The Candied Yam — Restaurant in Grand Rapids

Me and my husband traveled for some downtown Grand Rapids shopping, and decided let’s head to the candied yam. The main location we have accepted the customer service is subpar…the son, and other workers of the owner will stare at you and not properly greet…but we love the soul food we have unfortunately accepted that. We then discover as we are driving to the main location…oh my goodness! Babe look, a candied yam!!! Right there!!! As we were leaving downtown Grand Rapids. We park, exited snd mouths watering as we are in hopes that this location would have a better atmosphere…..we stood at the desk for over 10 minutes, called the stores location…..into which someone’s cell phone rang … not an actual store location phone for the back cooks or someone to hear when a customer is calling the location…not someone’s cell phone? Into which is not kept on their person? We called and said “HELLO” but the back staff continued talking and laughing. Cameras on the outside, and inside of the establishment yet…we weren’t greeted, or helped? We then call the other location to see if they can contact someone to serve us….no answer My husband stated let’s go to the other location….heading there now. Hopefully we get...

The interior and exterior is well kept and is very inviting. The young lady working the counter was courteous and professional when taking our order. Now on to the food. I ordered the meatloaf with mash potatoes and green beans. My mom ordered the fried chicken with greens and sweet potatoes. Considering I am one of the best soul food cooks in my family I know good and bad soul food when I taste it. The meatloaf taste like one you heat and serve, not homemade. The green beans taste salty. The mash potatoes are out the box. The collard greens had that bitter taste. When cooking collards you have to cook and season them long enough to drive out that bitter taste. They should try mustard and turnip as their greens option because they are easier to season. The sweet potatoes were good, corn bread was good, the fried chicken was ok. Miller has the best brand in chicken wings. Try them because all other brands taste full of steroids. In conclusion, I’ll return to try...

I didn't know this was a soul food restaurant. For some reason my brain equated it with the HoneyBaked Ham. But the food is pretty darn good and the lunch special is a great deal. About the only things that I could go negative on. 1) I wasn't a big fan of the corn bread It is served cold and it was just a little too sweet to go with savory food. But I guess it could be considered a free dessert. I wish they had a regular cornbread as well. I love a good cornbread dipped in a good gravy 2) I didn't like the tissue paper beneath my smothered pork chop. About half way through my meal it was completely soggy and started to rip and end up stuck on my bites of pork chop. The collard greens and candied yams were very good though. All in all a solid meal for a great price. Will definitely...