Maes Meat Market and Cafe - Eastland (TX)

5 /5 lifesgoodintexas: This is the place to eat in Eastland Texas! Fabulous and fresh home food that is cooked "home style". They have some unique menu items and "Todays Specials". I had the Fried Pig Tails. They are fantastic! Basically the Fried Pig Tails are pork loin cut into strips then chicken fried. The salad bar was fresh and really nice. Service is friendly and fast. I highly recommend the Maes Meat Market!

5 /5 Blake Sikes: Great family run dinner/meat market. Warning their BBQ sauce is very unique. My wife and I really liked it. But it’s not your normal Texas sauce. Wished we had brought a cooler to be able to take some of the steaks with us since we were just passing through. The burgers and loaded potato were really good. Amazing fries.

5 /5 Lesley Gray: If you’ve never been to Mae’s Meat Market & Cafe, you’re missing out. We first stopped in a couple of months ago while passing through and fell in love. I had the Monte Cristo, my husband had the Reuben, and both were amazing. We also grabbed some of their in house seasonings to take home and now we are already ready for refills because they are just that good. Today we finally got to stop in again. I went for The Piggytails, which are strips of pork loin breaded and fried like chicken fried steak, and my husband ordered the Texas Club. The Piggytails were so tender I do not think I will ever want regular chicken fried steak again. The Texas Club was loaded with delicious ingredients and tasted just as good as it looked. The food is fantastic, the service is friendly, and the quality never disappoints. Mae’s has definitely become one of our must-stop spots whenever we are in the area.

5 /5 Jenneryy: DELICIOUS! I actually heard about this place from a Reddit post about places to stop on a road trip across Texas and I’m so glad I listened! It’s home cooked food, calories-not-monitored, but worth every single bite. It doesn’t look like much from the outside, but I knew it was going to be good when we saw the parking lot was overflowing into the grass. Luckily there was still an open table inside and we were welcomed by the sweetest staff and our waitress was just as wonderful. So many things looked good on the menu, but I couldn’t resist ending this road trip with another taste of chicken fried steak to compare to Mary’s (and they can definitely compete because it was AWESOME)! We also tried the chicken fried chicken (delicious), sweet potato casserole (amazing), Mae’s potato casserole (tasty), cheese sticks (good), and the hamburger and fries which was obviously delicious enough that my picky daughter almost finished it - which says a LOT! We were very glad that we’d ordered the “smaller portions” for lunch because it meant we could grab a few of the desserts to go to snack on for our final leg of the road trip and keep enjoying at home. We tried the toffee cake (incredible), peanut butter cake (sinfully good), and the coconut pie (very light and creamy)! We also snagged some items to take home with us from their coolers and I can 100% recommend their pork tamales and summer sausage. If you get the chance to stop here, you won’t regret it at all! Delicious, great service, and good portions!

5 /5 Two Dollars: We watch The Daytripper with Chet Garner and found this place watching his Cisco/Eastland daytrip. If you want ideas for daytrips in Texas, google "the daytripper with Chet Garner". We each ordered a different menu item. Chicken fried steak fingers (HUGE), piggy tales (HUGE), chopped BBQ sandwich, fried green tomatoes, corn nuggets... Their macaroni and cheese is different from what one expects, so if you are expecting the typical mac & cheese, pick an addtional side in case you do not like it. I liked the mac & cheese but the other 2 in our group did not. Exit the highway and try the non-franchise restaurants along your trip.