Honeysuckle

This place is worth the drive through town for lunch or dinner! They offer country/​southern cooking that’s pretty darn good for the area. I also just discovered that they serve breakfast on Friday, Saturday and Monday mornings which I plan to check out soon.
When you walk in it literally feel like you’re in your grandmothers dining room area. Its country and rustic. They also have additional seating in the back where there are about 12 large booths. Seating is open so just pick a seat and someone will help you. Its nothing fancy.
The food is pretty much cooked to order. I highly recommend getting the appetizer sampler where you can choose 3 different items from their appetizer menu. We chose the fried banana peppers, the smothered potato chips and fried green beans. Let me just say that if you’re on some kind of diet then this is not the place for you. LOL! I don’t know about you but I’ve never had a fried banana pepper but these are now my new favorite thing! They are fried in what appears to be a cornmeal batter and they are fried to perfection. You still get that sweet and tart along with a awesome crunch. They came with a dipping sauce but honestly they are good just by themselves. The smothered taters are fresh fried potato chips covered in a cheese and bacon sauce. There’s nothing like using fresh potatoes and these are so good. The fried green beans are also battered the same way as the banana peppers and they were equally as good.
My first visit here I chose to order the fried chicken. Please note that if you do order chicken there is a 15 – 20 minute wait time since they fry it up fresh. Do not skip the fried chicken! Its worth the wait! This was some of the best chicken that I have ever had. It comes out piping hot so you may end up eating your sides before you can really dig in. From the batter down to the meat, their chicken is seasoned perfectly. Each bite was packed with flavor. I didn’t even add hot sauce cause it just wasn’t needed. I ended up choosing the mac and cheese and the fried apples for my sides. I personally was not a fan of the mac and cheese. I don’t know if my taste buds were just off but after a couple of bites I gave it to my friend to eat. The consistency was that of noodles and a cheese sauce. It didn’t appeared to be a baked mac and cheese which I am used to. The fried apples were so good though. They reminded me of my grandmothers cooking so it was a little bit of nostalgia.
My second visit I decided to try one of their sandwiches and decided on their Old Southern Dip. I love the fact that they offer either a creamy horseradish or fresh horseradish. Either way they are both pretty potent so beware. I cannot recommend this sandwich enough! OMG! The au jus that comes with this sandwich is good enough to drink from the cup as a soup. Next time I visit I may suggest using it as a base for an awesome French Onion Soup. The au jus has fresh garlic and onions and the flavor is so good. The sandwich is served on a homemade roll with sliced roast beef and cheese. Love this sandwich! I chose collard greens for my side and I have to admit that I was a little hesitant only because I had tried these at other places here in town and have yet to be impressed. Well lets just say this is now my go to place for collard greens. They are seasoned perfect and I love the fact that they use cracklins which gives them great flavor.
Don’t skip the sweet tea or homemade lemonade. This place isn’t fancy and all drinks are served in a large 32oz to go cup so don’t be alarmed when a huge cup shows up at your table. The homemade desserts are really good too so if you have room make sure to try one out or get it to go. Writing this review has made me hungry and I look forward to my next visit!

Went honeysuckles last night & ordered fried chicken which takes at least 20 minutes, & it was well worth the wait, it was delicious. We are snowbirds & will definitely go back. The server was also very good.

It’s a rare moment when I come across an establishment that makes me smitten from the time we park and enter through it’s doors — Honeysuckle is such a place.
From the outside it is unpretentious and homey, from the inside its a much better and even more homey ambiance than, say, a Cracker Barrell — and comparing it to that chain would be a huge disservice to this place.
Their menu is all about southern cooking and feel-​good food, not all of it is fried for those folks that steer away from that type of meal. I had the «Honeysuckle Bowl», which was a large plate of homemade mashed potatoes, corn, and cut-​into-​small-​bite-​sized-​pieces of buffalo chicken — nice and spicy too. It comes with a choice of cornbread and something else, but I stopped listening after cornbread and choose it instead. The cornbread was lightly sweet and crumbly, it was good as well. My wife had their fried chicken (which for a the Yankee that she is she thoroughly likes) and this instance she fell in love with. Our little niece was with us and she had a kids burger, which she never finishes, but this one she ate it in its entirety. Before all this we had their deviled eggs as an appetizer and they were good as well.
The service was efficient and the waitress was a bit chatty, which I am absolutely good with.
We rounded everything with dessert — two pieces of New York-​style Cheesecake with a Peanut Butter Chocolate Ganache drizzled overtop — it was heavenly. The little niece wanted one of their homemade cookies, which she would have had two or three more if we had given her the chance.
Overall, it was a great surprise to find such as nice place not too far from home. We are already looking forward to a return trip, soon.

They now charge $ 1.00 extra for side salad and argue that it’s a «big» side salad. Hate to see what was a nice place going downhill so fast.

Stopped in on a chance and really enjoyed the place and the food! I will be back!

I drove by this place hungry looking for BBQ with my boyfriend and we decided to stop because it was busy thinking a little out of the way spot that is busy could mean a good place to try and WOW were we right ! This place is clean and very friendly and the food is FANTASTIC ! If you like comfort food give it a try ! I wish my phone battery had not died I would have taken photos however if you are a lover of cornbread you have it covered and by far this is the best fried chicken I have ever had and I grew up on that stuff ! They make it to order and it’s worth the 25 min wait !

We live in Mims so were excited to see another restaurant open! Perhaps takeout wasn’t the best choice for a first meal, but we’d heard it was good ol home cooking and looked great on paper. There aren’t many choices, but I’d rather them do a few things well than do many things satisfactory. Our meals: Hubby ordered fried chicken, fried potatoes and macaroni. I had grilled pork chops, fried okra & fried apples. My pork chops were extremely tough & I just had to quit chewing, the okra wasn’t in a separate dish & was soggy, the apples were bland & mushy. My husband’s mac & cheese was ordinary, the potatoes were edible BUT he LOVED the fried chicken (to which he added his customary hot sauce). I’m a decent, down home style cook myself, so I truly wanted this to be an alternative meal choice restaurant! Sadly, we are left with a bad taste :-(However, we see a continual stream of cars out front, so our tastebuds might be off kilter, or chalk it up to why take out is overrated. We do wish this family the best! Mims needs more «hot spots!»

This was a spur of the moment visit on a Friday night. The location is an older one but the owners are new. Against my spouses wishes, I wanted to give them a try.
Once we arrived and looked at the menu I knew that this is not our usual choice of dining. The menu is heavily populated with fried meat and fried starch. There are some sandwiches and salads on offer.
The place was very busy when we arrived and we had a short wait. The only table available was right by the door, a bit inconvenient and distracting, but this isn’t fine dining. I had the Southern Dip, really just a French Dip sandwich and home fries. My husband chose the salad with Buffalo chicken strips. My sandwich was okay, processed hamburger bun, roast beef, provolone and au jus. The salad was mounds of iceberg, some radishes, tomatoes, and two, three strips of chicken, bleu cheese dressing.
The service was friendly, seems like lots of family involved in serving and busing tables.
Since this isn’t really our type of restaurant, I won’t disparage it. My hopes were for some fresher and healthier choices along with those that rank high on the cholesterol scale. If you are looking for fried food, this is your place.

Service was fast, food was cooked to order. I would tell people to come here. Country Fried Pork was really good. The price to serving is really good. Leaving happy and full.

My mother & I ate lunch here & enjoyed our meal. I ordered the cheeseburger with fresh-​cut fries. It was grilled perfectly & the French fries were awesome! My mom had the BLT with the fried sweet potato tots. She enjoyed her meal as well.
Will definitely return!

FOODIES (those who are entertained by «chef» and fine cuisine) DO NOT waste the gas money! Sorry but this place that boost «Southern Food» failed horribly short. Very limited menu and really not even that «southern». What it IS, a long needed and long overdue, «Denny’s», for this area and strip of road, only smaller and obviously not corporate. This is food your mom would cook, true, but only when your mom was in a hurry (pork chops, fried chicken, chopped beef… oh that is 3 of the 5 dinner items offered). I will say the people/​owners/​staff LOVELY, service was extremely fast for as packed as this place was and prices were… Denny’s. Absolutely would recommend if you were in the area and wanted a quick bite to eat. Dress up, drive across from Orlando… to have something «new and delightful»…don’t bother.

We went for the first time on a Friday evening at about 7P based on reviews from friends and hoping to miss the rush. We were seated promptly and drinks ordered. We then ordered the deep fried banana pepper ring and smothered chip appetizers. The husband ordered Prime Rib, French Fries and creamed corn. He was then told it wasn’t creamed corn it was regular corn. I ordered the Fried chicken (dark meat), greens with cracklins and fried apples. We were then informed that it would take 20 minutes for our dinners because of my chicken. We had no problem with that because we had the appetizers coming and were glad the waitress let us know.
Then it went downhill. The appetizers were brought out with our food. The banahna pepper rings were cold. The smothered chips looked home cut and fried but the sauce was canned cheese. DH’s entire meal was cold. The Prime rib was exceptionally fatty and tough. There was no au jus served or steak sauce offered. The corn was just cold canned corn in a bowl. My dinner was a generous portion of fried chicken (2 legs and a thigh), but tasted like frozen industrial fried chicken. No seasoning whatsoever. The greens were cooked to slime and there were no cracklins. The fried apples were actually apple pie filling.
We may try again and hope it was just an off night.

Best new restaurant in Mims, Fl. The food is great and service is excellent.
It is a great little Southern Food place if that’s what your looking for.

In the old catfish cabin. Came here with my mom and brother for lunch and it was packed! Amazing southern comfort food! I had the cheese bites and banana peppers so good. mom loved her old southern dip and brother loved his fried chicken sandwich. Don’t come here if you’re watching your weight! Nice staff and sweet owner!