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    Dinner Bell Cafe

    4.5 (46 reviews)
    Closed 6:30 am - 2:00 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    A great chicken fry, fries, and salad. $8.95
    Garry H.

    See if you agree. At some point, the population of a town gets big enough that the chain restaurants start taking over and the mom and pop's start to disappear. Abilene only has one original mom and pop left, the Dixie Pig. Well, the Dinner Bell Cafe in Graham, Texas is one of those FANTASTIC small town restaurants. They were SO busy, but service was quick and friendly. The daily special? Chicken fried steak of course! Bring it on! The chicken fry and mandatory white gravy were delicious. The fries were the perfect crispy. Even the honey mustard dressing on my salad tasted homemade! And all this for $8.95. I love small towns! If your ever at Possum Kingdom lake, head for Graham for lunch. You wont regret it!

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    2 months ago

    Loved meeting my family here the staff is kind and welcoming breakfast is on point!! Good food and good people!

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    5 months ago

    Great home cooking. Friendly very professional home atmosphere. You can cut up with all of them.

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    1 year ago

    Fantastic home cooking and service with a smile! Highly recommend the banana pudding!

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    10 months ago

    Friendly staff and great food. Restaurant was very clean and easy to access highly recommend!

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    1 year ago

    They have the best food and service is awesome well mannered always hot food reasonably priced

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    3 years ago

    Great service and great food. I went to meet a friend and the environment there was so relaxed and welcoming.

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    3 years ago

    Think of a simple, country diner and you have Dinner Bell Cafe. Country style food is a great place to have breakfast or lunch.

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    3 years ago

    Best chicken fried steak anywhere, real mashed potatoes and gravy. They also have excellent breakfast.

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    6 years ago

    Went by today ... closed for virus issues. Not enough staff. Says they will reopen soon.

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    7 years ago

    Great home style food. Good service and very very friendly. Cooked fresh plus special lunches everyday. Love to come here

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    8 years ago

    Food was great. Waitress friendly, but a little over worked and didn't check on us much. But I would certainly come back.

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    12 years ago

    Best pot roast I've had. Big menu to choose from. Server was very helpful, fast service. Hope to get back here again.

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    12 years ago

    I love the dinner bell family ownd vary nice people food is good the only thing is they are not open for dinner just breakfast and launch

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    Awesome breakfast. Huge portions so bring your appetite! Definitely a keeper. If you are on the Graford area stop and try it

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    Mary's Cafe

    Mary's Cafe

    3.4
    (520 reviews)
    38.7 mi
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    Great chicken fried steak at Mary' Café. We watch the show The Daytripper with Chet Garner on TV…read more He did a segment on Mary's Cafe. So, we drove about 2 hours west of Fort Worth. The place is just an old diner in the town of Strawn. We showed up at 1130. They had nice crowd no wait. Sit down and order. We got a small and a medium chicken fried steak. For the sides fries and mash potatoes with a small salad each. The small steak is prefect size for me. But if you are hungry go for medium or the large. The chicken fried steak is made a little different than most. Not the usual type of breading. We really enjoyed the meal all was very good. The steak was tender and great flavor. Fries cook perfect and great for dipping into my gravy. Mary came around and took the order and she also went to each table and made sure you like the food. Very good service from all the staff. We will be back and you should give them a try.

    Came here based on the Daytripper review saying this was the #1 CFS place in Texas. I hate to give…read morea hometown, non-chain restaurant a bad review, but also want to be honest. I'm really surprised at how many four and five stars there are. Almost nothing we got had flavor: Queso - literally just cheese with nothing added - no salsa, no jalapeños, no onion - nothing. If you put queso on the menu, I think people expect it to have more than literally melted cheese. Chicken Fried Steak - loved that the breaded parts stuck to the meat and was excited to eat, but again, literally no flavor. We didn't finish it and we didn't take the leftovers. Mashed potatoes - No flavor AGAIN. We were so surprised and disappointed. You can see everyone there busting their tails though. Those women deserve every penny of every tip left for them.

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    Dinner Bell Cafe - tradamerican - Updated August 2026

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