Roosters Cafe — Restaurant in Brooksville

Roosters Café — A True Brooksville Treasure

Roosters Café is one of those rare local gems that gets everything right. Family-owned, warm-hearted, and packed with regulars who know quality when they see it — this place serves up comfort food with a side of genuine care. The owners and staff treat everyone like family, and their hard work shows in every dish and every interaction.

The food? Phenomenal. From stacked breakfasts to Southern dinner plates, it’s hearty, homemade, and incredibly affordable. You’d be shocked what you can get here for under $10. The menu’s massive, and the place is always bustling — because it’s just that good.

Now, let’s address the elephant in the customer review room. I was there recently when a customer left a one-star review after flipping out over a $1 charge for a to-go cup. That person spit on the owner. It was disgusting, embarrassing, and totally uncalled for. The staff handled it with grace — far more than I would’ve. That review says a lot more about the reviewer than the restaurant.

Roosters continues to do everything right — good food, fair prices, and kind people. If you’re local, support them. If you’re passing through, make the stop. And if you’re mad about a dollar cup charge? Maybe bring your own — and...

After coming here for so long, this trip will be our last. I am extremely allergic to onions. Something I stated at the very beginning and while ordering. I wanted to make sure the potatoes didn't have any since many locations serve theirs with onions, which I understand. So the food comes out and I'm about 10 bites in and notice onion taste in the potatoes and instantly spit it out. When I look a closer at the potatoes I realize they are loaded with onions(didn't notice at first glance because I had cheese added). At this point I'm not even bothered because accidents happen. I point them out to the server she agrees that she sees them and asks if I would like something else which I didn't. All I ate was the bacon and a few bites of potatoes. When I get to the register I told the owner of my situation. He then went to our server and she lied and claimed she never saw onions on my plate, so I stated that's not what you said while at my table, so then she admitted that she did see them. As someone who is allergic to onions, I know what they taste like and look like. It was clearly there. So no sorry, or nothing but 1.99 off my meal. The way I was treated in this establishment was unacceptable. Well it won't...

We have been going there for about a year now (until today) No more. the owner lady has upset us on a few occasions now the first was we told her about a bad server that she has. the server wouldn't bring us our tea she just ignored us but expected her tip so I asked to not be seated in her area anytmore. I would want to no if my employee wasn't doing there job. So I guess since I spoke up about the neglect It gave the owner lady a reason to treat us differently for whatever reason. we were told we haven't been the only people to complain on this server. the second was we started going there because of a great Server that works there so we kept going back due to the good service we were receiving but after I said something about the bad server the owner lady refused to sit us in the good servers station. there's another girl that works there. That we like thank goodness we can still have her when we go there. Today we walked in and sat ourselves where we mostly always sit and the owner lady says you need to wait to be seated but there's no sign saying that and out of the year we have been going here we have never been told to wait so I Refuse to go back they lost there 30.00 a day...