Not Your Mamas Kitchen - Soul Food — Restaurant in Ontario

This is definitely not my Mama's kitchen. They are telling on themselves with the title of the business. We ordered two dinner plates. Plate 1- Fried catfish w/yams & Mac & cheese. Plate 2- Fried Chicken w/rice/gravy & yams. The fried catfish was under cooked, not seasoned at all and tasted of OLD frying oil. And the Mac and cheese! How can you mess up Mac and cheese? Had a great value texture to the noodles and smelled spoiled and tasted like they put sour cream in there, spoiled sour cream. The yams were bland. The fried chicken was under cooked and tasted like old fish frying oil. I think they fry all of their meats in the same old frying oil. The taste of the food definitely had me thinking they do not change their oil often. The rice was slightly under cooked and the gravy was not seasoned well. We got the fried shrimp a la carte and they were cooked just fine but the seasoning was way off. We went there before we went to a concert in Los Angeles that evening and this was a BIG disappointment to our taste buds and stomach. I do not know how this place is still in business. You can not see into the kitchen. There are some big, long and wide black curtains or bed sheets covering the kitchen. For a Friday afternoon this place should have been packed, If we would have dined in we would have been the only customers in the restaurant. Save your time and money, this place is not ready for the big league when it comes to Soul Food. The people leaving five stars or four stars must be friends relatives are people that just don't know what soul food...

We were in the area on vacation and decided to stop at this catchy name eatery. The experience could have been better. The online menu did not match the “daily” menu. We settled for 3 wings and a waffle, hot wings, Mac n cheese, greens and beans n rice.

Our wait time was about 30 minutes before our food came out. The music selection was on point old school Sunday type of moms house music. The restaurant had an old basement smell that they seemed to try and hide the inside didn’t appear to be as clean as I would have imagined.

I am not sure what annoyed me the most the dozens of flies buzzing around or the fact the waiter seemed to have many jobs while utilizing the same plastic gloves.

The cornbread muffin was delicious. The chicken wings are jumbo and under cooked without seasoning. The greens were bland the Mac n cheese reminded me of KFC and the beans/rice was flavorful.

Other than that the staff was friendly plenty of parking availability and the restaurant seems to get a...

I love this place. The food is amazing, and it's a plus that it's black owned. But today I was very disappointed. Today is Wednesday, and the hours of operation states on the phone recording, the internet, and the website that they are open until 7 pm. My husband drove 30 minutes in through traffic to be greeted by locked doors at 6:30pm, and someone shoot pass the door to the back without acknowledging him at all. He called at 6:35, with no answer, and he knocked on the door. No one even came to the door to acknowledge him. All this way, before 7pm, which is closing . Definitely left a bad taste in our mouths. This is definitely false advertisement and bad business practice about hours of operations. I just was there last week and purchased close to $100 worth of food. Can back because the food was so good. Very disappointing. I referred many people to this...