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D.Jay’s Kountry Kitchen - Soul Food to Comfort the Tummy!

(817) 496-2281 7403 John T. White Rd. Fort Worth, TX 76120 GET MAP & DIRECTIONS

Don’t put your wallets away yet people. In today’s economy, you can still go out and enjoy a nice meal, for cheap. You just have to look for them and sometimes they aren’t so exposed. My choice pick for this month I found is D.Jay’s Kountry Kitchen in Fort Worth, TX.

A hole-in-the-wall (as I like to call it) diner located in a small convenient store strip off of Highway 820 & John T. White Rd. Holds roughly 10 tables. During the week, it’s not too crowded but during the weekends, especially Sunday, you have to go early to grab a table. There is a serious wait going out the door. The history of D.Jay's Kountry Kitchen starts with Ms. D.Jay herself. She began cooking 20 years ago in Savannah, GA by learning from her mother.

She started the business by cooking the food in her house for catering events at churches including her own local church, Great Commission Baptist Church. Her passion for home-cooking makes her smile because of the cozy, warm, comforting feeling that comes along with eating a great meal prepared with love. Her specialties are her collared greens, chicken fried steak, 3 cheese macaroni and cheese, smothered pork chops and ox tails. Her future plans are to open other small locations that have a home-like atmosphere. D.Jay’s Kountry Kitchen offers discounts for senior citizens, daily specials, kids meals and coupons. (See coupon below)

There are a lot of great meals to try but my favorite has to be the Chicken Fried Steak. Oh man, was it delicious! How is it different there you wonder? Chicken Fried Chicken is Chicken Fried Chicken right? WRONG! Yes, you can mess it up. Let me say that again, you can mess up a good piece of Chicken Fried Steak. I can’t tell you how many numerous times I’ve had this at many other homestyle cooking restaurants and I’ve walked out very disappointed. Too much batter, not enough meat, burnt and crispy. I don’t want to have to sit there an extra 30 minutes to chew my way through the crust to finally get to the little piece of chriveled up meat that was left in there after it curled up into a fetal position from swimming in the pool of oil, cooking so long. Well, NOT at DJay’s Kountry Kitchen.

I was pleasantly surprised that I finally ate a nice piece of steak that was pretty perfect in my eyes. First of all, they make their meals there FRESH, every day. It was a nice slab of meat, soft and tender you can even cut with a fork. The lightly dipped and fried outer coating was perfectly fried to where I did not have that hard, crunchy feel and taste. There was no separation between the steak and the outside crust. No air pockets.

I actually got a whole entire Chicken Fried Steak and didn’t have to leave any extra fried batter on my plate like I usually do. I love a good crust but I’m not going to trade a heart attack for it. Wasted ingredients and food is a shame.

Of course, a great steak has to have a great gravy sauce. I chose the white gravy. It was creamy yummy. Wasn’t too thick. Wasn’t too runny. Perfect consistency. The steak and gravy had a nice amount of seasoning. I don’t like eating gravy that has a mound of salt and pepper in it. To me, that says...”We didn’t do so well cooking it but if you slap a pound of this stuff on it, you won’t even taste how horrible it is.” I’m glad that wasn’t the case at D.Jay’s. The sides that accompanied by chicken fried steak were broccoli rice cheese caserole and mash potatoes. Love the caserole. Another perfect example of something not so dry.

Did I also mention they give you generous portions!? Wow. You can eat for two with one order. That’s awesome. They know how to make a tummy leave happy there, AND for all you sweet tea lovers....oh my goodness, their tea I love. Some may not like it because it’s too sweet but that’s when I say..."That’s why it’s called ‘SWEET’ tea." Why cheat poorly? If you are going to cheat, I say go all the way. The gravy you just ate already did it for you. You should already know that when you go to eat home-cooking, it’s not a time to say you’re on a diet. So why cut corners and deprive yourself of a full experience. I say “GET THE SWEET TEA AND HAVE ANOTHER CUP!!!”

Other popular recommendations are the smothered pork chops and their homemade cakes and pudding. Mmmm...mmmmmmm. It would take me another page or two to describe my thoughts on their dessert but get any of them and you will be fine.

Even though it’s a pay at the counter after you go through the line and custom order like Subway, I didn’t expect them to deliver full customer service but they did. Before I finished paying, they already had my drink ready, silverware and napkin handy standing there with it. I reached out to get them from the wait staff but they said, “It’s ok Ma’am. Let me get this for you. Where would you like to sit? We will take it to your table.” I smiled and pointed to my table of choice. I didn’t have to lift a finger to do much. The staff there is VERY sweet, nice and kind. One thing I noticed is that they all have manners, spoke with etiquette and delivered smiles. Good people I see. It’s hard to find good service these days. At D.Jay’s Kountry Kitchen, they care about you and your experience there. The place is also very clean.

Sooooo....from fabulous quality meals that you can eat for less to the attentive nice staff, I would definitely go back to eat there again.

- Linda Le