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    Angie's Place

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Hours: Breakfast.
    Big biscuits with lots of classic fillings and breakfast plates in an old-school atmosphere with reasonable prices.

    Biscuit Basket

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Counter Service. Hours: Breakfast, Closed Sundays, Lunch.
    Southern lunch counter inside a neighborhood convenience store is well known for its biscuits with sausage, ham, eggs, tenderloin, cheese, gravy and more. Grits, eggs or hashbrowns on the side. Lunch items rotate and include corn dogs, chicken fingers, pork chops and fish on Fridays.

    Butt Hutt BBQ

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering, Delivery, Full Bar, Live Music, Outside Seating, Trivia. Hours: Dinner, Lunch, Seven Days.
    The rare barbecue place that has both good smoked meats (especially pork and ribs) and a full bar. Sides like chicken mull, corn nuggets, fried okra, meat skins and a meaty potato salad are legit. Desserts are well thought of. Kids menu.

    Cabin Creek BBQ

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering. Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    Worth the drive a bit outside of Athens to Nicholson for some of the best barbecue around, Friday through Sunday. Also: chicken mull, Sunday buffet with Southern standards and cobbler for dessert. Holiday specials.

    Dawg Gone Good BBQ

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering, Counter Service, Delivery, Outside Seating. Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    Cheerful, Black-owned barbecue joint that does ribs, chicken, pork and sausage, plus Southern-style veggies (available in small, medium and large) and fruit cobblers. Picnic tables out front plus seating inside.

    Food for the Soul

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Buffet, Catering, Counter Service, Vegetarian Friendly. Hours: Lunch.
    Real-deal Southern food, available in meat-and-sides combos or as all-you-can-eat. Menu changes daily but could include pork chops, fried chicken livers, catfish, greens, yams, black-eyed peas, mac and cheese and more.

    Fresh Air Bar-B-Que

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Buffet, Catering, Counter Service. Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    Classics like chopped pork, Brunswick stew, baked beans and coleslaw, plus chicken tenders and banana pudding, kids menu, tailgating specials, meats and sides in bulk.

    G Brand BBQ

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering, Drive Thru. Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    This barbecue place in Crawford, which operates a drive-thru as well as a dining room, prides itself on brisket but also offers pork, chicken and ribs. Five different sauces, great green beans among the sides and a kids menu that offers grilled cheese or a hot dog.

    J & L's Buffet

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Buffet, Catering. Hours: Lunch.
    Old-school Southern restaurant opened in the 1970s (and formerly known as Plantation Buffet) serves an all-you-can-eat weekday buffet. Expect fried chicken, steak and gravy, barbecue, meatloaf, turnip greens, black-eyed peas, fried okra and Southern desserts.

    Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Beer/Wine, Catering, Counter Service, Drive Thru, Outside Seating. Hours: Dinner, Lunch, Seven Days.
    Old-school Southern restaurant opened in the 1970s (and formerly known as Plantation Buffet) serves an all-you-can-eat weekday buffet. Expect fried chicken, steak and gravy, barbecue, meatloaf, turnip greens, black-eyed peas, fried okra and Southern desserts.

    Mama's Boy

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering, Counter Service, Outside Seating, Vegetarian Friendly. Hours: Breakfast, Lunch, Seven Days, Weekend Brunch.
    Southern breakfast and lunch all day: biscuits with lots of toppings, hash, egg plates, tacos, pimento cheese burger, chicken salad, strawberry lemonade. Lots of great sides. Very accommodating to those with special dietary needs. The Electric Avenue location in Wire Park is smaller, with a limited menu.

    Peach Pit Cafe

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering. Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    Winterville barbecue restaurant has pulled pork, barbecue chicken, ribs and brisket, slaw, stew, chips and bread, plus frequently varying desserts: cakes (red velvet, Key lime, Devil's food, German chocolate), cobblers, banana pudding.

    The Picnic Basket Meal Market

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Drive Thru, Vegetarian Friendly. Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    Don't feel like cooking? Check out this local company that makes home-cooked meals. Order ahead on the website or stop by to see what's on offer. Options change daily, but could include tomato pie, lasagna, salads, cheesecake, enchiladas, pork chops and anything else the owners feel like making.

    The Place

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Full Bar, Outside Seating, Vegetarian Friendly. Hours: Dinner, Lunch, Seven Days, Sunday Brunch.
    More refined takes on Southern standards, like shrimp and grits with gouda. Big salads, chicken and waffles (not just at brunch), shrimp burger, collard spring rolls. Cocktails that play on things like peanuts and Coke.

    Preacher Green's

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Beer/Wine, Counter Service, Outside Seating, Vegetarian Friendly. Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    Chef-driven meat-and-three is fresher and lighter than the trad Southern plate of brown. Lunch features sandwiches, including an excellent smash burger, and some beautiful salads. Dinner lets you make your own plate of protein and veggies or veggies alone. Kids menu.

    Rachel's Southern Style Restaurant

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering. Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    Traditional Southern cuisine with a rotating menu every weekday. Choose among pork chops, chicken, fish and more, grilled or fried, plus fried chicken livers and a host of vegetable sides (rutabagas, cabbage, carrot-and-raisin salad, turnip greens, hash-brown casserole). Homemade desserts.

    Scott's BBQ

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    No website, no credit cards, just a family-owned place you might have seen on "True South" on the SEC Network. Barbecue pork, chicken, beef and ribs with beans, hash, slaw, potato salad, collard greens and seasonal vegetables. Sauce is hot and thin.

    Shane's Rib Shack

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering, Delivery, Outside Seating. Hours: Dinner, Lunch, Seven Days.
    No website, no credit cards, just a family-owned place you might have seen on "True South" on the SEC Network. Barbecue pork, chicken, beef and ribs with beans, hash, slaw, potato salad, collard greens and seasonal vegetables. Sauce is hot and thin.

    Strickland's Restaurant

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering, Counter Service, Vegetarian Friendly. Hours: Breakfast, Closed Sundays, Lunch.
    Open since 1960, this unassuming place out on Atlanta Highway serves some of the best Southern food in town. Menu changes daily but always includes fantastic biscuits. You might also get fried chicken, ribs, catfish, pork chops, mashed potatoes and gravy, creamed corn and greens. Good desserts.

    Stripling's General Store

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering, Counter Service, Outside Seating. Hours: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Seven Days.
    The grocery out of Cordele well-known for housemade sausage also does a hot bar for Southern breakfast and a meat-and-three-type lunch, priced by the pound. Pick up some snacks and drinks to round out your options.

    Suncatcher Café

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Counter Service. Hours: Breakfast, Lunch.
    As you'd expect from a breakfast place connected to a gas station, speedy service and big biscuits are characteristic, but there are bigger breakfast plates, too, plus meat-and-three Sunday lunch. Kids meals.

    Tamez Barbecue

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ, Mexican and Latin American. Features: Catering, Counter Service, Delivery, Drive Thru, Outside Seating. Hours: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch, Seven Days.
    Texas-style barbecue with a chef pedigree. Breakfast burritos in the a.m. on unbelievable housemade tortillas, pork and other meats in the p.m. (they're known for brisket), plus cornbread, beans, collards. Meats smoked daily. Watkinsville location has bingo night and soccer on TV as well as indoor dining with a/c.

    Weaver D's Delicious Fine Foods

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering, Counter Service, Outside Seating. Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    A legend, in Athens and far outside it, and thankfully still open. Look for the bright-green cinderblock building and the sign that reads “Automatic for the People.” Fantastic fried chicken, squash casserole, mac and cheese, collards and the like, varying a bit daily.

    White Tiger

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ, Something Different. Features: Catering, Counter Service, Delivery, Full Bar, Live Music, Outside Seating, Vegetarian Friendly. Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    Original location is in an old-timey grocery with high ceilings and a ton of outside seating under fairy lights. BYOB. Candy-colored "Deluxe" edition is in Watkinsville with cocktails, beer, wine and dance party bathrooms. Serves weekend brunch. Both serve amazing cheeseburgers, pork and tofu barbecue and veggie sides.

    Zeb's Bar-B-Q

    File Under: Downhome and BBQ. Features: Catering, Counter Service, Drive Thru. Hours: Dinner, Lunch.
    Country barbecue joint of long standing keeps long hours, has great atmosphere and is well known for its peppery, vinegary sauce. Burgers, chicken sandwiches, fries, tots and slaw, too, but the barbecue sandwich is the real attraction. Slices of soda cake shrink-wrapped to plates.

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