Murrell’s Restaurant

Excellent food! Great customer service! We highly enjoyed ourselves. Home cooked meals, nothing out of a can, or dump bag. Real fresh vegetables. The Fish is to die for!!! HUGE patty hamburger, just like the old days. Sweet cream batter pancakes, smell amazing!

Horribly disappointed. I’ve loved Murrell’s since I was a kid. It’s sad that it’s good name now represents something so different. My boyfriend and I always ordered their hand battered, home cooked chicken strips. What we got this time was fried frozen chicken strips. It was worse than fast food. Our server was great, I felt guilty complaining, as she was not the cause of the problem. Neither of us ate the chicken. The manager/​owner then approached us, explained that it’s cheaper to order frozen chicken strips (no kidding) that it was safer not to handle raw chicken (huh?) and that you get more chicken with the Cisco frozen strips. She did not offer us an alternative order, nor a refund. She simply justified her decision to offer substandard food. Sadly, Murrell’s will no longer be my greasy spoon and pie joint.

Home cooked meals! Love the white gravy and yeast rolls with the chicken fried steak. The patty melt has a nice fat hamburger patty on it. Delicious sweet tea is served here and their pies are homemade!

The Green Goddess is alive and well and she now lives on a truck stop cloud near Taylortown. It was good to be back in the confines of a Murrell’s. I have sadly felt a great emptiness since the infamous Kings Hwy location was closed… and then demolished. I got here early, right before 8 am on Saturday, and walked right in and seated myself. I was here for breakfast, but I had to know one thing: Did they have Green Goddess salad dressing? For those that don’t know, and there are few, Green Goddess is an avocado-​based salad dressing that Murrell’s became famous for in the 1980’s-yes, the 80’s, you young whipper-​snappers! It was mostly noted for being placed on a Saltine cracker, and eaten as a southern hors d’oeurvre. I asked the waitress if they had this fantastic concoction as I prepared to time-​travel in my Delorean back to the 80’s…I wasn’t really going to order it at that moment, but it was going to be good to know for future visits, when I order a chicken fried steak rice and white gravy with a side salad (my standard Murrell’s lunch, dinner, late-​night bleary-​eyed order) And the kind waitress responded to my query-«I gotta get Jimbo to whip some up!» Which proves once and for all, that this potent and delicious white-​magic witches’ brew (hey, it’s Halloween!), a slime-​lime-​green sensation slathered onto salad or a Saltine, is made from scratch! I don’t know who Jimbo is, and it’s a funny name for The Good Witch, but upon my return, there better be a batch waiting… and I would like it served very much so, in an old, washed-​out, hand-​held honey bear-​shaped squeeze bottle, just like the old days! It just tastes better that way! I ordered breakfast, two eggs sunny-​side up (OMG!) And three strips of crispy bacon, grits and a biscuit! I ordered coffee with my breakfast (Mello Joy… The best!) and was served copious amounts of caffeine. The general discussions floating around the diner had to do with the night’s previous Byrd-​Parkway football game (Go Jackets!) and the day’s upcoming afternoon contest between LSU and Tennessee (Go Tigers!). Behind the counter, there was a flat screen tv hanging on the wall, playing ESPN Game Day-​Yes!) A young boy walked in with presumably his grandparents, he carried in his hand the fossilized corpse of a dead butterfly and placed it on the table where they were about to eat. I assume he picked this artifact directly from the grill of one of the many big rigs parked in the parking lot… The article of clothing of choice for most patrons, male or female, in this establishment at this sun-​shiny hour was either printed woodsy-​camouflage, oil-​field worker uniform or trucker garb with a baseball cap of some sort. This Murrell’s is situated rather comfortably between a Handi-​Mart truck stop (seller of big knives that would make Rambo giddy and big belt buckles that would make Tuff Hedeman happy) and a roadside casino-​sure to send you out wreaking as if you’ve been riding Joe Camel all the way across the Sahara desert!) It’s a nice drive out to this Murrell’s down Hwy 71 South, just past a lovely church that now has a beautifully-​set, seasonal pumpkin patch with a giant hay bale painted like a jack o’ lantern-​seems like a good photo op of a place for the kiddies! I was happy to once again visit a Murrell’s and I will be back! Next time, I’ll be back for the chicken fried steak and of course their Green Goddess dressing! I also want to venture out and try their peanut butter pie and I will wash it all down with Mello Joy! I love Murrell’s!
Murrell’s is open:
5am-​10pm Daily!
Breakfast served all day!