Joyce & Family Restaurant

Downtown Fuquay-Varina’s Joyce & Family Restaurant welcomes regulars with homestyle hospitality and scratch-made comfort food. Miss Joyce and her team cook daily, keeping creamy mashed potatoes, candied yams, baked mac and cheese, and other soulful sides ready for hungry guests.

Guests move through the cafeteria-style buffet to build plates of crispy fried or baked chicken, pork ribs, beef tips, black-eyed peas, cabbage, rice, and mashed potatoes before finishing with house desserts such as key lime pie or spice cake. Plates are weighed at the register, so diners can sample broadly or pack a generous takeout spread, with house lemonade adding a refreshing touch.

Joyce & Family serves lunch and dinner Tuesday through Sunday, offers takeout and catering, provides free parking, and accepts major credit cards. The restaurant currently holds an A sanitation rating, underscoring how this longstanding Fuquay-Varina buffet pairs comfort food with consistent care.