Ole Coffee House

Food was average and service pretty good. I didn’t have the buffet but it looked like good southern cuisine. Prices are fair as well. The only other word I have for this restaurant is nasty. The furniture was dirty, air vent very dirty, bathrooms needed renovation, and a peek at the kitchen on the way to the bathroom revealed an undesirable state of cleanliness. I will not go back again.

Local breakfast at itz best. Bathrooms are primitive. Servers and customers are real and so is the food. Itz Wildwood through & through. Don t expevt Cracker Barrel. If you love Cracker Barrel eat at the nearby «The Villages”*.
* residential Disney World over 55 Stepford-​type community with nice people as well as stereotypes and their own shopping/​eating experiences like a Hollywood set community. One can only imagine the subplots among the home lots, golf carts, hot shops, nite spots and grave plots.

Lunch was not too bad but nothing to brag about either. Atmosphere very ‘diner’-ish. Service was fast & friendly.

Very local spot that has a surprisingly good breakfast. Biscuits and gravy were home made and home fries were dices fresh potato deep fried. Overall home cooking and very ‘old school Southern charm’. Very old décor so I’m thinking that you don’t want to go exploring around the kitchen.
Lunch buffet and fresh smokers BBQ sounded tasty.
Just take it as it is.

I could not resist coming here after reading the only other review and so far, so good. Tonya was my waitress and I’m happy to report that she has a full set of teeth. There was a decent crowd and no glares and I had a nice conversation with a local lady at the next table. The iced tea is delicious and the HUGE plastic cup (32 oz size at least) only had one small chip out of the rim. The smell of the ladies’ room was on a par with the average backwoods filling station, which gave me pause, but it seemed reasonably clean. The rest of the place looked clean and my tea did not come with a lemon. I figured I’d go ahead and eat since the other reviewer said the food was good and it’s been almost two weeks since I’ve been food poisoned so I’m not due again for a while. Paula Dean on the TV seemed like a good sign and I had a nice conversation with a local lady while I ate my perfectly cooked over medium eggs, well-​done sausage and soft bacon with tomatoes. Everyone was as nice as they could be and I was particularly amused by the sign on the door. The buffet looked good but I don’t eat that much so I didn’t have it. Enjoy!

If you were born and raised in north Sumter County, have the right last name, and drive a Chevrolet pick-​up truck, then you’ll feel right at home at The Olé Coffee House. If you’re not any of the above, then you’re an «outsider» and you’ll stick out like a sore thumb.
Living in this area for over twenty years, I figured I might as well try out one of the oldest restaurants in the area, a staple of Wildwood and Oxford families for generations. Almost every vehicle in the customer parking lot is a Chevy truck with a «BEEF» plate on the front bumper and faded George W. Bush bumper stickers on the back, so you know this eatery is solely for the Wildwood and Oxford farmer families. I went for their Sunday buffet one afternoon, and I was treated like a second-​class citizen the entire time. The serving staff – made up of toothless hags who probably moonlighted at the Waffle House – looked at me with strange looks, even sneers. I felt like I was in some type of redneck segregation, and I was waiting for the cook to come out and say, «We don’t serve your kind here, boy. You best leave right now.» I’m not one of their good ol’ boy regulars, so I was looked on with disgust that I would even think about coming in to thier exclusive – and very musty and out-​of-​date – establishment.
The food was pretty good, though, quite home-​made, that’s for sure. It was so good that I decided to give the Coffee House one more try a few months later, thinking that maybe the hick attitudes would change; they didn’t, and I encountered the same glares from the wait staff and even from those Chevy-​driving farmer families.
So if you’re not born into one of the main families in north Sumter County or don’t work at the railroad right across the street, don’t bother even trying The Olé Coffee House. They don’t want to serve your kind there, so you best move on.