When you want a wide variety of good home-cooked food served fast to eat-in or carry out at a convenient Gun Barrel City location, Cochran's Cafeteria is the ideal destination. For dining in the cafeteria is spotless, and the atmosphere is pleasant. In addition to the entrees of fried chicken, catfish (whole or fillets), chicken fried steak, beef tips and rice, meat loaf, barbecue sausage and brisket, hamburger steak and onions, beef stew, chicken and dumplings and baked fish, you can just get chicken and catfish to go or just about any kind of sandwich you want. There also are a wide array of vegetables, salads and desserts. If you don't want to cook, head to Cochran's Cafeteria, and find out why this longtime business owned by a Cedar Creek Lake resident named Cecil remains so successful. It is at 816 W. Main St., Gun Barrel City, Texas 75147. Call 903-887-1807. It is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, and stays open an extra 30 minutes on Friday and Saturday nights until 9:30 p.m. for those last minute weekend dinners after a day on the lake.
