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I hate to hear this. I hope whoever buys it will continue serving hickory smoked steaks and pork chops. During the pandemic, we ordered food from Wynndale for pickup about once a week, generously tipped the wait staff, and ate it at home. I recommend their tenderloin shish kabobs and fried catfish plate. Best of luck and thank you to the family who built the restaurant from scratch in an area that is dominated by fast food chains. We will miss you.

Never heard of it. This place any good?

@12:36 PM FOMO demands you find out for yourself!

I don't know how long Wynndale has been in business, but on online picture of the menu says it has been voted one of Mississippi's top 10 restaurants since 2010! The restaurant is in Terry - pretty much in the middle of nowhere - in what appears to be an old gas station. The menu looks like a good, old-fashioned, no-frills steakhouse. Totally awesome that the owners have made a go of it serving quality food in that location for the last 14 1/2 years. I left the Jackson area about 7 years ago and had not heard of Wynndale. I only wish I lived closer now so that I could pay them a visit and do my part to help out.

Some of the best food you’ll ever have at any price. Always get the ribeye and a loaded baked potato. We have an appetizer every now and again. Whoever buys I hope they pave the parking lot because the rocks and my wheelchair don’t mix

And I believe it's a BYOB, except for beer. Worth the drive

I've only been once. The place was packed. The steak was like I had at deer camp 30 years ago. It was fantastic. It seems like this place would sell as a turnkey operation. Best of luck to the owners and the future owners.

If I'm spending close to $100 for dinner for two and a tip, I want higher class atmosphere, maybe table cloths, full sized cotton napkins, porcelain plates, elegant lighting. The wholesale price of beef is killing this place.

Bless his heart. Not easy work, time consuming too. Thank you so much for the dedication and I hope you have a wonderful retirement.

Some of my country friends invited me to go, and it is okay. I hate to see any place close, but 50+% of people can cook something better at home themselves.

Been there probably 20 times. Great meal every time

TOTALLY agree. It is what it is, and that makes it great. You snobs can phuck off.

If I was 40 and not 70 I would buy it. What a classic, salt of the earth restaurant. I love the place. PACKED on Fridays and Saturdays.....PACKED.

Yes we can, but sometimes it’s nice to get out of the house for a good meal while supporting a locally owned business.

I was going there back when it was still a convenience store with a few tables out in the middle between the product aisles and shelves, where you could eat your steak.

Is it as good as Gibbes?

Have lived in the Metro area for 33 years and never heard of it. Would have gone if I had ever seen it advertised or had talk of it. If it had been as 'good' as Gibbs (food, ambiance, entertainment, on-your-honor-beer, black labrador to greet us, cats begging for scraps, I would have heard of the place.

Walked into Gibbes and immediately walked back out. Talk about some uppity country club snobs…alcoholics. Is it a beer joint or a steakhouse in the middle of nowhere?

On another note: anyone know what happened to Terry Mercantile? Incredible food and balls to the walls for 6 months, then the food sucked and then the doors closed.

"Have lived in the Metro area for 33 years and never heard of it. Would have gone if I had ever seen it advertised or had talk of it. If it had been as 'good' as Gibbs (food, ambiance, entertainment, on-your-honor-beer, black labrador to greet us, cats begging for scraps, I would have heard of the place."

Well apparently you haven't. It is the same ambiance and good food as *Gibbes. They didn't really have to advertise. Wyndale is still the same without the party busses and long waits like the one in Learned since it became the cool thing to do.

Gibbes was for the salt of the earth folks of rural Hinds County, guess you think it got found out

Otis, you must be deaf then.

I've heard amazing things about this place, but I've never gotten around to getting out there.

@Jeff at 8:04 - I'm 70, attended Wynndale Presbyterian Church from about age 6, and remember well when it was a gas station with separate water fountains and bathrooms for Blacks and Whites, later it was a convenience store with hand dipped ice cream which we kids devoured after Vacation Bible School, then it became an "antiques and junktiques" store where I bought an antique kerosene lamp that I still have, then I recall cattle and livestock feed was sold there for awhile, and eventually it was converted to the present day restaurant.

I still attend Wynndale Presbyterian Church where everyone is welcome. But the restaurant is not open on Sundays. I think Wynndale is now part of Byram.

Overrated, much like Doe's. A lot of you people must not be able to cook a steak worth a shit at home.

Have had better steaks at good prices in NYC, at Benjamin's and Peter Luger, compared to the "upscale" steak places around here. Went to one, which always wants to be a snob, and the A5 was horrid. Retching. Went to another one, and they had lousy hours and service. Again, resting on their laurels. I see that they have a loyal base of drinkers and hicks who think they are the Upper East Side and Beverly Hillbillies rolled into one.
Greatly prefer down to Earth local places like this, whether it's WynnDale or E and L barbecue, or whatever is NOT another non-authentic "authentic" Italian place or "foodie" joint.
And kudos to KF for highlighting the salt of the earth local owners and cooks who bring such flavor to us. I despise the crabs who think that these faux upscale places are waiting for their patronage and approval.

I figured out a long time ago that First Class has no middle seat so you don't have to sit between Bubba Big Bux II, hick self appointed foodie, and the late Robert D. Raiford, his pretentious and tiresome child hating geezer buddy. A fate worse than death.

You think Mississippi restaurants have "ambiance?" La Mao restaurant awaits your arrival, son. Please. We are Southerners, not connoisseurs. And we have some great food, usually NOT where the patrons and table cloths are always white.

What separates Wynndale from Gibbs is you get a steak on a REAL plate with silverware at Wynndale and not a paper plate and plastic at that goofy Gibbs joint. Used to eat at Wynndale often but then it really became hit or miss from the kitchen. The huge downside is I'm pretty sure it's on the city of Jackson water system. Look for a new owner "Ted Henefin's End of the Line Steak House". I've resolved to the satisfaction of cooking my own steak.

I’m a member of the country club call me uppity if you want, but they have the best steaks and live music. Before you post a comment you should at least try it instead of walking in and walking out and never knowing what you missed.

That’s ok, no need to try again. I judge a book by the cover and usually I’m right.Everybody including the women standing around inside and outside holding a beer bottle waiting for an open slot at the table. Not my atmosphere I guess. Didn’t know it was a honky tonk too!

Gibbes is just OK. It's not the worst steak in central Mississippi, but it's far from the best. I've been there a few times, and I'm sure I will again. But it's honestly nothing to write home about, and the earlier commenter was spot on about the number of functioning (?) alcoholics I've seen there, which leads to an ambiance that is louder and more uncomfortable than I prefer.

Wynndale's steaks are better, and the patrons are a bit more in control of themselves. Given the choice, I'll take Wynndale any day.