9th Street Grill

So this is gonna sound weird and not like a recommendation but it is not meant in that way. Let me try to explain. Do you remember school lunch? Like it's not known for being the best but there were one or two things that you would celebrate when they came up every couple of weeks. For me that was chicken fried steak day. Forget rectangle pizza or sub sandwich day. I was all in for the chicken fried steak. Well I went to 9th St., Grill and the special was chicken fried steak. Now I'm a fat guy, I've eaten a lot of chicken fried steaks from a lot of places. I've had high end chicken fried steak all the way to the pre-cooked frozen bargain bin variety. but this chicken fried steak took me right back 20 years to being in school. It was larger than the ones you got at school, but exactly the same flavor, the mashed potatoes were spot on the same as well, even the gravy tasted the same. I know for a lot of people, that doesn't sound like a selling point. But I almost ordered a second one while I reveled in nostalgia. This is going to sound Braggadocious, and it kind of is, but once when I was in high school, when you could go back as many times as you wanted as long as you had money on your lunch card, when I was in the bottomless pit stage where a growing boy can never get enough food to be full, I ate 14 of those chicken fried steaks.The service was great, wait staff was friendly and fast. They checked on me and made sure everything was what I wanted.I don't really know if this review will be helpful. But I do know that I will be going back more Thursdays in the future. For a chicken fried steak/nostalgia night.

I had the steak and eggs and they came with hash browns and toast. Everything was okay besides the steak.. I had to put a bunch of A1 to take away from the not so tasty meaty taste. Service was friendly. This was the only place in Crete that was open that early for breakfast. There was a good amount of people there for a Saturday morning but nothing crazy.

The first thing I noticed going into the restaurant is that it is really dark. Had to pull out my phone to see the menu clearly. The Christmas lights and garland are a nice touch for the holidays but a little more light would be nice. We just came in for appetizers while visiting family from out of town. Mainly to grab a quick bite to tide us all over til dinner. Our server was nice but between him and the owner checking on us it was a bit hard to visit. But at least they were friendly! My husband ordered the Mozzarella sticks to share and they were ok. Nothing special but not bad either. We ordered a slice of apple pie to split. It was ok a bit soggy but no wow factor. Overall just a decent experience. Not good. Not bad. But definitely not memorable.

When it came to finding a good place to eat in Crete, my sister and I found the options were between 9th St. Grill, China Wall or Cristina's (where you eat Mexican food in a Sonic building). We chose the grill. For an appetizer, we shared a basket of fried mushrooms. The ranch was fantastic, the mushrooms were just like any other frozen, fried mushrooms. For our main course, each ordered tenderloins. Now, in our hometown, tenderloins are the to eat menu item so we were pretty disappointed when our food came to our table. These were the fake kind of tenderloins. With that thin, crumby breading. We are used to hand beaten and hand dipped in flour and milk, huge, fluffy, tenderloins. These were ok and the curly fries were just ok too. The waitress also forgot the slice of American cheese we asked for and my drinking glass was dry and stayed that way for far too long. All in all, I wasn't very impressed.

A clean moderately priced local eatery. An organized and well managed restaurant in a small community.

Generous helpings of basic American foodt that's always very good. The service is always prompt and friendly and the prices are reasonable.

Horrible food! We ordered breakfast item and they served us trashy hashbrowns and garbage protein!!!!

Waited an hour for breakfast. The service was terrible. Only 15 people in the whole place. Why it took so long to get our food have no idea never will go again.

Breakfast there was amazing! Eggs were perfectly cooked. Hash browns were nicely browned. Biscuits and gravy were delicious! Everything was delicious but it was sooo filling we could not even eat it all! Definitely a great place to eat. The service was excellent. Definitely will be back when we are back in Crete and will tell others about it!

Food was very good, service was even better. Only thing keeping it from 5 , garlic toast was burnt on one side.