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    Checkers Restaurant

    4.2 (21 reviews)
    Closed 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

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    Country fried steak with grilled cabbage and mashed potatoes
    Amy M.

    Brother and I stopped by for dinner on our weekly drive down the 460. The blurb on Google maps says that this is a fast food chain for burgers and shakes, but this is NOT related to Checkers/Rallys. This is a sit down, homestyle restaurant. We walked in and were seated immediately. The decor is all paintings done by a local artist and all for sale. Very... local family restaurant aesthetic. We ordered the country fried steak served with gravy and onions, the grilled cabbage, and the mashed potatoes with gravy, as well as the hamburger steak with gravy and onions and added mushrooms, and sides of black eyed peas and fried okra. The gravy was great, the mashed potatoes were homemade, but just a bit more creamy/whipped than I generally like them and the country fried steak was very good and crispy on the outside/tender on the inside. Very good. I will say that I was a bit unprepared for the grilled cabbage. The menu just calls it "grilled cabbage". It was equal parts chopped cabbage and bacon. I eat bacon very sparingly (I get migraines), so even though it isn't my favorite, I will eat it. But if you don't eat pork, get migraines, or don't like bacon, it didn't say anywhere on the listing that the side dish was 50% bacon. Cabbage is probably my favorite vegetable, but I wouldn't order it again because of the subsequent migraine. Brother liked the hamburger steak and said that the mushrooms absolutely made the dish. The fried okra was good, but the black eyed peas could have been heated straight out of the can. That isn't to say that they weren't good, but definitely nothing special. Our server was very nice, but definitely don't come by when you are in a hurry. It took around 40 minutes to get our food after ordering, so it was a good thing we weren't starving. It was pretty darn good (and not so greasy that I had to immediately run to the bathroom afterwards, which does happen sometimes) so we will probably be back in the near future.

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    Excellent food and very friendly and efficient staff! Small individually owned restaurant.

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    It's been a long time. It was really good tonight. Cole slaw is homemade and delicious. Flounder was good, no bones.

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    Meh. Nothing special. Its food and you can eat it. Not bad but no one gets supper excited about going here.

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