Kacey’s Home Cooking

yikes. Come on ya’ll… you have to know ya’ll aren’t doing people right by serving some of this stuff. I get is a cheap buffet but come on. At least try. That’s a pretty bold claim on the sign… best fried chicken in town. Nah… you could go over to the Kroger next door and get the stuff thats been under the warmer all day and get better chicken. I mean it didn’t kill me to eat there but i was a little concerned. Quite a few people there seemed to really enjoy it, so maybe its just not a place for me. It just wasn’t special. I could pull some frozen meals out of the freezer, pop open some canned veggies and get the same experience. and yes… i suppose that is home cooking but when i think of home cooking t, i think of my mama/​grandmother in the kitchen cooking something filled with love. There was just no love in it. Maybe they should call it «real life home cooking fresh from the freezer». I would have known what to expect then and wouldn’t have been disappointed.

Wow wow wow… where do I start, well let’s see .if your looking for a place that serve home cooking, trust me it’s not here. Food here is very blend no seasoning on any thing that’s on the bar. I felt like I needed to cook it myself. Everything that this place advertise they really don’t have, hell why advertise it if it’s not on the bar. Let’s not talk about the decorations. .smh .I feel like I’m in A MOB movie. I spoke with the owner, he THINKS HIS FOOD IS AWESOME little do he kno… it sucks !!!
One thing is for certain, u will have OUTSTANDING SERVICE HERE. The waitresses are very good at what they do, very pleased with the service that I was given. To me that’s the only thing this place has to offer is there service. I’m not bashing the place at all .But this is the reason why they have these kind of sites, so customers can leave there in put on what businesses have to offer. I have been to this place once before, so I was thinking let me try it again you kno (my be they were having a bad day) but nope it was the same thing, nasty blend food and good service. Hell why I’m at it, where is the health score? … I never even seen it displayed in the two times I been here… I WONDER WHY… SMH

After 5 years and the price going from $ 6.50 to 10.25. I have had enough! The salad bar was once very nice and full, now it’s less than half its former size. The now serve Swai instead of Tilapia, even their whole catfish might be Swai. Coleslaw and Macaroni Salads taste like they have been rinsed off!
I just liked to get a variety in my area sometimes but now this place and their cousin John Boys on 78 are Dead To Me! #alwayslisten2yourwife

Food was limited in choice for a buffet, the place felt sad, and the food was bland. Nice service, but we will never return. A big disappointment.

Kinda lost as to why this place only has two stars with 22 ratings. The food isn’t bland, it’s actually better then most buffet style places. The majority of person there are older patrons and the park is crap, but other then the lack of available things on the menu it is good. Definitely not deserving of a two star rating. Ps. Highly recommend the jerked chicken.

It’s a place that sells buffet food. I wouldn’t call it fresh food. The broccoli-​rice-​cheese concoction was repulsive. The tomatoes on the the salad bar looked like they were cut five days ago. The staff and clientele appear to have zero comprehension of quality.

Man… The food is horrible. Collards, chicken, cobbler ALL disgusting save your money and your time. best chicken in town sign needs to be taken down. Yes the price is cheap but your better off going to bojangles or popeye’s. The food looked like it had been sitting there for hours. The score for cleanliness was not displayed. One star for good customer service.

Food is very bland. This place is ran by Asians who clearly don’t know know much about soul food!!!
Management word from the wise… hire an elder black woman to cook in your kitchen .
The chicken was poorly cooked with no flavor nearly no selection in fresh fruit or salad.
The only selection of meats were fried bland chicken and bland tilapia and poorly cooked baked chicken.
But if you don’t have time or money for Golden corral you could go here if you care little about flavor…

Friday night and the parking lot is packed, including the back lot. The prices have bumped up a little (.50) per the sign on the door. A senior discount is given. You pay when you enter. For the friday night dinner, price with tea 10.25
As stated by many past posts, the parking lot has been full when I’ve driven by. At 7:30p (they close at 9p) the parking lot is still full with over flow parking at Capt. Ds. I swear this place looks like it use to be a Dennys.
The hot and cold salad bar buffet is average sized. Too bad the to buffet islands couldnt be moved further apart. It gets kinda tight in the middle with 3 or more people.
There are 3 parts, the hot side, (meats, sides and bread), cold line (lettuce and salad fixings, cold salads) and the last section against the wall is the dessert area.
Friday is seafood night. The baked salmon I tried was very dry and had no seasoning. It had either been up there too long or cooked to long. The veggies were average. Sweet potatoes tasted like they were canned, creamed corn had cornstarch dumped into it with sugar to create a clear gel goo corn dessert, the lima beans were mushy and might have been from scratch. The hush puppies were excellent and not too sweet.
Bread — would you all PLEASE let the yeast rolls rise before baking them off!!! Do it like granny does! From what I could being an ex — baker, they take maybe frozen rolls, let them thaw a bit and before fully rising to be more fluffy, they are baked off prematurely and at this point, they are about impossible to fully bake off. They ones I sampled were still doughy and heavy in the middle. If you guys left them out a bit longer, you’d have rolls that come close to Ryans or Country buffet — promise.
Salad bar — I liked it and found it decent, a few steps up from the salad bar at maybe a Stevi B’s. Iceburg lettuce (spinach is in a side container), not a one brown or wilty piece there. Plenty of fixings: cheese, bacon bits, cucumber, onion, corn, garbanzo beans; ect. I liked some of the cold salads. The cole slaw and carrot raisin salad were homemade, the potato salad and macaroni salad tasted like it came from Sams or Costco.
Dessert bar — you need to work on this some. Its pretty obvious that the cakes and pies were shipped in factory made. Quit being so cheap and make some signs for the pre-​made desserts you buy. This can be done very cheaply and you wouldnt have people guessing at them. (ex pumkin vs. sweet potato) the so called fruit mix cake was a hot mess. I believe what you were trying to make a recipe called Dump cake, which is yellow cake mix with fruit cocktail. You can do better than that. The banana pudding was very blobby and foreign looking. Look at mixing up the variety like rice pudding or bread pudding. Just a thought.
Service was good and the tea glass never got empty. The servers dont bug you to death and let you eat.
I like the overhead music playing. Not to loud and not to soft — you dont see that very much.
Kaceys isnt bad or good, somewhere in the middle. I was a bit taken back by the price a paid after comparing similar buffets around the city (not ryans or golden corral) and would like to go back for a sampling of the lunch fair. I want to see how the Lasagna, pinto beans, turkey and macaroni and cheese are. Most of the buffets I’ve seen dont have a baked off mac n cheese like some cafeterias up north — which is something atlanta is lacking.

REAL Southern cooking. Fried chicken is flour dusted old school not batter. So are livers. Sweet cream corn, sweet potatoes, greens, fried fresh yellow squash all cooked old school. Baked salmon & chicken, meatloaf made with sausage blend. Fresh green & cold salads all homemade. Great prices. Wonderful dessert options of pies, cobblers, cheesecake. All u can eat. Worth the trip for great food.

Kacey’s is not going to win any awards. The food isn’t great. It isn’t bad, but don’t expect any works of art either. It is what it is, a reasonably priced buffet. I like the occasional buffet not because I enjoy heaping 5 plates full of food, but because I like variety in my meal. Kacey’s doesn’t have a huge variety, but you will get the choice of 4 or 5 meats and 8−1o sides. There is also a cold salad and a dessert bar. These could both use some work. The mediocre hot food could be excused more easily if they had a kick-​butt salad bar and delicious homemade desserts (the «banana pudding» just looks scary, like an alien blob monster from a bad horror movie). But again, the price point is just right. I find their sweet tea particularly tasty as well.
I have only been around lunch time but I have always had pretty good service from the waitresses. My drink stays full, and they clear my plate promptly, easy enough.
I don’t put Kacey’s in the rotation too often, but if you’re going to spend 8 bucks, it is a nice change and better value/​health/​choices than fast food.

This is a small country buffet near Northlake Mall. You have to expect that you are getting what you pay for here… it’s cheap and it’s a buffet. I usually get the same thing every time: the roasted chicken, greens, mashed potatoes, boiled cabbage, corn bread. Sometimes I go for the beans & rice and/​or the fried fish. I stay away from the desserts. I go here on Mondays on a pretty regular basis to visit with a friend of mine.

Got sucked in by the «best fried chicken» sign and the always packed lot. Well this place is actually an all you can eat Buffett that relies heavily on canned and premade Sysco products. Oh, and the chicken? Limp and greasy. You can get better next door at Kroger. Based on the girth of the people I saw in the place and the $ 7 price tag I see why the parking lot is always full.

This place always has a bunch of cars outside, so when I moved nearby I felt compelled to check it out. After all, there is a sign that says their fried chicken is the best.
Had to pay ahead, ask for cream for my coffee (it was cold by the time I saw her to ask for the cream), and to top it all off there was a long, dark hair tangled up in the fried coating of a piece of fried squash. The waitress was kind enough to say she would tell the kitchen. Never again, Kacey. Never again. Ick.

The service was good but I can do much better with $ 8 on a Sunday afternoon. The baked chicken and yeast rolls were about the best thing on the line. My «buffet lovin family» picked this one and I went along for the ride.
Oh, the cheesecake was under the light and I decided to take the risk and try it. Although a bit dry it was surprisingly pretty good considering the source.

Home cooking? It’s a «so-​so» place for all u can eat southern food.
I liked that they had plastic gloves as an option to use when getting your food. I just wish more people would use them…
Smaller portions in serving trays allow for hotter fresher options to come out.
I didn’t like everything… however,
I especially liked the fall off the bones BBQ ribs, but they were chewy. Fried chicken was just okay — I have no desire to try it again. Fried chicken livers were a little dry… had to mask the dryness with ketchup. Mashed potatoes stood out… ok, not… See I can’t remember anything good about this place.
Hmmm… this is where you pay for what you get… but too bad, quality couldn’t be better overall with the food.
My particular server was very attentive… but that’s the luck of the draw.

I’ve driven by this place a few times ever since it changed from being a Korean-​owned Greek diner (yeah– right?). In any case, yesterday we had the opportunity and the hunger and with the always-​packed parking lot it can’t be bad, can it? Walking in you pay the $ 7 for all-​you-​can-​eat buffet first (plus a drink if you want one, we just got plain water). The staff was very friendly but the server a bit slow to come back to the table once the initial glass was delivered. The place was very busy — this was at 2:30 PM or so on a Friday afternoon — kind of amazing that so many were in there wolfing down so much food. Interior was the same as your usual Greek Diner offering in Atlanta, over-​the-​top mirrored and marble surfaces, etc. which I’m guessing Kacey inherited from the previous tenant.
The food lines themselves were rather disappointing — after going to any of the mega Chinese buffets or even Golden Corral, the two short hot lines plus one dessert table seemed rather sparse. I tried just about everything on the menu — the best entrée was the fried-​chicken (which is to be expected), however the breading isn’t anything special and it wasn’t particularly hot (also I thought I was eating a partial breast then realized it was a micro breast that still had the tiny wishbone attached — slightly larger than squab — I wonder where they buy their chickens?). There were three seafood entrees — I tried them all and preferred the fried Ocean Perch and Whiting (surprised there wasn’t any catfish) — also pretty average corn coating. The baked tilapia was dry and not finished. The tartar sauce was perhaps the worst I’ve ever had — gummy, way too tart and a peculiar aftertaste — I still cringe at the thought of what might be in there. They had this ground-​beef chili also — tasted like Hormel’s to me (fine if you like canned I guess).
The veggies were all very average — I did appreciate the collard greens and boiled cabbage. The mashed potato gravy (from the salisbury steak pan) was just plain bad tasting. The soft yeast rolls were good. I noticed that the food in general wasn’t as salty as you normally find in Southern food, which is a plus. The salad dressings were all your average food-​service big jar brands.
The most disappointing thing for me was the dessert table — the peach cobbler was gooey, the chocolate pudding horrible and the chocolate pies (or is it cheesecake?) looked old and crusty — I passed on those. Surprisingly the best dessert was one made with canned fruit cocktail, cake and whipped cream. Not enough here, even with the enticing all-​you-​can-​eat price of $ 7 to get me back for a second try. If you’re looking for buffet, go to a Chinese mega-​buffet or Golder Corral. If you’re looking for good quality Southern in the same area, try Matthew’s Cafeteria right down the street in downtown Tucker.

There isn’t much of a buffet at this buffet. The choices are pretty limited, you can have chicken, baked or fried, fish, baked or fried or sailsbury steak. There were perhaps 8 to 10 vegetable choice and a pretty average salad bar. It was so-​so, it’s cheap and you can eat all you want. That’s about it as far as the actual experience goes. Not something to go out of your way for… however, the wait staff is a hoot.
I had more fun sitting in that back corner booth near the kitchen and watching/​listening to the waitresses more than anything. They seem to have a plethora of regular and that gives the waitresses ample opportunity to flirt. The all seem to be super friendly, but they’d come and hover near us next to the kitchen, bitch at each other, than run off again. It made me feel as if I were a participant in a sitcom about a family run buffet restaurant and it made for great atmosphere.
One of the waitress had a herculean struggle with a box of straws that would not stay where they were suppose to; she’d set them up, they’d fall on the floor, she’d set them back, they’d fall again. It ended with her squealing and slapping the box which seemed to convince it to behave.
Our waitress had a sparkly blue ribbon headband and big blue heart earring and she was adorable. Also the cashier was a joy to meet, very friendly and welcoming.
So while the food wasn’t that great? I’d probably go back for the show!

It’s hard to beat the price — $ 7 for all-​you-​can-​eat buffet — but the food has a long way to go. Kacey’s advertises «home cooking» and «farm fresh vegetables,» but we’d be skeptical of both claims. The buffet steamtable offers a variety of chickens (fried, baked and barbecued) with Salisbury steak, chicken livers and a rotating selection of daily specials including turkey and pork chops. There are ten or so veggies and a salad bar (lots of fixings but only iceberg lettuce the evening we dined there). You pay up front, then get seated and head for the food. Wait service is minimal; we couldn’t get drink refills until getting up to pour our own.
The food quality wasn’t very high, unfortunately. Just about everything was bland, under-​seasoned, and the vegetables definitely weren’t «farm fresh.» The fried chicken was moist pretty but quite. Don’t like putting down the folks who run this place, but seems to us its excuse for being is mostly the price. We’ve Unilocaled too many family-​run restaurants around this state that really do serve fresh veggies and specially prepared dishes inexpensively to rate Kacey’s any higher.

If you love Southern Fried food restaurants AKA «the old reliable meat and 3» you will like with this place. Like most others in this category, it is run by a Korean family. I work near there and go at least once a week.
I don’t why or how it has come to transpire, but Koreans in the American South can whip up some pretty good Southern fare. And perhaps best of all (or worst if you suffer from high cholesterol) this place is all you can eat. For $ 7 and change when you factor tip, it is a pretty good deal.
Fried Chicken livers are pretty good as are fried chicken and fried fish. Vegetables are pretty good also. Most days feature mash potatoes, rutabega, steamed cabbage, rice, pinto beans, green beans, mac n cheese, collard greens, fried green tomatoes, and french fries
Salad bar is good to above average: boiled egg, better-​than-​average homemade salad dressings, fresh ripe lettuce, tomatos, onion plus other garnishes. Overall a good place and a great bargain.