Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Where to Find Tasty and Affordable American Food in St. Augustine, Florida



Cracker Barrel - Our favorite Restaurant in the States
Having eaten for the past few days a lot of take out and fast food such as deep fried chickens and fries during our trip to Florida, we all craved for some home cook style American food.

We have visited the States many times before and have always enjoyed the dinners at Cracker Barrel I suggested that we looked for a Cracker and Barrel restaurant close to St. Augustine. ( I also just learned about the history of Crackers in Florida on this visit!)

With our computer, we googled and were happy to locate a Cracker Barrel close by. By the time we got to the restaurant it was around 8:30pm. and were glad to find that there was still full dinner service.

Yummy Corn Bread
The menu offered a variety of home style dinners. Jonathan ordered the roast beef; Yachi opted for corned beef; Andrew and Stan had chicken dumplings. I had the Sampler with chicken dumplings, meat loaf and sweet ham and it came with coles slaw, turnip greens, carrots and yummy southern corn bread and biscuits.

 A heavenly meal indeed at a very affordable price for the family, and the children ordered from the kids menu. All the dinners were from $7.99 - $10.99. Everyone enjoyed the home style cooking especially the two to three side dishes served with the dinners we ordered.

The server was courteous and efficient. Jonathan is not an easy person to please when comes to eating out, but he enjoyed the home style cooking at this restaurant a lot. As he devoured the freshly prepared food on his plate, he said happily that he would try to find a Cracker Barrel in Canada. If he could find one, he would go back to eat there again. That is the biggest compliment that a restaurant could ask for when customers do not mind driving the extra distance to return and dine there again.

A new restaurant we tried during our visit in the States this time was Sonny`s at St. Augustine.
Jonathan had to take the 3:45pm bus from St. Augustine going back to the Orlando airport to catch his flight there tomorrow. We sat down at the restaurant at around 2:00pm and the food was served to us in less than 10 minutes after we told them that we were in a rush.




Again our plates came with salad or coles slaw of our choice plus tasty corn bread. We loved the smoked BBQ ribs that fell off the bones when we put them in our mouth and the species were full of flavours.

The pulled pork was just as good, so tender that it melted in our mouths! We were licking our fingers throughout the whole meal. Jonathan was supposed to be a vegetarian but he could not resist this delicious BBQ food either. It was yummmmy yummmmy finger licking good!

After trying the Sonny`s in St. Augustine, we will be looking for this restaurant during our travel!

R.T.
St. Augustine, Florida



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