Southern Shores Eats & Drink - Promise but no delivery

Robert Henley
Nov 15, 2024
3 min read

Name: Southern Shores Eats & Drink - Promise but no delivery

Location: Foley, AL

Date: 11-15-24

Overall Rating (1-10): 4

Review by My Out n About - Robert and Sheila Henley

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Description:

A coastal looking restaurant located in Downtown Foley. This is a medium sized restaurant with cheerful coloring and nicely spaced seating. In addition to the food side of things they have a specialty coffee counter, a full bar and an arcade with video games and a pool table.

We went there for breakfast and decided to try the buffet that we saw advertised for $9 for a one trip plate. Usually we don't eat buffets because we can't eat enough food to justify the price, but at $9 bucks why not. Man what a mistake.

The buffet was pretty limited with Link and Patty sausage, Grits, Cheese Scrambled Eggs, Biscuits, Sausage Gravy, Hashbrown Casserole and French Toast Sticks. Bacon is available if you know to request it.

Well, let's start with the eggs. This was the worst pile of what I think were carton/powdered eggs with I'm not sure what kind of cheese mixed in. The texture was all wrong and the flavor was…something. The grits were very dry and had some kind of seasoning that I could not recognize, but it was not good. The biscuits were dry and hard. The sausage patties were right out of a food service box and tasted like the free ones you get at a Fairfield Inn. The sausage likes were okay. They were bland in flavor but just okay. The Sausage Gravy had a decent flavor but needed a little pepper cooked in as well as some additional sausage. We did ask for the bacon and it was a smokey thick cut bacon with large slices. Very good.

The staff was good. Very attentive when we came in and checked in on us. We kept waiting to check out and assuming maybe we pay up front got up to go to the counter when we saw what the problem was. The young lady that was waiting on us was making specialty coffees for some millennials. This is why I hate places that make all the flavored coffees. It ties up the staff for a very long time. Finally about 10 minutes into the wait, she freed up and checked us out.

Low an behold, our buffet was not the advertised $9 per person it was $14 per person. When I mentioned the difference the young lady in whatever her role was, said the owner decided to go up on the price.

Bottom Line: Do NOT waste your time or money on this places buffet. The buffet food, other than the bacon is subpar. They do have a large menu you can order from, but don't get anything that is not a cracked egg meal.

R&S Rating Scale (1-10)

Atmosphere: 7

Comfort: 6

Pool Tables: Yes

Darts: No

Food Price: $$

Food Quality: 3

Soft Drinks: Yes

Coffee: Yes

Liquor: Yes

Beer: Yes

Wine: Yes