Downtown Cafe

This was a great place to visit for lunch. The buffet was delicious and the staff were so polite. Many choices on the buffet and fresh. Definitely coming back with friends!!!

Each visit is a guarantee happy and full tummy! We love it! Very convienent to meet for lunch. Buffet is fresh, good, homestyle, and make for a day lunch if needed.

Love the food only problem is that you never know when they are open in the evenings went by multiple times and they were closed talked to owner once said they would be open starting next week this is on Friday nights I go love their grilled fish called a couple weeks later was told yes we’re open got there and closed other people parking to go in told them they are closed can’t keep business running like that star rating is for the food when you can get it

Enjoyed every visit since we moved here… just hard to tell when this place will actually be open… almost always closed

Surprisingly delicious, after reading prior post, I wasn’t expecting too much. Home cooked meals. Will definitely be coming back to. I was told catfish on Fridays.

This is what could be an appealing lunch/​dinner spot that serves a lunch buffet during the week. Housed in a big open space in downtown Lufkin, I’m guessing the building used to be retail, perhaps it sold old shoes because that’s what most of the food tasted like.
Seriously, I hate to hand out 1 star reviews, but this place was pitiful. I love to eat, but eating the food here made me sad. I hate that people accept this as passable, and in fact may even enjoy it. The bratwurst was disgusting and dry, the chicken and dumplings tasted like wood, and all the vegetables were obviously canned. The soup was mislabeled, and that’s when I realized how much this place cares. If you can’t be bothered to erase the chalk and update the soup put out for lunch buffet then you obviously don’t give a hoot about your customers.
In addition to the severely lacking food quality, the service was equally dismal. Our «waitress» kind of wandered around, even when I clearly had dirty plates on the table from the lunch buffet. By the end of it I was ready to bolt, but it took her forever and a day to get the check to us and then she was again in no hurry to retrieve it.
This place has a motto on their menu that reads something like” «Don’t complain, let us know and we’ll fix it.» Well, I’ll save them and you the trouble: Don’t come here to begin with.

I have eaten there twice and both times the service was terrible. Food was pretty good for a café.