Gladys Kitchen

Very good service and great food. Just not big enough I think everyone from Americus goes there.

Found this place while on a road trip with my son, and while I rarely write reviews, I feel I have to let the world know about Gladys’ Kitchen.

We arrived at 2 PM on a Sunday, and there was already a healthy line of about a dozen folks. This is a very good sign. Lots of elderly couples were here in their Sunday best. Another good sign. Anticipation was high.

There were three mains on the menu today: fried chicken, baked chicken, and BBQ ribs. Sides included collards, cornbread dressing, squash casserole, fried green tomatoes, rice, and a few others. The standard meat and two also comes with choice if cornbread muffin or a piece of flat cornbread. (This cornbread is a traditional hoecake, sometimes referred to as “poor man’s cornbread”.)

Desserts includes a variety of cakes, peach cobbler, blackberry cobbler, and the new love of my life: butter roll. I’d heard tale of this buttery biscuit dessert, but what I’d heard did not do it justice. Think of a buttery, fluffy bread pudding with a light cream sauce. Unlike bread pudding, there’s no cinnamon. It’s heavenly.

They ran out of dressing before I got to the front of the line, so I had to go with squash casserole along with baked chicken, collards, hoecake, and sweet tea. While I can only imagine how tasty the dressing was, my disappointment only lasted to the moment I placed the first bite of the squash in my mouth. It was perfectly seasoned, and moist and delicious. The collards are the best I’ve ever tasted, too. (Sorry, Dad.) The chicken was perfectly cooked and seasoned as well, but honestly I could have made a meal of the collards and squash, and then rolled over and died a happy man.

The service was excellent and the people very friendly.

If you come within 45 minutes of this place (and you will if you drive anywhere on I-75 in this part of Georgia), do yourself a favor, and check it out.

The food is ALWAYS great here. Very friendly staff. Cooks are amazing. Not too salty or over seasoned food. I really feel like I'm eating from my own kitchen! I drive 35 minutes from Albany to come here every other Sunday. That tells you everything you need to know about how good the food is here.

I drive the distance for good soul food. The butter-roll is a must have? restaurant is packed so you should get there when they first open (but there will be 2 lines outside waiting on them to open? I promise you, the food is just that good. The owner & staff are nice, friendly, polite, attentive and presentable. Five stars is not enough. They deserve 10??