lambert's cafe -sikeston,mo.

stopped at lambert's cafe , i have been a few time's
had chicken fried steak with white gravey on mashed potato's & steak .
very crispy (nice).
all the side fixen's fried okra,fried potato's, throwed rolls with apple butter
or molasses,black eyed peas. & a 1/2 gal. of coke
a great meal


LAMBERT'S CAFE
2305 EAST MALONE
SIKESTON,MO.
573-471-4261

Home of the throwed rolls? I remember driving by with my dad en route from Springfield to Memphis, but we did not stop.

I've been to the one in Ozark, MO. The chicken fried steak was one of the best I've ever had, and the throwed rolls with sorghum are also excellent. I like how the servers come around with buckets full of fried okra and black-eyed peas.

We regularly travel the length of I-57 to I-55 on our way either to Arkansas or New Orleans or Texas or Mexico. For years we saw the signs, but never stopped. Then a co-worker who went to school in Memphis raved about it, so we stopped. What an experience. Not haut cuisine by any stretch of the imagination, but a totally sui generis unique piece of Americana. Fried chicken, ham with red eye gravy, the throwed rolls, fried okra, all of it. It made a strong showing on the Travel Channel's 10 Top Places To Pig Out series, with good reason. If you're ever heading south on I-57 all the way to I-55, do yourself a favor and head about a mile north to Sykeston and check out Lambert's. And make a stop about ten miles east and check out Boomland, one of the wackiest truckstops in the world. (Is it Sikeston or Sykeston?) In either case, don't stop there in the summer when the rodeo is in town, what a drunken bunch of louts.

Lambert's! I haven't been there in probably 15 years. Loved the throwed rolls. We used to stop on the way back from Memphis, too. Glad to hear they've still got it!

I was just at the Lambert's Cafe in Ozark. The wait was over an hour, but since I was dining solo, I was told to walk right up to the host station. I felt a little guilty as I was immediately shown to a "little" table they had, but only briefly. It was a booth that could have sat 4 normal sized people.
I feasted on the batter fried pork chops with the fried apples and mashed potatoes with white gravy, crazy good!
Love those throwed rolls with their own sorghum.

A necessary stop/detour. The food is down home southern not too great cookin', but the presentation is a riot. Throwed rolls, guys wandering the aisles with side dishes you'd never order but taste fantastic, and goofy stuff happening all over - pulling fake raccoons from pots, gigantic sodas and no alcohol.

Have been to the one in Sikeston as well as Foley, Alabama. Especially good with kids.