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The menu encompasses everything you could imagine, from hefty breakfast platters and patty melts to chicken-fried steak and pot roast.

At Reba’s Place, the chicken-fried steak is $27.

Diners lucky enough to snag a table dug into slabs of chicken-fried steak slathered in a pleasantly sweet gravy, and pinto beans served with a towering wedge of cornbread — Southern foods that reflect Ms. McEntire’s life and career.

For many truckers, the restaurant, which serves items like chicken-fried steak with eggs and bacon, is considered the best in all of California, Eater L.A. reports.

The kitchen relies on thigh meat run through a tenderizer to mimic the texture of chicken-fried steak; the tenderized thighs are marinated in buttermilk, pickle juice and hot sauce; dredged in flour; dipped in buttermilk again; and dredged a second time before frying.