Sam's Southern Eatery Beaumont — Restaurant in Beaumont

UPDATED: This used to be my favorite place on College Street and the best place for fried livers. But not now. I got a box of livers and okra to go yesterday (10/13/25) and the okra was so hard with strings as to be inedible and the livers- they were ROCKS. Damn near burnt up. I tried cutting them to see if anything was salvageable and they are dried up as well as any jerky you could buy. This isn’t a cook having an off day- this is someone who hates livers cooking them with all their spiteful passion.

Y’all ruined what used to be a beautiful thing for me as a customer. I don’t think I can trust you for anything to-go ever again. I used to eat here with my dad once a month. He’s gone now, and I can’t bear to sully those memories.

You can’t hardly find a chicken place that offers gizzards and livers let alone a restaurant that knows how to make them- but this place makes their food like they love you! Everything my family ate from the okra and livers to the shrimp, chicken & fish was PERFECT. Try the fried green tomatoes! You’ll be glad you did. Seating is limited, but they serve generous portions in takeaway boxes. A new family favorite place for us. Sam, you have great people working for you! They’re doing excellent work and are worthy...

Food was good. No table service. Furniture were a little outdated. Lighting was a little low. And cash register was very busily decorated with restocking stuff that never gets moved. They consider one whole catfish as opposed to half of a piece of catfish is one, which is good. Catfish could use a little bit more seasoning. Although, the catfish was really good and crispy on the outside and soft and flakey on the inside. Almost cooked to perfection! The shrimp seemed like it had been pre-battered and frozen. Shrimp could’ve used a little bit of Cajun seasoning. It reminded me of the shrimp tempura that you see at Japanese style steakhouse. French fries were really good. Crispy on the outside soft on the inside. They had a nice seasoning added to them. A creole type of seasoning on the french fries. Mac and cheese was equivalent to Kraft. Red beans and rice was that of instant rice and beans were canned. Nothing fancy or tasty. Bread that came with it was toasted...

What can I say? The food was good, the place could be a little cleaner. When I went in, the first thing I noticed was a server checking the fountain drink and it was out if carbonation. She goes to walk into the kitchen as another server is coming out and hits the woman in the face with the door causing her to spill the flat soda all over the floor. Quickly cleans it up and asks what she can get me? I replied, is she ok? She says she's resilient and keeps on taking my order. I ask her what's good? She says oh I don't eat seafood. I'm like ok, you work at a seafood restaurant??? So I order the shrimp poboy and ask for a tea, to which they were out of that as well. So I end up getting a bottle tea, which they were almost out of as well. The poboy was tasty, but it could have used a few more shrimp on it. (Only came with 4) although there was 1 extra shrimp on the plate. All in all it was an ok experience. I just hope that server was ok after getting hit...