The Ranch — Restaurant in Rockdale

This was ridiculous, I waited an hour for a burger and a half order of burning haystack, had 2 beers and paid 25 dollars. I don't mind paying 25 dollars for a decent meal, but I do mind paying 25 for a burger that takes an hour to make.

I get to the restaurant around 8ish, looks kinda dead for a Friday night at 8pm, I sit at the bar, the tender or waitress, whatever she is (there's only two working on a Friday night for some reason) ask if I'm eating or just drinking, I tell her both and she offers a menu, I decline as I already know what I want. Big Bad John on a Jalapeno bun, half an order of burning haystack, and a cold beer, I order modelo. She puts my order in, gives me a beer, takes off.

I drink my beer, watch the silent TV at the back of the bar, and wait. I finish my beer, and wait.. and wait.. 30 min go by..I wait.. around 45 min I flag down the waitress as I've not been offered another beer or anything and ask if she knows how long on the burger, she replies "they're pretty backed up but I'll go check.." and disappears. 20 minutes later she brings out my food, and finally offers another beer.

I would have left had she come back and told me 20 more min on my burger, paid for my beer and been done, saving myself the bill.

Highly disappointed, the first time my family and I ate here the food was prepared in a decent time, it was delicious and the service was on point. The second time we went was on a Wed (which is a reaaally busy night because of the live music, so the hour and a half wait to eat was understandable..) and the service and food were good, but the wait of course was tedious. This last time, the food was good and the service was terrible and the wait was ridiculous. I will not be going back a fourth time as the trend is a...

Quick pit stop while passing through. Not a whole lot to talk about outside of the chicken fried steak. The thing was huge (had to take half to go). The breading was done to perfection. The gravy was a bit runny for my taste and lacked a little flavor, but not bad. The quality of the steak is what I question the most. It was off to me from taste to texture. Not local to Rockdale, so cannot speak of other places. All and all not bad, but not great. I would give it 3.5 if I could. I don’t think I would ever stop here again and certainly wouldn’t go out of...

Our first time to visit, we were on the way home from Austin and needed to get a bite to eat. It did NOT disappoint! I had the cheeseburger with fries, excellent! My husband had the Cowboy Up (hamburger steak with grilled onions and jalapeños) with green beans and friea, also excellent. For appetizers we had fried pickles and bottle caps (fried jalapeños) and both were very good. Its not a fancy or upscale place at all, just a really great place to eat....