Miss Toya's Southern Kitchen

I’m upset! My son’s chicken sandwich was drenched in honey.. he had to put gloves on just to eat it. I got the shrimp & grits, which was swimming in liquid, but let’s just rename this HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE!!! No flavor, just salt!!!!!! I also got the chicken pasta and I don’t what that is hitting on. Update coming soon. I spent $80… talk about upset!!!! Update: the pasta was also very salty… Went back to speak with manager about the quality of food and this woman wouldn’t even come out the back to speak with me. Wow.

I live in Florida and travel a lot for work. As such, I love to try new-to-me places for lunch. I placed my order online and drove to the restaurant. I was 10 minutes earlier than the time they gave me and my food was ready 1 minute after I walked in. Unfortunately, while I was waiting, I got an important phone call. Since I was waiting anyways, I decided to take the call. While I was trying to handle the call, my food came out. The woman at the front came over, brought me my food and asked me to sign the receipt. No worries there - all good! While still on the phone (the call took 1min 53sec, for reference), I looked into the bag and noticed there was no utensils or napkins. Since this is a casual restaurant, I went to their drink/straw stands to see if forks and napkins were available (because I'm going to be eating in my car). While I'm trying to look, the woman came over and started asking what I was doing. I told her I needed a fork and she said, "We're out, that's why I didn't put it in your bag." Ok... Cool.. I looked back in the bag and back at her, "No worries - can I just get lots of napkins please?" ... "I said we're out." You said you were out of forks - but ok. When I finally got to eat my lunch, I thought it was ok. I was born and raised in the South. I thought the egg rolls were a bit dry and I expected them to have crispy bits of fried chicken in them, but it was just white meat chicken (no skin, no breading) mixed with macaroni and cheese. My deviled eggs were far too "wet" and the yolk filling is literally dripping over the sides of the eggs. Least important, the food was expensive. I was fine with this because it's a Black and woman owned business - I'm happy to contribute to important businesses in the community *if* they're quality establishments. I give second chances for food quality but not service issues. I won't be back.

So yummy I had to write this review

Do not go if a large group! We had a group about 8 people. They split us up into two table so we couldn’t even conversate. My friend wait over an hour for his drink and three of us never got our drinks! They ran out cups & limes. The waitress gave us push back for saying something and they became very petty after we complained. The food doesn’t not live up the hype cause the service was trash.

The staff were friendly, deviled eggs were good, macaroni & cheese was salty, the chicken was okay, yams were very sweet and the shrimp & grits were bland I sent it back.

Always enjoy the food at Toya’s! We drive from Frederick to have the best southern kitchen in the area!!!! I love the steak and cheese egg rolls and our fav the banana pudding dessert.

The Mac n cheese, crab meat, and corn bread make you wanna get another round of it

Update: after coming here again and finding a bug in my drink and the waitress just scooping it out and giving me the same drink again even though they said they'd remake it. I've decided it's just too expensive for that kind of service and haven't been back. The food here is really good. I saw some mixed reviews and was wondering why, but I think it's because they are understaffed. Our waitress was the only server there, but she still was really positive and nice. I probably would have been cranky in her position. Hot honey chicken sandwich: It has a little zing to it and was really tasty. I enjoyed the crunch in every bite Mac & cheese: Very flavorful! It doesn't look like much in the pictures but I enjoyed every last bite. I also had a peach cocktail that came with a frozen fruit pop on top which was nice. They were out of desert, but I really want to come back and try the dessert since the rest of the meal was so good.