Family Restaurant

Now if you ain’t Southern or don’t love Southern food, don’t even bother coming in. But if you want Southern food good enough to make you slap your mama down, stop in for a spell!
The servers will sit and talk with you and make you feel at home. The food is almost as good as mama’s (cause let’s face it, it don’t get no better)

Well, I do not do many reviews on line. This place is in downtown Duluth and I live in Duluth. For years, I have driven right by. Friday, I had a tire problem and we started talking. .the first thing that came up was. a good meal for less dollars. the guy recommend I try.” Family «.The second I walked in I felt welcomed. .I said please give me the burger special. …One decent size hand made never frozen burger, cooked to order with more fries than I could scarf down.
I say YES, NO DOWT. .
Ok.the dude behind me got an order of country ham. and it looked great, smelled great… ALL LOOKING GOOD.

So this restaurant has been around at this location since 1988. I have driven past this place innumerable times, always wondering what this place is like. I mean, the name does’t not give you any indication on the cuisine. And no Unilocal reviews at all! But finally I decided to give it a try and write about it. How bad could it be? Turned out, not so bad at all.
This place is located right next to the another southern food dive, ‘Duluth Rexall grill’ and pizza hut. It’s a very old building inside and outside. They serve southern food, sandwiches and burgers here. Before we talk more about my experience, let me get one thing out of the way. It’s a typical dive, so if you come here expecting food that’s made from scratch at the restaurant, you will be disappointed.
They are open only for breakfast and lunch, from 5.30 am to 2 pm on Monday to Friday and from 6 am to 1 pm on Saturday.
First thing you notice when you enter is, the buffet bar with various southern food option. And then there is a second seating area with more tables. They ask you upfront if you want to see the menu or choose one of the lunch buffet options.
The buffet is not unlimited. You have three options,
1) one meat, three vegetables, one dessert, bread and tea for $ 7.49
2) one meat, two vegetables, bread and tea for $ 6.99
3) three vegetables, bread and tea for $ 5.49
And the menu includes,
1) breakfast items — eggs, pancakes and stuff like that
2) Sandwiches
3) wings
4) Burgers
5) Hotdogs
6 Salads
I ordered, Philly cheese steak with fries ($ 6.99) and salmon sandwich for to-​go ($ 4.39). The Philly cheese steak was surprisingly good — they give a lot of meat and enough steak melted on it. I doubt the bread is amoroso, but it was good nevertheless. And I didn’t see much mushrooms, then again, i liked it overall. The fries was good but wasn’t seasoned at all. That’s fine by me, I can douse it in ketchup.
The salmon sandwich is basically ground salmon patty. It was quiet salty, hard to eat and quiet frankly nasty.
The service was good. The waitress was very attentive and filled my water as I emptied it.
So, I will go to this place again only for quick and cheap food and perhaps for very early morning breakfast.
3 stars