Mel's Family Steak House

So, this was a bucket list restaurant choice that we had made the decision on our mini vacation to try on the way back home. Knew it would be a large meal and were prepared to eat it for lunch and take some back in a box to go for dinner. We were excited and charmed by the eccentricity of the decor and took photos of everything. The waitress was very Southern and charming as well. They were crowded, and bc the Stockyard and auctions are beside this steakhouse, we knew it would be delicious or so we thought. Well....it started ok. They had the old-time salad bar with strange fixins. No blue cheese, ok thousand island it is then. Perfectly happy. Got skipped for a party of 5 when we were only 2, right from the jump. No silverware. Hostess leaves us waiting for silverware to wash and roll. We

Came here for the first time and got a bacon cheeseburger, everything was cooked really well, and the salad bar was fully stocked and delicious. The overall atmosphere is very cozy and they make you feel like family, the staff were super nice and took good care of us!

The food is Always on point. The staff is Always super sweet and right on top of drink refills and such. I've been going here for years and absolutely love it. My favorite is the salad bar.

I had the fried fish filet dinner, I'm very picky about where I eat fish, and Mel's knocked it out of the park! Staff is friendly, and the food is great! Keep up the good work! I will be seeing yall on my next trip through!

I won't eat here again, I'll just leave it at that. Fried food tasted of old grease, hushpuppies were WAY overcooked, onion rings were cold, steak was cooked wrong, hamburger steak was burnt on the outside and still real pink in the middle. The 4 measly little shrimp they give you were rubbery, bacon on BLT was so thin you could see through it. There was not a decent meal out of the 6 of us.