Mill Creek Cafe Leakey, TX

 

      In a town of a modest 315 folks with more seasonal upscale cafes, bistros, and shops designed to attract the tourist eye, this is one of a kind.  If you will, the original hometown cafe.  Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner it caters to the population that lives and works here.  They don't portray any pretentious atmosphere, menus, or other things.  Simply good food at reasonable prices.

       We have eaten here several times already, but always seem to gravitate towards the newer, more eclectic offerings elsewhere.  This never lasts as these places offer only higher priced atmosphere and food that is only marginally better, if that.  

 

      Located on Hwy. 83 on the south side of town just across from the Stripes Truck Stop it offers lots of parking and dining space inside.  We most often eat breakfast here, but they offer more.  Additionally, they offer many specials for all meals.  They are open 7 a.m. till 9 p.m. 7 days a week.  As you can see the menu is not diversified, but very reasonably priced Online Menu of Mill Creek Cafe Restaurant

      In addition to the menu they often offer a buffet line featuring enough food to keep anyone happy.  Additionally, on Veterans Day they offer a free meal to any veteran who served our great nation.

      From our present experience I can only say that the breakfast menu is full and very tasty.  For our visit we chose to eat supper.  We arrived to a nearly empty room, but soon after lots of locals began to arrive.  Barb chose the Chicken Fried Sandwich with a side salad while I decided on the Pepper Steak.  

 

Chicken Fried Steak Sandwich

Pepper Steak with Green Beans & Mashed Taters

      We enjoyed the meal, but there were several issues with dryness and our waitress never checked on us after the meal arrived.  I expected the typical pepper steak, but this was chopped beef covered with jalapenos and cheese.  It was, nonetheless, good.  The total for our meal was $33.39.  On a scale of 1-5 stars, we rated the Mill Creek Cafe: 

"Good food warms the heart and feeds the soul. Good food doesn't mean fancy food, good friend doesn't mean fancy friend, good life doesn't mean fancy life. We eat only to survive, forgetting that healthy eating is the key to survival. Just as dressing well is good business, eating well promotes good health."

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