The Beaver House Restaurant is one of  Statesboro’s favorite restaurants.  When it opened 20 years ago there were few restaurants in this South Central Georgia city. The diner’s choice of where to eat were few and far between.  Now there are over 150 Restaurants in Statesboro and more coming all the time, but the Beaver House is still going strong.

The Beaver House offers a unique restaurant experience. The family style restaurant was modeled after the Mrs. Wilkes restaurant in Savannah and is actually one of the few remaining boarding house style restaurants in the state. The Beaver House is definitely more of a restaurant than a boarding house or a bed and breakfast. The restaurant serves two meals per day in downtown Statesboro. It is on the national register of historic places and a popular tourist attraction in this South Central Georgia city.

The Farm 255 menu, based on seasonal shifts in the field, changes as often as the weather.

Farm 255 is a restaurant that seeks to reconnect food to its roots and people to their food. It serves local, seasonal, and sustainable food for supper nightly. In addition to the Farm, the enterprise manages Full Moon Farms, a 7-acre organic/biodynamic farm in Athens. The Farm management says, “Unlike the owners of any other restaurant we know of, we are the folks sowing turnip seeds in the morning and cooking turnip greens in the evening.” (more…)

The Georgian Room’s indulgent fare is served on hand-painted china, silver flatware, and European linens

With breathtaking elegance and sophistication, the Mobil Five-Star Georgian Room at the Cloister on Sea Island provides a superb dining experience. Savor “Refined Southern” cuisine amid a stately fireplace with a carved stone mantel, gold and crystal chandeliers, and impeccable table-side service. The Georgian Room’s indulgent fare is served on hand-painted china, silver flatware, and European linens – and is complemented by a world-class wine list. Guests with adventurous palates can also sample an exciting Chef’s Tasting Menu.

Here’s what Mobile says about its 5-Star rating for restaurants: “A Mobile Five-Star restaurant is one of the few flawless dining experiences in the country. These restaurants consistently provide their guests with exceptional food, superlative service, eletang decor, and exquisite presentations of each detail surrounding the meal.”

The Georgia Room is one of two Mobile 5-Star restaurants, the other being the Dining Room at the Buckhead Ritz Carlton in Atlanta.

Hoofers Restaurant and Gospel Barn in LaGrange. Steaks, seafood, catfish, fried dill pickels and gospel music. Little Roy of the Lewis Family performs at Hoofers.

Rick and Bea Torrance’s Hoofers is a local LaGrange and Troop County landmark rich with agricultural history, now transformed into a restaurant and Gospel and Bluegrass Barn. The restaurant specializes in steak, seafood and catfish, fried dill pickles and deserts. Schedule your trip to see one of Hoofer’s live entertainment concerts at The Gospel Barn with some of the top acts in gospel and bluegrass music. (A concert schedule is available on Hoofers website.) (more…)

Urban Spoon ranks 25 Atlanta restaurant bloggers based on the number of total views their blogs have received and also includes the number of posts to their blog. Blissful Glutton by Emory University grad Jennifer Zyman is tops in both categories with 18,408 views and 185 posts to her blog. Number of views range from the Blissful Glutton high to 37 for the Traveling Gourmet Pig.

Brand-new blogger “Tongue Sausage,” who I mistakenly referred to last week as “Tough Sausage,” is ranked a surprising ninth on the list with 3,780 visits to his blog even though he’s published only seven posts. (more…)

Captain Jack Flanigan says pictures and virtual tours don’t do it. “You can’t appreciate our ambiance until you join us.”

The Crab Shack on Tybee. 20 years in business. Voted “Best Crab Cakes” by readers of Savannah Magazine and Best Seafood in Savannah (since 1998) by readers of Creative Loafing.

This Crab Shack introduction by owner and proprietor Captain Jack Flanigan, pretty well tells the story. (more…)

No one leaves hungry after feasting on a variety of Southern salads, meats, vegetables, breads and dessert at the  Blue Willow Inn located in a Greek Revival mansion in Social Circle.

The late Lewis Grizzard’s legendary Atlanta Journal-Constitution column, which was syndicated and published nationwide, proclaimed that at the Blue Willow Inn “Every dish was authentic and delicious” and gave the Blue Willow his “absolute highest mark, 5 bowls of turnip greens.” It put the Social Circle restaurant on the map, and it has been all downhill from there. (more…)

The new Atlanta food and restaurant blogger Tongue Sausage commented to say that he appreciated the plug on the BG website last week, but the name of the blog is “Tongue Sausage” and not “Tough Sausage,” and to clarify the bloggers gender – “I’m a dude.” Sorry, Tongue Sausage, on both accounts. Corrections have been made, and I’m following your blog with interest.

P.S. I’m thinking about an Atlanta food and restaurant blog named “Tough Sassage.”

Sixteen Buckhead Restaurants and hangouts have been pleasing patrons for over 25 years or more.

The 2009 edition of the Buckhead Guidebook lists 16 Atlanta restaurants and entertainment places, that have stood what the Guide calls the “test of time.” These are establishments that have been in continuous operation since 1982 or longer. Here they are in order of longevity.

• Henri’s Bakery 1933
• The Pool Hall 1946
• White House Restaurant 1949
• Five Paces Inn 1955
• Anthony’s 1967
• Pero’s Pizza & Pasta 1969
• Bucket Shop Café 1970
• McKinnon’s Louisiane 1972
• Churchill Arms Pub 1974
• Jalisco 1978
• La Grotta 1978
• Bone’s 1979
• Johnny’s Hideaway 1979
• Stooge’s 1980
• Dante’s Down The Hatch 1981
• 103 West 1982

Find Buckhead restaurants or search for over 700 other restaurants throughout Georgia in the Georgia Restaurants category. Search by travel region, city, county and type of food.

At least 20 bloggers are discussing Atlanta and Georgia restaurants. Find them all here on the 1st Person: Georgia Restaurants blog. That makes 21.

Just when I thought I had all of the Atlanta and Georgia food blogs, along comes my Urban Spoon newsletter with a half-dozen more I’d never heard about including:
Chow Down Atlanta
Adventurous Tastes
Eat Buford Highway – that’s right, Eat Buford Highway
Eat Drink Man
Food Near Snellville – that’s right, Food Near Snellville – and
Atlanta Foodies

That’s 20 Atlanta and Georgia (mostly Atlanta) restaurant and food blogs on the 1st Person: Georgia Restaurants blogroll, and I’m checking them all at least once a week.

Am I missing anything?