I'll start with two I really like.

At the 19 exit in Satsuma on I-65 (just N of Mobile) there is a Chevron Station next to a huge Love's truck stop. Owned by some people from Louisiana I think.

They have REALLY good, BIG ribs. Rib plate with three ribs (meat 1" thick by 2" wide, and pulls easily off the bone) and two sides is just over $8 with tax. They have good red beans and rice, turnip greens, or mac and cheese (homemade) for sides. With a cornbread muffin or roll also. The ribs are not seasoned much, and the sauce they give is Sweet Baby Rays, but it's easier to season something up than to have it come too spicy to begin with.

Exit 114 on I-65 at Hwy 106 in Georgiana. Another Chevron station but has a BBQ stand in the corner of the parking lot. Kendall's BBQ. Good sandwiches and corn nuggets. All I've ever had there, but still good.

Exit 57 (Atmore, Holman Prison, and Casino exit), ANOTHER Chevron station (weird, yes I know) has good BBQ sandwiches and spicy chicken bites.

Hwy 5 N of Thomasville in Catherine. There's a gas station/juke joint/community gathering place called Roadhouse. Good cheeseburgers and BBQ sandwiches.

Last but not least, the only one that is only a restaurant but it's in Pine Hill, which is damn near the middle of nowhere (apologies to Todd1700 and some other member I can't recall.

Rooster's Roadhouse. Just south of the Hwy 10 and Hwy 5 crossroads. Had good steaks, hamburger steaks, burgers, all kinds of stuff there. It's close to our camp and I'm glad. Stopped in there one time with a tomato. JUST a tomato. Asked the cook (nice, older black lady) if she'd make me a couple sandwiches out of it. She made them on wheat bread, mustard on one side and mayo on the other, with salt and pepper. Wouldn't take a dime for it. Great people. Please try it if you're through there.

Not out of way, but great food at great prices

Anna Maria Seafood - Great prices on seafood (Sarasota Bradenton area - 2 locations)

Smokin Pig - Valdosta GA - Great pulled pork (not fatty)

First Choice BBQ - Brandon FL, I-75 & hwy60 (in strip mall behind Hooters)

Willards BBQ in Marion has an awesome bacon cheeseburger.

Gumbeauxs in douglasville georgia. Seriously the BEST Cajun food I've had outside of Louisiana and they are packed every night.

Barry's Bar-B-Q
85 Co Rd 527, Fyffe, AL

It's not really IN Fyffe. It's about 237 miles down a back road or two once you leave civilization behind. When you get to his farm, you will pull down a long dirt driveway to the guys house. Well, it's actually back behind the house.

Hard to beat it.

reviews 4.8/5

Joe's Pizza (in the bustling metropolis of Woodville AL) is some count.

Gumbeaux's is one of my favorites.


Big Daddy's on Highway 9 in White Plains, Alabama

Abrams store on 29 in Alberta. Ole Cloretta makes a Mighty fine double cheeseburger. I'll call her when I get in the truck from hunting

Robert, you need to get to the Satsuma Chevron in time for breakfast. Breakfast gumbo is awesome.
Had a coworker notice I was not in at 0700 this a.m. and I received the following text:
I bet the gas station gumbo would be great this a.m..

Jims BBq on Hwy. 82. They have good Bbq. Never had anything bad.

Pizza Bar in Carbon Hill (try the ham and cheese sandwich)

Sam's Smoke house in Fayette.

Ate at Big Mike's Steakhouse in Thomasville a couple of weeks ago and I cook a good steak at my house, but I couldn't touch the ribeye I got from there.

Jim's BBQ is good. My parents lived about 5 miles down the road from there for years in the big city of Pletcher, Alabama.

Prince Arnold's store in furman,AL. Finest rib sammich made

Is that the little place on 72?

Unfortunately, it closed but there was a place outside of Notasulga called Turn Baby Turn BBQ.
Amazing food in a tiny old gas station.
They were going to open a location Auburn but they just seemingly fell off the map.

Big Mike's is one of the greatest steaks I have ever eaten. Including eating at "the best" steak houses in America in New York and Chicago.

A Mr. Sasser in your line of work bought one there once. Was really surprised to find the rib bones were in the sandwich. Lol

Joe's Grocery on Butler Street in Huxford, AL has the best club sandwiches I've ever eaten. Good burgers, too.

theres a hot white gal in there looks like she has porcelain fronts from where her teeth got knocked ouy

Agreed. The wife and I plan all trips to/through/around Atlanta with a trip to Gumbeaux's. We sometimes make a special trip just to eat. Fresh Fish Pontchartrain is some of the best stuff you will ever eat.