Overpriced for the amount of food that you get. Food is good but too expensive for the amount.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Hamburger
Deb Brenner
Huntsville and Madison, if 137 reasons are not enough for you to drive out to Decatur, here is the 138th reason that you should make the trek. The Hard Hat Cafe is family-owned and operated, plus they are 4 years old, which means if you do the math, they opened during Covid times. Which means they were feeding people and serving people during the time when nobody wanted to be around anyone else. If that's not reason enough to frequent this place, then I don't know what to tell you. As for the food, it is plentiful and good and homemade. This is the kind of place that people go for lunch, when they need a lunch that will give them energy and keep them full. People that do hard work eat lunch here. If a good lunch to you is a shot of wheatgrass and an air sandwich, you are not going to like this place. But if you need something that will fill you up and remind you of home, this is the perfect place! Parking in the back, shaded picnic table seating. Unfussy and good, kind of like the rest of Decatur.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Janet Willson
Variety of delicious comfort food. Pork chop was cooked to order.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken and Dressing, Potato Salad
Tracy Reno
Best place I have found in Decatur to eat. Service was excellent. Very friendly people.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Stephanie Ray
The food is excellent and the service is too!
We went for breakfast and ordered pancakes, smoked sausage, and bologna and they were the fluffiest pancakes I’ve ever had. The place is clean and I’d definitely like to go back for breakfast or lunch.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Keatra Chambers
This is a great place to eat! Small restaurant with big personality! Service was quick and excellent! Food received chef's kiss! Everyone was nice and knowledgeable about the menu! You can't go wrong choosing Hard Hat Cafe for breakfast or lunch!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Richard Eric richardericgibson
Best breakfast on the river. Everything is made to order and it is straight up home cooking. Biscuits, pancakes, scrambled eggs. So good. You’ll love this place.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Tirrall Baugh
Great food . Great employees . The fried fish is finger licking !
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Fried Fish, Fried Chicken
Heather Rogers
This place is absolutely amazing. The food was delicious and Martel was awesome. The best home cooked meal around. If you haven't visited here you are definitely missing out.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken and Dressing, Potato Salad, Fried Chicken
Ashley Miller
Amazing!!!! Outstanding customer service and food! We had Chicken and Dressing, macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, baked spaghetti, potato salad, cabbage, black eyed peas and corn bread. Everything was delicious and Martel is awesome! We will definitely be back!! If you are looking for a home cooked meal, Hard Hat Cafe is the place to go!!!
Can’t rate the food because after waiting over an hour we did not get served. We were the only people dining in. Took 30 minutes after ordering to be told that what I wanted wasn’t available. We never got updates after that while others coming in after us got served their to-go orders quickly. Went to pay for the coffee so we could leave and get food elsewhere and was given a quick, dismissive apology with no remorse.We love to support a small businesses but not when there’s a major lack of customer service and respect.
This is a nice place run by a mother and son. It's nice to find places like this cause the appreciation for your business is genuine.The food quality is good. Recipes made from experience not a corporate test kitchen. The greens were really good and so was the mashed potatoes. The corn bread was the only thing I felt was not up to par. The peach cobbler was really niceThe service was friendly. It was just two people so it's not like a corporate restaurant but I didn't have to wait around for anything.The place is a little sparse on decor and character but for a family run operation it's not too bad.The menu changes regularly so you can enjoy different stuff. I felt like the prices were pretty good too. $12.99 for a plate. All in all it's a nice little slice of southern Americana. ?
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 5
Brandi Howanitz
Everything was acceptable. The set up of the restaurant is confusing.
Overpriced for the amount of food that you get. Food is good but too expensive for the amount.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Hamburger
Huntsville and Madison, if 137 reasons are not enough for you to drive out to Decatur, here is the 138th reason that you should make the trek. The Hard Hat Cafe is family-owned and operated, plus they are 4 years old, which means if you do the math, they opened during Covid times. Which means they were feeding people and serving people during the time when nobody wanted to be around anyone else. If that's not reason enough to frequent this place, then I don't know what to tell you. As for the food, it is plentiful and good and homemade. This is the kind of place that people go for lunch, when they need a lunch that will give them energy and keep them full. People that do hard work eat lunch here. If a good lunch to you is a shot of wheatgrass and an air sandwich, you are not going to like this place. But if you need something that will fill you up and remind you of home, this is the perfect place! Parking in the back, shaded picnic table seating. Unfussy and good, kind of like the rest of Decatur.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Variety of delicious comfort food. Pork chop was cooked to order.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken and Dressing, Potato Salad
Best place I have found in Decatur to eat. Service was excellent. Very friendly people.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food is excellent and the service is too!
We went for breakfast and ordered pancakes, smoked sausage, and bologna and they were the fluffiest pancakes I’ve ever had. The place is clean and I’d definitely like to go back for breakfast or lunch.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 5
This is a great place to eat! Small restaurant with big personality! Service was quick and excellent! Food received chef's kiss! Everyone was nice and knowledgeable about the menu! You can't go wrong choosing Hard Hat Cafe for breakfast or lunch!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Best breakfast on the river. Everything is made to order and it is straight up home cooking. Biscuits, pancakes, scrambled eggs. So good. You’ll love this place.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food . Great employees . The fried fish is finger licking !
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Fried Fish, Fried Chicken
This place is absolutely amazing. The food was delicious and Martel was awesome. The best home cooked meal around. If you haven't visited here you are definitely missing out.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Chicken and Dressing, Potato Salad, Fried Chicken
Amazing!!!! Outstanding customer service and food! We had Chicken and Dressing, macaroni and cheese, fried chicken, baked spaghetti, potato salad, cabbage, black eyed peas and corn bread. Everything was delicious and Martel is awesome! We will definitely be back!! If you are looking for a home cooked meal, Hard Hat Cafe is the place to go!!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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Can’t rate the food because after waiting over an hour we did not get served. We were the only people dining in. Took 30 minutes after ordering to be told that what I wanted wasn’t available. We never got updates after that while others coming in after us got served their to-go orders quickly. Went to pay for the coffee so we could leave and get food elsewhere and was given a quick, dismissive apology with no remorse.We love to support a small businesses but not when there’s a major lack of customer service and respect.
Service: 1
Soul food like you want it so
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Hash Browns, Pinto Beans, Gravy Bis, Red Velvet Cake, Sweet Potatoes Cream Pototoes, Sausage, Chicken and Dressing, Baked Beans, Gravy, Potato Salad, Hush Puppies, Fried Fish, Hamburger, Mashed Potatoes, Peach Cobbler, Fried Chicken, Catfish Plate
This is a nice place run by a mother and son. It's nice to find places like this cause the appreciation for your business is genuine.The food quality is good. Recipes made from experience not a corporate test kitchen. The greens were really good and so was the mashed potatoes. The corn bread was the only thing I felt was not up to par. The peach cobbler was really niceThe service was friendly. It was just two people so it's not like a corporate restaurant but I didn't have to wait around for anything.The place is a little sparse on decor and character but for a family run operation it's not too bad.The menu changes regularly so you can enjoy different stuff. I felt like the prices were pretty good too. $12.99 for a plate. All in all it's a nice little slice of southern Americana. ?
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 4
Service: 5
Everything was acceptable. The set up of the restaurant is confusing.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 3
Ask for the butterfinger ? ???
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
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