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| - Sorry to have to come in as less than OK, but such was our experience for Thursday lunch. Our convertible car club took a nice back road trip to have lunch here. It had been highly recommended and lauded, so we were excited to be there.
Southern buffet and yes they had fried chicken, fried fish, fried squash and the boiled cabbage and carrots, along with other items to round it all out. But is just was not very good. My wife called it a "miserable lunch."
Lots of tables as they tend to a lot of traffic, lunch and dinner. Parking lot full and a line to go through the buffet so popular they are. So let's look at why 2-stars.
Buffet itself tucked into a small area so was difficult to move around. Salad bar was lettuce and lots of dressings, quantity and type, but rather limited in salad add-ons. Rolls and hush puppies were at the end of the buffet horseshoe. There were small fried shrimp, like those you would find accenting a side salad. You needed a lot of scoops to get a portion on your plate and they were flavorless.
The "raved about" fried chicken was no big deal, more comparable to supermarket deli fried chicken that anything special. There were small flat pieces of fried fish which were fine. The fried squash was very good.
Dessert were a soon-to-be-gone tray of peach cobbler and then a tray of cherry cobbler which were both very pedestrian. Truly canned fruit and a simple crust. Runny and over sweet.
Service was excellent. Those wait people hustle and have to cover drinks, busing and billing for a large number of people. DeeDee was a champ and a bright spot amid a blight.
Buffet was $8.95 and beverages about $2 each. It was $22.20 for the two of us which was buffet and iced tea.
I cannot imagine the steakhouse service.
The locals like it...we did not.
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