I ordered off the menu. Fried clams, cole slaw, onion rings and hush puppies. All were very good. I hadn't had fried clams in years. The last place i had them years ago was Howard Johnsons. My girlfriend went through the buffet. She had catfish, shrimp, oysters, onion rings and cole slaw. Everything was great. The restaurant was very clean. The staff did a great job. I would definitely come back and would recommend the restaurant to all looking for a good meal. read more

Was hoping they had all you can eat crab legs. The seafood buffet was ok- lots of fried food like catfish, okra, etc. Had boiled shrimp, salad, dessert options.. thought greens were good, shrimp was good for buffet, but all else just was ok. For me, it wasn't worth the $40 I ended up spending. Server and staff was fabulous. Order from menu. Will get better deal. read more

All I can say is dang! Worth it! Better than Berrys to me! Better get there early! Service was polite and great too!

Hadn't been there in 25 years. Was surprised and the new buildings. Food was Excellent!!!! Such a clean and well arranged dinning area. Friendly service. Fish was cooked perfectly and not greasy. My husband had the Buffet and was very pleased with the food he chose. We will be back! read more

This place was really good. Nice atmosphere, plenty of buffet options and the quality is on point. Service was friendly and top notch. This place is worth the trip. read more

My Hubby and I drove from Biloxi to eat here at Macks. And y'all know what?!?! WE WILL BE GOING BACK!! The staff were all so friendly!! I had catfish, crawdads, and the oysters were delicate and sweet!! The stuffed crabs were loaded with crab meat!! I had collard greens and pups on the side. Everything was freshly cooked, too. OH THE SWEET TEA was excellent. I could taste the tea and not just sugar. Atmosphere was cozy and rustic. Cant wait to go back!! read more

The food was ok. I was disappointed that $32.99 for a seafood Buffett is over priced. The buffet looked good but the seafood of choice was fried and boiled shrimp, Small fried oysters, fried catfish and baked fish. Other food was squash, black eyed peas, corn on the cob, green beans, mashed potatoes ( instant) hush puppies, fried onion rings, fries, and Mac n cheese. It would have been cheaper to get the seafood platter. I honestly feel for my husband and I to pay 77.00 plus 5.00 tip it wasn't worth it!!! read more

When they do the crab legs all you can eat! I'm here for it. Even without the crab legs the food is great! The people are super sweet!

Sunday buffet is just average. The staff is very friendly and service is very fast. The desserts we're just average. All in all I don't think it's really worth the money. I will try it one more time and next time I will eat something other than the Sunday buffet. read more

We went to Mack's last night. Party of five with two of us eating the buffet. The food was Wonderful. The service was SLOW and awful! We waited ten minutes for a server after being seated in one of the alcoves. Drinks were terribly slow in getting to the table and the refills were just as bad. I hate tipping for lousy service but I know most places pool their tips and every server is not as slow. As always the food did not disappoint! read more

Nice selection on the buffet and reasonable prices. Servers are attentive and I will eat here again.

The company I work for had food catered for us and the food was EXCELLENT! I was very impressed UNTIL I decided to bring my boyfriend to dinner at the actual restaurant. We walked in and were seated in a decent time frame and it wasn't busy. We sat down and were looking over the menu what seemed like forever. Servers were walking right past us like we didn't exist. Ten more minutes went by and we didn't even have a drink yet. I was boiling inside!!!! 20 minutes went by and we gathered our things and LEFT! I do not recommend this place at all! Horrible restaurant experience! read more

This is my favorite restaurant in the Burg. When I initially moved to the Burg, I was going South on 49 from Jackson and immediately saw the big fish sign. I knew I wanted to try it! The restaurant is a good 5-minutes off the highway. It is in a large cabin on a small river. It is definitely a country cooking kind-of-place. It is so, so good! Chicken, veggies, biscuits, dessert, mmm mmm mmm. The place is very clean. There is indoor and outdoor patio seating. This would be a wonderful place to host a reunion. I will be back! read more

Mack's On The River - Buffets Near Me - Hattiesburg, Mississippi

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Excellent selection of seafood and other food on the buffet! Everything we tried was great!

Don't waste your money. I have no problem paying good money for good food. This was awful, I would have been better off at Golden Corral. I don't like giving negative reviews however for the price point this is justified. The one positive was the servers. Friendly and prompt is the only reason they are getting the star. If I was strictly rating the service then i would give a better review. DO NOT waste your hard earned money. read more

We almost didn't stop here when we saw the average rating on Yelp, but there were only 4 reviews and they were pretty scattered, so we took a chance. We came for Sunday lunch buffet. Plates were a fair $12.99 not including the delicious tea. If you are from the South and you are obese, this place provides a good explanation. Healthy? No. Low salt? Our blood pressure laughs at that. Fried crispy and golden? Oh yeah. Does every dessert hide beneath a creamy blanket of Cool Whip? Of course. This place is a solid 4 stars of good Southern style home cooking. And enough of it to make even the most disciplined eater walk away feeling ASHAMED. Worth it. Worth the month that eating here will undoubtedly shave from your nursing home stay in the end! That place will suck anyway. read more

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I give 5 stars for the Sunday lunch buffet, and 3 stars for the Seafood buffet. The Sunday buffet is absolutely superb. There were many people, but it was very quiet. The best biscuits I've ever had in my entire life. They absolutely melt in your mouth. There were green beans and green bean casserole, creamed corn, fried chicken and fried catfish, gumbo, clam chowder, biscuits and rolls, and soft serve ice cream! They also have a menu if you choose not to have the buffet, but considering that it costs less than $10 I don't know why you wouldn't! The seafood buffet was not impressive at all. There were shrimp and fried fish on the buffet, but you had to pay extra for each crab cluster, and though they were seasoned well, they weren't cooked well - they mushed when you tried to break them, so you had to fight to get the crab out. Not fun! Most of the Sunday buffet was repeated in the seafood dinner buffet, but the biscuits I could die for were missing, so I decided to order from the menu instead of spending so much money when I don't usually eat much. read more

Mack's On The River - Buffets Near Me - Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Casual dining, they have a really good buffet with many great seafood selections sides & dessert or you can order off the menu. Our server was very sweet, checking on our needs all through our meal. Worth the $$ the food was great! read more

Overpriced for quality. I have always heard good things and suggested we stop tonight on our way into town. Paid $24.99 each and the food was just poor. Nothing was seasoned at all, salting didn't even help. I wasn't one to complain but we won't be back. Servicers are very friendly but someone really needs to learn how to cook. It was as if the can was opened and it was poured in and heated to serve. On a good note, the lemon icebox pie was really good. read more

No. Unless you want fish bait do not order the shrimp. This place was awful. I would think as close as they are to the gulf coast they would take pride in their seafood. No option for grilled anything.. they had a buffet for $25.00 a person, ok. Maybe .. but when I asked the waitress about the buffet and that we had never eaten here before she was rude, I'd think this would be the opportunity to sell us the buffet, cost, what's on it tonight and all the information to encourage us to eat the buffet, I would not recommend this stop. read more

Yep, one star and that's being generous! I had the clam strips, coleslaw and field peas. My hot food was cold and the coleslaw was like mush with pickles and it was all overpriced. I was looking forward to crab legs on the buffet, but they weren't there and when I asked I was told they would 'cost extra.' Then I saw that after dinner mints where next to the cash register, oh but wait, they were 5 cents each. What a disappointment! read more

Disgusting horrible gross under cooked over cooked dirty filthy disgusting don't go the worst place in Hattiesburg yellow boiled shrimp brown stuffed crab the fish was disgusting the shrimp and oysters were revolting and 25$. For old grease?? They should spend their money on the food not the signs. Absolutely disgusting. Big big mistake. Really really gross read more

This place is tucked away and truly a diamond!! The food was EXCELLENT!!! And the only thing better than the food was the service!!! Well worth the price and the time it took for me and my date to get there. I TOTALLY recommend it, especially for a first date. read more

Way over priced buffet $25 for hardly any food. Menu said had crab legs on the buffet it didn't was told they cost to much. Would would not recommend this place. Golden Coral has a better buffet for a heck of lot cheaper. read more

If you're a 400 pound man that needs to eat volumes of food, maybe this place would be good. It's seriously just bad. "Seafood" buffet? Ok, I guess you're right, tiny shrimp do come from the sea. That's the only seafood on the buffet. Catfish is not seafood...sorry. Service was good. Salad was so wet that dressing wouldn't stick to it. Mac and cheese was watery and cold. Baked beans were cold. Onion rings were cold. Chocolate cake was burned in the bottom. Soft serve wasn't cold enough? No beer or wine? Just not worth the time if you're not from the area. If you are from the area, I feel bad for you that this is one of the best places around. read more

This establishment killed a helpless dog of a neighbor. The dog was shot for using the potty on their parking lot! The owners of the pup were in the process of putting up a fence but didn't get to finish! I will never eat here again! read more

Come hungry. I can't speak to the weekday buffet. My wife and I stopped here for the Sunday lunch buffet while driving thru, and we both loved it. The buffet is a nice selection of southern favorites, well prepared and at a reasonable price. We were actually expecting the price to be much more than it was. So much good food to chose from...not enough room in our stomachs. We will definitely be back. read more

We tried it because it was recommended to us by people who had been here. There were 11 of us in our group. The waitress told a couple in our party that they couldn't share their meal. This wasn't the buffet they wanted to share, it was a meal. My dinner was forgotten and I received my meal after everyone was just about finished eating theirs. The combo platter came with fried shrimp, fried catfish fillets, stuffed crab, house salad and Mac-n-cheese. We were told the waitress would make our salad, but if we wanted to we could make our own at the buffet. There was plenty of lettuce and not much of anything else! Boring salad to say the least. The shrimp was ok. The catfish was very thin and very salty. The Mac n cheese was watered down. The hush puppies were dry. We paid about $250 to eat here. We will find somewhere else to spend our money next time. Not worth the drive. And had I read the reviews about the owner killing an animal I wouldn't have been there to begin with. read more

SO disappointing! Great location, lots of seating, all-you-can-eat...but we couldn't find a single thing worth finishing, much less worth going back for more. Catfish - meh. Gumbo - ew. Even the mac & cheese was bad. I didn't even eat my whole piece of cake, and that is unheard of! None of us are picky eaters. All six of us were especially bummed when we saw the bill - yikes! $21.99 each, and we left hungry. All I wanted was some decent catfish, coleslaw & hush puppies. No luck. SO DISAPPOINTED. read more

This place is EXTREMELY OVERPRICED for what you get. The seafood buffets costs around $30 a person for mediocre seafood that isn't even hot. I highly recommend taking your money and spending it elsewhere with better food and lower prices. read more

The food here was pretty good with the exception of the crab legs. I believe that they were a bit over cooked. But everything else had that southern comfort taste. But there hospitality was a bit questionable. Maybe everyone working there was having a bad night. You think, lol! Well anyway I don't think we'll be back. read more

Worst dining experience...EVER!! Over-priced for the quality. We have been one time before with no problems, but this time was the complete opposite. Sub-par food that came out of a freezer, was not fresh and mostly breading, a 'salad bar' with basically nothing but lettuce, cold and runny, greasy food that tasted like it had been sitting out all day, and the server was very rude and had zero customer service skills, to put it lightly. She was argumentative, told us we could 'go make our own salad', and even forgot to put an order in. No apologies for anything, and definitely no offers to 'make things right,' by either the 'server' or the guy she had bring out the missing food to us. I guess since this was a large party, that she thought she could act like she wanted and still get her tip. I could've gone to McDonalds and gotten a fish sandwich that tasted better and with nicer employees, which is what I will gladly do next time if there is a choice between anything and Mack's on the River. read more

the food is mediocre at best and it's a waste of time to travel that far when better seafood is a shorter distance away. over priced and often overcooked. don't waste your time read more

I think this is a nice seafood restaurant. My boyfriend & I have been here twice. We ordered off of the menu both times & had plenty. There is no way we would get our money's worth from the buffet. But if you can hang with the buffet go for it. I will visit again! read more

My husband and I recently ate at this Resturant because it was the only one that we could find that had crab legs. To our amazement, we ate everything except crab legs. The food was delicious!! We enjoyed the rustic country feel of the Resturant as well as the staff. The only downside is that the Resturant felt like we were going over the river and through the woods to get there . We almost turned around because it felt isolated. Glad that we didn't . read more

We had very high expectations.. Heard many more good reviews then bad... Well ours was horrid!!!!We went for my parents 54th Anniversary and what a terrible idea that was,, from the moment we walked in. The waitress was a snotty young lady who obviously didn't care if she was there or not... we went there for the seafood buffet and guess what,,the only seafood that was on there was catfish, catfish more catfish and some very salty old shrimp.. We asked our waitress where the crab legs were and she said that the restaurant said they could not afford to put them on the buffet... well then then don't charge for a seafood buffet when all you offer is salty, over seasoned, bottom of the barrel quality and old to boot food... For $22.99 and the potaotes were runny and from a box,,,,, how sad,,,,,, never will I go back there. read more