Garden Gate Cafe

We love Garden Gate. Haven’t had anything we didn’t like. Always a great selection of meats and veggies… great desserts, too. Prices are great! Love the menu line!

Very fast service. Good southern, stick to your bones type meals. Typical meat and three platters. Great tasting food and very affordable.

The service was extremely fast. That is why they get the star. The food is prepared in large quantities. Meaning alot of the same item is standing by ready to be served. Chicken breast tasted like it had been cooked and left standing under a heat lamp. Luke warm and dried out. The mashed potatoes cold and grainy more like instant then real. The waitress was friendly and personable. If this is what home cooking is like in this town. We will be eating at burger king it has 5 stars

If you’re into meat and three places, this is the spot. The food is always pretty good and the service is lightening fast. A big olé glass of tea always hits the spot.

I came here with a coworker because we’re aiming to try ‘unchained’ places around the Shoals. Our previous duo lunch was a trip to Mama Jean’s, another meat and 3 place rumored to be owned by the same family but I’m not sure of the validity of that information.
This place is a more tightly spaced than Mama Jean’s. I ordered something similar so that I could compare. I had the boneless fried chicken breast, green beans, mashed potatoes with gravy, and cole slaw. To me the chicken was better here and the portion was larger. The green beans were cooked thoroughly the Southern way. Mashed potatoes were good. The cole slaw was just OK, a little more bland than I like, but I’m picky about cole slaw.
It was a great value for the amount of (good) food that I got.
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The BEST boneless fried chicken breast I’ve ever had.