FUN ENVIRONMENT,GOOD FOOD

The Palms offers fun meals for families

MARYVILLE, Mo. —The Palms Bar & Grill has been open just over a year and it’s staying busy, seeing large lunch crowds and evenings filled with diners and drinkers.

Owners Dee Marriott, Samantha Vicker and Jaime Vicker make it a point to continually update the restaurant.“Last week we revised our menu for the first time,” Vicker said. “... A couple of our specials that were really popular, we went ahead and put on the menu, like the Reuben.”

The family of entrepreneurs knows food. They also own Jake’s Steakhouse and Boudreaux’s Louisiana Seafood & Steak in St. Joseph and yet another restaurant, not yet opened, but to be located in the building in which Ground Round used to reside on Sixth Street in downtown St. Joseph.

“I’ve had a lot of people ask me ever since we did Jake’s if we would do something in Maryville, so finally I gave in and did something in Maryville,” Marriott told The Forum in a 2022 interview.

Vicker told The Forum last week that everybody’s favorite, the Beach Balls, are still on the new menu. She is the one who brought that particular item to the menu at The Palms.

She said the fried spinach dip didn’t work out so well, but when these components came together, the madefrom-scratch delicacy was born.

“That’s a lot of people’s favorite,” she said. “... The Beach Balls are really the only thing that I have people say, ‘Oh my God, we have to have those.’”

She said the restaurant will still plan to have specials every day, and should people enjoy them some of those specials might even make a future menu.

Vicker said the business is doing well regarding staff and have quite a few who have been working there since the place opened. Though some servers graduated and left the area, she said the business hasn’t hurt for help recently.

“It’s way different than St. Joe with our other restaurants, but its been pretty consistent here,” she said.

The Palms hosts a happy hour with deals on drinks Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. Diners can get their favorite beverages at special prices throughout the week. On Friday and Saturday, another drink special runs from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Regular hours are 11 a.m .to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m on Friday and Saturday; and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday.

For more information, visit The Palms online at palmsmaryville.com or find it on Facebook. To place an order call 660-244-0876.