Dixie Maid Drive In — Restaurant in Paducah

My favorite place to eat on Planet Earth. The dixie dogs and hot dogs are terrific, but the best are the steak fingers with cream gravy. No steak fingers like them anywhere else.

It's also nice that you can get drinks with cherry, vanilla, etc. added (e.g. cherry vanilla Dr Pepper).

For newbies, understand that they won't come to your car. To order, either go around inside (west door) or to the little window out front. You can order at the window, go back to your car, and they'll wave you over when it's ready. At busy times, you might wait 30-45 minutes depending on your order. (I usually just call ahead.) Sound like a long time? It's not, for cooking from scratch instead of thawing out frozen products that were prepared weeks or months...

Been going here for years, since I could remember, so I may be a bit biased. It's best to order in advance since everything is cooked after you order and can take up to 30 or 40 minutes. It's home cooked as well, Dixie dogs hand dipped as are the steak fingers. It's great overall, and a friendly down home staff along with any patrons being friendly as well most of the time. It has a drive in to pick up if you are just passing through and don't...

Ordered 2 bacon cheeseburgers and frys. There was nobody there when I ordered. Took 1 hour and 5 min to get the food. 2 ladies came 15 min after I ordered and they got their food 15 min before mine and they had steak fingers. Gave me my food at 805pm and they close at 8pm had to scarf my food down. And my father never got to eat he is old and couldn't eat past 8 (was it...