Haystax Restaurant - Mt Dora (FL)

2 /5 Sara Barnett: All in all, this is a country diner with no consistent theme, a huge menu, and a great place for your down home country folk who have been coming here for years. My mom and I decided to give this restaurant a second try today. We stopped in at 12:30. This is a seat-yourself restaurant. The chairs all have their own black book-cover style chair slips. Every table had fun salt and peppers and advertisements for other local businesses. Mom got a chicken blt wrap with tots and I got a Turkey melt with fries. It took 45 minutes for food to come out. My french fries were hot but had no flavor whatsoever. Well, I could taste the fryer oil, but that’s about it. Neither the BLT nor the melt really tasted like anything. If it weren’t for the Texas Pete hot sauce on the table, I wouldn’t have eaten much, if I’m being honest. My sandwich was supposed to come with grilled onions. It did have them, but they were only grilled enough for the sharp onion flavor to be gone, not enough for them to taste like grilled onions or for them to be soft. They crunched for sure. Mom also got unsweetened tea, and when it was refilled, he didn’t feel the glass all the way, and didn’t add any more ice, so it was very quickly room temperature. We have been here twice, and as this was no better then last time, we’re going to assume this is normal. We won’t be coming back.

4 /5 The God-Father: Everyone at the table was very pleased except me. I got the seafood platter. The shrimp was way overcooked and rubbery and cocktail sauce had so much horseradish in it you couldnt taste the food you dipped in it. I feel the grease should have been changed before service today. Which is why the seafood was overcooked. Never got a refill on my drink, left the restaurant thirsty. Other than those little details it was a nice visit. I will be back. I just wont order seafood again. I did mention the seafood experience to the cashier to no avail...

1 /5 Patti Black: Went for a late Sunday breakfast. Service was good although we waited over 45 minutes for our food. Yes they were busy. Hash browns had to be redone because they weren’t brown at all. Senior burger was extremely over cooked. Dry and almost crumbly. When the kitchen staff member brought a new one it was the same. He didn’t even apologize or acknowledge the error, he just dropped off the replacement. Which was also extremely over cooked. Very disappointing to have this experience at a popular local place.

1 /5 Nuno Tomson: I ordered the chopped sirloin dinner. It has a onions and green peppers all over it. Nowhere on the menu does it say that peppers and onions come on top of it. It wouldnt be so bad with onions but I am very allergic to peppers. They were closed by the time I drove home so cant call them. I just dont understand why they would not put with or topped with onions and bell peppers. I would have said plain. I hope they replace it

4 /5 T.K. Hutchinson-Putman: This is my second visit to Haystax. My first visit my breakfast and service was good. An acquaintance had an egg salad sandwich which was only to be described as a Cadillac of egg salad sandwiches! She stated it was really good. My second visit was not as good. My orders consisted of a bacon mushroom Swiss burger, a farmers omlette and a patty melt to go. I do realize that thus place is ridiculously busy. The need for more staff is an understatement. So, the service was really bad, but great when we could flag them down. Both burgers were extremely bland, but... the burger texture and burger/bun amount per ratio was perfect! The locals were very friendly and visit often as regulars. Id really hate to leave them a bad review just due to a couple experiences. I will return to try more items on their menu which has a little bit for everyone!