EDITOR’S NOTE: The Eating Duo are a few foodies who take pleasure in consuming out and sampling the native delicacies within the Mid-South. To make sure the opinions are unbiased and that the duo stay nameless, their identities are masked behind their favourite comedian ebook heroes.
Dale’s
1226 Major Avenue
Southaven
The South is legendary for its “meat and three” mother and pop house model eating places. So it’s at all times an actual deal with to return throughout one. I’m not often disillusioned after I discover one.
So think about my delight after I found Dale’s in Southaven whereas on the lookout for eating places on this space to attempt. The final “meat and three” that I reviewed was “Blue Plate Cafe” on Poplar Avenue in Memphis, and sure, it was good.
For these of you who don’t know what a “meat and three” is – that may be for you Yankee transplants and carpetbaggers from the North – a “meat and three” is a restaurant the place you decide one meat from a each day choice and three facet dishes. Judging from the opinions, I had a hunch that Dale’s was going to be gooooood. The true key is selecting the correct day when the choices embody dishes like turkey and dressing or rooster and dumplings or rooster fried steak.
I sprang Bane from his cell at Arkham Asylum to do that little “meat and three” experiment. We ended up going to Dale’s on a Wednesday. The “meat” a part of the “meat and three” that day was pork chop and rooster and dumplings. However, if that isn’t to your liking, they produce other selections.
I went with the rooster and dumplings. I’ve had good rooster and dumplings and I’ve had not so good rooster and dumplings. I choose a extra doughy dumpling and my rooster with some style to it. Dale’s rooster and dumplings greater than exceeded my expectations. The dumplings have been thin-ish, however good, and the rooster had a pleasant salty style. The chunks of rooster have been enormous and it was like they’d simply pulled it off the bone.
For sides, I ordered boiled cabbage, which had a pleasant smoky taste simply the best way I like; fried okra, which had a pleasant crispy batter that didn’t fall off; and french fries, which have been out of this world as a result of they have been the hand reduce type, not frozen or crinkled.
My muscle certain super-villain eating companion ordered the rooster fried rooster with a facet of Northern beans, fruit salad (ambrosia) and Mac n’ cheese. Bane expressed his pleasure that the whole lot tasted like the house cooking he remembered consuming rising up. The rooster fried rooster was on the massive facet with a tasty, crispy batter that crammed the plate, and a thick white gravy. “Wow!” the arch-fiend mentioned. “They have to be doing one thing proper. It tastes like my grandmother’s cooking.”
Bane thought the beans had a pleasant bacon flavored style, barely salty and barely smoky. The mac ‘n cheese was on the creamy facet. Even the ambrosia was to his liking with a pleasant mixture of coconut, marshmallows, peaches, cherries and mandarin oranges.
Bane was significantly completely happy in regards to the rolls too. You could possibly inform they’re made in a deep muffin tin and are available out good and plump. They form of jogged my memory of the one’s at Lambert’s in Sikeston, Missouri – you realize, the house of the “throwed rolls.” “Take a look at that heft,” Bane mentioned. “Yummy, yummy. I may make a meal of them.”
We each agree that Dale’s has all the appropriate recipes as a result of the whole lot tasted excellent. There isn’t a query that we are going to be again – most likely for turkey and dressing. In case you are on the lookout for a superb “meat and three,” Dale’s is not going to disappoint. The meals is great and so is the service.
We give it a 5 out of 5 POWs.
