Mama’s Restaurant

Small establishment with the quickest service I’ve seen. Went here 2 Sunday’s ago after church while visiting Tyler. We put our names down for a table for 3. Naturally I was expecting the regular Dallas waits of 45 minutes. The hostess said our table will be ready in about 15 min. 7 minutes later we were seated and ready to eat. I ordered the French toast with I think, Cowboy potatoes. ALL WAS AMAZING!!! I love breakfast. And I absolutely loved Mamas. Our server was great. Will be back for sure.

Great Mexican food. With decent breakfast and secretly the best thing to get there is neither one of the two. Chicken fried chicken with their queso is to die for amazing stuff!

Love Mama’s, I order breakfast to go all the time and it’s always great! The inside is definitely needing some work but the food is not lacking.

I’ll go back! Food was good, plenty of it and no real wait to speak of. Place was a little crowded, after eating there, it was obvious why it was crowded. Great little mom n pop place to eat.

Great breakfast! Place was packed but worth waiting for! Huge portions and great service!

Excellent! My chicken fried steak was perfect. Great service, great food, great waitress. .don’t miss this little gem in Tyler, Texas

Food was good but the service is really slow.

Good prompt friendly service by the waitress. Just enough attention, not too much, but not forgotten either! They give you a carafe of coffee so that helps in refilling your cup yourself as needed!
Tasty pancakes, and eggs… bacon…blah…too greasy and under cooked though.

The inside is old and a tad on the run down side by the food is excellent for the price. Also love that they do southern breakfast food all day.

Very diverse menu. Had chicken fried steak and it was very good. Two chicken fried steak meals and chips and queso for $ 18. I will be back.

My mom and I had the opportunity to have a late breakfast at Mama’s a week or so ago and we both enjoyed it thoroughly. It was a Monday morning about 10:00 so there were only a handful of customers in the place. We appreciated how quiet it was and both thought it was kind of quaint that they had Andy Griffith playing on the big screen TV. This place used to be Joe’s Italian Grill and, before that, it was Hoffbrau Steakhouse. The décor hasn’t changed much from its previous incarnations and is divey and comfortable. Our waitress seated us promptly and was very patient when it took Mom more than a few minutes to read the menu and make her mind up. We both ordered from the breakfast menu and I had perfectly acceptable hot coffee within minutes of ordering it. Our food was served promptly and we dove in. Mom ordered the Bacon and Egg breakfast which consisted of three eggs, four (yes, four) strips of bacon, hash browns and toast. It was an enormous amount of food, but Mom was up to the task. She declared the scrambled eggs to be fluffy and flavorful and her bacon was exactly as she had ordered it: extra crispy. I ordered the Senior breakfast: over medium eggs, bacon, hash browns and pancakes. The eggs were perfectly cooked and delicious and the bacon, while not the thick-​cut country style I prefer, was still good. The pancakes were decent. The only downside was the hash browns. They appeared to have been cooked ahead of time and then heated up. Left most of mine. Also, $ 2.09 for a cup of coffee seemed a bit steep considering my whole breakfast was only $ 5.99. That said, this is a cool little Mom and Pop kind of place and I’m eager to go back and try something off the lunch menu. I hear the chicken fried steak is really good.

Mamas is my new go to place. Their food is cheap and good with a variety of selection to choose from. I have visited this place several of times and every time I went there I left satisfied. Every dish comes out in huge portions and most of them are less than $ 10. Servers are nice and attentive. Only bad thing about this place I would say is the parking can be a pain at times when it gets packed. But other than that, the place is an amazing place to go eat and people need to try it out!

Overall great experience. The wait to be seated was a little longer than preferred but they were professional and we came at a busy time.
Breakfast is amazing and also very reasonably priced! I will go back.

I’ve tried this place a few times with poor results. The food I received hasn’t been very good. Final straw was when they served me a grossly overcooked hamburger. It was cooked to death. Tough and dry. A total disgrace. «Restaurant Impossible» the TV show needs to come show these dumb asses how to cook.

Yummy! Old school — taste great! Hashbrowns were perfect. Eggs cooked to order. Open late.

Just what the names says, you feel like your walking into your Mama’s house with the delicious smelling aromas and friendly people greeting you at the door. The place was clean, service was perfectly friendly and efficient, and the food was great. The Migas was some of the best I’ve ever had (and I’m pretty much a migas connoisseur). My boyfriend had the Joe’s Sampler (Tuesday special) which was a good variety although he felt the sausage left a lot to be desired (the only reason why I didn’t give it 5 stars). Overall, Mama’s is a great stop through Tyler for breakfast.

Delicious. Generous portions. Finally found a place that does country potatoes the right way

This place is PRECISELY what you’re hoping it will be. It is homey, dive-​ish, is full of regulars, and the food is spot-​on.
It was our first time here, so we openly gawked at other diners’ plates. The pot roast looks like Nanny’s, the CFS looks like a photo. We ended up ordering Mexican food and breakfast. Don’t judge us – they were both excellent! The cheese enchilada was smothered in chile con carne as requested, and nestled between refrieds and rice (obvi homemade and flavorful). The beef taco was great. Hot where it should have been, and cold where it should have been with fresh lettuce and tomato and cheddar.
Danny loved the breakfast – eggs perfectly cooked, and serve with country potatoes.
Just go already – GREAT diner.

I love this place. Especially the ambience and friendly service. The breakfast is always a win. Dinner is pretty good. Price is affordable. I’d go there a lot more if I could afford it and wasn’t too concerned with my lipid profile!
I definitely recommend this place. Seems family owned and a good place to support. Try it. At least once!

It’s about time that I wrote a review for this little slice of dive heaven my beau and I found on an East Texas weekender. Of course, I went to Unilocal every chance I got so we could enjoy some local flair. Tyler, in and of itself, is a diamond in the rough. And this place is no exception. Aside from the «dirty» reviews that you’ll read below mine, everyone had pretty great things to say about Mama’s! Slighty hungover and on our way out of town, we needed some greasy mid-​day grub to get us to Canton for some flea market shopping.
I loved the funky and homemade spray paint décor and the multi-​level seating options. The staff was super sweet and we laughed as they gave each other a hard time from the kitchen. I ordered the breakfast taquitos after seeing them on every table around us and couldn’t have been happier. They were savory, greasy, and amazingly tasty. I got 2 and could hardly finish 1 — for $ 1.98/piece, you can’t beat it. My sweetheart got the chicken fried steak and he was thrilled with his choice.
Whether you are local or just passing through, try Mama’s for some good home cooked grub on the cheap!