Food was amazing as always. Really enjoy the cornbread patties and beef tips. Broccoli casserole is also good. read more

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Food is suburb and fresh,it is a food bar where you can see and pick what looks good.Breakfast is a great way to start your day but you will want to be there early(before 10am) and don't forget the Southern Streak o' Lean Overall the best meat and three in this one-horse town. read more

Delicious! Fast and fair prices. Glad we found this little hidden gem. Totally enjoyed our lunch read more

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This little joint is hidden in a smallish building back in the industrial district. Service was friendly and fast ... food line and dining room staff were wonderful. Food is solid southern cafeteria style fare: meat and 2 or 3, we got fried chicken and cubed steak. Portions are pretty big. Vegetables were simple, but tasty enough. A little more salt needed, for my taste ... but they're serving a bunch of folks, and shaker is on the table. Absolutely a solid meal for a fair price. The chocolate 1000 layer cake was good ... lemon was decent as well. Get th tea, soft drinks are cans poured. read more

Amazing hidden old school gem deep in the industrial netherworld of Macon. It's a bit of a hunt to find but worth it! In a cinder block cave with an austere sign, it's easily missed but beloved by locals in the know. You step in line as they serve you your choice(s) of the daily offerings as prepared by the owner himself. Everyday features outstanding southern fried chicken and then every weekday there's a rotation of southern traditional like baked ham , cube steak, beef tips, etc. the side dishes are stout and hearty. The black eyed peas were perfection. I found the cheese broccoli a bit over cooked but hey, that's me. You'll also find gluten loaded desserts like bread pudding and peach cobbler, I hear the breakfasts are great and I'll be back for that! Look this is hearty fare, not delicate hipster fare. This is more like grandma slapping together a great meal. Don't come knocking on the weekend! This is a Monday-Friday 6am-2pm joint! read more

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Loved this place my husband and I stumbled upon it for breakfast. The food was really tasty the service was great and the ambiance was quaint. We are definitely going back for lunch to see if it's just as good. I would recommend cox cafe 100%. read more

Dry chicken.Thats store frozen broccoli and canned black eye peas everyone knows that look.nothing worst than store regurgitation and lazy at that they ain't even jazz itup read more

Great good. Great people. A terrific meat and three and great sweet tea. Worth the hunt for this gem

I am from Miami. I was born in Miami. I lived in Miami for most of my life. Before I moved, the closest I got to country cooking was a Cracker Barrel on a school trip for soccer. But, I live in Macon now (that's in Georgia). I have been here since August but today was the first time my taste buds knew it. I sat in the backseat of my friend's big, red, pick-up truck (seriously) and watched the scenery. We drove past industrial stuff like places selling topsoil and cement. I watched as we passed under some old train tracks that I suspect are still in use. Strangely enough, we followed the long, bread crumb trail of animal control signs only to pull up to a small, white building with "Cox Café" painted in faded red on the front. Something about the number of large, dirty men in flannel made me nervous. Honestly, the restaurant looks dirty. But after a bit of coaxing I agreed to get out of the truck. Inside Cox is fabulous in its simplicity (also not dirty). You just walk in and get in line. I imagine this is what it would feel like to be at family reunion in the Deep South. There was potato salad, deviled eggs, talk about tomorrow's catfish, beef tips, rice, beans, fried pork, corn bread, spaghetti, thick toast, homemade biscuits, broccoli casserole and more all sitting in a little buffet line being served to you by the smiling people who made it. Giant pots and pans hang, shining over the kitchen as you pick your food. I took my plate, topped with cornbread, to a simple table and sat in a comfortable chair as a woman brought me my drink. My friends and I ate and laughed and, a few minutes later, someone came around and handed us our little, individual checks (mine was for $3.75). There was no rush to get up and we sat for an hour after we finished eating just talking and laughing. After my visit to the little café on the other side of the tracks I can definitely say that the adventurous drive is worth it. Oh, and don't be scared of the locals, as it turns out, they're pretty awesome. I will be back and the rumor is that their breakfast is just as good as lunch! read more

Good food for a very reasonable price. Great coffee and breakfast selection and lunches are legendary my favorite are Friday catfish. They also deliver. Staff is very friendly and attentive. read more

If you want home cooking Southern style, this place is a reasonable option. The portions are large enough to fill you up and tasty enough that you'll eat all you are served. The clientele is 90 percent male, and many are workers in nearby heavy industry, or they are the supervisors of those workers. You won't see many women or people wearing ties here. What you will see are hungry people who seem like regular customers. But this place will not be on the tourist tours. It's way off the beaten path (just past the turnoff to the Macon Landfill) and the decor looks like it hasn't been touched since 1965. It's down home, local, filling food for local workers. That's it, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. The lace cornbread was unusual and very tasty; the peach cobbler was excellent as well; the green beans had big chunks of ham. The servers were friendly and helpful, especially for someone like me who didn't know the ordering routine -- you enter the front door and go straight ahead through a serving line, get whatever you want, then a server comes to your table and gives you a ticket for what you had; pay on your way out. Pretty easy. There's another place in Macon called Jeneane's (one downtown, one on Forsyth Road) that serves similar kind of food -- good home cooking. I found the food very similar; the big difference was the surroundings and neighborhood were better at Jeneane's. Cox Cafe is a fine option for those who are downtown/nearby looking for good food. I gave it 3 stars, which is an A-OK rating. That seems about right. If you want a local *local* eatery, this is it, but you shouldn't go too far out of your way. It's memorable -- if not for the food then the location and the nice Southern people inside. read more

Cox Cafe is nestled on the old industrial side of downtown Macon, about 6 blocks away from MLK. The restaurant itself is a free standing building with some gravel parking spots out front and across the street. The majority of the patrons are locals who work at one of the nearby facilities. I stopped by to grab breakfast with a friend who had been here before. The interior does not say much about he place except for its simplicity. You have what you need in there and that's all there is to it. Their menu splits between breakfast and lunch. I really wish I had stopped by for their Tuesday lunch special because they had lemon pepper chicken, which is one of my favorite dishes. Regardless, my breakfast biscuit was delicious. I got it with a salmon cake/patty and a side of bacon. Not a huge fan of their bacon, but the salmon on biscuit was awesome. The pricing is very fair here and what is really important to note is their high quality service. Overall, a good place to grab a southern breakfast, but beware...you will feel VERY sleepy afterwards. read more

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Meat and two vegetable place tucked away in scenic industrial downtown Macon. But seriously, the meat loaf was good, the chicken livers and gizzards were good. Vegetables were fresh tasting and the biscuits are enormous. Plus me and my girlfriend got as much as we could eat for $9.90 total. Pretty hard to beat if you're in downtown Macon. Definitely worth a try if you're in the area. read more

I may have never found this place if a friend hadn't recommended it. The locals seem to know about it but I am not local. I do come to Macon often enough for work and if I'm on my own for lunch it's very likely I will be eating here. It's just good southern cuisine. I've never had something I didn't like. I would like to add a couple notes that might help you out if it's your first time here: 1. when you walk in go straight ahead through the doorway that looks like it takes you to the kitchen and someone will ask you what you want to eat, you don't have to serve yourself 2. they will ask you what you want to drink and show you to your table at the end of the food line 3. bring your check to the front to pay when you're done. read more

great meat and 3 tucked away in industrial area of Macon, GA. I frequent there when in town on business. Fried pork cops, greens, and skillet cornbread are favorites. Of course, a dose of good sweet tea to wash everything down is just right!! read more

I will NEVER eat or order from this small business owner! He is rude, disrespectful, and down right borderline harassing to his employees from what I have witnessed!! Although, the food is good it is not worth paying someone for rudeness!! Karma will come!! read more

On Fridays chicken and dumplings. Ooh la la! Cox has some of the best home cooked food you'll ever taste. Fried catfish and chicken, Mac and cheese, squash casserole you name it. The deserts are great too, peach cobbler, 12 layer chocolate cake, and banana pudding. If you like down home southern cooking this is the place to go. The prices are reasonable and the personnel are friendly and efficient. The restaurant is located in an industrial area, so if it's ambience you want, this place isn't for you, but if you want good food this is the place. It's nice and clean, a wonderful eating experience. read more

This has been a favorite of mine for years. They have a wonderful breakfast, perhaps the best in town. They open at 6:00 A.M. instead of 7:00 like so many other restaurants that serve breakfast in Macon. It is a good way to start the morning. Lunch is quite good too. You won't leave hungry because they'll give you plenty of food. I've found the best way to get there is to drive through Central City Park and continue passed the ball field to where the road ends at Lower Poplar. Turn left and after a short distance the building is on the left. Maybe I'll see you there. read more

You'll be hard pressed to find better home cooking around these parts. Everything is cooked, nothing comes out of a can. It,s a great place for breakfast or lunch. The only draw back is there's not much parking. read more

Awesome place to eat. Be sweet to the kitchen ladies and you can get hooked up on the fried corn bread. Chicken and dumplings and beef tips w/rice are all solid choices. Banana pudding is also great. read more

I have lived in Macon my whole life and did not know about this place. The waitress was very friendly and the breakfast was good. The ham was overlooked, but the over medium eggs were cooked perfectly. read more

Didn't even eat here. To start, the woman at the front desk was incredibly rude. Even after that, I was on the fence until I saw the food. It looked like it'd been in warming trays for hours - dry and colorless. Turned around and walked back out. read more

As a Macon native, I never really knew this place existed until recently because of its location. I love Southern food but just found the food here to be a little too greasy for the most part. My beef tips and rice were pretty good, but I found the sweet potato and squash dishes to be too puréed (a little too similar to baby food for my taste). Banana pudding was a little too basic and nothing special in my opinion. I know the menu is posted in the local paper, but I wish they could post a large, visible menu when you walk in so you don't have to either guess what items are on the line or continuously point and ask. I will say the portion sizes are large, which is why a lot of men seem to frequent this place. The service is very friendly. Is it the best southern food I've ever had? No. Is it the worst? No. I can see why people like this place, but the overall quality and taste of the food just isn't to my personal standard. read more