Milo’s Hamburgers

I am so impressed with the staff at this Milos location. This team has set the bar high for excellent customer service! I went through the drive thru on Friday and was missing an order. I called to let them know I was missing something and they were extremely apologetic and told me to come back in and they would take care of it. I went through the drive thru this evening and was absolutely blown away at the service I received! It’s good to know people still believe in going above and beyond! I will be frequenting this location from here forward!

I purchased 6 cheeseburgers and a pie from this location, two of the burger’s bread was burnt and they left out my pie.

Gross! I would rather starve. My stomach was upset shortly after eating it. The staff were rude.

Very friendly staff, great suggestion to leave the sauce on the side since it was my first time visiting. I personally didn’t care for the BBQ like sauce they put on the burgers but I did enjoy the sauces available for the fries. Very neat place, this would be a great place to take family that lives out of town to give them an «Alabama experience».

Being a Milos automatically gets you 4 stars, but this location is one of My two favorites. Been here for decades, and always manages to serve the same quality as always. Spacious and clean with only a few minutes wait. Plus a quick drive thru.

Got burger, fries and drink
Burger was not good and doesn’t have lettuce??? But a l ton of onions and pickles.
Fries aren’t crispy
They filled the drink with 80% ice and 20% coke
My brother got chicken tenders with fries and a drink.
Chicken tenders was pretty greasy and chewing it tasted like rubber.
Total cost was around 15 $

I love milo’s. I always get #1 special: burger, fries (they are special!!!), and sweet tea

Their vanilla milkshake and crinkle cut fries made the meal. I don’t know any other fast food place that serves crinkle cut fries as hot and seasoned as this. Their portions look small compared to other fast food chains. Mega-​size hardly looked large. However, my eyes fooled me but I wasn’t able to finish a burger by myself. The burgers are decent. However, they’re made accommodating many types of sauces. Try their spicy sauce as it’s not spicy at all. It only has the flavor.
The total was $ 8.47. Since I had to split, this definitely was a cheap, satisfying meal.

You can’t beat Milo’s tea! It’s simply the best! I have a bunch of people in Washington State wanting me to send them some. Too expensive, though.
You also can’t beat Milo’s fries. There’s nothing better than that salt flavored salt they dust their fries with. You know it has to be epically bad for you, but you just don’t care because it’s so dang good.
I’m not the biggest fan of the gravy they drench their burgers in though. It’s not bad… more of a steak sauce kind of thing, but it’s just not my favorite. Other than that, their burgers are great.
The downside is that the place is pretty expensive, especially if you’re just stopping by for some of that heavenly tea. You can literally go buy a gallon of it at the store for the price of a large!
It’s a Birmingham institution though and I’ve never come across someone who didn’t like at least one thing. I just wished the tea was cheaper!

Milo’s is definitely a southern gem. Any burger lover should definitely give them a try.
The burgers are made from higher quality beef — it looks and tastes like real beef, not the stuff on a Big Mac. The buns are toasted and the burger is topped with cheese (optional) onions (if you aren’t a fan of raw onion, you can ask them to grill the onions which mellows them out a bit), dill pickle chips and Milo’s special sauce which is somewhat like a BBQ sauce, but not really. The sauce definitely makes the sandwich.
The fries are the fat, crinkle cut fries. They are liberally dusted with a secret seasoning blend with an orange tint to it. Dipping the fries in the sauce makes them even better.
Everyone raves about their sweet tea and it is quite good, though too sweet for my taste. Their ice is great though, it’s the crunchy kind that’s easy to eat.
They have added chicken fingers and a chicken sandwich to their menu. I’ve never had the chicken sandwich, but the chicken fingers are really good dipped in the special sauce (of course almost anything would be good dipped in that sauce). They also have milkshakes now, but I haven’t tried those.
There is really nothing to say about the interior — it’s your typical fast food place. Nothing special. The drive-​thru is always quick though and the food is consistent no matter which store I visit. I’ve also never seen a Milo’s with a health rating below 98. most are 99 or 100, so they are very clean, which is really important.

Yes. I just gave a fast-​food chain 5 stars. I don’t mean it’s 5-​star dining, but I mean when I go home to Alabama for a week like I just did, and I saw the folks at Milo’s more than I saw some of my cousins (I ate there 3 times this past trip), it clearly ranks way, way up there.
If you live in Birmingham, I can’t imagine you don’t know about Milo’s. So, this review is for the folks who might come from out of town. Milo’s started downtown in the 1940’s…when I was little, sometimes we’d go to work with my dad downtown and he’d take us there. That’s what I call «Raised Right.» Then, like 20 years ago or so, they started putting them south of the city in the suburbs. And God said it was good.
If you are on a road trip, you really need to pull off the road to eat here. You can go through the drive-​thru and sit in the car if you like (the interior of these places is really nothing to write home about), but the sauce is what makes it and it’s a hot mess. You do NOT need to be driving when you eat this. Plus, you need to dip your fries in the sauce and there is just no safe way to do that and drive at the same time. I say, go inside so you can use the table and get extra napkins (which you will need, take my word for it). The extra 15 minutes added onto your trip will be worth it.
They add onions and pickles on their burgers, which I don’t like. You can say «Just Sauce» and they will skip that (do NOT, under any circumstances, skip the sauce). Also, when you order, you will want extra sauce. Back in the day, they used to keep this out in the public, alongside the ketchup, but they don’t do that anymore. I’m guessing people brought large containers to take home and bathe in or something.
I should go back to the fries – these are french fry perfection, best eaten as mentioned above by dipping them in the sauce. They are crinkle-​cut fries sprinkled with a reddish salt that is probably half seasoning salt and half crack cocaine. You might want to mega-​size, even if you are not usually a mega-​sizer. That’s what I do.
Finally – sweet tea. They sell soft drinks, but I don’t know why you would get them when you can have the tea. The only people I know who don’t order the tea are my husband (who is not Southern but is working on it), and my mom (who is Southern born and bred but has some bizarre condition where she doesn’t like tea). Milo’s sells this tea in grocery stores all over the area – it’s just the best sweet tea you can buy. They sell other stuff, like pies (my parents like them, I’ve never tried them-​I use up all my calories on the tea). But you really want to focus on the burgers, fries and tea.

Milo’s is fine. Not great, but not bad at all. The burgers are actually probably the least appealing thing at this burger-​joint which is noteworthy. The fries and pies are more like a 4-​star and the burgers are a 1.5 to 2 stars. The peach and apple pies are awesome and just a buck a piece. I guess I was spoiled growing up in Columbia, SC where we had the best local burger chain in Rush’s. Now that place… simply kicked ass, and Milo’s.

Your eyes do not deceive you. I just gave a fast food chain 5 stars. There is only one other fast food place worthy of the 5 stars, and that is Chick Fil A. but that is another story.
1. Milo’s Sweet Tea
If you live in the South. particularly Alabama, you are probably well acquainted with my friend Milo, and his tea. No other sweet tea can ever try to compare to the gold standard that is Milo’s. Period.
2. The burgers.
They are unlike your everyday fast food burgers. The best way to eat them is with cheese, pickles, onions and Milo’s sauce. The cheese is melted on the meat, not just placed. The pickles. well, you have to have pickles on this burger. The onions are chopped into good sized choppers. But the sauce… how do you describe the sauce? It is unlike any sauce I have ever had. It is sort of like a bbq sauce… without the bbq flavor, but with all the pizazz.
3. The fries
Crinkly cut goodness. The best part is when you get a fry loaded with the sprinkled I don’t even know what it is, but it is good.
Fast food chains anywhere in the world wish they could have a burger this good.
Dare to put down my friend Milo… I dare you.

Milo’s is a quaint insight on how fast food chains must have looked like decades ago. It’s an Alabama chain which opened in 1946, and I’m convinced they haven’t renovated or modified their menu items since then.
The interior is lined with cheap paneled wood, and their back-​lit plastic menu screen is faded from years of faithfully proclaiming their few menu items.
I ordered their #2 «all-​the-​way,» which means they graced my burger with onions, pickles, and their «special sauce». They flatten the tops of the buns by pressing on them as they’re toasted on the grill, giving their burgers a distinct boxy look.
Their special sauce was the reason I decided to try this place out: Milo fanatics rave about it. It’s essentially a brown gravy, with a hint of mushroom. It’s very interesting — I won’t rave about it, but it’s tasty enough and is a welcome departure from the typical fast food burger taste.
Milo’s french fries are cut wavy, and have another secret ingredient dusted over them (apparently Milo’s is big on secrets). They were very good, the salty orange powder should be investigated by a narcotics team.
I can’t rank Milo’s above In-​n-​out or Whataburger, mainly because Milo’s stands all alone its own category; a lonely, long forgotten gravy burger category. No other burger chain really offers a similar gravy sauce to Milo’s — and probably for good reason: it’s just not what Americans expect a burger to taste like. All-​in-​all the burger was satisfying, but not awe-​inspiring.
While Milo’s atmosphere seems like a cheap time capsule straight out of the 1970s fast food scene, their burgers offer a distinct local perspective on the mainstream American assumptions of what a burger should look and taste like.