est. 1945; grown from a single dining room to 6 dining rooms (taking 5 storefronts) plus a full bar; Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Leonard Nimoy, Dalai Lama, Richard Gere have visited; unique feature: Goodwill Ambassador, Jo Carter personally visits all guests giving her specialty back rubs...you can even get a T-shirt saying "I got my belly filled and my back rubbed all at Mary Mac's Tea Room"
Fried Green Tomato BLT thickly sliced locally grown green tomato dredged in seasoned flour & buttermilk & pan-fried in cast iron; served w/ arugula, bacon, remoulade sauce on bread "toasted" on same pan used to make bacon (w/ bacon fat)
since 1956; landmark serving Southern comfort food; "period" atmosphere has been featured in several movies, commercials, videos & print ads (including "Remember the Titans")
Turkey Ribs dry rubbed turkey shoulder is pecan wood-smoked, soaked in apple juice-based wet rub & house BBQ sauce, then finished on a gas-charcoal grill; "the best ribs I've ever eaten" -Tregaye Fraser
Southern Marinated Fried Chicken 24-hour marinated chicken in spices; served w/ 3 cheese macaroni, collard green roll, garnished w/ a sweet potato apple chutney; looks good
Southern Seafood Louie Salad lobster, shrimp, & crab, arugula bed, fresh corn relish, avocado hoe cake, mango vinaigrette; "there's not many salads I would order again, I would order that every time" –Guy Fieri; looks good
#39 (101 More Amazing Places to Chowdown); since 1928; serving 30,000 hot dogs every day; huge crowds-crazy atmosphere (fun); curb-side service; Bill Clinton, George Bush, Joe Montana has eaten here
Double Bypass Burger half-pound burger topped with two fried eggs, six slices of American cheese, and eight slices of bacon, all served between the two grilled cheese sandwiches as buns; uses grilled cheese sandwich as buns
[CLOSED]; #3 (Top 5 Restaurants-Best Fried Chicken); #99 (101 More Amazing Places to Chowdown); local, seasonal, soulful dishes inspired by Southern tradition & prepared with present day artistry; co-owned by Emily Saliers (of the Grammy winning Indigo Girls)
opened in 2011; in a 20th-century Victorian-style home that used to be a Methodist Protestant church and then a dance school; Other Recipes: Crispy Pickled Pig Ears
