I absolutely love this place! I love comfort food. I get tired of having fast food or Mexican food…read more Their poppyseed casserole is amazing! You have to go when they start serving lunch, don't go at 1 because they will be sold out of food. It's that good.

The food and service are very good Friendly home town…read moreservice from The time you get your order Or the buffet

This is a wonderful place to eat. Nothing here in from a can. Everything is made and cooked on…read moresite. Fresh milk is in pint jars and ice cold. Vegetables are all from farm to table. No preservatives in anything served. I had fried chicken, red potatoes, mac-n-cheese, cole slaw, white beans, cornbread, pineapple casserole, wheat bread and fried catfish. Desserts are made there too. I had fudge pie with homemade vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup. Everything was absolutely delicious. The butter is churned there as well. Picnic tables are on the front porch and a swing hangs from the ceiling. There is a vintage cash register used when you make payment for your meals. There is also a store with jelly, jams and other items made there. I bought a tee-shirt. I highly recommend visiting here. Bring your appetite. Everything is buffet style. The owner is friendly. Check hours of operation before you show up. Good parking. Clean restrooms. If possible I would give more than 5 Stars. I am not a local. I am visiting my daughter and grandchildren in Florence. My daughter found this wonderful place because someone from her job recommended it. I will definitely return.

Update 5-23-2020. We went here around 4Pm . This is our 3rd…read moretime coming here. They opened back up dining room and can sit outside too because of coronavirus. Food was excellent!! Got fried chicken, beef gravy both was good. I also got fried okra, macaroni. I got peach cobbler and homemade for dessert. Great food for great price. Nice staff. A hidden Jewel in Florence.

Great meat and vegetables place. $9 for a meat and two vegetables with desert and drink…read more Maybe 4 meats to choose from and your choice out of 8 vegetable dishes. Looked like about 5 desserts to pick from. Nice folks running the place. Very attentive. It's nothing fancy, but it's really a decent home style meal. Served on a plastic plate with stamped metal utensils... I would claim that this is in the top ranks of meat a vegetable places I have ever tried. I enjoyed my chopped steak with onions and gravy, black eyed peas, stewed tomato and banana pudding that had some pineapple in it. Huge glass of ice tea too. They also have a menu to order from with some good sounding options. I would definitely come back.

I've been here a number of times and every time it is great. They have home-baked bakery goods…read morequiche, as well as delicious sandwiches. A ton of local honey, jams, jellies, and other goods around the other areas of the state. Definitely worth visiting here..

Fried catfish, BBQsalad, grilled shrimp are excellent! Fried onion rings are THE BEST I have ever…read moretasted!!! Staff are friendly, professional and always on the lookout for ways to serve. Down home atmosphere. Great place to eat. And lots if folks get carry out. Cam and Brantley

It's ok just not the best place out here but you know it's near the top of the list. The waiter are…read morenice I will give them that. Like I said just not the best.

Nice friendly workers, service is minimal, the building is old and could use some upgrades and…read moreimprovements, the parking situation is a little bit of a challenge, the inside needs more lighting as well, the food is ok but the bbq pork is lacking in flavor!

Service is amazing and the people are always kind and it's a family business / and I recommend the…read moreJackson dogs they are amazing

Great service even better food!! Prefer Bojangles over any other fast food or chicken place. Cole…read moreslaw is fantastic the only thing that would make it even better is if they had a spicy option for the slaw!

Food is good but they dont train their cashiers to well before the leave them by theirselves.read more

We tried the quail appetizer with balsamic glaze. The ribeye with brown butter was delicious served…read morewith tasty sweet potatoes and well seasoned asparagus. . The Cesar salad was well dressed and tasty.

8/2026 update: Hubs and I had dinner at Southern Table a couple of Saturdays ago. The experience…read morewas more of a 3.5 star rating. I was disappointed because it is rare for us to enjoy a meal out, and Southern Table, to this point, has been my favorite place to have dinner in the entire north Alabama region! I crave Chef Yokley's wood-fired oysters and find this dish consistently filling and delicious as it has been for years! Because Hubs did not want any oysters, I got 2 pairs of oysters on the happy hour menu which were extremely reasonably priced at either $1.00 or $2.00 per oyster. Were they wood-fired? Yes. Were they rich and decadent like all previous times I have tried them? No. Were they small? Yes. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a small oyster, in fact my favorite oysters, Murder Points, are typically small, or small-ish. The recent visit, the oysters were way smaller than the shucked shell they were heated in with the parmesan cheese sauce, meaning the cheese overwhelmed and dominated any oyster goodness (brininess) you could have tasted and enjoyed. And, the last of the four oysters had some tough mollusk piece that I actually had to just spit the whole oyster out in my napkin. Either bad shucking or lack of expediting/checking the dishes leaving the kitchen, or both. It was sad. Chef Yokley posts a lot of photographs of his dishes/drinks on Facebook and I had seen his crab cakes with a unique and very interesting sounding salad with citrusy flavored greens and unique berries I had never tried. Well, wouldn't you expect the server to tell you about the specials and describe them? Ours did not. I had to pull up the photograph from Facebook and ask the server about it. They offered an appetizer size of the dish and an entree sized version. I got the appetizer. It was okay. There wasn't as much of a sear on these smallish crab cakes, as I like and the "salad" was more of a garnish, meaning, it would have been nice to have more of the salad than I received. I had to chase down the server to get hubs water refilled (he would have had non alcoholic beer but Southern Table doesn't have any) and to get me a second glass of house white wine. Hubs ordered a wood fired pork sandwich with French Fries. He said it tasted a lot like Lawler's barbecue. He added "and that's not a bad thing!" The sandwich was nothing special, honestly to the Hubs. It will be a while before I return to Southern Table, sadly. I think Chef Yokley needs to step up his expediting game and his attention to detail.

One of the best breakfast restaurants the Shoals Alway busy…read morein the morning The spinach omelet is my favorite dish on the menu

Food prices are low. Portions are generous. Hash browns, and eggs are tasty and done to order. My…read morepork chop was either twice cooked or way over cooked. Coffee was hot and pretty fair and waitress kept it topped off. My wife's meal was equal. Bacon was generous and perhaps a little over cooked for my taste. I have been told that overcooked/ well cooked meat is a Southern standard so maybe it is just me and I rarely eat anything but cereal or oatmeal for breakfast at home. The ambience is humble, homey with plenty of room. Overall, it was just about average. The people and service was the high point. They were very friendly and nice. If you are looking for a straightforward breakfast and reasonable prices this fits the bill.

Clean, good food, fair prices but some things are priced higher than other places. Services is…read moregood they check on you often and keep your glass full, I would recommend the salad bar it's fresh and has plenty of options. The pork chops are good, and the chicken is juicy.

That is a great place to eat there service are very polite the food is awesome and it has been…read morethere for awhile and it is suitable for an ambulance

We go to the Old CookStove a couple of times a year. We travel 61 miles to eat here. They never…read moredisappoint. Wonderful food and a great staff. On one of our trips, my wife inquired about how something was prepared. The kitchen staff came out to give my wife step by step cooking instructions. We love the place and we will continue to come visit. And for the record, I hate buffets. This is the one buffet that I will willingly eat at.

Went there one Friday night. Food was straight out of a can. Buffet was not up to par, and…read moredefinitely not worth the time and gas to go there.