freiheit country store

i wish i could give this place a score of 1, because i don't want other people crowding it!  but that would be very selfish given we don't live there anyway.  we stopped in on our way from austin to san antonio and had an awesome lunch.  don't miss the fried pickles.  the half pound burger was fantastic - get it on the sweet bun.overall a perfect spot other than the fact the wait forfoodwas kind of long.  i think one of their cooks didn't show and they were upfront with us thatfoodwas taking quite a while.

disappointed to tears. the reviews were great so i decided to try this place. the staff are a bunch of kids acting like chickens with their heads cut off. our waiter was so stupid i had to slowly repeat and point at the menu to get him to understand my order. after staring at me blankly for quite a while, i repeated and pointed slower, making sure he got the order. he didn't know the menu, ended up giving us the wrong thing, never brought our sides, but since it took so damn long to get the food, i didn't care. the meat of the burger was so bland i wanted to cry. the wings came out fast because they were simply pre frozen... this place ruined my night. utterly disappointed in the rest of the misleading reviews. this place needs new management, and at least a slight care for the quality offoodbeing produced.

eat you burger and stand tall!. don't you just love these old tin roofed, barnwood sided, wood floored, animal heads on the wall, johnny cash juke box playing, feel necked if you donl't have your boots on, country burger and bar places?! well i do. and if you do too, you better enjoy it now.! it's a rather inconspicuous place on the edge of growing suburbia, probably soon to be swallowed by rampant development of the closeby !-35 corridor.

through the entrance and past the bar, we sat down near the juke box after a "sit anywhere you like" supposition was made from the mostly empty tabled dining room. the waitress appeared promptly and i got the first and most important order of business out of the way. . . shiner bock, please! the request was almost anticipated as if you were expected to place that very order for a long neck as the usual and "of course" customary thing to do.

as i pondered the menu, i began to wonder about the breeding stock of the human kind out this way. a couple of the waitresses had to be nie on to 6 feet tall. from what i could tell, the cook also loomed large in the kitchen window. something to do with thefoodconsumption here and cooking oil in a place called "fry height"! h-m-m-m-m?

heard the fried mushrooms were good and placed an order with no concern for the heighth thing as i already stand tall at 6' 1". served 'em steamin' hot with a good cream gravy and cool ranch dressing. the battered beauties were as good as mama's makes, and that's damn good. homemade onion rings and fresh cut french fries made it to our table as well. the ffs were a little overdone, but the rings disappeared in a rapid succession of catsup spurts.

big ole sloppy burgers, 1/2 lb. of medium done beef with cheese and bacon all served on a hawiian bun. hawaiian bun! what in tarnation and new york city made them do that! it was actually pretty good as i did not taste any of the sweetness it was purported to have, or at least it was balanced out with the pickles and mustard on my burger.

this place defintely serves a burger that's good and plenty. throw in the atmosphere of a favorite ole run-down country joint, and you've got a restaurant that keeps 'em coming back. it's either that, or these goods folks and returning customers are hopin' to increase their fry heighth a couple more inches.