Dig-In Cafe

Reviews

• Tammie B.

  star star star star star 10 June 2026

  Excellent family friendly staff.  They treat everyone like family and remember your name.  Great little cafe for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
  We have been several times & have never been disappointed.   Every Thursday is either Burger night or smoked brisket.  On Friday nights during Spring & Summer they have Smoked Chicken and BBQ Rib.  My husband swears there Ribs is 1 of his top favorites.  On Friday nights in the Fall and Winter they have all you can eat fish.  Come check them out, you won't be disappointed.

• Carrie-Matt B.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 3 June 2026

  We were camping in Fort Custer today and had our granddaughter. Thought we would try Dig In for breakfast. It looks nice on the inside and out. Server took our order in a timely manner and the food came fairly quickly except for mine. Waitress brought my wife's and granddaughter's, said she would be right back with mine. 5 minutes later a different waitress brought mine. We then hear our waitress thank the other one saying she had forgotten.
  
  My wife and granddaughter ordered a half order of biscuit and sausage gravy. Both of theirs were cold. The gravy was so thick it almost needed to be cut with a knife. My eggs were cold. I read reviews about how great the pancakes were so I got those too. They were just OK.
  
  Prices were a little on the high side too. $6 for a half order of cold biscuit and gravy!
  
  With the prices, cold food plus not that great tasting, we won't return. We will drive just a little bit further to Andreas in Galesburg.

• Jennifer B.

  star star star star star_border 30 May 2026

  This place is a great spot for breakfast. Quick service, friendly staff. The food is very good and the menu is a lot bigger than I expected.

• Sarah W.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 20 May 2026

  Super greasy food. No vegetarian sandwiches or burgers except for the grilled cheese, so I ordered breakfast. It was a meal on the menu where you got 4 slices of french toast, eggs, and meat - but she let me substitute hash browns for the meat. The eggs were good and the french toast was okay, but the hash browns were undercooked and so greasy. Service was great, I liked our waitress. Another review mentioned that they had religious decor up, which I didn't notice but if I saw religious quotes in a restaurant, that's unprofessional and I would not go there again.

• Tristan H.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 17 May 2026

  Since our default breakfast restaurant has been bought out and transformed into something perfectly dreadful, we have been scouring the landscape for someplace new.  The Dig In Cafe is one of a four restaurants within a quarter mile of each other (five if one includes the Lickity Split, an ice cream shop open seasonally) in Augusta.  (Not to denigrate Augusta, but I have always thought that the area was too economically depressed - with the closing of Hillside Orchards, the closing of Brook Lodge, the closing and then reopening of the Barn Theatre, and the sale of the Yarrow Resort to the public sector - to support that many downtown restaurants.  And I don't know anything about the Blue Stem - which might make it six restaurants overall - perched so high overlooking the rustic farmlands near East Augusta Drive.)  It is the only one of the four that is open for breakfast, and I suppose that this gives it an advantage since there is really no alternative nearby.  We could only think of Arlene's Truck Stop to the east near the highway as the next closest.  It is definitely the place for locals to hang out from 7 am onward.  I can't ever recall seeing or reading any advertising in Kalamazoo about this restaurant.  The restaurant is bright and clean, the service is attentive, and the decor is a mix of photos, a few coming from the actors from the nearby Barn Theatre.  
  
  Unfortunately, the food is forgettable. Following my theory that any place that serves breakfast should be able to do it better than I can, this is a restaurant that doesn't.  Never having worked in food service, I could still prepare a better breakfast than I received.  Asking for soft poached eggs, we received hard.  The breakfast potatoes, made of boiled quartered red potatoes, were not then cooked sufficiently long on the flat top to develop crunchy exteriors.  The corned beef hash - and I know what good corned beef hash is and how to make it - came from Gordon Food Service.  Those little teeny cubed potatoes, each no bigger than a BB, were the giveaway.  The coffee was brown and hot but only aspired to taste like coffee.  Nothing was seasoned.  We assumed it was a mixture of inadequate ingredients and inadequate cooking.  
  
  So this is not a destination restaurant.  This is a restaurant whose customer base is locals with a few National Guard from the nearby base thrown in.  I can't see going back since it doesn't offer me anything unique or special in the category of breakfast.  But considering the volume of locals, I don't think the restaurant will miss our business in the least.