The Texas Bucket List - Allen's Family Style Meals Closes aired 2016

Good things must come to an end! 😢😢

When I worked in Sweetwater back in 2011 I went to both the old house for lunch and the new building for buffet dinner! It was outstanding!

I’ll listen to this dude and went to Dirty Al’s in South Padre Island. Worst service and food was terrible. I wouldn’t recommend anybody go there.

Supposedly there is a branch in Abilene, but it is so poorly marked that I have never been able to find it, although I would find it annoying to have to set at a table with someone who would rather tell stories than allow a person to eat in peace.

Miss Allen's was the best

best way to communicate.. Break Bread with them, sit and eat and talk to each other..

This place reminds me of Mrs. Wilkes in Savannah Ga

Sad to see this place close down. The food was great.

Yummo 🧡

Can you imagine that in Ontario Canada, KFC has secretly just changed the chicken to Halal Chicken...It's awful, I think the Colonel would roll over in his grave!

I ate here with a friend of mine passing through to Big Bend national park. The nicest people on earth! A lost treasure

Dang shame they shut down, sure was good eatin'. Wish them the best in their retirement, they deserve it.

Food can be simple and good.

I worked in the foodservice industry as a sales rep in the early 90's and had to relocate to Sweetwater. Allen's was one of my customers. It was a throwback to an earlier time. Fantastic fried chicken and sides. It will be missed.

Why close, sell it!

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That crunch❤ I think there should be more chicken places like this. They're rare❤

Heartbreaking it is gone.

These old school restaurants are closing left and right unfortunately. We need these places so we know home cooking at a reasonable price from a restaurant.

Has anyone been to the blessing hotel in Blessing Texas for lunch ?

Good southern cooking. Love it 😊

Looks like a great place to eat. Sorry to see it closed down

My hometown and knew family well. Sad none of kids wanted to continue the tradition. However we will miss them and hope they enjoy their retirement. I will miss that pea salad and sweet potato salad.

Just my luck. I don't live anywhere near there but when I heard "fried rattlesnake". It was on. Then I had a moment of contemplation. Is this possibly the place that inspired the guy that started Church's Fried Chicken. If someone knows, I'd love to know. Sadly, as of this moment, they closed 8 days ago. 😢

I only had the blessing of eating there five or six times or so. It was great each and every time. I had great conversations with a variety of people and had by lunch bought for me out of nowhere by strangers. The last time I ate there last year I paid for a couple that sat with me and were kind enough to have a wonderful conversation with me. I hope that they had the delightful surprise of wondering why a stranger bought their lunch without a word. I had the joy of paying forward my free lunch to them. Miss you all and will always remember Allen's!!

Remove hat indoors.

It's hard to find fried chicken on the bone anymore. Mostly just what they call tenders anymore. I'll definitely stop in when i get out that way 🎉🎉🎉🎉

They need a lazy Susan on the table like my Grandmother had at her restaurant for the vegetables

So hungry right now. Terrible video to watch. Chicken looks AWESOME.

Man we where planning a trip

And she took another wall down and when the roof caved in, she put the last wall back up...

This is awesome

God bless the Allen's, and a thank you to them.

This place fits the profile of a traditional restaurant in Texas!

Reminds me of an song, who's gonna fill their shoes? Unfortunately, when they close, it never comes back...

Such a shame no one carried it on

Eating snakes. Really disgusting 🤢 and not to mention UnGodly😮

Greetings from Redondo Beach 🇺🇸🇺🇸Looks delicious. I will for sure visit this place when I am in TX 👍🏽

As a host I would stop trying to act and not copy how all the other host from the past.
Be yourself is the key just saying 😊

My kind of place, my kind of food and my kind of people to sit down and share a meal with. 👍👍

Google the place to add to places were I want to go and to my surprise it says that this place is permanently closed!😢

When I was a child, my Dad would drive us from Memphis, Tennessee down to Ft. Walton Beach, Florida for our Summer vacation. Either going down or coming back, we'd always stop in Mendenhall, Mississippi where there was the Round Table Restaurant. It was similar to this, but the tables were large round ones with Lazy Susans. On each level was a variety of Southern delicacies. It was so so good! The coolest part was that there was no cashier. You'd simply leave your money in a cigar box by the door. Better times indeed.

Man, they didn't wait. They are closed and their Facebook page is already gone. It's only been 3 days since they announced their closure.

They permanently closed 😢

we had a place like this in Kentucky sad when it closed

So sad.

Damn nab it, this economy is really going downhill. I’ve watched the two features on this place I’ve been really wanting to go down there even though I’m from California but it shows you that this economy. Has been really affecting small businesses I mean it really impacted during the pandemic and it looks like it’s still continuing.

Skin on, bread crumbs, PAN FRIED chicken is the way to go!

Whoa, that Blonde right at the Start was Hot!

Now my mother-in-law used to make good fried chicken. This makes me look like put this on my bucket list😎💯👍