Lillie Mae's Southern Cafe

Came here for gas and found the buffet! The owners are so friendly, polite, cordial and provide excellent customer service. I was excited to try Oxtail 🇯🇲 with Yellow tumric rice and Black eyed peas with okra. 🥘 I was very presently surprised at the exquisite taste and savory flavorful food!! The oxtail was well seasoned, very tender, fall off the bone and had bone marrow yumm yumm yummy. The black eyed peas were tender and just the right touch o spice. The okra perfectly cooked and seasoned. The yellow saffron rice was well cooked to perfection and not very al diente but not too soft or mushy. I personally recommend the food. If you like 🇯🇲🥘 cuisine you will love their food. Very family friendly. It is maybe not the typical Southern Soul food, it is very yummy and delicious though.

Best soul food in Tampa!!!!!!!!!!! Hands down!!!!! Ordered from here 3 times in one day! Seasoned to perfection!!!!! I saw the other reviews and it’s not true!!! This food was damn good!!!!! Had them for breakfast and had to order again for lunch and dinner once we saw the menu!!!! Everything was delicious!!!!!!! And we ordered through door dash!

If you're looking for soul food, this place is very delicious. It's the best that I've had, if me or my family hadn't cooked it ourselves. It's in a gas station, so the wait time can be long if it's busy. Still worth it though. They need a restaurant. You can also order on Ubereats. It's only take out or delivery.