Cody’s Original Roadhouse

Great atmosphere, outdoor seating, quick service, good food, awesome drinks. Busy but easy to be seated.

My New York friend tells me Cody’s has the best ribs. I love the chocolate martinis. Service is quick and pleasant. Food is good and priced well.

We came in and were greeted by our server, Faye. After taking our orders, we hardly saw her. My husband, bring a restaurant manager, is very critical of wait staff. We would watch Faye constantly visit her regulars, but the others she would only stop at their tables every one in a while. She interrupted a server taking an order from a customer because it was one of her regulars. Told him she got it, to find something else to do. Also, the only time we saw the manager is the few times that she came up front to the hostess station. This is a poorly managed restaurant and the food is average at best. The best thing to eat there are the rolls and salad. Find somewhere else to eat.

Literally the worst steak I’ve ever had in my life. Service was good, ambience was good.
Ordered a ribeye rare but it’s so thin that making it rare is impossible.
Fool me once… but never again!

Good food in general. The mud slide drinks on 2 for 1 specials: they must cut the liquor in half on these deals because they are just a glass full of whip cream and a hint of alcohol. The moment you complain, service goes down hill! Our waitress didn’t show up after we told her the mud slides sucked!
It’s not the first time either. Been there like 4 other times and each time the service sucked!
2 stars because of lousy management and sucky staff! If I were to judge the food it would be 4 stars! Can’t blame cooking guys for lousy service.
The country fried steak was good! The cheesy shrimp was good and fajita were well made too.
The potato skins were well prepared but I’m sure they come frozen

Sehr Lecker und riesige Portionen. Bedienung sehr freundlich und sehr schnell. Preise würde ich als eher günstig ansehen. Würde ich als typisches amerikanisches dinner ansehen. Hauptsächlich einheimische, aber Touristen sind dort sich herzlich willkommen. Haben direkt einen Platz bekommen, obwohl es wirklich voll war (17:45 an einem Donnerstag). Insgesamt sehr gut organisiert. Essen war schnell fertig, Getränke wurden direkt nachgefüllt (ohne Aufpreis). Großer Parkplatz direkt vor der Tür.
Hatten die scampis und die mit Käse und Bacon überbackenen pommes. Beides lecker, die pommes würden bei uns als hauptspeise durchgehen.
Die steaks sind super gebraten. Die jene und Qualität wurde bei uns locker das doppelte kosten.

Three visits in the last couple of months. Most of the meals were very good. Service was good to very good. Overall this place is one of the better places in Crystal River. We will continue going here

Has great staff ! As for the food, sometimes it’s a hit, unfortunately — sometimes it’s a miss. The staff is always awesome ! Friendly bartenders and great servers & hostess’s. It’s family friendly and a wonderful atmosphere. If your looking for atmosphere and service, you’ll enjoy Codys and it’s southern feel.

Cody’s was recommended by a snowbird local so we had to try it. I went back and forth on how to rate it. There were good points and not so good points.
I love meat but my husband not so much. Occasionally we split a meal if it’s steak. I get the majority of it and he takes a bite or two and it works. Good servers usually bring extra plates. Not so here but we were prepared. We kept the one salad plate we were served so we could have a second to split the steak. Server never offered an extra plate. Server never returned to ask how the steaks were cooked either.
Our steak was ordered medium rare and served very rare. It was hard to cut through the uncooked meat so we asked for a doggie bag — no questions from the server why it was all going home with us either
The rolls are to die for. They are fantastic and so was the potato. They were both perfect.
We ordered the key lime pie. It was different. Not sure we liked it or didn’t like it.
Would we go back? Probably not. Steak wasn’t cooked right and server certainly could have been better. However, so I would say if you go, don’t order a steak and don’t split an order without letting the server know you’d like an extra plate and to please check back after it is served.
One word fits — disappointed.

After waiting a hour to get our steaks they were cooked wrong. After waiting 20 more minutes they came back well done when we ordered rare and med rare. Manager on duty was an Idiot. She never even said sorry for the hassle… Why should I be sorry I didn’t cook them is what she said. Even the people at the other tables were shocked at her response. Being a steak place you would think they could get it right. If she worked for me I would have fired her on the spot. When we were leaving she told my friend have another one. Implying he was drunk for complaining. He has not had a drink in 5 years. The date was Friday Oct 30. Even the workers were embarred of her. Will never go back to Cody’s and will tell everyone else to avoid it also.

Went on a Wednesday around 6. We had been scalloping, so we were a little tired and hungry.
Parking lot was full but we saw a few cars just leaving and grabbed a spot with no trouble.
Entry was full of people waiting, but we checked in, were handed a playing card as our number and were told 5 – 10 min.
Sure enough in less than ten minutes the three of us were seated.
Restaurant was packed, as was the bar. As expected its a loud place with a Texas roadhouse feel– license plate hanging lamps, peanut shells on the floor, fishing and outdoor shows on the flatscreens, paper sheet covering the table top…
Menu had 2 for one drinks till 7. Cool.
Also wednesday was 2 for 1 fajitas.
Server came by quickly and took our drink orders. Beer and wine were delivered two at a time– 2 for one.
We ordered ribs, chicken and ribs and chicken. Baked potato and coleslaw for sides. Salad is all you like and was delivered a few minutes after we ordered, from a large bowl onto our plates. She also dropped off fresh hot rolls that had a sprinkle of cinnamon and a side of sweetened butter.
Our server was servicing other tables right around us. She looked over her tables as she delivered food to other tables. So a very professional server. She checked back to see how we were doing when she saw the drinks or salad going low. Main courses came out less than 15 min later.
Hot sauce was on the table. We asked for, and were given additional bbq sauce.
Ribs were fall off the bone and moist. Sauces were sweet and sour.
I wouldn’t say the food is «smoked» like some of the other places. It is good tasting with a good bbq sauce flavor and not over cooked. Plenty of food with each entre. We wound up taking food back with us.
One negative, which is the reason not for 4 stars, is that in the half chicken entre: the chicken leg thigh middle section by the bone was just not cooked. The outside was cooked fine, white and juicy, but the middle was pink and translucent. I showed this to the waitress when she came by to bus the table and she said that color is from the way they cook the ckicken. And she took away the plates. Sorry but I’ve been cooking and eating for too many years not to know raw chicken vs smoked chicken.
We’d go back but would cut into the chicken early on to be sure its cooked through.

I have eaten at a Codys before. They are usually par. This one, is horrible. Waited 15 min for bread. The bread was yummy with the cinnamon butter. Then ordered. The food took another 25 min and the steak was very well done when ordered medium rare. The ribs came it burnt black on top. Sent steak back and didn’t want anything after that long wait. Ribs were picked at. Had to wait another 20 min for a check. Manger never bothered to come to table to talk with us. What has happened to pride and customer service? Everything is hurry up and seat as many people to make as much money as we can not worrying about the quality of food or service. My friends say I’m stuck up because I prefer eating at independently owned places or upper scale restaurants. This place proves my point of «you get what you pay for». I would never again visit this location. Management needs training on how to handle situations such as this.

Chain restaurant gone bad! Ordered steak and lobster tail, lobster not fresh, did not taste safe. Steak was a mushy mess with fatty bacon kind of around it.
There are far too many good non chains around. I used to like Codys,
The waitress did a fine job and was sorry. Felt the manager just did not give a crap.
Will never go again.

We were there early, maybe 6pm. Salads were plain, with some of the iceberg lettuce showing some brown around the edges. Bread was never delivered. We waited for longer than usual for our entrees. As stated, husband’s steak was good, though smaller than it should be at these prices. I had ordered the prime rib, rare. What was delivered was medium. No pink existed, let alone rare meat. When I pointed this out, the waitress was very sweet, but said that they had cooked all the prime rib «too much» that night, so this was as close to rare as she could get — even at 6:30pm! What kind of thing is the in a «steakhouse»?
She offered to get the menu so I could select another entrée, but I wasn’t really interested in waiting for my dinner, again, then eating alone.
She offered to get the manager. Eventually, she returned and said the manager wouldn’t come over to the table. The waitress was apologetic and embarrassed, and we felt badly for her. But the owner of this place should be ashamed of the lack of professionalism from the manager, and the lack of skill in the kitchen.
We were charged for the steak, as well as the four glasses of wine we drank. Under the circumstances, at least one of those glasses should have been comped.

Great food, selection, service and value. Really loved the food because everyone could get what they wanted. The waitress was great with a sense of humor and anticipated our needs before we had to ask. We had steak bites, chicken fried steak, burgers, and chicken fried chicken. All good, cooked perfectly, and would go back again and again.

Fried green tomatoes were a good appetizer. My steak was a little overcooked. Lamb was good. Kids meals are inexpensive with free kids meals a few times a week. Rolls were yummy. Love the cinnamon butter! This restaurant reminds me of mannys in Haines city.

At lunch there last week. Had Onion soup, the Beef tips and sweet potato fries.
The salad was very fresh and cold. They messed up and put the house dressing on it rather than Blue Cheese as requested. But I am glad!!! The house dressing is very good!
Tips were done to perfection and the sweet potato fries were nice and crispy on the outside yet smooth and creamy inside. The yeast roll was very good just not a fan of the cinnamon butter that came with it.
Glad I went a bit early as they got VERY busy by 11:45 — 12:00.
Go, you won’t be disappointed.

Food was pretty good, service was a little bit slow but overall we were happy. Would go here again :)

Stopped in her for dinner after seeing how packed it was the night before.
We arrived early, were seated right away. Took a few minutes for the waitress to come by. Didn’t mind waiting cuz it was fun eating peanuts and throwing the shells on the floor.
We both ordered the half rack of ribs with sauce on the side. I had steamed veggies, hubby had sweet potato fries.
Dinners come with unlimited salad, only offered with house dressing. Speak up when you first order if you don’t want red onions and/​or pepperocinnis (sp).
Rolls come with a cinnamon butter.
Our ribs arrived, by a different server, both sauced. Our waitress was at our table within a minute to see if our order was correct. She noticed it wasn’t, took them back to the kitchen. Before she left she asked if we wanted more salad and/​or rolls.
We were concerned that the rest of our dinner would be cold. It wasn’t, they replated some unsauced ribs and prepared fresh sides.
Ribs were a bit dry, and it was like they threw more of their rub mixture on top. A bit too much for us.
Prices were reasonable, service was good, food was okay.
Probably wouldn’t make another trip in though.

This restaurant is a local hotspot. Look for at least a half hour wait on a Friday or Saturday night. We called ahead and made a reservation but were seated about 20 minutes after our reservation time, 7:45 pm.
Our waitress was super. On her game, attentive, there when we needed her and gone when we didn’t.
We started with fried green tomatoes appetizer. Very good. Served with ranch dressing.
I ordered the roasted ½ chicken. It comes with (endless) salad and a side. The endless salad only comes with ranch dressing so health conscious beware. Our meals arrived timely. My wife’s steak was really good as well as my sons burger was also well prepared, but my chicken was tired. I think that poor bird had been laying in a warming rack for a little too long. He also had telltale puncture wounds from an automatic thermometer in the wing and leg, which looked strange. The leg was pretty much destroyed from the wound. All in all the chicken wasn’t too bad. By the size of the crowd and the fact we needed to eat and run I wasn’t going to complain.
My wife’s garlic mashed potatoes fully loaded were excellent.
I try to follow a low fat, low carb, and low cholesterol diet. Codys menu is challenging to find items that squeeze into that category. Most menu items are fried, potatoed, buttered, or covered with something bad for you.
Codys is a safe bet. Nothing spectacular but the food is hot and good, beer and drinks are cold, and the service is with a smile.

I visited Crystal River for a manatee experience, but we were rained out. Cody’s was packed. Their bar had some crazy cheap specials for drinks, apps, and burgers. What also makes this better than a Logan’s is you can throw your peanuts on the floor still. This is basically a smaller chain version of Logan’s but with better prices. I got a half rack of ribs and they were actually really good.

Tolles typisch amerikanisches Steakhaus. Sehr rustikal und große Portionen. Nichts nur für den kleinen Hunger. Erika war zudem eine äußerst charmante Bedienung. Das Restaurant ist sehr empfehlen wenn man Fleisch gerne mag.

Kultiges typisch amerikanisches Roadhouse mit leckerem Essen. Riesige Portionen und humane Preise;
es war sauber, es ging relativ schnell und die Bedienungen waren super freundlich und locker. Große Auswahl an Speisen. Gehen auch auf Sonderwünsche ein. Es ist gemütlich eingerichtet, wenig Touris, eher Einheimische.
Mein persönliches Fazit: Wer gerne große Fleischportionen auf dem Teller hat, ist hier richtig. Auch Salatesser kommen hier auf ihre Kosten