Yes, the Jumbo and Delicious restaurant at 110 Imperial Blvd. in Hendersonville is home to the Big Stuffed Burger and offers a menu full of dishes that cost $12 or less. Right up my alley!
While I was waiting to interview the owners, a customer flagged down her waiter and said, “This is the best cheeseburger in town.”
I wanted to know more about this cheeseburger and introduced myself to customer Carol Nero, who was eating a Baby Jumbo with no condiments (“I just wanted cheese and meat”). She said she and her husband come to Jumbo and Delicious several times a month.
“If you want to come in and have a few minutes of peace, the music is great and the food is delicious,” she said.
The restaurant, just off Gallatin Pike, was founded by an Egyptian couple, the late Ayman Albert and his wife Viola, who moved to the United States in 2000.
Ayman Albert, who loved to cook and opened his restaurant in Millersville with a grill in a gas station, invented the “Stuffed Burger,” an extra-large hamburger with cheese filling and cheese on top.
“He loved to cook and knew that people liked cheese, and he wanted to offer something different,” Viola said. The stuffed burger “is very popular,” she said.
Alberts began with a tiny 10-seat location on Walton Ferry Road in 2013 and moved to its current 104-seat location in 2019.
After Ayman’s death in 2020, his widow and her son Kevin now run the business.
The three main menu items are the burgers (stuffed and unstuffed), the giant sandwiches and the wings, all of which are enthusiastically received by customers.
“This is our favorite restaurant,” said Kenny Bostwick, a regular with his wife, Beth. “There are a lot of burger joints, but this is our favorite.”
If you want to know about the prices, the half-pound Stuffed Jumbo (which is big enough to split between two people) costs $9.99.
The Baby Jumbo, a burger that weighs about a third of a pound (and which I ordered), is also large and costs $6.99.
Another popular dish is the Reuben sandwich for $11.15. A half dozen chicken wings cost $7.99.
There are also jumbo deli sandwiches in 6-inch and 12-inch portions. There is also a lamb burger on the menu.
The most expensive item on the menu is the 12-inch Special Jumbo with shrimp, chicken, ribeye and a choice of toppings for $17.79.
Sides include French fries, sweet potato fries and onion rings for $2.55 to $3.50.
The restaurant is open seven days a week, there is ample parking and the Christian music played is, as the customer said, very peaceful.
Oh, and no joke – the burgers are “huge and delicious.” A sign in the restaurant reads: “Warning: Contents may be addictive.”
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Jumbo and Delicious is located at 110 Imperial Blvd. in Hendersonville and is open seven days a week.
Details: (615) 447-5061 or see www.facebook.com/JumboDelicious/
Mary Hance, who has four decades of journalism experience in the Nashville area, writes a weekly column for Ms. Cheap and appears Thursdays on Talk of the Town on NewsChannel5. You can reach her at [email protected] and follow her on Facebook at Facebook.com/mscheap.
