Gulfport Family Restaurant

Food was not that good. Ordered a gyro omelette and there was probably one strip of pre packaged gyro meat diced up. The place had a dirty smell to it. Then when ordering egg whites it cost a $ 1 more. And at the end to top it off when paying with my credit card there was another service charge…

I love this place. They make the best breakfast and some delicious grits. It is a great place to eat, the people are so nice and the price is right. What more could you ask for?
Give it a try, I know you will be back.

Sorry to say, we tried it for the second time, heard that it had been cleaned up, fresh paint and more, well some of it did have fresh paint, but not all of it. behind the lunch counter after coming out of the dining room was GROSS, all black what looked like mold. food was fair, sausage patties were well well done, wifes biscuts were hard a rocks. this I’ve never heard of, there was a 25 cent charge for honey, and 50 cent charge tob pay w/​my visa card. I do have to admit that the sweet elderly waitress was a COMPLETE JOY. We will not return, A Gulfport resident

Cheap, Cheerful and Clean! You get a lot of food for the low price. Servers are fast and efficient. Everything you are looking for in a diner with 60’s charm.

A great place to eat! Real country veggies, corn bread, fabulous soups, daily specials, just what we were looking for! Today I’m having split pea soup and Joe has chicken pot pie. Yummy!!! Today is so good I can hardly wait to see what there is tomorrow.

Fear this place.
I went here expecting ‘downhome cooking’ as it is a «rustic» setting, which seems straight out of 1978. Instead it was horrifyingly bad.
Ordered some ‘cheesy grits’ and received what appeared to be ‘out of a box’ absolutely bland grits with a melting slice of american cheese on top!
Also got biscuits & gravy… the gravy was a watery grey soup, something out of a prison cafeteria… the biscuits were ancient, and were like tasteless dry sponges. We had a couple biscuits independently prior to the meal as well — that should have prepared us for what we got.
We asked for some honey, and were told that it was ‘gonna cost a dollar’…ok… then she brought out an old, greasy honey bear (obviously from the kitchen) with no lid and a smeared, ancient label which was half peeled off, and half smeared on the container. The label was almost black from greasy handling. We noticed the ‘chef’ (a sweating greek overlord) making damn sure the waitress charged us the dollar for the honey — to which she replied ’ I wrote it on the check didn’t I?’…Seriously that honey container was like something out of a dark dream, very disturbing.
This place is an interesting, smallish diner, but has zero character or any positive traits one expects from such a place. True I paid only 8.77 pre-​tip for two full breakfasts, but the fact that I actually paid valuable United States currency for the «meal» I was provided is a shame.
I suppose if you were dying and simply needed something to survive on — and you happened to have five bucks left, and all other places had been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, then the Gulfport Family restaurant would be a valuable alternative to death by starvation… perhaps.
Man, I’m gonna need a shower and a long walk to get this meal off of me… I feel filthy. And the vision of that blackened honeybear’s face will haunt me for months.
UPDATE 1-​AUG-​2012: The owner messaged me to say that things have improved — so I’m going to try it again soon. However — I noticed he uploaded a lot of new food pictures, including one of a chicken pot pie which is clearly a stock photo — I even found it on the web (
). That does not seem very honest, does it? I’d flag the photo, but it’s too funny — and fits the vibe I got from this place to begin with.