complaints on this part. The red sauce was obviously from a bottle from BJs or something. Wasn't tempted to try the guacamole or the sour cream.

The service was fairly abysmal. We walked in to the restaurant and waited a few minutes but no one came. We then walked over to the bar, where the hostess (?) was standing around talking to someone. To her credit, she came over and sat us right away. But it was sort of strange for the default to be we should walk over from an empty restaurant to an equally empty bar at 2:00 on a Sunday to get seated back in the empty restaurant. Our waitress was okay, until she dropped off our plates and said "let me get you a plate (for my fajitas) and she grabbed my dirty bread plate (off the side of the table where I'd pushed it aside after finishing my bread) and placed it in front of me. I had to use my napkin to wipe the butter remains off the plate so I could use it for my next course. Not the end of the world, but weird.

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I went in there to get a salad about a week ago I told the woman that was taking my order last time I get a salad some of the salad was Brown meaning spoiled she said to me she said to me you've come in here and complain before I said yes I have I had gotten a quesadilla before it was filled with grease so much grease I had to use a napkin to wipe it off my girlfriend got a pizza before the crust was not cooked soft indoor tasting even though I asked it to be crispy I live around the corner from there and I used to go there when it was Jamie's the food was decent the service was okay but now on the new ownership they hire people like this woman that said to me after I told her that my complaints were valid don't come back again after I asked for my money back after she spoke to me like that I said to her I own some businesses if she was my employee I would fire her so fast her head would spin whoever that woman was was rude crude and definitely not a good representative of the business in my business is the customer is always right and we listen to that complaints and wishes because you know something I know a lot of people in the Braintree Weymouth Quincy area quite a few of the venture there I've already spoke to some of them telling them my experience they said to me nobody should be treated like that the ironic part about it was when I told her if she worked for me should would be fired she said to me I've been here since the place opened they won't fire me as she was laughing as I went out the door if the management reads this you should take heed to it that employee is bad for business if she did it to me she'll do it to other people she evidently I thinks she owns the place. A big insult to the owner. Do as you wish I Highly do not recommend this place!!!! Plenty of other places to eat at. The respect is customers what's dignity and appreciation for their jobs and establishments employees can make or break you highly do not...