What happened?!
This wasn't my first trip to Miller's, but it was likely my last. What's confusing is that pre-covid, this review would've been all about how amazing this little place is, but now...yikes! I think I read it was under new ownership, which would explain a lot.
We dig little older spots like this where you get hit by the smell of old wood and food when you open the door. It's like going to Sunday dinner at granny's, but when there's a family reunion. For that, places like this always have my heart.
The service was fine except for the part where the waitress cashed out out while we were still in the latter middle of dinner.
It's not you, it's....the food! The order break-down: We got the fired green tomatoes. I got the beef tips with gravy, mashed potatoes, and broccoli casserole. He got hamburger steak with gravy, mashed potatoes, and greens. Little got the kids chicken tender w/ mac n' cheese. I'd do a good, bad, good sandwich:
The mashed potatoes were great. They taste homemade and we liked them. That is all. The steak "tips" were so dry and it was more like cubed meat that had set in a crock pot about 2 hours too long and no cubes were left, just shredded meat. The broccoli casserole was an under seasoned paste-like scoop of things someone had dumped the ingredients in a food processor for a good few minutes then folded in a piece or two of cooked broccoli. The hamburger steak was a thick serving of super dry over-cooked ground beef that was curling up on the edges. The gravy to all of that? Brown salt gravy. Mine neither tasted like it remotely resembled a burgundy and his had huge under-cooked chunks of onion in addition to his liquid salt. I've had soy sauce that tasted less salty. The greens? Go to the Walmart, grab an unseasoned can of turnip greens, slap 'em in the 'ol nuker for 2 minutes and viola...JUST like Miller's. Any greens loving human being can already taste the bland "white-ladiness" about this. The little's chicken was like a tenderloin and sadly, also over cooked. $75 after the forced 10$ for our young and inexperienced waitress we saw 3 times.
The fried green tomatoes were phenomenal!
The fun part: If the man who was walking around talking to the people behind us was the owner (he talked like it), his ego was quite the display and morbidly entertaining. Thanks for letting them know your wife makes "everything from scratch every morning..." but honey, them greens and that food told on you. We could almost taste the cans they came from.
If you dig old spots like this...try Gregory's Beechgrove off Exit 97 on 24. Same great vibe, great people, amazing food!
(No, I don't know any of the people who own or operate either place). read more