The Front Porch Barbecue & Seafood
205 Thornhill Dr, Hattiesburg, MS, 39401
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Address :
205 Thornhill Dr
Hattiesburg, MS, 39401 - Phone (601) 264-3536
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Specialities
- Takes Reservations : No
Delivery : No
Take-out : No
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Lunch
Bike Parking : No
Wheelchair Accessible : Yes
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Alcohol : Beer & Wine Only
Outdoor Seating : No
Waiter Service : No
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Sam M.
What can I say? This place is unreal. The brisket on the lunch buffet was some of the best anywhere and I'm from Texas the brisket Mecca. It'd $13 flat which includes drink and tax. Today's lunch had baby back ribs, brisket, ham and turkey all smoked on site. It's was outstanding. The peach cobbler was on point. Catfish was also on lunch. Chicken gumbo soup was homemade and perfect. I tried a few bites of many veggies and they were good too. On weekends they have a cajun buffet. This will always be my stopping place from now on. Great food.
(5)Daniel C.
I had heard good things about this place, but I was disappointed with the quality of the food. I know that it is a buffet; however, the quality of the food was terrible. The brisket was extremely tough, the Mac n cheese was floating in water, and the vegetables had no taste whatsoever. Overall, I would rather eat pretty much anywhere else in town....well, at least it's better than Shoneys.
(2)Allison R.
My mom and I had fun trying different restaurants all over Hattiesburg while we were evacuated. We had been seeing commercials for the Front Porch (which had a very catchy jingle). So one night we decided to try it. It was basic, down home cooking. Nothing special, but warm, inviting and decent food. The staff was helpful, the decor was inviting and we went home with leftovers. A good place to go when you are int eh mood for a home cooked southern meal. Buffet style, but they have all the favorites: mac and cheese, cinnamon apples, catfish, meatloaf, vegetables, and great home made cakes and brownies for dessert.
(3)David M.
First timer and I loved it. Definitely a go-to place for me when I visit Hattiesburg.
(5)David A.
Great Southern Food served buffet style. Clean, friendly, and great food! This will be a favorite place when I'm in the area.
(5)James W.
The Saturday "seafood" buffet is probably not the best choice in Hattiesburg... The boiled shrimp needs a LOT of practice. Most of the offerings are the same you can get at lunch for less $. Having said that, it's a solid 4 star lunch buffet.
(3)Cheryl G.
We stopped going here a few years ago when it seemed to be going down hill. However, we decided to give it another try and have been back about three times in the past few months. The service is great! The salad bar is the best in town and the other food has been consistently good! The only reason for not giving it 5 stars is the desserts . They are just ok but I fill up on the salad so I don't really care.
(4)Melanie T.
We couldn't decide whether we wanted catfish or BBQ for lunch, so we gave this place a try. I enjoyed the catfish and a few of the side items. The pulled pork had a little fat, but it was alright too. A few of the items from the salad bar I passed up just based on the color and consistency. Overall, this place was okay for a $13 lunch buffet.
(3)Andrew B.
Reviewing Front Porch is kind of silly. You already know what the food is like. It's a by-the-numbers country cookin' buffet. It's a solid go-to when you get that craving for mac and cheese, fried okra, fried chicken, fried catfish, fried whatever. My personal favorite is the station where they carve up brisket, ribs, hams. I ate there today for the first time in a few years, drawn back by a generally positive impression of the place. I enjoyed myself alright, but I found myself wondering if I was satisfied. Not just with Front Porch, but with the whole idea of a buffet. I can think of a few reasons why I shouldn't stuff my face at these places. But for the first time I wondered how much I actually enjoyed the meal, and how much my monkey brain was being tricked by the absurd chicanery of ALL YOU CAN EAT. Buffets are incredibly obvious in concept and bizarre in practice. All I care to eat of whatever I want, awesome. Just grab a clean plate on every trip? Sounds good to me. Apart from the base appeal, I feel I'm put in a weird spot where I can never appreciate what I'm eating as a meal. For a meal has a beginning, middle, and end. By definition the buffet is never-ending, so it is more like an eating contest than a meal. Also I can never escape the ridiculous notion that I should be "getting my money's worth," which entails not only painful overeating but a psychological trap that makes the food's quality a secondary concern. All of these elements combine to make the buffet both irresistible and strangely unsatisfying- independent of the quality of food. Front Porch jacks up the eating contest paradigm by charging admission up front rather than bringing a bill at the end. I appreciate the utility, but it increases the feeling that I'm at the food rodeo. That's a pretty good way to describe Front Porch. You stand by your table as the server takes your drink order, and then bolt out of the gate to chow down. This is probably my favorite part of the buffet experience: Not the eating, but the assembling of the plate. You take part in an impromptu sociological experiment where you and other jostling humans sort out the protocol for rotating through the buffet islands. You construct a hierarchy of preferences with a view to the tragic fact that you might get full before you find the BEST item on the buffet. Also the first trip to the bar is where the rewards of buffet style eating are most in balance with the dreadful costs. That is, the buffet spares the mental anguish of wondering if I'll "get enough to eat" with this or that entree. (It is this evolutionarily primitive anxiety that has driven the expansion of portion sizes in restaurants over the last century.) Feast or famine ceases to present a dilemma. There shall only be feasting, and some deep brain structure rejoices at the prospect. All this despite the fact that I recognize a pattern of taking more than I can eat and eating more than I should, and feeling like hell all afternoon. On one hand I have unlearned the faulty behavioral circuit of ordering the "large" anything- turns out "regular" is plenty big enough. But with buffets all bets are off- I'm all in. Is it worth it? Hard to say. Oh, I feel I should point out that all the weird grandma crap on the wall is for sale. You can find the perfect piece of kitsch for your breakfast nook while you slake your unreasoning lust for all things salty, fatty and fried.
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