Dillard House, Mountain restaurant in Dillard, Georgia, United States.
Dillard House is a family-style restaurant in Dillard, a small town in the mountains of northern Georgia. Dishes are brought to the table all at once and refilled throughout the meal without needing to order separately.
Carrie and Arthur Dillard opened the house in 1917 as a small lodging when they welcomed their first guest, Reverend Henry Byrd. Over the following decades, the family home gradually became a restaurant that still operates today.
The kitchen draws on mountain recipes from the southern Appalachians, serving dishes like country ham, cornbread, and apple butter. These recipes follow the same methods used when the house first opened as a family lodging.
It helps to set aside plenty of time for the meal, since dishes arrive in waves and are refilled throughout. The restaurant draws visitors from across the region, so arriving early tends to make things easier.
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Walt Disney, and President Jimmy Carter all ate here, each coming through when the place was still finding its footing as a public restaurant. The fact that figures from such different worlds chose the same table says something about the reach of Southern hospitality.
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