Back In The Day Cafe

I had the chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and corn. It was all outstanding!! Great fast service and really cute decor. Do not pass this one up!! p.s. the peach cobbler is to die for!

This is a great place to eat. The food is delicious, service is very good and the decor is so cute. The interior is set up like an old time town. I'm so glad to have found it.

Breakfast is great! The decor inside is really amazing and I'm definitely not an interior decorator or art type. Service was phenomenal like the food.

Great atmosphere. Top notch food, and the service is the best you can hope for. My new favorite go to place when I'm in Midland!!!

I was looking for a totally different restaurant and ended up "settling" for this one. Boy, was I in for a surprise!

I had the Chicken Fried Steak with green beans and Cole slaw. The steak was HUGE. Lol. It was also very good, and the gravy excellent! The green beans though.... The great beans were excellent. Next time there might just order a large bowl of their green beans they are so good.

The atmosphere is...quirky, but not in a bad way.

Don't miss this place!

The food is decent. The service is really quick and the restaurant is clean. I was expecting homemade from scratch food but that does not appear to be offered here. I will probably come back to try other options on the menu but my first impression is that this restaurant is good but not great. The restaurant decor and atmosphere is worth seeing since it reminds me of Main Street in one of America’s favorite small towns.

Whether you have breakfast or lunch, the food is always fresh and delicious. The atmosphere is like a town square. A great place to take out of town guest. Service is great too! One of my favorite places to dine.

Everything is great! Chicken Fried Steak, Meatloaf, Hamburger Steak, Fish....can't go wrong here! 😁👍🏽

seeing all these great reviews and am wondering where they ate because our food was waaaay too expensive for what we got. Frozen ORE-IDA french fries not fresh cut, frozen rolls, tasted like box mashed potatoes and chicken fried steak was so bland and flavorless it was so sad (everything tasted like nursing home food...no seasoning or flavor). Lots of crust not much meat. For 17.99 expected better. My dogs liked it but they will eat anything. Everything tasted like school cafeteria food( not in a good way) and portion size was kinda puny. Really there are better places to go-won't be back
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This place is not very big so can get quite crowded at lunch. The hours are also not ideal. If you don’t work close by and hard to make it out here. They had a special on the blackened cat fish that looked really good, but I got the steak fingers. They were probably the best I’ve had in town.