Joe's Gizzard City

This is a great local restaurant. If you haven't tried their gizzards you should give them a try...they're actually very tender and the crispy batter makes it a great appetizer or complete meal.

We were excited about coming here as we are fans of DDD and husband loves gizzards and hasn't had them for years.  WARNING, everything if fired and it is all covered in their beer batter that soaks up grease and get soft and mushy pretty fast.  We were disappointed.  The service was friendly and fast, servings are large, other than that not so great.

I'm gizzard-agnostic at best, so I enjoyed this place not for the mountain of gizzards but for devotion to an unusual premise and for its embodiment of rural Americana. The decorations help, including the old-timey advertising signs that extend to the bathroom, but more important was the sense that the workers seemed truly appreciative of the visitors (many drawn here by Guy Fieri, Yelp reviews indicate.)

Gizzard purists might try "naked nuked" or "naked fried," while the gizzard-phobic may be the happier with the classic battered version, and mixing/matching is allowed.