Sheba's — Restaurant in Hope

This is one of the worst places you can possibly eat in Southwest Arkansas, especially if you are a vegetarian. Their menu is completely void of any vegetarian options besides a meager selection of vegetables offered as side dishes for exorbitant prices, some of which even contain meat.

For $7, I ordered mashed potatoes, baked beans and french fries. What I received was nothing more than a handful of Walmart-quality french fries, a small portion of mashed potatoes and a tiny sauce dish of baked beans that literally contained half a cup of sugar mixed in with a few beans and BACON. Why on Earth a vegetable dish of baked beans contains bacon is beyond my comprehension. Even the sweet tea that I was served was nothing more than tea-flavoured syrup. Do people really stomach this amount sugar on a regular basis?

As a result, I could not eat the baked beans, quickly finish the mashed potatoes in about four spoonfuls and ate the french fries within twenty seconds, despite waiting 20 minutes for such a small dish.

My advice? Either cook a real meal at home for a seventh the cost or just heat up a bowl of noodles. You'll save money, it will taste better and you won't have to leave a restaurant still hungry.

P.S. Their menu has bad typesetting which is really annoying to look at. You can tell that they used spaces rather than tabs so their menu items aren't...

FOOD POISONING Poor service Bad food

We stopped here on our way to Louisiana, it was recommended by a gas-station attendant in town. The two young female servers were not attentive, served food (including hot coffee) over an infant that we had in a high chair, sent our order back to the kitchen incorrectly, and had to look up the prices of everything during checkout. The order that was sent back incorrectly was remade, but didn’t come out until the rest of the party had finished eating. When it did come out, one of two sides was incorrect (fries instead of rice) but not worth changing due to the amount of time that had already been spent there. By the time evening came on member began vomiting, then another late into the night, both had diarrhea as well. They both had eaten a burger and fries. The next morning, a third member who’s meal was messed up began to have diarrhea. They ate the chicken tenders, fries, and a pancake (which was heavily dusted with what tasted like salt). There was no other food commonly eaten between us throughout the rest of the day or beforehand, which points to Sheba's being the ground zero for food poisoning. Either cross contamination took place or food was not kept at appropriate temperatures prior to cooking. Would not recommended, absolutely would not eat again, and would give less than one star...

I wanted to order a baked sweet potato and a side salad as a vegetable platter. The young waitress told me that I couldn't do that. I could order a sweet potato or I could order a salad but not both. I talk to the manager and she rudely told me I could order a salad and a sweet potato and I must have misunderstood. Not! When I was served the food the sweet potato was rotten halfway and had mold growing in it. We ask the young waitress, "would you eat this?" To which she replied, "of course I eat it like that all the time". Really? I doubt that. Again we asked to speak with the manager. She came to our table yelling at me that, "it wasn't her fault that the sweet sweet potato was half-rotten because it came to her that way from her supplier". Instead of making my meal right she told me I could leave but not before I paid for the...