Rob's Restaurant & Catering — Restaurant in Brookville

You have school cafeteria food, hospital food, nursing home food, MREs, and then you have Rob's. Tried this place for the first time tonight because some older friends wanted to meet there and swore it was good. I didn't think to check reviews or suggest somewhere else because hey new place. When you watch Kitchen Nightmares this is the kind of place Gordon Ramsey is talking about. Rob's is like a Golden Corral that gave up on life. It's $18.95 for a buffet 1/4th the size of Golden Corral and a coke. There is absolutely NOTHING labeled on the buffet. Even Frisches labels and they're awful. Their mashed potatoes are definitely instant and bland. Their pot roast is overcooked and dry. The gravy I wouldn't touch because it was so clumped you could probably throw it at a window and break it with it. The Mac and cheese was also boxed but had zero flavor of noodles or even a taste of cheese. The salad bar was okay but not labeled either and the fruit flies hovering over the bar would fight you for the food. The best thing there were the rolls and butter and that's mostly what I filled up on for $16. The restaurant doesn't look like it's been updated since 1980 and been ignored. The carpet is threads. The tile floors worn. About as cozy of an atmosphere as sitting on a cactus. The server was very nice and the only positive about the place. When checking out and asked how my food was, and I said disappointing and not good, the cashier ignored what I said and just gave me my total. If sadness had a flavor it would be this place. I'll never be back at all. For that price I could've gotten a decent steak and not played a game of has a healthy inspector been here recently...... This is where you go if you're 65 and up and your taste buds can't distinguish what food tastes...

The only reason I was there was because it was my grandma's 96th birthday and her side of the family likes to get together twice a year to celebrate her and her sister's birthdays there. I guess it's because my grandma's sister lives in Englewood, and it's pretty close. I was there because I was my grandma's ride from Cincinnati.

The family had reserved a table, and our server did a pretty fair job keeping up with drink orders. The girl who was seating people seemed like she didn't want to be there.

The food presentation was okay, but there were a few items I couldn't even identify. Labels might have helped. The food taste, well, was pretty bad. Everything looked like institutional food from a vendor...the mashed potatoes were completely nasty, the stuffing was just a flavorless goo, the green beans had no flavor either. The turkey was dry. I pretty much had to make it through on fried items and a slice of unremarkable pizza.

The only good thing is that Rob's was patient enough to allow us to stay for 3 1/2 hours for the birthday celebration.

But I stepped outside and saw signs telling smokers not to throw "cigaretts" into the mulch, because it would burn. I guess that inattention to detail kind of says it all about Rob's. Sadly, I'll have to go here in April for my grandma's sister's birthday.

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TL;DR -- food was terrible, foyer smelled strongly of cat urine, worst food in Brookville. If you want better food, go to K's just down the street.

If there were an option to rate lower than 1 star I would. This was some of the most disgusting food I've had in my entire life. I chose to get the buffet as it seemed pretty large and I figured I'd be able to find something I liked. Boy was I wrong, everything tasted like it came out of a can. The potatoes were instant, and pretty runny. The fried chicken wasn't fried correctly, it was soggy and saturated in oil. The fried catfish was much the same. The rolls were cold and kinda stale. The lettuce on the salad bar was wilted and soft, absolutely no crunch to the leaves. The meatloaf was awful, absolutely atrocious, to the point of being inedible. My wife only ate four bites and was sick to her stomach. I did find something to eat though, the pecan pie they unboxed from Marie Callendar was delicious. I had 4 slices. Only thing that didn't taste terrible. OH!! The foyer also smelled like cat urine. Now you might ask, why did you still eat there if the foyer smelled terrible, but it was a Sunday, K's was closed, and we had just moved to Brookville the...