If you want the best southern food.... stop by at dinner bell! We ate today with my husband and we enjoy it. Love the food and atmosphere. The service is great too. Our waitress is Gail and shes the best! Her banana pudding is the bomb! Dont forget to try their fried eggplant its the best! read more

The Dinner Bell - New American Near Me - McComb, Mississippi

AMAZING food! Roumdtable , lazy Susan dining, southern food. The fried chicken and fried eggplant are to die for'.

The Dinner Bell is a quintessential experience when visiting Mississippi. You can't get more hospitable than sharing a table with group of locals while enjoying some delicious comfort food. Come hungry because your table will be filled with platters and dishes full of meats like smothered pork chops and fried chicken and delicious sides like sweet potatoes, black eyes peas and mashed potatoes. Oh! And don't forget to save room for dessert as well! read more

Great lunch spot. Home cooked meal. The whole staff was very nice. The owner was around the whole time and interacted with the guest.

Unique dining experience with delicious comfort food! Everything is wonderful, but the eggplant is my favorite!

Wonderful experience. You'll definitely feel like you've fallen in the heart of the South at this place. They have unique tables and great atmosphere. They always greet you with a smile. They have the best friend chicken for miles around. read more

So love this local gem! Lots of good home-style food and wonderful owners that work hard to serve our community!

First time here and I lived within 30 miles most of my life. Awesome food. Fried chicken was great fried eggplants. Chicken and dumplings. Just turn the table and the endless suppy of food comes to you. I tried everything on the table with absolutely no complaints!! read more

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Wonderful Southern food. Owned and operated by a great family! Love the staff and the food is wonderful! read more

I've been coming here since I was a child. If you want a fun experience - community dining - and LEGIT down home southern cooking, come here. Beware it creates a small competitive environment of "first spin/grab, first serve". Don't worry. There is plenty of food to go around . read more

Fantastic place to eat, customer service, taste and always a stop when I come thru MaComb, MS. I love it here!!

If TRUE down-home Southern cooking is your thing, THIS IS YOUR PLACE!! Huge community rotating tables with veggies, breads, meats, desserts. As you spot what you want, you better get it on its way around. Today was Fried chicken (seasoned well, fried to perfection), BBQ short ribs (tender, fall off the bone) fried eggplant, sausage, cabbage, chicken & dumplings, some kind of cold corn slaw (awesome tho), green beans, corn muffins. Just a whole bunch of homemade awesomeness!! read more

The Dinner Bell - New American Near Me - McComb, Mississippi

Sooooo...we ate at the dinner bell today for lunch it was a 45 min wait so we waited after sometime I went in to see how much longer and she said I came in and told her not to put me on the list (i did not) and I think their should be more food choices read more

I was disappointed this trip to The Dinner Bell. The quality I believe is not what it used to be.

The comments about The Dinner Bell just do NOT do it justice! The food is amazing-everyone wrote and spoke about the eggplant (which I cannot stand!) so I thought I'd at least try it.Yum!!! I ate 3 slices of fried eggplant. I had the chicken and a small slice of smothered steak. Plus I ate greens, black-eyed peas, squash, green beans, chicken and dumplings. I gave up dessert so I could eat more veggies. They were that ggreat. Even though it's an 80 mile round trip for me to eat there I will definitely be back very soon. The staff were so friendly all around. The ladies are constantly checking to see if anyone needs something, or noticing platters are getting empty, so they are quick to fill them quickly. read more

The experience at the Dinner Bell is truly one of a kind. They exhibit some of the best southern hospitality there is. The lazy susan tables really are their trademark where all sorts of amazing foods come right to you, whereas most restaurants you either have to order food and have a long wait time or you have to go to the food. Plus, most of the time the people at your table are super friendly and cordial. And as a southerner all my life, I have tasted tons and tons of fried chicken and sweet tea. Although I have had tons, nothing I have ever had had even grasped how good the Dinner Bell's sweet tea and fried chicken are. 10/10 would recommend to anybody read more

Very good homestyle cooking with unlimited portions. There is no way you could leave hungry. Loved the ribs and sweet potatoe caserol!

This is a must see. Southern home cooking, family style meal. Great after church spot. Favorites like peas, Mac and cheese, eggplant, chicken and dumplings, fried fish, fried chicken, baked chicken, corn bread, banana pudding...all this for 1 price. Great for families and large parties. Food is consistently delicious. Can't wait to go again. read more

Love, Love, Love the Dinner Bell!! The food is ALWAYS AMAZING!! Staff is ALWAYS nice and very friendly!! They never let the table run out of food and my cup filled with sweet tea was never empty! It's very unique the way everyone eats, it's different items everyday, but you sit at a big round table that will seat 15 or so people I think, all the items on the menu for that day are placed in the center of the table on a not much smaller but smaller round table top that spins, like a huge lazy Susan!! Everyone at the table will then spin the table to the item of their choice or if you don't want to move the top just wait for your food of choice to make its way around then grab it!! Very family oriented place and also a great way to meet new people!! Highly recommend eating here at least once in your life !! Well worth it!! read more

What a fantastic place for wonderful southern comfort food. The history goes back 80 years. Loved it, recommended highly.

A must if your ever in the area!!!! Southern hospitality and cooking at it's best. Its a Southern round table. If you don't know what that means I will explain. So picture HUGE round table with a lazy Susan in the middle. You sit with whomever, I think 16 to a table (I could be off a seat or 2). They put all of the food family style on the lazy Susan and you EAT...the fried chicken is amazing, fried eggplant is amazing. Pretty much everything is delicious. They rotate on a daily basis the menu. There are staples like the chicken and eggplant but the sides and a protein rotates each day. Love the dinner bell!! Only open for "dinner" (Southern for Lunch). Staff is wonderful. Love this place read more

What a great place! We were traveling to Baton Rouge and stopped here for lunch. The tables are large, round, family style tables with lazy Susans in the middle. Our table was full of fun people and the food hit the spot. Shout out for the fried chicken and catfish. Glad we went! read more

Lemme set the record straight. If I only had one day left to live on planet Earth I would drop whatever I was doing and book a flight that got me closest to the front door of The Dinner Bell in McComb, Mississippi. If I landed in Baton Rouge, I would steal a car to get to the Dinner Bell. I would hitchike from New Orleans, catch a ride with a trucker in Jackson. I would crawl to the front door and with my dying breath I would say, "Pass the fried chicken please...and yes I would love some more fried eggplant...and a bit more okra...may as well have just one more catfish filet. Spin that beautiful, giant Lazy Susan just one more time, for old times sake, and don't stop until the sweet potatoes are in front of me...or the corn casserole, which ever comes first." I truly believe one would have to be a bit insane to think Cracker Barrel is better than The Dinner Bell. What The Dinner Bell represents, food aside, makes it 1000 times better than Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrel may have some long forgotten, dusty roots as an original country store that cooked up original recipe dishes, but there is only ONE Dinner Bell, only one place located in McComb where you sit 17-18 to a table, side by side with perfect strangers while a small army of expert cooks emerge from the kitchen to serve bowl after bowl of mouthwatering Southern cooking. Anybody can follow the bag-on recipes of a Cracker Barrel or Blackeyed Pea or wherever, but you can't just learn how to cook like they do at The Dinner Bell. I could master the cooking at Cracker Barrel in two weeks, but I could never truly master the kind of cooking that takes soul and heart and history and depth. Of course its fried, of course its loaded with real butter...it better be loaded with real butter!! I don't go there for the salad!! I go there for the entire experience and I always, always leave happy. The place better have wear and tear and look old because it is old!! Don't spruce it up, don't paint it. Cracker Barrels are fake!! They're not real, they're mirages of restaurants easily packed up and torn down, like carnival tents. Would I drive out of my way, say 15 hours out of my way, to go to The Dinner Bell for lunch? Yes, because I have and I would do it again. If you believe in the soul-restoring power of Southern food, God bless my Arkansas born, Louisiana raised grandmother, you should believe in The Dinner Bell...and I live in Chicago. read more

If you consider "southern food" to be bland fried chicken and tepid canned vegetables, this is your place! Okay, I'll try to refrain from too much sarcasm. But the effervescent reviews on here bewilder and enrage me. Let me just describe this for you. I walked into the holding pen after a group of about 30 old folks, all waiting for the start of lunch. Fitting, it turns out, because the entire place smells like the institutional cafeteria of a nursing home. This did not bode well. We were seated at a giant, but incomprehensibly cramped table laden with bowls of side dishes. As I say, most of it looked canned. I think particularly of the flavorless lima beans and green beans, floating limply in water. It's corn season around these parts, but all you will find at the Dinner Bell is the soggy, furiously boiled once-frozen things that have no taste. Maybe you'd think it'd be better with butter. I did. But instead of butter (a staple of southern cooking), all you will find are the little disposable tubs of "whipped spread" (artificially flavored vegetable oil). You can add some salt if the ridiculous table wheel is anywhere near you at the time you need it (rest assured, it won't be). The fried chicken was crisp, I'll give them that. But, in keeping with the theme, it was as if it were prepared for a convalescent who isn't allowed spice or salt. I am not exaggerating when I say that nearly any fast food fried chicken place would be better. Even Church's. But I fear the fried chicken was the highlight. There were some greasy sausages. Fried eggplant that was mostly breading around goo. Dried cornbread-like muffins. Etc. It was incredible how fast we all left. Then entire table was done in about 10 minutes. People gorged themselves on bottomless boxed mashed potatoes and were outta there. We left these heaping bowls of bad food on the table for the next seating. And that's where you really start to wonder. Now this dreary food which has been poked at and left to cool even further will be served to the next group? No warmers, no covers, just big heaping bowls of food, rapidly assuming the temperature most conducive to growing the colonies of bacteria left by those greedily pawing at it. If you know anything about southern food, don't go to this place. It is an offense to the idea of food--southern or otherwise. read more

Sometimes you are rewarded for getting "off the beaten path". Today I ventured off the interstate and I was rewarded! Great place to eat and a true "family style" meal. Yum, yum! read more

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This was was awesome! Delicious true southern cooking! Will return when we travel back through! read more

The Dinner Bell - New American Near Me - McComb, Mississippi

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First of all, as a long time patron of The Dinner Bell, I would like to clear up a few things. This restaurant does not serve steaks as another poster stated in their review. That review was obviously posted about the incorrect restaurant. Second of all, any person that believes the vegetables at The Dinner Bell to be "canned" must not be a fan of vegetables because this restaurant definitely does not use canned and it is evidenced in their flavor and texture. The food served at this restaurant is home style southern cooking at its best. The fried chicken is some of the best in the area and the fried eggplant is widely sought after by people across several nearby states. The dining experience at The Dinner Bell is one that will not be experienced anywhere around. The food is served on huge lazy Susan's and you are seated at a round table that holds 15-18 people. Be prepared to wait for a seat because this is one of the most unique and delicious dining experiences to be had in south Mississippi. You don't believe me? Just watch for the charter buses to pull up in the parking lot that have made a trip from another area just to visit the restaurant. Give this place a try. You WILL NOT be disappointed. Just remember to save room for the numerous dishes to choose from. read more

:,) This is the tiny town I was born in. This was the first restaurant I fell in love with. Basically, if you have any respect for southern food at all, you have to go. Drive 13 hours if you have to. This is where my obsession for chicken and dumplings began. The family who owns the place is so sweet and have been friends to my family for years. In my top 10 restaurants because of the memories and the amazing food. read more

To reply to "ES"! Not from the South I take it! The food at The Dinner Bell is as good as any I have eaten at other buffets. It is what a lot of us Southerners grew up eating. Your review seems to imply that this is not a good "dining experience"! Seems you are in the distinct minority. read more

Great Southern hospitality and food. Perfect place to eat after a cold morning deer hunt! Fried chicken and eggplant were outstanding along with every type of bean you could imagine...yummy! Time for a nap! read more

The Dinner Bell - Squash and fried chicken! - New American Near Me - McComb, Mississippi

While visiting the area and family we decided to try this place ... The thought of a large family meal where there is no cooking needed while everyone gathers around one big table was enticing, but the food left everyone wanting to leave and go home to cook. The cost is average for a buffet type of meal, but drive an extra few miles and go to Golden Corral if you are seeking buffet style food in the area (will taste better too). There was a long hair in one of the "fresh" dishes of food, we complained and not even a discount was offered or an apology. The food was served flavor-less and mildly warm (as if sitting under a heat lamp) I don't see a return read more

If you want a southern experience or a good Sunday brunch, this is the place. The unique part about this restaurant is the lazy-Susan tables which have a southern feeling to them. I live in the South and still think it is the best sweet tea and fried chicken for 100 miles. 10/10 read more

Wonderful example of great souther cooking and hospitality. read more

The Dinner Bell - New American Near Me - McComb, Mississippi

Talk about Soul Food! You can read about this place in Southern Living or ask any blue haired lady within 50 mile and find out this place does southern style right! Egg plant is loved by those that hate egg plant. Fried chicken will make you slap your mama's mama. Awesome experience! Giant Lazy Susan with more food than you can taste. This place should be on your bucket list. read more

True Southern cooking! Everything is good! But the banana pudding will absolutely knock your socks off! It's so good. I told the workers how good it was and they insisted on giving me some to take home. Very nice people. We got there late and everything was still good and they still put more stuff out for us. It's basically a buffet except you don't have to get up from your seat. You just spin the table. Just be sure to pick up the bowl/plate of whatever you are getting for yourself. Because if not you may scoop up a spoonful of butter beans to put on your plate and someone on the other side of the table may spin it and then the bowl of butter beans won't be in front of you anymore. Sounds confusing or complicated but it's not. They will explain it to you. I figured they only had 1 giant table to sit at but no they have appr. 6 GIANT tables with big lazy Susan's. It's just an awesome experience and great food. read more

The Dinner Bell - New American Near Me - McComb, Mississippi

Just had lunch here for the first time today, it was excellent. Seating is a huge round table with a lazy susan that holds the food. A reverse buffet. read more

Very good, good ol southern cooking, food is scrumptious best place in Pike county, don't get there too often,but every time I go thru McComb I get off 55 and go across town for an always great meal. read more

Used to be sooo good but since COVID-19 there is new cooks apparently food has way less Flavor and just don't taste like soul food anymore :( have been twice since the re opening and so disappointed this used to be my fav place in Mccomb and the owners are so sweet !!! but don't think I'll be back untill they get some better cooks read more

We were a little worried about the food format but I didn't try anything that didn't make me think I wasn't at home. It was amazing especially the meatloaf and sweet potatoes. We met and had conversations with the others at the table. The staff was great. I can tell you I won't ever pass through McCombs Mississippi again without eating here. read more

My husband and I were both raised on this kind of food so it felt like sitting down at my mothers table, but we eat a more natural, whole foods diet now. We thought we would splurge but our bodies didn't particularly like it afterwards so we won't do it again. The food was good, the staff was very friendly and helpful. Fortunately, there were no rude people at the table with us. I've given it a three because the banana pudding was not banana pudding. It was vanilla wafers with some banana flavored pudding, probably instant, poured over them. Neither one of us found a banana in our bowls. The guy who seemed in charge I guess was the owner. He looked like he had just crawled out of bed and came to work without changing clothes or brushing his hair. Perhaps he wanted to give the effect of being an ecentric Southern aristocrat, you know the kind that you see in movies like "Crimes of the Heart" and "Miss Firecracker". ‍ read more