HUGE props to this chain! Yes, they are known for their chicken tenders, fine. But explore the menu. Saw in their website they had a 7oz filet (with 2 sides) for $25. But when I went they already switched it for a bone in ribeye...same price. Really? Sounds too good to be true. Comes huge spoonful of garlic butter on top (amazing). Grilled perfectly...I'd advise go for medium rare. You can always send back for a quick sear. Loaded baked potato and corn were great sides. To top it off... a. 8-9oz pour of Bonanza red for 10.99? Yes please! Only downer was carry station was in bar area so every time door was opened, you felt it, lol. But again, it was freezing outside. Bar service was excellent!! Definitely going back!! read more

Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen - Bone in ribeye - Comfort Food Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

my girlfriend and I arrived and were immediately seated. No waiter came to our table for at least 15 minutes while three other couples came in separately and were immediately seated and a waiter assisted them very promptly. After witnessing this, we decided to leave and go next-door not a very pleasant experience. read more

Food is good. The service is always great. The restaurant is always clean inside and looks nice. One thing that I'm not happy with at all, is the electronic pay station on the table. I use it to pay with my card no problem. But on 4/26/2026, I didn't look the bill over and while entering this charge in my checkbook, I noticed that they charged me for "Table games" $2.99. My wife and I don't play with those. I honestly thought they were on the tables to keep people occupied while waiting for their food. I don't remember seeing any price on it for use charges. I will say that both last weekend and this weekend, our food came out very quickly. read more

Four of us went to Cheddars for supper last night. We ordered the grilled pork chop dinner and 2 corn meal fried fish dinners. My mom and sister shared a fish dinner and had an extra side salad which was plenty to eat. From the other two dinners we took home a pork chop and two pieces of fish. We shared a fried apple pie for dessert. Everything was delicious (especially the croissants and the dessert). It did take a while to get our food, but other than that everything was great. read more

What a great little place we stopped off at to have dinner with our cousins! Very inexpensive food items on the menu. The portions were amazingly large and delicious. Our server was super pleasant and helpful. Didn't hover but was always there when needed read more

They have started to go south. Not as good as it used to be. Last time I was there they were out of everything I wanted to order.

Good food! Good service! Will definitely come back if I am in the area. Definitely crowded on a Friday night! Check it out. read more

Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen - Santa Fe Spinach Dip! So good! - Comfort Food Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

We absolutely love the food here. We almost always order the grilled tilapia Not fishy. Huge portions with rice and tarter sauce on request. Service is friendly and fast depending on the time you arrive. Love the decor. Nice bar booths. Beautiful aquatmrium. Plants and brick everywhere. It's always clean and organized with overhead music. Beautful sun room and outdoor seating.Caesar Salads perfection yum Grilled Fish always delicious Honey Butter Croissants to die for read more

Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen - Comfort Food Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

Excellent food great service have been there many times and enjoyed it each time especially the fried fish and red beans and rice

Cheddar's is a regular hang out for me. I like the staff and their bartender, Hope, is the coolest one in town. My favorite dishes are the Buffalo Chicken Wrap's but I get them grilled without the Buffalo sauce. Instead I get ranch and honey BBQ on the side. Also, their grilled chicken salad with the Pecan's and the "Honey Lime" dressing is delicious! Go check them out! read more

We had the best meal! My husband loved the ribs and the chocolate cake for dessert. I had the meatloaf. The servings were huge and tasted delicious. Our server and the manager were very friendly. We can't wait to return to try other entrees as well. read more

Amazing food! We ordered different plates to try and all of them were good. I still think about the chocolate cake!

New waitress. Plates piled up on the table. Mushy broccoli. Cold mashed potatoes. Hot out of the oven Cresent rolls was the highlight of the meal. read more

Great ribs for the third time in a row and the hot buttered croissants were fabulous. I had the sampler trio with chicken tenders, spinach dip and queso dip with chips All good and server was helpful with box and to go cups. read more

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I normally love Cheddars. This was my first time eating at this location. The food was terrible. Service was 5 out of 5 but the food was very low quality. When we sent one of the dishes back we were told 3 times that the manager would come speak To us and that never happened. Extremely disappointing! read more

My wife has had cheddar's before and recommended it, and we loved it. I got the Dijon Chicken & Mushrooms with sides of southern green beans and the broccoli cheese casserole, all of which on a to-go plate. I thoroughly enjoyed my meal and so did my wife! It made my day. AND, we had the most attentive waiter even though he was coming back and forth to the parking lot to serve us, I got better service than some tables I've sat at in other restaurants! (Wish I remembered his name)! read more

Amazing honey butter croissants. My steak was quite good. Honestly was surprised since it isn't a steak house. Their margaritas are deadly!! Be forewarned. Was much better than the Cheddar's where I live. read more

I'm not one to usually complain, but lastnight was a horrible experience at Cheddar's and this is normally my favorite place to eat. We got seated in a decent amount of time, but I know waiters have bad days. But she wasn't very nice or attentive at all! But my main reason for leaving a review this time is because it started with my salad I started mixing it up and found a dead flying bug in it! I couldn't get my waiter so I stopped another and showed her and she showed my waiter.... she laughed, then got a manager, which she got me another salad. Like seriously this is my food that I just found a bug in, why laugh about it, sadly I didnt get a picture of this bug. After noticing that I started checking rest my food and I found a worm on my broccoli... she got the manager and the manager told me it was garlic! Which you can clear see it wasn't, you can see the cocoon! read more

Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen - A worm on my broccoli - Comfort Food Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

Once one of the best places in Owensboro to eat, it is slowly going downhill. The last several times we have been here something on my plate was delivered cold. Seems like the kitchen is not in sinc. Back again for the first time in a year because of a gift card. My wife ordered grilled chicken pecan salad. It came with lemon pepper chicken. When brought to the waiter's attention their response was it should not have come that way and that was all. Mentioned to the manager on the way out the door and they apologized. That makes me want to go back. Another year later and sending food back because the whole plate was cold and undercooked. Will re-gift the gift cards if I ever get them again. read more

Our waiter was perfect. Wait time was perfect. But man, that chicken alfredo sucked. Whatever sauce they're trying to use on that isn't a sauce at all so much as a coagulated coating of some variety. It's pretty bland. And not at all appetizing. No one should be incredibly surprised by this though... Restaurants like these aren't in the business of fresh made to order meals...I was just feeling nostalgic and thought I'd give it a whirl again. Totally could've went without. :/ read more

phone service sucks called and had to talk to a robot for 5 mins then sat on hold twice waiting for 10 minutes atleast. always have loved this place. BUT it seems like customer service has dropped since the beginning of 2022 read more

Stopped there with my wife and a good friend around 6:00 pm on a Friday night. Normally that would require a twenty-minute wait for a seat but we were seated immediately. I have eaten here maybe eight or nine times and they have a great variety of meals to choose from. This night I returned to have the Tilapias with mango salsa with the cheesy broccoli casserole. This dish really satisfies. The fish was cooked perfectly and the salsa is very flavorful. The big hit of the meal was the desert pictured below. Delicious! read more

Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen - Chocolate Cake - Comfort Food Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

Cheddars is a pretty popular chain restaurant in Owensboro. It's always busy. It's actually a little funny because when the wait gets to be over 30 minutes a Cheddars, people tend to go over to Logan's next door which is usually dead. I've ate here many times with my parents while I'm in town visiting. We usually dine here because the menu has a little bit of everything, the prices are more than reasonable and the service is fast and friendly. We were in town & dined here with a friend. We were going to go to Briarpatch but it was past 2pm & they'd closed, ugh. Anyway, we arrived around 2:30pm on Sunday. I thought that the church crowd would've died down by then but the place was packed. The hostess was efficient in getting our name but was curt. We only had to wait about 8 minutes for our table. Our server was a man in his late forties I'd say. He came over to greet us and get our drink order and I could tell he was OVER IT. He was over working there, over working that day, over waiting on us, just over it. He didn't want to be there and you could tell, which made be feel very awkward. I ordered the chicken tender platter tossed in buffalo sauce with a side of blue cheese. The platter is served with fries and cole slaw, but I like their Caesar salads so I ordered one of those too. I usually get the fish tacos, with Cajun on them, but I thought I'd switch it up. I really couldn't get over how rude our sever was. He really didn't want to wait on is. I felt like he though we were below him or something. And I know everyone says this, but I'm always nice to wait staff. I've worked in customer service for 15 years and I know people can be assholes and I never want to be one. That's why I didn't say anything to the manager or anything. I figured he must just be having a shitty day but that shitty day then rubbed off on me. Our food came (my salad came earlier and was fine) and my plate just had the chicken tossed in buffalo and the blue cheese. There wasn't any fries or cole slaw. He asked if everything was there and I said "doesn't this come with fries and cole slaw?" He stated that since I got the salad it didn't but he'd "go ahead and get me some". He said it like he was getting me some for free, like mine didn't come with it. But it did. I ordered a salad for $2.59 as it says above the entrees. Oh well. He brought the fries and the cole slaw. Midway through dinner he came with all 3 checks and said "how will this be split up?". I guess we aren't getting dessert. We told him my fiend was on her own bill and my boyfriend and I were on the other. He seemed really annoyed that he'd have to print up new bills. Once he put the bills on the table he started to engage with us, almost like he was trying to be nice for a better tip. It was so odd. Also, I thought maybe the server had just charged me for the chicken tender platter and didn't charge me for the salad, because I'd ordered one that that supposedly canceled out the fries and cole slaw, right? Nope. I was charged for the chicken tender platter and the Caesar salad like I'd ordered all along. Overall, I'm giving the place a 3 because this time sucked, but I've had some pretty good meals here for the price and much better service than we had today. read more

Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen - The chicken tender platter, tossed in buffalo, sans the fries and cole slaw that come with it because I "ordered a salad" - Comfort Food Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

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Darden ruined this restaurant. Very. Very. Very. Limited menu selection.. they didn't have the shrimp one of my companions ordered. He did not get his salad either. Steaks were over cooked. The monte cristo was pretty good but that's about the only thing I got to say.. wait wait wait is all you'll do there, for a sub par dining experience at that. read more

Not good. Chicken was dry and tasteless.No more onion rings. No reason to go! Disappointing as I heard this place was very good. Good service tho. read more

The menu is too big. You can't have that big a menu and do everything well unless you're a well run restaurant. I'm sure there are some items that may be good but I've eaten at 2 Cheddar's in my life. Both times I was really disappointed with food quality. The Mac and cheese should be called Mac n cheesy water. The steak I had was tough. The staff has always been friendly, the prices are reasonable but I doubt that I ever go to Cheddar's again. read more

Ruined my son's Bday dinner $$wasted. Had to send his plate back due to a really raw, fatty steak! We did not want to wait for another, so just went home & ordered pizza. Watered down Margaritas too The atmosphere, decore and privacy booths were inviting but the food was just awful. Not returning. read more

Last 2 times been there the food was over cooked and it has become very impersonal only saw my server today 2 times to get drink order and bring food. Never refilled our drinks or even asked about our food. When it was time to pay we were told to use the machine on table. Very impersonal and very disappointed in their service read more

This was the first time that we've been out to Cheddar's since the name change and it was a disappointment. I usually get the chicken pot pie or grilled chicken pecan salad--which in the past have been excellent. This time I tried something different--chicken tenders & grilled shrimp. There was no seasoning--on the shrimp or in the chicken tender batter. Two of the shrimp had not been deveined and part of the joy of eating seafood out is not having to clean it. The steamed broccoli tasted dirty but the baby carrots were excellent. The spinach artichoke dip was excellent but we were not given enough chips. I am not sure that I will be in a hurry to go back: we have enough excellent options in town that I don't have to settle for mediocre. read more

It is not often that I update reviews, however, after my experience at Cheddar's tonight, I felt it definitely needed to be done. My boyfriend, our son, & I stopped in here for dinner tonight &, 45 minutes after ordering, finally received our food, which was barely lukewarm. You could tell it had been sitting for quite some time before finally being delivered to our table. We asked to speak to the manager. The man that came to our table preceded to say he was sorry then asked us if we wanted them to take our food back & heat it up. Now, I have to say I was appalled to be given cold food & then basically asked if we would like them to go throw it in the microwave. I am a manager at a restaurant myself & you do not ask an unhappy customer if they would like their food "warmed up". Meanwhile, I recognized this man who was speaking to us, as he had been standing near our booth most of the time we had been there. Most problems in a restaurant lead back to management, & if this man had seen a table of customers sitting there for 45 minutes waiting on their meals, while people who had came in after us had already been served, he should have been talking to his servers or heading back to the kitchen to see what was going on. We said we would wait for our meals to be recooked and we received what we ordered no more than 15 minutes later. We were given our entire dinner for free, which we did not ask for but greatly appreciated, & even though this manager apologized to us we were given no explanation as to why our meal had taken so long to prepare. As I work in a restaurant myself, I can definitely understand when there are difficulties and the wait can be longer. I am very tolerable of this, however I cannot tolerate a MANAGER asking me if I would like to have my food tossed in a microwave & warmed up. I will probably be back, as I love Cheddar's food, however it may be some time before we decide to chance it again. read more

Such a shame! In other towns, I like this restaurant. It's good food. BUT this one in Owensboro is so dirty and smelly and horrible. So disappointing! As soon as you walk in you smell the musty moldy floor. Then you turn your eyes downward and you see dirt and debris on the floor. And it's sticky. Don't look up because there's cobwebs in the corners and on the light fixtures! It is so frustrating to be walk to your table and to be walking over straw wrappers and paper from the silverware and food. And then to see servers walking past you stepping on the trash and not picking it up. At one point I bent over and picked up trash in front of a server and handed it to them. It's clearly a sign of very poor management at this location. At the cheddars in Cincinnati and in Nashville, they are both clean and very friendly. Also You're lucky if you'll get your food within 30 minutes here. It is consistently 45 minutes or more to get a two person meal delivered. I just cannot believe that for a chain restaurant they can get away with having such a crappy representation of what should be a good brand of chain restaurant. read more

This place sucks . The food is low grade dogfood.the can't get a Togo order right for nothing. Then they say their going to send you a gift card and it never show up . The managers don't even care they lie to ya. Everybody blames covid. For everything , if I'm paying $80 for food get it right. I don't blame their high prices on covid . I pay the bill and then leave a tip for to go meals. And it's still wrong . Then they want me to come back to them to get messed up food. Stupid. read more

If I could rate the service 0 stars I would, the first 4 servers didn't have a clue what we ordered/ asked for drinks. Orders were wrong, down right disrespectful staff. -10/10 will not eat again. read more

Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen - a woman with a face mask on - Comfort Food Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

i waited for 20 minutes and haven't even been able to order a drink much less food and the servers will continue to walk past and look at you but do nothing very poor service read more

Typically, I dine with locals at Cheddar's at least once during any visit to Owensboro because there aren't (as yet) a great many options in town (besides other mediocre chain restaurants). Plus I can only eat so much delicious local barbecue no matter how hard I try! I believe Cheddar's is frequently the restaurant of choice for locals because it has an attractive, theme-free, more modern atmosphere than many of the other chains; warm brick, stone, wood with updated lighting. Parking is abundant. Service average. My problem with Cheddar's is the food. I've roamed all over the menu and nothing I've tried has been more than 'meh'. I know Cheddar's claims to have a scratch kitchen, but breading chicken tenders and onion rings, slicing fish, and mixing buttermilk with some seasonings does not a scratch kitchen make. I've had no dish that strikes me as particularly fresh or freshly made. I don't have the impression that the line staff are cooking dishes so much as heating components and assembling them. Like many other casual American restaurants, Cheddar's menu is little more than Joey Tribbiani's favorite, "fried stuff with cheese". Anything which does not fit that description is woefully bland. The grilled fish and the mushy "seasoned" rice are examples of this. Even though I would choose Cheddar's over some of the other chains in town, I cannot give it more than two stars. The food just doesn't deserve more. By now I would have expected to have found at least one dish to like and with which I could stick, but that is not the case. My hope is that as Owensboro grows (and it is growing) the competition will increase and restaurants in town -- both mom & pops and the chains -- will have to step up their game. The people of Owensboro deserve better. read more

I'm so over this place... I have to give them props for keeping prices super low; you can find dinner from $6-8 easily. Just generic, greasy american-ish, chain food with mediocre service. If that's your thing - get in there and go for it. read more

Never been to a Cheddars before, what a surprise. The food was great, the service was great, the prices were great. Our meals consisted of 6oz sirloins, sweet heat chicken and shrimp, Baja chicken, chicken tenders and ribs. All were good. Chips and queso were good too. Will stop by one again. read more

The food is good: huge portions. The team was extremely inviting and friendly. Even though it was crowded we got a table right away. read more

Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen - BBQ Smokehouse Burger. - Comfort Food Near Me - Owensboro, Kentucky

Usually food is good was not good today . The bathroom is so dirty dust in between all the doors the handle the the toilet doors has never been cleaned the corners so the floors are dirty . THe sides of the booths are disgusting . Our waitress was not an asset to your company . Not friendly at all and very short with her customer!!! read more

Yeah, it's a chain, but the portions are great, the prices are amazing, and the food is solid. Anything I've tried has been fine. No, it's not going to blow your socks off, but if you want a good meal for a good price, and probably some leftovers, step in there. I don't get the hate. I've always had good service when I've been. read more