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River Road Cafe

3.5 (4 reviews)
Closed • 5:30 am - 2:00 pm

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Garden Gate Cafe - Country fried steak with brown gravy, macaroni and cheese, cabbage, and fried okra with a roll

Garden Gate Cafe

4.3(28 reviews)
6.9 mi
•$

Small town meat and 3. Every small town has one. No all are created equal. This one is definitely a…read morelot better than most! Small kind of run down older building with cars surrounding the parking lot. Around 12 on Friday we were fortunate to get one of 2 available parking spaces in a decent sized lot. People were pouring in and out of this place. Our table hadn't been adequately cleaned; however, they pack a lot of people in at lunch and were likely just busy vs unkept. Service was reasonably prompt and friendly. The food was great! I had the hamburger steak with gravy and onion, Mac and cheese, turnip greens, fried okra and and the fried corn bread. The hamburger steak was real hand pattied ground chuck, with perfectly grilled onion. The sides were all homemade. The fried corn bread turned out to be a hoe cake. A hoe cake is a thin corn bread batter fried like a pan cake. It was awesome! I haven't had one in years!! That's a grandmother/ great grandmother kinda thing you do not see these days. The value was phenomenal. All of that was $7.07 with tax. You can't get a combo meal at a fast food joint for $7.00. This was real deal southern style cuisine. Their regular menu includes the burgers etc...and some pretty awesome looking onion rings. They also have a number of homemade deserts including my son's fav peanut butter pie. I will likely grab him a piece on my way home next week. I will be back for lunch again next week. The daily specials included a fried chicken breast, chicken livers, pork roast, chicken fried steak and maybe a couple other items with more than a dozen sides. The daily specials vary with exception to the chicken breast which is available every day. This is the absolute best lunch I've found in Muscle Shoals for value, quantity and more importantly taste!

We visited here for lunch after a road trip to the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. This is a solid…read morelittle spot for country cooking. The sign for the place is a little hard to see and I missed the turn to enter the parking area initially. Made our way back and found a spot, though the lot is a little bit hard to maneuver. We walked inside to a slightly hot, slightly dim interior. It's larger than it looks on the outside. A friendly waitress told us we could sit where we liked, so we took a booth near a window so we could see the menu better. Their choices were fairly varied for lunch. Lunches come with a meat + 3 veggies and your choice of bread. I ordered the boneless fried chicken breast, macaroni and cheese, fried okra, and at the recommendation of our waitress, the hash brown casserole with a roll as my bread. My mom got the country fried steak with brown gravy, macaroni and cheese, fried okra, cabbage, and a roll. My dad got the same thing except he subbed the cabbage for greens of some sort, though I can't recall if they were turnip or collard greens. He also got the fried cornbread. Our waitress was very nice and patient with us, even with my dad chatting her up, lol. Our food came out quickly. You pay at the register up front -- we thought the prices were reasonable. As for the food itself, it was enjoyable! Simple, straightforward, but tasty and comforting. The chicken was breaded expertly and was cooked well. To me, the stand out was the fried okra, which was perfectly crisp. We also enjoyed the macaroni and cheese, greens, and chicken fried steak. My mom said her best thing was the cabbage, which was surprising at first -- but I agree, the cabbage was excellent! The hashbrown casserole and the fried cornbread were the only two letdowns; the casserole needed to be cooked and seasoned a bit more, and the cornbread was likewise a little on the floppy side, instead of having pleasantly crisp edges. Overall, though, solid country cooking at a reasonable price served quickly by nice people. Give them a go if you're in the area.

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Garden Gate Cafe - Hamburger Casserole, mashed potatoes with gravy, Mac and cheese, Mexican cornbread and coleslaw

Hamburger Casserole, mashed potatoes with gravy, Mac and cheese, Mexican cornbread and coleslaw

Garden Gate Cafe - Boneless fried chicken breast, macaroni and cheese, fried okra, and hashbrown casserole with a roll

Boneless fried chicken breast, macaroni and cheese, fried okra, and hashbrown casserole with a roll

Garden Gate Cafe - Fried chicken breast, Mac and cheese, greens, okra and fried cornbread $7.07 w tax

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Fried chicken breast, Mac and cheese, greens, okra and fried cornbread $7.07 w tax

Ricks Barbecue - Muscle Shoals

Ricks Barbecue - Muscle Shoals

2.7(27 reviews)
7.2 mi
•$$

Quick take: 3-stars is generous. Food was good and bad. Service was nice, but execution was…read morequestionable. Restaurant looked clean. I probably won't come back to this location, maybe would try another. We rolled through drive-thru around 4pm on Saturday, October 18th. We were 1st in line, didn't look like many people inside. We were asked to pull forward, which is fine. We got a slaw dog, a Bama Wrap with fries, a pork sandwich, pecan pie, and sweet tea. We didn't wait too long but I am not sure which thing took the longest. The reason I say that is the fries were soggy so surely we weren't waiting on them. Also, the sandwich's bun was very soggy, almost sopping wet. I would say this is carry-out and these sat in box but that was not the case. We opened right after getting Slaw dog - delicious, but WEAK dog. This hot dog tasted awesome but the weiner was little. It didn't fill the bun and it was very narrow. Would love this with a better weiner. Bama Wrap - delicious and would order again. Very messy. Interested in the other wraps. Pecan pie - good, average. Not many pecans. Very thin layer on top. Also, no fork so we had to eat with hand (no biggie.) Sweet tea - great Pork Sandwich - pork had a good taste but wife couldn't eat the sandwich because both buns were soaked through and falling apart. Maybe get all wet stuff on the side. But I don't understand because she got into it pretty quickly. Fries - such great potential. They had a nice flavor. But these were all soggy and not fresh/hot. Very sad. They were the first thing I reached for because I could eat while driving.

Food was cold. Pork sandwich with fries both cold and the meat tasted like it came straight from a…read morecan. Beans were cold. Definitely not going back.... Complete lack waste of money and time.

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Ricks Barbecue - Muscle Shoals - Notice the meat portion; absurdly small. Mac & Cheese portion would have been fine if edible.

Notice the meat portion; absurdly small. Mac & Cheese portion would have been fine if edible.

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