For years a staple in dining out has been our hometown Jonny Rebs'. When we need to put some South in our mouth it is like coming home.
A friendly staff, great southern cooking, smoke house smell, and a decor that makes you feel that you’re far away from the city and have been transported to a place Elvis once ate.
Established in 1984, Johnny Rebs’ is a home away from home for Southern Transplants. 
Once when telling a Southern Gentlemen of our lack of good southern cooking in California, he was quick to raise his finger, tilt his head and tell me “That is not true.” It seems he had the best catfish that he ever ate at a small Road House in Bellflower California, called Johnny Rebs’.
Johnny Rebs’ authentic Southern Menu includes Home Smoked Barbeque chicken, beef, pork, and sausage. They serve Hushpuppies, Collard Greens, Fried Okra, Black-eyed Peas, Fried Green Tomatoes, Peach Cobbler, and Pecan Pie, and even make their own homemade potatoes chips.
The best part of Johnny Rebs is all the food made fresh on the prem
ises and their meats fill the surrounding city with smoke from their own smokehouse.
To get the best idea of what Johnny Rebs’ is all about start with a Sampler Platter of Cajun sausage, hot linked sausage, onion rings, hushpuppies; served with barbecue sauce to dip in.
On this visit, to start, we had the Smoked Chicken Wings with sauce on the side. These wings are so good that once I had them catered into a lunch event for forty as part of the main course. So good are these wings that I look forward to ordering them every time I visit.
I’m also absolutely stuck on the Catfish Caesar Salad. I order this salad at least once per month and it is wonderful every time. Two catfish fillets served on romaine lettuce tossed with cornbread croutons and freshly grated Parmesan cheese. I have it served with the dressing on the side and it is served with hot hushpuppies. I’m addicted; for me it is hard to order anything else.
Also was ordered this visit was the smoked pulled pork sandwich. It comes on a bun, is smothered with barbeque sauce and came with barbeque beans, and a salad. Yet you can select any fixings to make your Southern dinner a success.
Fixings include barbeque pinto beans, fresh mashed potatoes, Southern slaw freshly cut, collard greens, hot black-eyed peas simmered in seasonings, Texas Caviar that is black-eyed peas in chilled vinaigrette, or a Bitty Salad.
For desert there is drop biscuit peach cobbler, key lime pie, fried apple pie, Mississippi mud pie, and Southern pecan pie. If you order desert have it alamod with their Vanilla Bean Ice Cream. These deserts are a throwback to simpler times and should never be lost in our societies.
This restaurant is one that will make you smile, tap the table to the popular songs from the south, and return for more.
In Addition, do not forget to add to your tab a bone for Fido. Johnny Rebs' packages beef bones especially wropped for the dog who had to stay behind.
Johnny Reb’s now has four locations in Bellflower, Long Beach, Victorville, and Orange. Everyone who visits is a guest and will fill your need to “Put Some South in Your Mouth.”
Rating
Food = 9
Service =10 **** Thanks Kyle – You’re a great server!
Featured in this write up is Johnny Rebs’ in Bellflower
1663
9 Bellflower Blvd, Bellflower. CA. 90706
562-866-6455
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