Blue Springs Cafe

Awesome food, the most phenomenal pies and great service. You will not walk away hungry. Wear your stretch pants you will need them. Even though it is right off the highway it is a must stop.

The first time I stopped here was about two years ago. My husband and I stopped because of the signs for foot-​high pie (which reminded us the Blue Bonnet Café in Marble Falls, TX), but we had a late lunch. At that time you selected your entrée from the long list on the board and they brought you a selection of sides. I remember having down home southern fried chicken, 3 large pieces, and more sides than the table could hold! The chicken and sides were all fabulous, and I’ve told people about it ever since.
Fast forward two years and I’ve stopped here again with my parents. Things have definitely changed. Prices are the same, but you get a choice of two sides. The cold sides, such as cole slaw and pickled beets, were generously portioned, but the hot side of green beans was rather small. I ordered the cod and received one piece, the breading of which had very little flavor, although the fish was moist. My mother got the open faced roast beef sandwich, which she said was «nothing special» and didn’t have enough gravy for her liking. My father had the fried tenderloin, which wasn’t the giant things you see in a lot of places, but was still generous. He said it was «good».
Will I stop here again? I regularly travel back and forth through this area from Indiana to Missouri, so I might, if for no other reason to support a local business and avoid chains. Will I rave about it still? No.

Outstanding pies & blue plate specials. Good service. I always stop here when traveling nearby. If you like chicken livers, or baked chicken & dressing, this is the place.

Stop here if you are nearby for lunch or dinner. Home cooked goodness and friendly, good service.
We had a party of 6 for lunch on our way back to Indy. All lunch entrees were $ 7.95 with 2 sides. They even have beer in bottles and on tap! They accommodated my son’s request for the lasagna even though it’s not on the kids menu. They brought him a half portion, which was perfect.
I had the chicken and dumplings — awesome! Others has fried chicken, lasagna, hamburger and grilled chicken breast. All very good.
And of course, you’d be crazy not to have a piece of pie. So good — and lots of choices. Recommend you share a piece with a friend or two after you eat your main entrée. It’s a lot of food.
Note: cash only here — no credit cards accepted. There’s an ATM in there.

We’ve passed by this on several trips and finally decided to give it a try. Now I wish we hadn’t waited so long!
Fried chicken is amazing! Crispy outside — juicy inside. Comes with 2 sides for $ 7.95. Everything on their menu is $ 7.95 and there’s a lot of good home cooking to choose from. Chicken and dumplings are good too.
And the pie… you must try the pie! Varied selection — Apple, cherry, blackberry, banana cream, coconut cream, pecan…
We will be back!

My friends and I had lunch on a Sunday. Oh my! Wonderful, friendly, knowledgeable, and professional wait staff. Sunday is family style with bowls of cole slaw, pickled beets, and warm tasty biscuits w/​apple butter mashed potatoes w/​gravy and seasoned green beans are also brought in bowls when your enter comes. Pie! Cream pies have meringue 4 inches tall with 2 inches of pudding. The fruit pies are loaded with fruit! The food is tasty. The décor is homey.

Excellent food. .the chicken and dumplings were delicious. .hubby had the chicken fried steak. .there are a good number of sides and the pies are truly homemade. .I don’t know who gets up at o dark thirty to make all those pies but someone does.. to my great delight

While this rating is simply based on the pie, all we can say is that the foot tall pies are well worth stopping for!
In an attempt to lure us in based on signage on the interstate was totally successful, especially the sign that announced they’d been featured on the food network.
The place sit about 200 feet off the interstate and it totally unassuming. You walk in and are greeted by the pie counter where something like 15 pie options are at your fingertips. The ones worth stopping for, IMO, are quite literally a foot tall with the bulk being Merengue. They are spectacular!
We tried a chocolate one and it was delicious — dark chocolate as the base with a nice crust and the 9 inches of Merengue brought it as close to heaven a pie can get!
They only take cash or check, but do have an ATM if you’re like 80% of the world now and don’t carry cash.
A great roadside stop off if you’re in the area on your way to St. Louie.

Home style, family style dining at its best. Start with cold sides, then move on to a generous main course (most of which is fried) with mashed potatoes, gravy and green beans.Yum. Delicious, unhealthy food with great service. If you can still eat more, they have mile high meringue pie or fruit pie. Kaitlynn was the best waitress ever. Never waited for a refill.

We were traveling once again enjoying the road. We saw the sign and stopped and they were closed. The sign didn’t say the hours they were open. 11 to 9 we know now.
On our way back we stopped again. Now that we knew the hours lol
All we wanted was pie they did look good from what we saw on the counter. The girl said they were 18 dollars We thought that was a high price but we wanted to try them anyway. Then she brought out a 9 inch pie not the same bigger pies that were on the counter. Needless to say I wasn’t paying 18 dollars plus for a 9 inch pie. Just because you were on the food network doesn’t mean you rape people. Shame on you.
I’ll pay 13 for the pies in Amish country their excellent And bigger. Lol

This was a welcome stop on our drive from Kansas City to Indianapolis. I give it three stars because the food was average in my opinion, but the pie really was fantastic. I’d probably stop again if I make the same drive.

My wife and I were traveling from St. Louis to Cincinnati via I-​70. We saw a sign along the highway advertising Blue Springs Café, next exit. The sign also had a ‘Food Network’ logo on it, so we decided to stop, since it was literally right off of the exit. What really got our attention was the ‘Foot High Pies’ on the sign. The only pies that were actually a foot high were the meringue pies, Lemon, Banana, Chocolate and Coconut. The fluffy meringue topping was how the pie got to be a foot high. The topping was 2 to 3 times the thickness of the pie filling. Not what I want in a meringue pie. I like the filling and the meringue topping to be of equal thickness. We decided to take home the apple pie, which was really good, but was not a foot high.
Bring cash or be prepared to use their ATM on site. Maybe they haven’t heard of the Square, which allows you to take credit/​debit card through a cell phone. Just a FYI.

Excellent lunch! Chicken livers, taters, and gravy! Mmmmmm!!! Then mile high banana cream pie with boulders of bananas! Only reason for 4 star instead of 5 was our waiter could have been little more attentive and left the magazine put down.
Will be back! I hear the blackberry pie calling my name.

Pies rule but the ambiance and service and freebies on the table will bring you back too. I wasn’t impressed with the chicken and dumplings but I’m pretty sure that they’re authentic and lots of people will rank them their favorite. Never had a meringue on a pie that i enjoyed before and I’m picky on chocolate pie. They won me over on both counts and an excellent and tasty crust. I’ll do a drive by whenever i can afford the carbs. Bring cash. $ 5 a pie slice to go, if nothing else. Apple was equally worth a stop. And i can make both so rarely think anything i buy is worthwhile because homemade is better.

The food is decent, it’s country style home cooking, nothing to write home about. I had the buffet for a Sunday lunch with a fairly large crowd (8). The tables were packed extremely tight you could barely walk anywhere.
Overall the food is decent, my biggest complaint is that they don’t take credit card/​debit card, but have an ATM machine. We all get why you do it. But c’mon. It’s the 21^st century, get one installed/​setup to help customers.

We stop here every time we’re on I-​70. The food is amazing with very large portions. The sides are served family style. Lunches are about $ 8 while dinner is about $ 13 — really not much at all. Then there are the foot high pies and fruit pies. Just amazing. When we’re heading home we make a point of carrying out at least a pie. They are made daily and when they’re gone, they’re gone.
Just a note — it is cash only, but there is an ATM by the pies, just in case.

Traveling along I-​70, I saw a billboard advertising for Blue Springs Café, home of the Mile-​High Pie. SAY NO MORE! I took the exit, in which I saw the restaurant standing all by its lonesome self just off of the interstate. (Probably because everyone else is too scared to compete with Blue Springs… you’ll see why.)
The restaurant is littered with blue-​checkered table cloths and PIE. Pie all over the counter when you first walk in. Banana, coconut, lemon, and coconut cream pies standing at one foot tall, followed by the flatter apple, rhubarb, peach, cherry, and blackberry pies. I knew I couldn’t walk out of here without ordering one of the mile-​highers.
On the wall were menu boards listing all the available dishes: chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, salmon, roast beef, lasagna, fried shrimp, pork sausage, ham steak, catfish… you know, everything that a Grandmother raised on a farm in Kentucky would fix you. I went with the chicken and dumplings, not knowing all of the extras that would come with it. First came the biscuits, apple butter, pickled beets, and cole slaw in little bowls. By the time I was able to process all that had been laid in front of me came the chicken and dumplings, mashed potatoes, and green beans (they serve it up «family style» at Blue Springs). WHOA. Who was going to eat all this? Did they think I had friends coming? Never in my life have I been given so much food at once. It was wonderful.
The food tasted just as I had said about the menu board: like your farm-​raised Grandmother from Kentucky fixed it. There was a a whole lotta love in my many, many dishes, so much that I had to put it in a to-​go box. One of my favorites was that cinnamon-​heavy apple butter. When is Blue Springs going to sell it by the jar, because it was the PERFECT complement to my biscuits. Had I been served less, I probably would have been caught sucking it down out of the bottle.
But wait! I haven’t talked about the best part of the meal: THE BANANA CREAM PIE! Lawdy! The pie had chunks of ripe bananas and pudding topped with a huge mound of meringue that got better with each sweet bite. It was one of the loveliest pies I’ve ever tasted, so lovely that I bought a chocolate one to take home.
May my experience persuade you to stop here on your next road trip, because you’d be a fool not to. I’ll be planning another trip in that direction just to stop at Blue Springs Café.

Classic country style cooking with portions and refills to spoil any diet. Super friendly Katie the server filled the empty restaurant (it was closing hour in the snow) with a bright smile and endless cheer.

Stopped here on a road trip from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to Manhattan Kansas. We were thrilled to see these foot high pies for ourselves. They really are spectacular to behold.
We stopped in with a carload of seven people and chose to buy two pies. We bought a chocolate cream that had about 7 inches a meringue on top and a dense heavy apple pie. I swear the apple pie may have weighed 5 pounds.
we then drove another few hours with the pies waiting for us in the back of the van. It was not until later that evening, New Year’s Eve did we get to enjoy our foot high pies. The chocolate pie was very rich but the meringue balanced the flavor. The apple pie was tart and sweet, I do not think they even added sugar. We enjoyed our pies and will recommend them to anyone passing through.

I can’t review the food – just the Mile High Pie.
Apparently, this was on Food Network, «Best Thing I Ever Ate». While I don’t like unnecessary blow back on food network featured places, I can say when you are a pastry chef and call it the «Best», even though its in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, I want to try it.
Driving across country, we stopped in for the chocolate mousse Mile High pie. The meringue was high, but soggy. The chocolate wasn’t great, and I really didn’t like the crust. It honestly spoiled my appetite for dinner, not because we ate too much, but because it was just so blah.
I wouldn’t really bother stopping and I feel like it does have undue praise.