Earley's Kitchen — Restaurant in Tallahassee

I first put this together when Earley's opened up the new location right next to Dog et Al. This is from five years ago - but holds up today (at least, the last time I was there - pre covid...).

The first thing I notice at Earley's new place (for a LONG time, Earley's was about 1/8 mile south) is how full the parking lot is. Abutting Dog et Al, Earley's does what it can to contain the cars without spilling over. The people love Earley's and it shows before you even walk in.

The second thing you notice is that no matter how long the line inside (yes, it's counter service), the people in line are generally looking at the menu board as well as the various meats for them to choose from.

Earley's has a pretense-detector affixed to each entrance. While diners can prance in sporting their "foodie regalia", it is strongly encouraged to simply relax and return to "I'm just people" roots in order to best appreciate the experience, if not just the meal.

Earley's is where you come for what is presented as "Savannah Style" cooking. Breakfast offers a broad range of proteins (from catfish to steak, passing through all the usual suspect meats including house made whole-link sausages), sides and specialties. Lunch specials vary daily - see the board. Even Vegans/vegetarians are welcome (e.g., my wife!) to have veggie plates.

I don't talk about decor, but the place is very nicely appointed. The wood slates that are increasingly seen in modern restaurants are there - the long dining table is sharp - the 1/2 barrel lampshades fit perfectly - the old-school pictures of the former Earley's Kitchen on the wall - the bay windows overlooking Interstate Fire Systems across S. Monroe... Everything sums up to make Earley's a uniquely TLH spot to visit.

I love it. I took some pictures with my "grown up camera" that I'll load up when I return to...

If you are traveling on Interstate 10 looking for good soul food. Please keep traveling to your destination. This ain’t it!

Today was my husband and I first time eating at Earley’s Kitchen. We walked in the lady at the front didn’t even speak or say welcome. It was really weird. Apparently, she didn’t know the difference between white and dark meat. I asked for white meat and she gave me dark meat. Tonya came out and told her. Tonya was nice. Tonya had a name tag. I keep saying “the lady” serving the food “the lady” because she didn’t have a name tag. The lady at the front has to be trained better. I had to ask for cornbread. I ordered two plates each had three sides. I asked the lady, “ Does cornbread come bread come with the order?” She said, “ I didn’t know you wanted cornbread.” I thought automatically you get cornbread at a soul food restaurant. She should know that especially if one of my sides was collard greens.

I ordered fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, greens and fried okra. The fried chicken was delicious. Macaroni and cheese noodles were overcooked. Collard greens didn’t have much flavor. The greens didn’t taste like fresh collard greens. It did taste “can-ish” Fried okra was good as well.

Due to the customer service and the lack of soul in the food. I will not be visiting this...

This was a nice facility but this is not Grandma's soul food cooking it's not even aunties soul food cooking. The price that I paid today for my wife and myself was truly outrageously too high for the portions that we got the oxtails they were okay the pork chop I had had too much fat as well as the oxtails my wife got the best thing of the meal was probably the lima beans for both of our meals and I'm just going to be honest they need to step the game up the food was not seasoned well and hopefully in the future when I come down again hopefully I get a bigger portion of food for the price that I paid today because I can actually go to the Jamaican restaurant get too heavy trays of food with a bunch of oxtails and spend almost $10 less like I say the establishment is good but the food is not even average so hopefully with these reviews y'all were taking into consideration of making...