Vic’s

Best breakfast in town. For lunch the club sandwich is one of the best I have ever eaten. I eat it regularly. Good home cooked blue plate lunches as well if that is your thing.

Amazing. Right off I-​59 with delicious plate food specials. And quick! Wonderful fried chicken, red beans, greens, cornbread dressing, fried okra, and jalapeño corn muffin. They had Community sweet tea and plenty of hot sauce & pepper sauce. Ideal stop on our way back south. Will definitely come back. Thanks Vic’s!

This place has long been famous for their biscuits and breakfast offerings. They also are noted for doing a selection of nice plate lunch specials (meat and 2 vegetables) along with their regular offerings. They do stop serving breakfast at 10:30 so that’s a bit of a transition time where breakfast is ending and lunch is starting. I’m all in favor of having lunch items at breakfast but they seem to be pretty strict about dividing up their menu. You can dine inside or use the drive through. It’s definitely more of a causal fast food/​diner place than anything else but it has a lot of Southern home cooking thrown into the mix to make it a bit more notable.

Stopped by Vic’s on a trip from B’ham to NOLA. Now I have to confess, I was pretty hungry when I hit Laurel, and that may make me a little biased, but this place was amazingly good! I had the blue plate special. The chicken tenders were right out of the fryer, the portions were generous and the sweet potato casserole… my gosh… I could’ve eaten it for dessert. And the jalapeño cornbread… So good! Not the place to go if you’re trying to cut calories, but if you need a fix of southern meat & 3 and you find yourself cruising down I59 anywhere near Laurel, do yourself a favor & visit Vic’s. The only downside is the carb coma I’ll be fighting off for the rest of my trip!

Very good plate lunches for about $ 7 that includes drink and tax. 2 meats to choose from and you get two veggies, cornbread and dessert (excellent bread pudding). I had the hamburger steak with rice and gravy with black eyed peas and green beans. Bread pudding was delicious. Food was very flavorful and tasty.
Nothing fancy here. Just good food at low prices.

We were headed to New Orleans for our vacation and found this place during a gas stop. Usually I depend upon Unilocal!for recommendations but I took a chance on this unreviewed spot (and got the first review, woo hoo!). The place looked like a throwback to those 50’s shops with hamburgers and ice cream done southern style. We got gas and then parked and prepared to be pleasantly surprised or let down, as the case may be. I was in the south so damnit i wanted some fried chicken! However I wasn’t too hungry so I decided to just order the fried chicken sandwich. Then when I got up to order I panicked and thought of most chicken sandwich sizes and wondered if it’d be enough to hold me over till we got to eat again. So I also ordered the fried okra as well. Only in the south can they take something as wonderfully healthy and ruin it (or make it awesome depending upon your perspective of the moment) by deep frying it!
My fiancé ordered the steak sandwich with gravy and some onion rings. After a less-​than-​friendly (where’s the southern charm??) cashier took our order we went to sit down and wait for our food. After a short wait of about 10 minutes (rendering this restaurant somewhere in the gray area between fast food and sit-​down dining) our food was ready and we went and picked it up. I was immediately struck by how HUGE the chicken sandwich was. Any worries about it not being enough was replaced by worries I’d not be able to eat just the sandwich, let alone anything else.
I forgot the golden rule that in the south everythings bigger and apparently that includes chicken sandwiches, LOL.
My fiances steak with gravy didn’t look all that great, pretty plain in fact but I later found out that was very deceiving. Sitting down I dug into the chicken sandwich and it was fantastic. Huge and meaty with a great deep fried taste, plenty of seasoned breading made for a delicious (and huge) sandwich which was a very nice way to re-​introduce myself to the wonders of southern cooking. The bread was especially good, not sure if it was baked in-​store or what but it kicked butt. My fried okra was also really good, and the order was huge, so huge we didn’t even eat all of it despite our best efforts.
My fiances steak sandwich with gravy was, as I said, not all that great to look at but it knocked it out of the park when you actually ate it. The meat was fantastic and the gravy just took it to that next level. I couldn’t even decide which was better, my chicken sandwich or her sandwich… they were both incredibly good!
I’m happy to say my first experience heading out on this vacation was a great one. I’d give this place 5 stars for the food and 3 stars for the friendliness. If the people who worked here showed a bit of a smile and welcoming this place could move up to a solid 5 star and go on my wall of fame. As it is though, you can’t beat the eats here… and I’d highly recommend it if you’re on the road and looking for a good sandwich!