I worked there recently and they are the kindest people you could ever meet. The food is very good. It's all homemade, not some of that frozen stuff you get at the store and very clean.    [04 Sep 2001 15:19:14]

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Recommended Dishes: enchilada dinner , chickenfried steak dinner

     ­JASSEN GUENTER, navy   jguent at lincoln dot navy dot mil

I've been going there for 28 years and have never had a bad experience. The food is like grandma's and the people are just as kind.    [02 Oct 2002 11:34:51]

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Recommended Dishes: Fried Oysters, chicken fried steak

     ­Anonymous   

THE BEST AROUND
Inexpensive and very good food, a nice small town appeal.    [17 Feb 2004 00:12:41]

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Recommended Dishes: whole catfish and the ENCHILADAS

     ­Anonymous   

If you live in Pflugerville and haven't been to Charlies, you are missing a great place. Food and service are great. So are the people.    [04 May 2004 08:45:55]

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     ­Anonymous   

Best chicken fried steak I've ever had
I've been to a number of steakhouses, having grown up here in Texas, and the only place that even comes close to Charlie's' chicken fried steak was the (now closed) Jailhouse Cafe in San Antonio, and that was just for pure size.

Charlie's has been owned and operated by the same family since they opened, and it's very much a small-town family restaurant atmosphere, with excellent service, spectacular food, and ridiculously low prices for the portions you get. The enchiladas and catfish are also fabulous, but the chicken fried steak is absolutely divine. If you haven't been there, make a special trip. It'll be well worth your time, believe me.    [24 Feb 2005 20:20:29]

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     ­Anonymous   

This place is horrible
My husband and I are new in the Plugerville area and wanted to go to a Restaurant for a steak. We have driven by Charlie's Steak House many times on our way home so we decided to dine there for a steak. First of all this is not a steak house, there are only 3 steak entrees on the menu, the rest of the menu is comprised of chicken fried steaks, enchiladas, hamburgers.....
We ordered two Ribeye Steak entrees for $18.00 each, the most expensive single entree on the menu. The Entree comes with soup or salad and baked potato or french fries. When the soup and salad arrived my husband and I quietly joked that the soup looked like a Campbell's chicken and rice soup and the salad consisted of lettuce chunks, a few tomatos & barely a small bit of carrot. When the Ribeye arrived we each took our first bite and immediately could tell that the steak was not right. It tasted like iron, was bitter, definitely did not taste fresh. We both immediately spit the food out! I am 8 months pregnant and knew that this steak would make me sick. Honestly, the meat was spoiled, it was very very obvious.
We asked a waitress, not our waitress, to come to our table and we explained the situation to her, the meat was bad. She was nice and took the steak away from the table and handed us a menu asking if we would like to order anything else. Our waitress came by and asked what was wrong and we told her the steak was bad. She just looked at us and said "we keep it refrigerated". I replied, "But for how long??", she asked me what I meant. So although pregnant and hungry, we decided to just leave and asked for a check out of politeness, never really expecting to get a check for a meal that we were unable to eat.
The waitress handed us a check for the soup and salad portion that comes with the entree, $3.25. I was in disbelief and shock that she would actually ask us to pay for the soup and salad after what we had been through and being jeapordized with bad meat. We walked to the bar to pay and we were met by a middle aged thin man who I think was the owner and who said he was the manager in charge. My husband was explaining the meat was bad and the man in charge was defending his meat and not at all accepting the possiblity that it could have been bad. He hands my husband the credit card receipt and I make the comment that I can't believe he is charging us for the soup and salad. He very rudely looks at me and says, "you ate it didn't you!". I'm speechless to him and tell my husband that we should go and we won't be back. The man in charge who I think is Charlie, responds loudly across the bar and into the restaurant by saying that he is better off that we don't come back ever again. We quietly leave. Worst restaurant experience ever!    [09 Mar 2007 09:38:18]

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     ­Anonymous, Austin