Cornucopia of Oroville — Restaurant in Oroville

I'm so sad because the last time (~2+ years ago) I visited the Cornucopia, it was frickin amazingly delicious. I mean 5 star delicious. But sadly, this time around, they missed the mark seriously. Service-wise, everything rocked; could not be happier as far as the service goes. But the food-- 2 out of the 3 entrees we ordered-- were seriously lacking. So, like the last time I visited, I had the French dip sandwich again. The previous visit's sandwich was spectacular; I mean out of this world delicious. The roast beef was SO tender & flavorful, it left me wanting more. Sadly, yesterday's sandwich was as BAD as the previous one was good. The beef tasted very old & chewed like shoe leather (and looked about as appetizing).🙄 I cannot believe this is the same place that made me the best French dip I ever had, not so long ago. I had to stop eating after like 3 bites, it was THAT BAD. Onion rings were decent-ish and the au jus was 'okay'. But I feel if the main event of a meal (the sandwich) is awful, the rest of it doesn't really matter-- ESPECIALLY when they all kinda go together.

My daughter ordered the fried chicken with coleslaw. The pros: the chicken legs were good sized & seemed tender. Cornbread on the side was tasty and warm. The cons: SO salty, could not taste much of anything else & when bit into, the oil just dribbled out, flooding our mouths with salty greasy mess. The coleslaw was described to me as "tasting like leaves and inedible" by someone who adores most slaws.

My other daughter got the waffle which was fluffy but crisp on the outside and quite delicious. Granted, she ruined it with syrup AND choco chips but luckily I had a taste before that lol

We shared the strawberry shortcake and it was quite a sight to behold. It was, for the most part, made like true shortcake is meant to be made (just like days gone by...); with a shortcake biscuit instead of regular plain cake and with real strawberries in their own syrup and both components really stood out to me as top notch (esp. the biscuit/cake part that SO many fail to execute properly, so props to the baker on that one!).That's where the good part ends though because in the middle of the strawberries, shortcake & whipped cream, they had a scoop of extremely sweet & sticky vanilla ice cream. Not sure if it was sticky or gooey because perhaps it was homemade (I was trying to convince myself this was the case) or just...old (which is what it was truly giving). The addition of the ice cream made the whole dessert WAY too sweet so we could only manage eating like 3 small bites each. I've never known strawberry shortcake to have ice cream so it would have been nice if they would have put that in the description on the menu so unsuspecting folks like us can choose to forgo it.

Just a few other things: they were all out of pie, but as it was Mother's Day, it wasn't a huge surprise. I would think however that knowing it's such a big holiday where the masses want pie, they could anticipate this and adjust their stock accordingly (read: bake more pies in advance to prepare for the higher customer volume). I might be wrong about how that works however and as such this wasn't factored into my low rating.

I hope this was just an 'off' day for the beloved Cornucopia and pray that next time will be more like my prior visit, not so long ago. I believe in them and will give another try because even before my aforementioned prior visit, I had eaten here a few other times and way back then (~9-10 years ago), I recall the food being very delicious for our whole fam (6 people)....

The family was looking forward to a good meal on Feb. 10, 2014. We arrived at the restaurant at approximately 7:18 p.m. After going inside, we were told that there were no tables in the front area and that they would have to go to the back and clean a table for us. Well, that took about 12 minutes. This was not a very good start I thought to myself. We finally arrived at our table and was asked what we wanted to drink and menus were placed on the table.We looked at the variety of foods and had a hard time deciding. The waitress came back about 5 minutes and asked if we were ready. We told her that we needed a few more minutes. A few minutes had gone by and then 5 minutes gone by and no sign of the waitress returning. It wasn't until 8 minutes later that another waitress had come by to take our order. The other waitress was too busy in the front room and had forgotten us in the back. At this point, I was not happy. After the order, we had discussed how inefficient the waitresses were and the service being lousy. Here is the good part. The time was now 8:33 p.m. We had to wait over 40 minutes for the food to be served and the steak had been sitting under the heat lamp for who knows how long. It was dry on the outer parts of the steak. What happened to the juices when the steak is taken off the grill? The steak was barely warm at best.The toast that came with it was as hard as a rock.This was just one dish. I don't need to go on further with the other dishes. Worst service ever!!! I will not be back to...

Made a trek up to Surplus City, didn’t eat breakfast and was famished. Dana recommended coming here for lunch. Best food recommendation I’ve had in years

The kitchen and dining rooms were super clean, friendly staff, cooks who care - respect for the customer and respect for the food goes a long way with me, and The Cow has the care and passion that makes everyone feel good and walk away happy.

The Broasted Chicken was amazing. Crazy moist, fresh, superbly seasoned, and not greasy. Important to note: It was just as delicious cold the next day.

Homemade red skin potato salad with a dilled, mustardy, aioli, and super thin red onion, seasoned well = perfect side.

Their cornbread had just enough leavening to give it a little cake-like hint, but the tasty crumb of good, solid cornbread, with delicious real butter was to die for.

The grilled elite corn on the cob was also a great addition as a side. And tho the garden salad was just fine, I skipped it for the main event. Good thing, I still had to take the smoked ribs home for dinner.

Those smoked ribs….that rub. That rub was delicious and the St. Louis style slow smoked ribs never stood a chance.

It’s easy to understand why there was a line out the door at lunchtime on a random Tuesday. If you’re anywhere near, or traveling near Oroville, you owe it to yourself to stop in and get some good food and some...