Reviews of Red's Little School House (Restaurant)

John Knudsen

Best in country cooking. Friendly waiters. Relaxed family atmosphere. Quick service...

my music Christian

Best home cooking since I was a child. Great place

Lisa Jones

Everything is good and seasoned just rite! I would go everyday if I could! The apple and cheese casserole is really something special! You definitely will be pleased eating here! Friendly down home folks and great service all around. Even met the cook. She is super sweet.....

Ray Dutton

Great home cooking for a good price!

Melissa Greeson

Excellent !

Gloria Roberson

Food and service great as always!

Whitney Boutwell

Didnt know the price until after eatting..dessert is extra

ADR ADR

The restaurant used to be an old schoolhouse so there is plenty of history and rustic charm. The food (southern-style buffet) is good but there is not a wide selection from which to choose. Also, the staff is friendly and the price is around $10. My ownly beef is that the dessert is not included in the price of the buffet. You have to pay over $2 for a slice of pie or cake; they are baked fresh but the indivually priced desserts are a little too high.

Julie Dickey

June 2018 Sunday lunch. Coming from Mtg I've heard of this place for years but never had the opportunity to go and try it out. While in the area visiting family we decided to eat after the peak period past. Upon entering sign read to wait for seating, yet the 2 at register saw us but made no ~ or seat us. Finally the older lady counting register just told us to sit anywhere. I was craving some home cooked veggies, meats & cornbread. Well it was just ok. Maybe it was when we arrived but bar wasn't ever refreshed. My server was a sweet girl that fixed her lunch, sat down & ate. I realize it's buffet, but they have to refill your beverages. The sweet tea was cold & refreshing. Fried chicken & broccoli chik casserole were the better of the meat choices. Loved the casserole! Not a fan of gizzards or liver but if you are they got them. Peas, butter beans, green beans were good. Mac&Cheese was different. Salad bar like most small places with basic fixings & potato/mac/carrot salads & slaw. They were chopped to almost a mush. Taste was fine, but presentation lacked. Fried cornbread & ? Mayo rolls were missing something. Noticed a few regulars came same time as us & were greeted by name. If you wanted dessert (pie) it was close to $2 (never paid this much for a buffet & then had to pay extra for dessert & drink) The decor is based on a schoolhouse yet it really needs some freshening up. The ladies bathroom is it's original & hot (was 98° outside) All in all I was disappointed in my visit I'd looked so forward too over the years. Maybe the food was lacking the freshness I'd expected due to arriving between 1 & 2pm. It's got potential if some TLC is given to make its appearance appealing inside & look either like a restaurant or old schoolhouse. Don't believe anyone cares to see next roll of TP unwrapped an sitting inch from floor. Did enjoy "trying" to name each president as I looked up high at their picture's hung just slightly below ceiling. Visited & returned often to some real dive restaurants because the service, price & food was awesome, but today this just missed the mark. If ever in area again may give it a 2nd try.

Don Johnson

Wonderful food and great prices. Quaint location...

nadinna spears

Great food! Awesome fried chicken and cornbread, fresh veggies, fresh old school salad bar, homemade pie......what else could you want!❤❤❤

Cris Moody

Great service. Great food. Nuff said.

Amelia Wilkinson

Best food in South Montgomery County!!

Sarah Samples

Amazing! Family friendly and the best food around. Worth the drive.

Marty Kirkley

Food is really good and the staff is very pleasant!

teresa tierce

Excellent home cooked meal! Chocolate pie was so good!

gina spencer

The pecan pie was especially good tonight!

DEREK BRODERWAY

The buffet was good and fresh pies. Great family place to eat.

Woody Rowe

All you can eat country cooking. But get there around the primary feeding times. Arrived at 2:00 PM and the fried chicken had cooled off. It was good but I prefer mine hot. You will hurt yourself if not careful. You will keep going back. My favorite item is the apples and cheese, a must try.

Phyllis Ozier

Awesome homemade food. Amazing place to eat and visit with family.

Tarry Johnson

ALWAY GOOD. FRIENDLY FOLKS

Johnnie Gray

Good country restaurant good country cooking

Buddy Chavez

Great home cooked meal in a friendly atmosphere

Butch Taylor

Good food nice people

Tommy Laseter

The food ànd pie's were"AUSOME" plus the service was quick like going to Grandmother's House for Sunday lunch ! Y'all come back ya hear .

Shane Petty

Great food, great environment

Mitch Keady

Well run family restaurant. Cute decor. Food was good. We had an enjoyable Thanksgiving meal. Dessert and drinks are extra.

roger harper

Great place to eat, historic and great food. Highly recommended.

John Wiggins

Great food and employees.

Lorne Blackmon

Excellent home cooked food Great service

Hank Martin

There is a good selection of salads and the main course included some good southern options. I enjoyed the chicken gizzards best of all. There were some detractors that I will chalk up to it being the Easter rush.

Teresa Webster

The best home cooked food ever. And the people there are great!!!❤

Tami Large

We have heard how great this place is. Everyone was right, the food was delicious and the service was great. Can't wait to go back!

Bill Newman

Great Country Cooking!

Reba Davies

It was all good.

Evelyn Tubbs

The food is top notch at Red's. Only eaten there twice but plan to go back sometimes with entire family.

Ben Strong

Always good selections. Often humid inside. Always friendly service. Great desserts.

Steve Williams

BOY HOWDY !!!! We made the short trip south of Montgomery with my parents for our "after church lunch." I am not usually impressed with a restaurant anymore but Reds has earned a new customer. Family style buffet with great customer service in a historical building and off the beaten path. I can't say enough about it.

Lone Wolf 04

The food was great and the employees were extreamly nice

Steven Smith

My wife loves this place for the buffet, I have not been as impressed.

Laurel Faircloth

My favorite "home cooked food"!

carolyn mcdonald

love the food never had I been in that town before coming from a church service was told about this restaurant the cook came out to meet us the waitress need more help on helping the guest but love the food and pies

Jan Jolley

Such a wonderful family oriented place. Really makes u feel at home. Best home cooked food I've had in a long time!!! Jan Jolley of Middleburg Florida!!!

John Walker

Always great food, especially the fried chicken and vegetables. They usually have Bbq on the buffet and that's good too. I hunted in So. Montgomery county for 20+ yrs and really those miss Saturday night trips to Red's after a day of hunting. I've also eaten Thanksgiving dinner there quite a few times and it's always excellent. Great place.

Mark Volk

Great food, the workers have a great attitude. They make the place.

Mary Nichols

THE BEST FOOD

Dan Fraley

Been going there for years good food good people

Sharon kay

We like red a homely place with good food.

Aaron Long

Great home cooking restaurant.

Stephanie McCormick

There's an awesome story about THIS window!!! Red's is an awesome place to meet, greet, eat... local or not, it's a friendly place! Driving through, stop in!! You won't be disappointed!

Kim Lewis

Extra charge for desert. No sign to advise of this.

You did What

Tasty and great service.

Jake Stewart

It's just as good as it was when I was a kid back in the 80s growing up in Grady. Those damn cornbread griddle cakes things are so so good.

jenn sexton

Great place to bring family and friends. Food is homemade and delicious

Barbara Davis

I LOVE IT!

Kyle C Lonsdale

Great place to take the family, great food and service

Morgan Robinson

December 2017 I traveled from Kentucky to say goodbye to my uncle who was terminal with cancer. For years he talked about how wonderful this place was, so while my mother and I were visiting, he made us load up in the car and drive to Grady, Alabama. Although the trip was difficult for him, it was worth it. This is now my favorite memory with my favorite uncle. Driving to a little school how tucked away in the boonies - and eating the best chicken I've ever had in my life. Definitely worth a visit! The character and hospitality of this wonderful restaurant have left an imprint on my heart and my stomach!

Donna Kennington

We traveled from Lake City Florida to eat here ! The food was absolutely delicious . We had the opportunity to meet Debbie (owner) and her father Mr. Red ! Everyone there was great! We plan to make a visit again real soon ! If you are anywhere close to this area..stop in for some good ole country food and the possibility of being serenade ! Debbie not only can cook good but she can sing and play the guitar !!!

George Ingols

Great country buffet plus menu items. Service is always excellent. Debbie grows a lot of the fresh vegetables served in her own garden. Been a patron for over twenty years and never been disappointed!

Shelia Strickland

Great southern home cooking!

Brad Lee

Oh my goodness! The buffet was well worth the drive. Southern food at its finest!

Reggie Whiddon

Ah what can I say Reds is the best kept secret in Montgomery. Set up in an actual old school house once inside sit down and enjoy what is arguably the best country cooking around. Go hungry cooking like granny use to make fresh vegetables lots of choices I can't say enough

Terri Jenkins

I been wanting to go to Red Little School House for years. I guess we went at the wrong time. We went between lunch and dinner. We ate from buffet. They brought no additional food out. Heard them said from the kitchen, "We running out of everything", Yet they brought nothing out. Later, when I asked for lettuce for a salad since nothing else was coming out, I heard them say, " I guess we start cooking for the dinner crowd." The desert was a separate price which should have been included with the buffet. The waitress went from washing tables, giving out silverware, sweeping the floor while we was eating , to handing out pie without washing her hands, not once. When we went to pay, the lady like, "what you had?" In a nasty tone, ringing up tea, desert and than throw the ticket down on the counter with a couple of pens. Needless to say, I won't be back!

Martha Ford

It is a great place to eat. The people are wonderful.

Ricky Moore

Good Country Buffet at a very reasonable price, great food just not worth the 100 mile drive, but that is not their fault.

Michael Gosnell

Ate Thanksgiving lunch here. Food was fantastic! Make sure you come early as the crowd gets really heavy on this day. Their system for dealing with the crowd is top notch.

Lance Kelly

Great place to eat. Also very nice people.

Angela Hudson

It's called two trips in one...First and last. Waitress was very nice. Table was sticky.. Food on buffet wasn't worth the money. Desserts was separate. ..What a waste of time/money.....only good thing was dressing.. ..When got up to pay stood there at register 20 minutes while she waited on 3 to go orders before us...and we were at register first...unreal...

Euberta Ledbetter

Great food and the price was also great.

VayMutt

Good food and friendly people

Tracy Turner

Nice atmosphere. Great southern comfort food!

Taylor Fence

Wow, you need to try this restaurant. Great food and so efficient. Crowded but fast.

Greg James

Amazing food. Very nice staff. Fried chicken and cheesy apples are out of this world good.

Tina Wilbanks

Loved the food.and.the atmosphere... great place

Marlana Jacobs

Definitely would recommend this place! Great food, great quality, great service, and friendly staff!

Bobby Wood

Fantastic food. The buffet is awesome and worth the effort to get there.

April Smith

I have been going to this restaurant ever since I was 4 years old and never have they disappointed me with there food or hospitality. The staff is friendly and Mrs. Debbie the owners daughter makes the best pies in all of Alabama. The honey mustard sauce they make is delicious. I highly recommend Little Reds Schoolhouse for all ages. You walk in as strangers but you leave as family. This place makes you feel like you are part of there family whenever you walk in the door. Love Love Love this place. Thanks Red and Mrs. Debbie for a wonderful experience everytime. They also cater some events.

David Hathcock

As always, very good food. The one problem that I have is over eating.

Carol Burt

Love this place drove 3 hours to get there and is willing to do it again and bring friend s when I go back. Great food and nice people

allan muller

Great food!

Mike Mason

Superb fried chicken and barbeque, a multitude of salad and vegetable choices served on an all you can eat, serve yourself bar. Housed in an early 1900's schoolhouse converted into a restaurant. My favorite place for authentic Southern country-style food.

Andrea Meeks

Traveled 5 hrs just to eat here....and IT WAS WORTH IT! Delicious home cooked - made from scratch the old fashioned way - food! Impressed!! We WILL be back And....LOVE that it is in an OLD school house! You get to dine in a quaint little piece of history! And...the staff are good ole friendly southern folk! I just love it!

Cole Tindal

The fried chicken is amazing, so glad my girlfriend wanted to go here

Romona Brown

Great friendly atmosphere and home cooked food. Its very quaintlittle old school house that has a buffet

Steve E

Nice quaint little place off the beaten path. The food was good but not special.

Gary Weaver

If you like, better yet love some country cooking, then you need to drop in and indulge yourself. As grandma use to say, "It'll make your tongue slap your brains out!" From juicy, not greasy, fried chicken, livers, gizzards, butterbeans, peas, fried corn bread, sweet cream corn, mac and cheese, cabbage, greens, salad bar, and the list goes on. Try this fantastic buffet where if you don't get your fill, it's your fault. They put a spread out like going to a family reunion. Top that off with some good sweet tea, and then prepare to indulge in some homemade sweets, like pecan pie, coconut pie or chocolate, or even cake. Red's is good for one, the family, or even take your Sunday School class and continue your fellowship. Like I said, you can't go wrong unless you don't like country cooking with some soul!

Beth Hall

Good food and good service!

Frank Tipton

Driving back roads when I saw it. Hit the brakes at the last moment and parked. Country cooking at its best. Good buffet and fresh baked pies As in the title, it's an old school house turned into a comfortable place to get a good meal.

Steve Hochberger

Favorite place to stop when I'm in Troy...

Chris Irvin

Food and service was great. Peas, corn, green beans, and butter beans were just like home. Meatloaf send chicken were great. Make sure to eat the pecan pie.

Jakob P

I love the cooking at reds little school house.

Tri Burban

Since I am always up for grabbing a bite to eat and I wanted to “hit the road” I suggested to my friend that we drive to Red’s Little School House... I think my favorite thing about Red’s is the deco...There is a menu but we opted for the buffet. I was a bit disappointed that there was no fish on the buffet but I made do with the available vegetables. Now, this is a country style buffet where even the vegetables often have some sort of meat in them. I am quite sure I consumed a fair share of animal based grease with my delicious butter beans, black eyed peas, and collard greens. Luckily for me, I’m not that picky. This is truly a gem of a place, please take the time to eat here if you are close.

Craig Johnson

Great food

Cheryl Jarrell

Great home cooking like your mamma made!

Sidney Matheney

GOOD Country cooking.

Jerry Taylor

Love the place Great food

Ray Cameron

Food was great

Thomas golson

Excellent home cooking the steaks are great on Friday night

Christie Mason

Awesome food...fried chicken livers the best I have ever eaten!

karen sanders

Always friendly and good food .lots of vegetables and fried chicken .home made pies..

Building My House

Cute little place to go eat, it reminded me of the good old home Cooked meals.

Bobbie Speziale

A good amount of food to choose from and seeing old friends

Mellisa Frison

Was my families first time coming here. We were welcomed with smiles and warm personalities. The Lady at the register helped us feel right at home. She gave us samples and helped us order exactly what we wanted. We will be back. This place is not just historic. Its homey and charming beyond its expectations.

Paul Simmons

Red's Little School House's cornbread is just about perfect! If you want good country cookin', this is where you need to go; it's worth the drive.

Stephanie Moore

Love this place!!! I have been coming to this place since I was a kid and it never disappoints. It is the best place for real country cooking.

Jeff H

This little out of the way school house converted to restaurant is a wonderful place to visit. Every time I've brought friends out here they've been delighted at the ambience and the amazing food. They've always left overstuffed by the homemade pies. The last time we went there, there was an antique car show going on. Also a motorcycle riding club of about 20 bikers were there showing off their bikes and admiring the antique cars.

David Gillespie

Had thanksgiving dinner here. T hey did a great job of getting t he masses t though the door and fed. Table for 7 was a challenge but the got us in and out in a timely fashion. The food was excellent as was the service.

Jackie Helton

Whomever runs the kitchen or is responsible for the food deserves an award! Absolutely amazing! Full buffet with all of the most delicious comfort food you could imagine. It was like stepping back in time. From the old school atmosphere, to the locals dining, it is a hidden treasure that is a must visit. The food was flawless. Imagine the best home cooked meal you have ever had and just know this will be better.

CJ Sims

Best food you will ever eat!

Linda Perdue

Buffet was great. Fried chicken livers. Dumplings, fried cornbread just some of the great food they have. All employees friendly

Aaron Hendrick

Good food and atmosphere. Fair prices and old fashioned country cooking

Michael Boartfield

Good country food. Like your grandmother made, if she was a good grandmother.

Bo Tompkins

Everyone should eat here at least 1 time in their life

Debbie Warren

Best food fresh veggies love this place need to go and eat at this place to enjoy the friendly staff and the fresh veggies and food

John Johnson

Great place to dine. Every one so friendly.

Mike Woodham

Was a good experience

Rebecca May

Always love the personalized service and INCREDIBLE home cooking. The perfect southern restaurant all around!

Brad Doucette

Fantastic historic schoolhouse serving great food. A little off the beating path but we'll worth the visit. Fried Chicken was the best

Courtney Williams

Great food and friendly service. Wednesdays are the best.

donald and elizabeth merrill

If you want a home cooked meal go there

William mack Bates Jr.

If you want some good down-home cooking that's where you need to go

Doug Tucker

Great buffet. Fantastic BBQ Salad. I'll be back.

Thomas Anderson

Good food and great desserts.

Crystal Christopherson

Great food, great service. Worth driving over!

Shawniya

Great southern food buffet

Joe Glazier

Love this place! Great home cooking like grandma made! Wish I wasn't so far away from it, but worth the drive if you are anywhere close!

Matthew Davis

Great country food.

Gary Smith

Always great staff and good food!

Dee Hall

Very nice restaurant great friendly people and great food

Michael Smith

Great food-with amazing variety on the buffet. Love the vegetables as well as fried chicken. Don’t forget to get the pie.

Alex Boctor

Great place. Wonderful country cooking. Like Grandma made. Like the shirt says "If you had better your grandma it.".

Kay Oakley

All food was fresh, hot or cold and plentiful at 2:00 Sunday! I always eat too much.

Tyler Toumbacaris

This little gem nestled in the seeming middle of nowhere is now on my "how did I live without" list. The people working there made me and my friends feel at home. The food reminds me of my grandmother's home cooking and the atmosphere is very charming and reminiscent of the schoolhouse it is named after. Some of the group had been there before and we're slightly disappointed that their favorite dish was not on the buffet that afternoon, and when they mentioned it in passing to the waiter he ran to the kitchen and had a batch made for them. A+ service with a smile! A bargain of a price for some of the best food I've had in many years, you can be assured it is well worth the drive (almost 40 miles for me). I will most definitely be back!

Deborah Proctor

Good home cooking!!

Kenneth Spivey

Wonderful hospitality! (As the sign says, "....southern grace.") Veggies could have been seasoned a little better. Homemade pies delicious! Cornbread, fantastic! I've got to go back and try their steaks.

Darryl Hudgens

Great food, good price, very friendly staff.

L. Ronald Stabler

Veggies always extraordinary as was yesterday. Meat loaf superb and BBQ very good. And the fried cornbread is worth the trip. What you waiting on. Hop on down there for as goof a grub as there is in this neck-of-the-woods.

Kwanita Yates

Go here! Seriously!

Sharon Miller

Great place for good ole country cooking. The buffet is $9.50 and $9.00 for Seniors. The only problem I have here is I don't eat very much. Even putting a small amount on my plate with a little over a tablespoon of 3 types of vegetables, a piece of chicken and without eating a salad, I still can't finish it. If i want to carry the rest of it with me, I have to pay a price per pound. I even explained that I've had stomach surgery and don't eat much but I was still charged $4.50 to take it home. After I thought about it, the take out wasn't worth it because I was paying almost half of the buffet price. Come on now, I'm a size 4, don they really think this was my 2nd or 3rd plate, not. I'll be back in a few months when I crave some country cooking tho. It's excellent, fresh food. It's about 30 minutes from Taylor Road in Montgomery, area where I live, and a nice afternoon Sunday drive. Get there around 11:30 before the local churches get out if you don't want to wait on a table.

Art Sullivan

Great home cooked vegetables.The fried cornbread is a favorite. Great atmosphere.

Judy Scott

Great down home cooking . Delish!!

laura kate caldwell

Sunday Buffet is a little piece of Southern Soul Food Heaven!

C Ray Marilu S Beasley

Great food. We were too late for lunch and too early for supper. Ordered off the menu.

Angela Gosnell

We love to eat here. Thanksgiving lunch is amazing.

Annette Sipper

Always awesome food and waitresses.

Uretta

Food was delicious, as usual. Saw Debbie, Marhta, Red, and Debbie's kids. All working hard. It was a big crowd for Easter.

Seth Tyndall

Great chicken

Allyson Venable

Good good. Love the fried corn bread and lemon meringue pie. Juicy fried chicken, great vegetables, peas, collards, green beans, etc. Also have a salad bar.

Mark Caffee

It is one of the top three best places to eat in the south!!!

Lenette Parris

This restaurant is hands down the best home cooking you can get outside of Grandmother's. And all you can eat , much of it local farm to table. Topped off with a great atmosphere in an authentic old school house with friendly folks.

Terrie Childress

The food was great and the service was awesome. If your in the area stop by for great food and a little history.

TJ Defee

Like eating at your grandma's house, fine, fine food.

Beverly Roper

Oh my goodness. Best food ever

Dianne Jones

Friendly people, has everything you need, saves me from having to go all the way to town to get things. love it!

Connie Lillich

Awesome chicken livers!

Linda Mize

This little place off the beaten path took me back to my grandmothers fried chicken, cream corn, collard greens and ho cakes. You could tell everything is made fresh. Including the homemade chocolate, pecan and coconut pies! We sat on the church bench on the porch after wishing we had a cup of coffee to hang out for awhile. We will definitely make the drive to come back here.

Jeremy Mathews

Delicious food, cozy ambiance, and great service!