One Eyed Jack's — Restaurant in Winamac

Alrighty. Big fat porky reputation on this place to live up to. It did. It was right around 1pm when we arrived. The place had a few open tables and server called out to just seat ourselves. Nice gettin acknowledged soon as u walk and and simple directions for new customers = LIKE. So we sat in the bar area. Deco is upscale relaxed, if that makes sense. Most patrons seemed affluent and there were several fancy bikes outside. O course SO opted for the famous house specialty fried pork loin. I went for a reg burger and we got boom boom shrimp as appetizer. At this point the joint was hoppin, ppl floodin in. Our server was on the ball. I counted 10 tables on the bar-ish side, all occupied. and he handled ALL of them effortlessly! It was seriously hellaimpressive, if you've ever worked table service. He was quick on taking everyone's orders, zippy passin out drinks with accuracy. Seeing the volume of guests we assumed a longer wait time til the main course. But nope. The shrimp came out surprisingly fast and was HOT and crunchy and wonderful. At the rate the main courses were trotted out we speculated there must be fairies running the kitchen. The porkloin was indeed a massive plank o piggy. My burger- don't order that, was just normal, nuttin special. The porkloin was heavily battered and that seemed to comprise the majority o the section SO cut off for me. It wasn't particularly tasty. SO said you're posta eat it with the egg, bacon that came on it. Fair enough. The addition o the extra toppings certainly enhanced the flavor. In all, we got like 4-5 meals out of this one order, so that's great value. Once we got to the main area o the meat it was much thicker than the outer edges. Tater tots not great, but fries were wonderful. Crispy, hot and good enough to excuse the ubiquitous Red Gold ketchup Hoosiers demand. (Team Heinz for us Southrons :P) At my inquiry, the server said he took care of the bar area/section and a young lady handled the other side. These were seriously 2 of the most efficient waitstaff I have ever seen. If I owned a local restaurant, I'd actively be tryna poach them. Prob could do with a raise for...

This is the second time we've been here for dinner while camping at the state park. The help was wonderful, always checking on us and just all around great service. I got the broasted chicken dinner which was cooked perfectly, as was the grilled asparagus. If they would have offered an entire plate of that asparagus, I would have ordered it. The southwest chicken soup was good, but just regular. The portions were huge. I was full after the asparagus and soup and just a bit of the chicken. But then I had some to take home at just $15.50. My husband got the beer battered fish for $20. Again, the four huge pieces of fish were too large of a portion. Neither of us cared for the fish. The batter was too thick and you couldn't really taste the fish. The coleslaw looked colorful and creamy, but we were disappointed in the bland taste. We went with friends and everyone's dishes were huge, looked great, and good deals. We will return, but probably just order something else to try (whatever also comes with the asparagus). The only con I have for this visit (which is why I didn't leave a 5/5), is my husband ordered two drinks and they added a $4.16 fee to make the drink. Who does that?? I'd rather the cost be built into the price of the drink instead of seeing ridiculous...

I’m sorry to say but y’all arnt getting a good review this time … I’ll start off with , when my husband came in to pick up the food the young man at the counter told him “it will be about 5 minutes, go stand over there “ and didn’t specify so my husband stepped away from the counter and the young man snapped at him “not there …. “ ok so my husband moved again… the restaurant is obviously busy with it being Friday and dinner time … but he stood there for over 20 minutes (20 more minutes than what we were originally told on the phone ) so when he got the food he sat 10$ down on the counter for the rude young man anyways (I wouldn’t have , rude kid ….) tell me why this snotty brat of a young man slammed his hand down, SNATCHED it off the counter and THREW it in the tip jar and walks away…. Okay… fast forward to getting the food home , the 80$ we spent on this food was not really worth it …. Again I know y’all were busy but I mean…. The burger had absolutely no seasoning and wasn’t even all the way done ! The cheese was hardly even melted , the onion rings were burnt and the popcorn shrimp wrap wasn’t even wrapped … I had to wrap it myself ! The calamari wasn’t fried all the way cuz some parts of the batter were...