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| - The responsiveness to customer queries via the LJ website is nil. Seems to be an eat here if you want but don't bother us otherwise attitude. Now that Cracker Barrel is down the street and my closer to home Fire Rock is serving very decent breakfast, sadly it's Lumberjacks once inviting destination now very lacking.
Once upon a time this place turned out good large quality meals worth driving across town for. The chicken fried steak w/eggs & biscuits & gravy breakfasts were hot, good and filling. Their Saturday night prime rib special was always flavorful and tender. Their burgers were good too.
Things have changed. Now, despite their claims nearly a year ago they were returning to evening dinner service they failed to do so...still closing at 3 pm. So no prime rib special. The open faced sandwiches, choice of turkey or roast beef, were always yummy and filling. More recently I found the amount of bread remains large and there's plenty of gravy, but the beef and turkey portions are smaller. Tastes good but less of it. Last week we visited again, ordering biscuits & gravy and NY Steak & eggs. The biscuits & gravy half order was plentiful, and good. But, while the steak was pretty good and reasonably tender, and the scrambled eggs nicely cooked (& I am a stickler for properly light & scrambled eggs). The hashed browns were cooked but not browned. The steak came on a bed of two biscuits with gravy. The gravy was flavorful. It was a shame the biscuits were so hard and dry the gravy could not rescue them. It was almost like they were using up day old biscuits in their dishes. Not good. Were they to begin opening for dinner again we "might" try them again but after their breakfast last Saturday morning there's not much to recommend them. I will say I love their larger coffee mugs, the coffee was good, and we had no server problems. The food was pretty timely.
It's sad when a restaurant that once provided nothing but satisfying, tasteful fare now scrapes near the bottom of the pan. A closing would not be surprising. Due to partial satisfaction and the good service I gave 2 stars but that's prohibitive.
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