Home Plate Cafe

Freakin fantastic!!! Awesome food. Good prices. Friendly staff. Fun décor. We’ve been 3 times now with consistently great everything.

Best chicken fried chicken I’ve ever had! Decent prices and friendly staff! The white gravy is the BOMB!

I wish we had one of these southern hospitality driven diners up in St Louis. The people who work here are sweet to you right off. We had both dinner and breakfast here when we went crystal hunting for a couple of days nearby. The dinner was delicious and good. I had chicken fried steak and it was crunchy outside and savory goodness inside. I got Mac and cheese (actually yummy shells and cheese) and sweet potato with brown sugar and butter. It was very affordable. Burgers were good too.
Breakfast, holy moley! Big helpings for a great price. Want to carb out, the pancakes are huge. Protein conscious? Omelets are big and tasty.
To summarize: good food, great prices, friendly service. Mm mm good!

Great food and service! More than I could eat. Zack did an awesome job and has a great personality. He made us feel like old friends.

Baseball cards under the tabletops.
1950’s Wrigley Field photo in the men’s room. 65 years later and they are still in the toilet.
Eerie coincidence I sat down by Darryl Kyle’s card. I grew up in Houston and loved watching him pitch.
Soup of the day– sausage cabbage. I have never had a soup like this before so I don’t know how it compares but it was awesome.
$ 2.50
Gooey grilled cheese with three cheeses. I skipped the tomato and added bacon. Good grilled cheese, but I can make the same at home. $ 6.99
Not many options in this town, so Home Plate is a hit.

We arrived at five minutes after 1 o’clock and had to wait for a table. That was our first indication we had made the right choice, it was packed. I ordered the lunch sirloin with onion rings and cream corn, it came with a roll. My companion ordered the fish and chips. Both were among the lunch specials on the chalk board. The steak was a nice size and came exactly as ordered. It had a good flavor and was tasty. The rings came out of a bag but were pretty good but probably could have stayed in the fryer another couple minutes. The cream corn was unlike any I’ve ever had. It was whole kernel corn in a sweet white cream sauce. It was very good. The roll was pretty standard fare, good but would have been better warm. My companion’s fish and chips were very good. The fish was well fried in a crispy tempura type batter. It was a nice firm white fish, I’m guessing cod or haddock. The steak fries were good but came from a bag and I suspect might have had freezer burn. The main items, the steak and fish were very good indeed. I would definitely go back. Also the men’s restroom was spotless.

Love the home plate! We go there pretty often. They are pretty consistent which I really appreciate. Their food id yummy and the staff are super sweet and friendly. Even the owners are really nice people. Even when I haven’t been in for a few months they remember who I am which is really nice. The buffalo chicken is my favorite appetizer lightly breaded and the sauce has just the right amount of punch. Their ranch has always been kinda sad though… like flavored water… It’s very very thin. I used to love their chicken Caesar salads to but they changed the plate and portion size awhile ago and it just didn’t seem worth the money anymore. I wish they would go back to the way it used to be. :(
Their club sandwich is my other favorite it’s so big I normally have to bring some home. I wish they served it with fries instead of chips but that is an easy substitution… that will cost you a few dollars more.
But again the honey mustard isn’t that great. I don’t know where they get their dressings but I would find someplace new. It’s a big let down. The food is so good they should have better sauces and dressings. It just brings everything down.
Still I think they are the best place in HSV. :)

A good place to rest yourself and enjoy a meal. Pretty basic options but the people are so friendly that you think your sister is waiting on you.
I had the fried shrimp dinner and my wife had a salad. The salad dressing is homemade and they have nice fresh rolls.
They have a number of specials on a daily basis with some good deserts.
Is it fine dining? No, but I don’t believe you will walk away hungary or feeling that you ate at a dive. I will return to have another dinner!

This place is as southern a place as I have ever been. Friendly and funny employees
The food was good and the atmosphere cozy.

Came back here again and nothing really changed. Still, very good. They have expanded their floor space to include another sitting area. Always very busy.

Stopped here on our road trip, the service was outstanding, food was even better. One of the best breakfast out in a LONG time!

Just how friendly is the waitress?

We came expecting a classic home style meal without many frills and that is what we got. We were disappointed however that the prime rib (what were we thinking?) was cooked medium to medium well instead of the medium rare as requested. Additionally, the stuffed shrimp were fried to death, the mashed potatoes were clearly instant, and the white wine by the glass was a boxed wine (we saw them pour it). Our preschool boys liked their popcorn chicken and hotdog however, so what can we complain about? Just don’t expect a diamond in the rough here.

Truly a great find in this little town. Very good food, very good value, very GREAT staff. And great hours for us visiting rock-​hounds, it was nice to sit down to a good, hot breakfast before digging for the day.

The fish trio wasn’t very good actually. The sauce was a little too buttery. My husband’s steak was wonderful! They have a great menu. Will probably go back and try something different. Service was good…

I have a mixed review.
Staff was friendly and if you like meat, like me, then it is a good value.
Hypothetical example– 2 eggs, choice of bread, choice of meat, choice of non-​meat side.
If you do not want meat, like others I went with, they are not willing to substitute a non-​meat side in the breakfast meals… so they payed for a extra side.
I went with the «homerun omelet» and it was good. The sausage was a little dry was a minor complaint, but I got plenty of veggies & a bottle of hot sauce and that makes everything better.
I saw Eggs Benedict on the menu and found that to be interesting. I almost went with steak-​N-​eggs meal that looked very good.
Overall– nice place for carnivores but herbivores will pay.

Was headed to Lake Ouachita State Park for a weekend of camping. Locals up the road told me about this place. Arrived just before dinner rush, service was prompt and attentive. Good food with moderate pricing. Friday evening prime rib special, but chose another item as i was going to evening dive and didnt want to be stuffed

Just as Jen S and Daniel C had said in previous reviews the staff is very friendly. I’m writing this review some months after the fact but what’s important is that the place left a good impression. Enough for me to write this review. If you happen to be in this part of the country then try it out.

Have eaten here several times over the past few years and it’s always good. Good, well-​prepared food at a good price. If you’re in Hot Springs Village, it’s the place to go for a breakfast, lunch or dinner.

One of the first things to hit you as you glance over the menu is the ridiculously low prices and so your next thought is the food can’t be that great. But I’m glad to say the food equals the bright comforting feel of the place. Honest food served by genuine people that seem happy to be there.