Mrs Whites Golden Rule Cafe is located in downtown Phoenix near to Chase Field in Arizona.This soul food restaurant is an institution to Phoenix and has been in business since 1964. They offer very good not fancy but a limited menu of HOMESTYLE southern style comfort foods like……. fried chicken, smothered pork chops, fried catfish, oxtails, chicken fried steak, macaroni and cheese, cabbage and rice, black eyed peas, sweet potatoes, soft beverages, and sometimes desserts. You also do need to keep in mind that you need to follow the golden rule here. You will not receive your bill and must go to the window to pay when you are done.
Celebrities have dined at Mrs Whites such as James Brown, Jesse Jackson, The Queen of Soul Herself Aretha Franklin, and according to AZCentral American Politician John McCane was a regular.
This isn’t a fancy place.
It’s a bit old and worn. It looks like a little old diner inside.
Inside is a shrine to Mrs White.
I had the humble golden brown Southern Fried Chicken with sweet potatoes and macaroni salad.
The chicken was perfectly crisp and perfectly seasoned and moist inside. Nothing fancy or different…..Just perfect delicious fried chicken with some crispy fried skin. The sweet potatoes were very creamy and sat in this slightly sweet buttery liquid…….The corn bread is slightly dry like cornbread is suppose to be…(it’s the Yankee style that is moist and sweet)… I liked dipping the corn bread into the sweet buttery sweet potato liquid. It’s a large portion so for some this might be more than one meal.
My husband tried the chicken fried steak with macaroni and cheese and also the black eyed peas.
He said that the chicken fried steak really was the best one that he remembers eating. He also like dunking his cornbread into my sweet potato liquid. He liked the macaroni and cheese and the black eyed peas.
I didn’t stuff myself silly….although I could have and saved room for dessert but none were available tonight.
That was my trip to Mrs White’s Golden Rule Cafe in Phoenix Arizona
Worth a Fork!
Mrs White’s Golden Rule Cafe
808 E Jefferson St PHX AZ
602-262-9256
I haven’t found a working website for Mrs White’s but they are on Facebook
Everything is subject to change
