Jerry's Drive-In

2815 E. Cervantes, Pensacola, FL - (850) 433-9910

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Posted By Michael Stern on January 23, 2009 9:06 AM

Although many visitors to the "Redneck Riviera" know Jerry's as the hamburger place, regulars come for three square meals a day. The breakfast menu features all the usual configurations of eggs and luncheon meat (with grits and/or hash browns), plus an extraordinarily luxurious chicken liver omelet. At lunch, you can have a lovely meat loaf sandwich, local grouper or fried mullet, and first-rate milk shakes.

But about those hamburgers: they are just right: juicy, modest-sized patties of beef beautifully dressed with lettuce, tomato, chopped onions, mustard and mayo, served with sweet cole slaw and crisp French fries. Not gourmet burgers, not unusual burgers: just good, satisfying hamburgers. It has been claimed that Jerry's invented the bacon cheeseburger. If so, my compliments to whatever chef came up with that fine idea; but even a burger without bacon or cheese here is one to remember.

Jerry's originally opened for business in 1939; and frankly, it doesn't look like it's changed much in the last seventy years. It is a Formica-counter café with a few tables and booths and help-yourself rolls of paper towels for customers to use as needed. The walls are decorated with college pennants and graffiti going back decades. Despite the name, there is no in-car dining here; accommodations all are indoors.

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Hamburger

Smoked Mullet

Fried Oysters

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