7 Best American Restaurants near Pontiac

“Summer doesn't start without a trip to Just Jackies! Jackie and staff are great and the Pizza and Wings are outstanding.“

“Glad we have this gem near us. Pleasant atmosphere,clean,quality food cooked perfect.“

“I eat breakfast through out Southern Missouri and enjoyed my visit to Cookies! I rate 5 areas with a score of 10 being the best! I always order 2 eggs over easy, hash browns, bacon, bread and coffee.

Food. 10
Coffee 10
Serving size. 10
Service. 10
Price. 8
Total. 48
Compared to all other restaurants the food was awesome! The only complaint is the price of the meal, @ 35% higher than most restaurants for the same meal!“

“Just had a great dinner! Had the half pound burger with bacon. I ordered the burger medium-rare and the cook was perfect. The bacon was crispy as well. The beer on tap was great and a very good price! It was a very good meal and well worth the drive from Mountain Home!“

“Our fly fishing guides recommended this restaurant to us and we tried it on our last night of our trip. When we went in, the dining room had a lot of empty tables and we still had to wait for about 15 mins for seating. Maybe they were short staffed, or trying to consolidate occupied tables for the the staff on board. \n\nThe 178 had an extensive menu. Burgers, steaks, fish. The special for Wednesdays was fried chicken with sides (which was the recommendation from our guides). I will say that the fried chicken was probably the best fried chicken I've ever had. I do not like white meat, but even the white meat with extremely moist.\n\nThe only thing that I'd caution patrons on is that all the salad options have meat or fish of some type. So read the salad ingredients carefully. We just wanted a spinach salad to split before our chicken dishes and it came out with 3 large chicken fingers laid out across the top. It was our bad for not carefully reading the salad description on the menu. It was confusing us when it came out, but it was not a big deal as we just took the chicken off and boxed it for home. The spinach salad underneath was great!\n\nWe all walked out stuffed and with boxes of chicken to take out to reheat for the next day! If you can go in on Wednesday, try the chicken!“

“sept. 28 2025. Friend and I stopped in had late breakfast. food looked great and tasted fantastic. Southern hospitality and the waitress so nice and down to earth. God bless yall.“