Great service from the staff. Good food and atmosphere. Southern cooking at its finest.

The best just like every time you can't find any better place to eat for the money but you can try it you want to waste your money

Great food with great owners. Monday and Friday are our special days. Fried okra taste like homemade and not frozen.

Always good down homed food. Buffet is different every day annd good quantities. Wait staff is friendly and willing to talk about menu items. Good take out meals and reasonable prices. read more

My husband and I were visiting the area and this restaurant was recommended to us. We went on Friday night when they had the seafood buffet. The place looked fairly clean and well-kept; it did not appear to be very busy, but it looked like they were doing a good many take-out orders. We seated ourselves and the server came promptly to take our drink order and ask us if we wanted the buffet or to order off the menu and we chose the buffet. It wasn't a buffet like I'm used to where you help yourself; they have the food on display in warming pans behind aplastic (or maybe glass) "window" and a server asks what you want and helps your plate. They had fried catfish filets, popcorn shrimp, frog legs, stuffed crabs, hush puppies, baked potatoes and cole slaw sealed up in cups. The food looked appetizing and the lady serving it was very nice; however, the food was not hot like it would have been if it was freshly cooked. She gave me a big piece of catfish, but it was mostly breading and very little fish. The hush puppies and stuffed crabs were also not hot. The baked potato tasted okay; at least it melted the butter. The buffet cost $18 each and the iced tea was extra, so our bill was $44. If we had chosen to order off the menu I think our experience would have been better. Lesson learned. read more

Great Lunch buffett spot! Place is packed out, especially on Sundays! They also do dinner and breakfast.

Food was delicious! We ordered off the menu at lunch - grilled catfish and open roast beef. Maybe fries could've been better- but we will stop whenever we are here read more

Most flat, unfriendly staff I have come across in quite some time. Food was meh... Keep on driving. read more

Outstanding family ran spot. We came in for breakfast and it was awesome! Super friendly staff and the tomato gravy was soooo good! Definitely will be back next time I am in town. Reasonably priced as well. read more

A J Family Restaurant - a plate of breakfast food - New American Near Me - Monroeville, Alabama

Great food for buffet dining Also can order from menu. Breakfast are really good,love the sausage . read more

All I have tried is the breakfast buffet so far but it's wonderful! Thick bacon, sausage, grits, eggs, great biscuits and sausage or tomato gravy! Friendly staff and good food. read more

The food is always good but the waitresses are a little rude last week went in witht daughters and 2 grandkids and the waitress was very rude like we was bothering het. read more

Me and my husband ate here one night . Had stew and fish . Fried chicken , fish Who ever heard of stee with no rice !! Hello . No salt no pepper no seasoning at all . Don't know if I will go back .. I think they need a Louisiana cook . read more

Food is fabulous. Working in town for a couple of weeks and eat dinner here every night. Staff is friendly and polite. The buffet is awesome. Nothing like comfort hone cook meals. A must visit!!! read more

Our first visit to this wonderful restaurant was great. The fried chicken was beyond good. Also the fried okra was the best ever! I grew up eating this type food from my Mother's kitchen and this was almost that good. read more

This restaurant is in my hometown. The first time I ate here was when I graduated from high school and we had our senior breakfast. The food was really good. The first time I ordered, I had grits, eggs, bacon, and sausage. The second time I ate was when the pandemic was in effect. I had collard greens, cornbread, butter beans, and fried chicken. I'm a sucker for soul food so of course it was amazing. When you walk in, you walk into an entry way and then walk right into the restaurant. It is a self serve restaurant too so whatever they have out, you can choose what you want. They also have a menu that you can order from as well if you don't want what is on the buffet. The tables and chairs are wooden and they have signs up on certain tables saying to not sit here due to COVID. The employees wear face masks, and the kitchen staff wears gloves, but no masks. I'm not sure if Face masks are still required because there is no sign up stating that, but I wear my mask in there just to be safe. They have plastic utensils to go, but they still have their metal utensils for customers to use. I've never had a problem with this place so I give it a 5/5 stars. read more

I only have one word to describe it: Chaos. It's very noisy and the service is horrible. Stopped by for lunch on a Sunday and after our server brought our drinks we didn't see her again to take our order for another twenty minutes. The buffet had very limited choices so we decided to order off the menu. Half the stuff we asked about, they were out of. Finally settled on burgers and sandwiches. Ten minutes later she comes out and tells us they were out of french fries. Ordered the tater tots instead and waited....and waited.....and waited. After being there for 45 minutes I flagged down our server to ask about our food. She said they were behind in the kitchen because of a table of 13 that had come in. I looked over to where she pointed and it was people I had seen come in 20 minutes AFTER we were seated. After having been there for an hour, I saw the food come out for the big table she had referenced. That's when we decided we had enough. Walked up to the register to pay for our drinks and leave and had to wait another ten minutes for someone to come out for that. Can't tell you anything about how the food is because we never got any. Won't bother stopping in again. read more

The drink tastes flat. Service is ok. The food is really bad. I eaten up there about 5 times because of my father-in-law likes it. He grew up eating there. He doesn't know better. Every time I went I would get something different trying to find I might like, no luck. I even tried breakfast there. It sucks too. I would rather go to Hardee's the good taste better. read more

Oh my goodness, move on to the next city before eating here. Everything was from a can, prebattered, frozen and just awful.

It was OK nothing special. I didn't like adding an extra charge for using my debit card. Wasn't told until I went to pay up. I saw it added to check and had to ask about it. I have never eaten at a restaurant that charged a fee for using debit card. read more

I have enjoyed AJ's for years I have not been in a while then I came and got take out the other day. I was pleased with the speed of my service and the price of my food. The restaurant stays packed out but staff looks like they handle it well. read more

Service was horrible. Acted like they didn't know what grilled vegetables are. Baked potato was dry. Think it was cooked in a microwave. Onion rings were about same quality as the frozen bags at wal mart. Took about 45 minutes to get 2 bake potatoes and 1 order onion rings. And waitress acted like she didn't care. read more

All of my family members like this place, but I don't really care for it. I think I just went on a bad day, though. I think our waitress was the only waitress on duty so i can slightly understand her being less than polite to us. read more

This place is great. We were in Monroeville for a little over a week, and we ate at AJ's several times. It was always great. They have a buffet, as well as a menu. I can't tell you what's on the menu though, the buffet always looked too good, and it was. The buffet isn't big, but what's on it is tasty! Almost every time we were there, Tina was our server, and she was wonderful, as was everyone we encountered there. We wanted to bring Tina home with us! Very friendly, fast, great service. Coming home to Alabama, from Hawaii, it was so nice to have a place to get food "home cooked southern food." I just can't get it here in Hawaii. People call Hawaii paradise, well paradise isn't paradise in all things, and the food is one of them. I can't wait for my next visit to Alabama, and one of the reasons is so that I can eat at AJ's again. read more

On my way from Alabama to Pensacola and found this Amazing little place. They have the most Awesome food. The place is very clean and provides Great service. I will definitely be back. The prices are inexpensive too. They were out of coleslaw today which made me a little sad because I was excited to try it. Next time for sure. read more

Had catfish,sweet potato fries and hush puppies. They were hot and tasty. This is the first time I've had hush puppies that were really spicy and had cheese and corn in them! Excellent read more

The hamburgers are the best!! You will never want to eat a hamburger from a chain again. Buffet is good. Someone should teach them how to make cornbread though, theirs is sweet and awful. read more