In a quaint, circa-1938 store building in the heart of Beechgrove, Tennessee, Gregory’s Beechgrove Country Store and Kitchen serves sausage and biscuits, chicken and dressing, burgers, fried fish, cakes and other traditional Southern treats.
The interior contains about a dozen tables, plus a bar with a few more seats, and sports a vintage vibe packed with old signs and antique pieces. Gregory’s opens early for breakfast—at 5 a.m. on weekdays—offering the standard bacon, eggs, pancakes, biscuits, sausage and such. Try a pork tenderloin biscuit; add egg and cheese to any biscuit with meat, if you like.
“Absolutely the best biscuits in Middle Tennessee,” Stephen Agostino said after trying Gregory’s. “Come hungry because these babies are twice the size of your fast food version!”
Then for lunch, beginning at 10:30, the restaurant serves burgers, salads, a hot chicken sandwich, crispy fried okra and more. Various daily specials include chicken and dressing, meatloaf, chili, chicken and dumplings, country fried steak, bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin and other rotating selections.
The everyday menu is not incredibly large, but combined with the daily special, most anyone should be able to find something to suit them nearly anytime.
Under the sandwich category, aside from the burgers and chicken sandwiches, find a BLT, hot chicken, club, bologna or barbecue sandwich.
“I had breakfast and lunch here several times this week. Everything was very good and I will be back,” another customer, Lance Hickerson, said.
Gregory’s also serves fried green tomatoes, chicken wings, onion rings, jalapeño corn nuggets and fried pickles.
For dessert, have a very moist and generously iced slice of strawberry cake, perhaps, or other rotating choices of cakes, pies and brownies.
The establishment closes at 2 p.m., but on the weekends Gregory’s Beechgrove Country Store and Kitchen hosts a fish fry every Friday night, and live music during the dinner hours on Saturdays—the only two nights the establishment opens—from 5–9 p.m.
Recent Saturday night musical performers include Zone Status, Sisters Wade Revival and Tyler Powell.
A few picnic tables sit outside under a covered area for outdoor dining during nice weather.
Over the years, the building on Highway 41, about 18 miles south of downtown Murfreesboro, formerly housed a feed shop, a hardware store and other businesses.
Caleb Gregory took over ownership of the restaurant in August 2022. Now, a large map of the area, produced by his mother, Marlena Gregory, decorates one of the walls of the business. This map gives the location of HooDoo and Fudge Around—two actual nearby communities, according to a Beechgrove Country Store employee—as well as Bradyville, Manchester, Milton and other towns in the area.
The store offers a variety of local products for sale: honey, floral bouquets, peanuts, products from Woods Viking Barbershop and other items, all produced in the area.
So the next time you want some country cooking in a cute, quaint setting, and want to head away from town or happen to be near the Beechgrove area, just off of I-24 at exit 97, pay Gregory’s Beechgrove Country Store and Kitchen a visit.
“It’s my favorite place to stop when I’m out this way! The Gregorys did an excellent job remodeling making it a warm and cozy little restaurant,” Jacob Shaw said. “I pray God blesses them, and their little Beechgrove Country Store. Their BBQ is excellent.”
Gregory’s Beechgrove Country Store and Kitchen
13995 Murfreesboro Hwy., Beechgrove
Monday–Friday: 5 a.m.–2 p.m.; Friday: 5–9 p.m.; Saturday: 7 a.m.–2 p.m., 5–9 p.m.
931-394-2328
Bacon cheeseburger: $7.50; Grilled chicken salad: $8; Fried okra: $3.75; Hot chicken sandwich: $8.50; Fried green tomatoes: $7; Fries or tots: $2.75
