The Barn Restaurant in Smithville is a great place to visit for a unique experience and delicious food. The atmosphere is warm and inviting, with old-timey decor and a beautiful pond with ducks that children can feed. The buffet has a wide variety of options, from Amish-style comfort food to pizza and cheesy bread. The salad wagon is a particular highlight, with fresh vegetables and homemade breads and soups. The soup and chili are particularly tasty, with the broccoli and cheese soup being especially popular. The staff are friendly and accommodating, and the prices are reasonable. The outdoor pavilion is a great place to relax and feed the ducks and fish. All in all, The Barn Restaurant is a great place to visit for a wonderful meal and a unique experience.
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The salad bar is loaded with garnishes and is always spotless. It's a meal itself. The smoked porkchop is delicious . Service: Dine in Meal type: Dinner Price per person: $20–30 Food: 5 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 4 Recommended dishes: Endless Salad Bar, Soup and Salad Wagon, Vegetable Soup, Smoked Pork Chop
All I can say about this place is I wish I could have given it zero stars, and I will tell you why. My family and I went there this past Sunday to have the all you can eat buffet. First I will say of the four bites of food that I was actually able to eat everything tasted very similar. Watery and loaded with Accent. For those love you who don't know what accent is for it is a flavor enhancer also known as pure - monosodium glutamate! Within 4 bites of this bland tasting food, I knew I was going to have an issue. Now I can eat out at any other restaurant and even if there is MSG in the food it by no means reacts the way that the 4 bites of food that I ate at the Barn restaurant this past Sunday does. I quickly brought it to our waitresses attention that I had only been able to eat 4 bites of food and that I would like her to take this off of my bill as I am not able physically to eat their food. She was kind enough to remove my food and then watched me the rest of the time that we were there so that I did not eat anything. When I motioned for her to come over to the table for refills of our beverage I then asked her if it would be possible for me to order something from the menu upstairs and have it brought down to me so that I could eat with my family and not just sit there and not be able to eat. She came back a few minutes later and said no I'm sorry that's not possible we cannot do that. Never have I ever been at a restaurant that could not accommodate a customer's request. It would have been so easy to order something from the menu upstairs in the sit-down part of the restaurant and have them bring it down to me or I could have even went up and got it and brought it down but instead I was refused. My husband and son sat at ate their meal and said that it was very bland! When we went to the register to pay our bill, the young lady asked if everything was okay. My husband said no that we had an issue. She said how could we make it better? His response was you can't make it better you would have to change all of your recipes! I mean that was really a very classy way to say what he couldn't really say. But I also laughed inside too! After explaining to the young lady about the enormous amounts of MSG in their food, she apologized and we were on our way. The best thing about this place was the lake outside and the adorable geese and ducks. Now don't get me wrong you might love this place but if I'm going to go somewhere it's not going to be here, so if you have a sensitivity to MSG or just don't want a bunch of chemicals in your food then I think I would choose someplace else to go there are plenty of other places. Try hartville kitchen Food: 1 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 3