JW Cobbs

Another of Ponca city’s favorite place and WHY? I can’t understand. Where to start, well first off, place is disturbingly filthy, and I don’t mean from being busy. Comes from years of neglect. Steak special I ordered was wayyyy overpriced and not very good.
Staff was in dirty, greasy clothes and I’m sure you wouldn’t want to see the kitchen.
Seems no one cooks in this town, and I only stopped from reviews while traveling. Reviews in OK aren’t legitimate.

I was in town on business looking for someplace «local» for lunch. JW Cobbs came highly recommended. Wonderful service and a great family atmosphere. Lunch specials are good and they serve REAL mashed potatoes.

This is a great family restaurant. I usually go here for breakfast — nice «greasy spoon» quality food without the greasy spoon smell on your clothes. Their coffee is a perfect diner cup o’ joe, from some local company who sells to them. The biscuits and gravy are just what they should be and the price point canNOT get any better: $ 6 for steak and eggs, chicken fried steak and eggs, pork and eggs, or heck anything and eggs! All the breakfast items are great here (they even know how to poach an egg!) and on Saturday they have a breakfast buffet (ends at 11am) — So Ponca does do BRUNCH! hehe
My recent outing reminded me why it’s ALWAYS good at JW’s — we were too late for breakfast so we got lunch. YUM. Chicken Fried Chicken! Can’t get that just any day of the week in Wisco, so I was very happy with that, some perfectly fried okra and those «momma cooked em» green beans! PS. I confirm those «homemade rolls are to die for» statement by Lani. Soft and fluffy — they peel apart with warm steam rising.
Portions are made big for the local farmers/​ranchers, and they are still using «grandma’s» recipes here. There is a Sunday Buffet with lunch items (fried chicken on the bone) for something cheap $ 8 – 11 (?) for after church.
If you aren’t from here or just passing through, this is where a local will tell you to try some regional dishes. If you’re from here, you already know about this secret, ain’t no point «preaching to the choir.»

When I need comfort food, this is where I go (since my Granny passed away). Best pot roast, chicken fried steak, catfish in TOWN!!!

Ordered the JW grill chicken salad and it was great. Very filling and fresh. Could have feed two.

So surprised that they don’t have any reviews! We stopped here on our way through Ponca City for Sunday lunch. Its an under-​stated, family run establishment but offers up some amazing food. The club sandwich is enormous, burgers are delicious and homemade rolls are to die for. Great service and reasonable prices make this a 10!

Foods pretty good and the service is good. Only issue me and my friends have is the consistency of the food. Sometimes when we go for breakfast the cowboy hashbrowns are all you could ask for and then other mornings the cheese isnt melted on them and the hashbrowns are soggy. But overall this place is great.

Cobb’s is an institution in Ponca. There are three Cobb’s listed here onYelp. They are the same and there is only the one location.
If you are looking for a yuppie restaurant with «Hi Guys» waiters and froo froo food then you are in the wrong place. Here you are likely to be greeted by «Hon» and you will be seated next to a farmer in bib-​overalls who is having his dinner at 1:00 in the afternoon. And what a meal it is! Every thing on the menu is good and there is a lot of it.
The side vegetables do leave something to be desired if you are not from the Midwest. I think they are canned but the fried okra and corn are great.
Come, you will like it.

Quit going to Cobbs several years ago because it was consistently dirty. Decided to give it another chance yesterday. Much cleaner, pleasant people, food was mediocre at best. The highly touted chicken fried steak had the flavor and texture of a processed product. Cream gravy was flavorless, and the rolls were doughy. My ‘chopped steak’ was flavorless, the gravy was too salty, and the dressing was an amorphous mass of some bread product. Ironically, they put brown gravy on my ‘chopped steak’ and chicken/​turkey gravy on my dressing. I had hoped for better. Their parking lot is always full, and that confuses me.

So not many options in Ponca City on a Sunday but this place was recommended on Unilocal,Foursquare, and by my hotel so I went on down. I placed a to go order since I was exhausted and sat and sat and sat. Finally after 35 minutes when another customer came in they realize it was me they were trying to contact (sitting right in front of them) about being out of my chicken that I ordered. So I get talked into chicken strips (fine, I am hungry). I am wondering how they can make chicken strips but not my grilled chicken bits? Ding ding they use pre-​made, processed chicken (FAIL). Then after a total of 70 minutes they finally have my order ready, don’t comp me anything and when I get back and open it up… wait for it. They forgot my OKRA!!! So in summary it took 70 minutes to make pre-​made chicken strips, carrots, and okra and then leave the okra in the restaurant. DON’T EAT HERE.

Hot homemade rolls – I love them! I had ordered a simple lunch – beef soup and a side of tabouli (yes! in NE OK you’ll find tabouli!), my friend ordered a chef’s salad with turkey.
A basket of four hot, better than «my mom» can make, rolls appeared on our table. Yowser – these weren’t just wonderful homemade rolls, these were bites of Nirvanah!
My beef soup arrived – overflowing with chunks and shreds of beef – more beef than soup broth. Barely room to dunk my rolls! The tabouli was lemony – but could have used a bit more mint and a couple chops of cucumber. My friend was pleasantly surprised with her salad. Yes, it was iceburg, but fresh and crisp loaded with sliced egg and vegetables. And, the best was that the turkey wasn’t cubed deli-​turkey, but chunks of dark and light off the bone turkey. Yay – yay!
Only two dark marks – no butter, only spread (ick!) and the waitress charged me $ 1 for water. The $ 1 was taken off when I brought it to the cashier’s attention.

I have never had a bad meal at Cobb’s. Good old country food. My wife & I eat there almost ever Sat & Sun. Sunday u need to get there before 12:00 or you will stand in line. Great buffet. Yum O. H.C.W.

My wife and I ate here for lunch and despite the humble appearance, the food was quite good. I had the country/​chicken fried steak and my wife had the fried catfish. Both tasted fresh and were nicely seasoned. The food was definitely better than most of the food we had during our visit to Ponca City. The staff was friendly and responsive to two obvious out-​of-​towners, but I must say the staff and restaurant was not overly clean in appearance. The cleanliness didn’t bother us too much since this was our second day in town and by comparison, J. W. Cobb’s was pretty good overall. If you are in Ponca City, you should give them a try.