DINO GRILL & BAR - (Near Granbury, TX)

5 /5 Mama Birdie: No one can beat serving this amount of food at this price point and it’s all delicious especially their desserts. We asked for a senior discount on our 2nd visit for Sunday lunch I was surprised to learn they’re now offering 2 meats of your choice. That is a LOT, and impossible to eat it all in 1 meal. Even my husband who can eat a lot could only finish his pork chop and half a CFS. Although I appreciate paying for a lunch and getting enough food for dinner this is overly generous. To be fair, NO other “buffet” and I mean NO other buffet not Golden Corral or chinese buffets, allows you to take their buffet home because that opens it to be easily abused. Even Babes only allows you to take home your meat entree but you can’t ask them to pack up multiple orders of all the unlimited sides for you to take home for you and your family or they couldn’t turn a profit giving all that food away on top of your meal. I get it, the owner advertised it as a “Buffet” when he probably should have said get 1 meat choice with a buffet of only sides and desserts bc some people complained that a 1 meat limit doesn’t constitute as a buffet so he changed it to a 2 meat limit. But I don’t know anyone who would even be capable of eating all 2 meats w/o taking it home unless they didn’t eat anything else. My catfish portion in the picture below is half eaten and the remaining amounts is still huge.(see pic it’s on the same plate as my chicken fried steak) I took home the entire CFS. By the time I ate my salad, sides, and a small dessert I was too full to eat my 2nd meat and that’s after having skipped breakfast. Other restaurants charge about $13-$15 a meal and they don’t offer unlimited extras of a salad with that many topping options, 2 kinds of soup, rolls, many side options, and 2 desserts. While other places have shrinkflation on their portions this place is offering more than one can eat that you’re taking home dinner too. It’s the best deal in town especially if you’re looking for the biggest bang for your buck! We’re greeted when we arrive and leave. The waitresses are attentive and friendly. We loved everything including their catfish, potato salad, the broccoli cheese soup was delicious, mashed potatoes, mac, fried okra, all good. The apple and peach cobblers and banana pudding are absolutely spot on addictive. Will be back and wish them success!

1 /5 katie suber: What a hot mess. We had reservations for Thanksgiving lunch party of 3. We had to sit at the bar, no tables were available. No biggie. We sat and sat. No service. 20 minutes later we finally ordered our drinks. Water, Dr Pepper and 1 beer. Again, waited 15 minutes to get our beverages. They found a table for us about 45 minutes of being there. We had to wait at least 30 minutes before we could go get our food. Out of Turkey and Ham. Potatoes were from a box, stuffing was stove top. Cook said he would bring us out a pork chop, never brought it out. Close to $70.00 for a few bites of sides. No pie either. I will go again on a less busy day to give them another chance and possibly edit this post. Honestly I dont think they were expecting so many people.

2 /5 Evelyn Mirabal: This unfortunately was a no for our family. Not a lot of choices, everything was dry. My five year old son even said his fish was dry. The food was not heated properly, everything was cold. The fries tasted as if they’ve been left out all day, same for the chicken fried steak. Although I will say the pork ribs were good, would have been better hot. We went on Sunday for lunch, I was hoping for more lunch choices to dinner choices but either way quality wasn’t there. We unfortunately won’t be returning. To management: change your cooks/recipes, figure out a better food preparation system/process, redo the menu.

5 /5 Andrea Jones: I loved everything about this place! The food was great all you can eat for 19.99 and you can take your leftovers home! The staff was absolutely awesome! It was just a great atmosphere all around! Special shout out to our bartender AJ! He went above and beyond! 10 out of 10 I highly recommend and we will be back!

4 /5 Heather Kadel: Honestly the staff was so friendly and fast. The salad bar had alot of topping options. I do hope maybe they consider including Ceasar dressing. The dino chicken was large and delicious. The fried pork chop was large also and the fried part was so light. I loved it. The broccoli was over cooked, but thats not a problem for me. The mash potatoes were my favorite side. Light texture with 2 gravy options. The macaroni and cheese was a pass for my husband and me. Only real negative is the desserts. Only 3 options. We got the banana pudding. Tastes just like a pudding cup but i will say they didnt skimp on pudding, bananas, whip, or wafers at all. We paid $34 for 2 lunches and 2 teas. Thats not too bad.