This is the line to get on the list - to then wait to eat at Miss Paula's restaurant.
Ummmm, I'm thinking for this much time it better be some damn good fried okra, and Jamie will need to be waiting on us in full UGA tailgate attire!
I'll get the full report on the meal and post back later.
UPDATE: (From Laura)
"OK, well...we went a couple of years ago, it was right before bobby and
Jamie had a show. We had been told by a very good source about "The line"
but told NOT to get in the line, just tell them that we wanted to sit in the
bar, they would let us in with no waiting...IT WORKED! We sat at the bar
and ordered "Oatmeal cookies" (the liquid kind) and ate about a dozen
hoecakes and we were happier than a pig in slop.
http://www.ladyandsons.com/#
This time...not so much...we tried the sit at the bar thing and they laughed
at us...well, they said "we're sorry that's not available" with a smile that
says to a yankee, "bless your heart smile" but a southerner knows it's a
"Are you out of your freak'in mind".
The food: Your server (S.C.A.D. Student) starts you out with a cheese
biscuit and a hoecake and explains to you that you have maple syrup on the
table to have with your hoecake. We went on a Sunday so I think there was
no other option other than their "Southern Buffet". The southern buffet is
pretty much all you can eat and it is the following; Fried Chicken, Turkey
and Ribs, along with butterbeans, black-eyed peas, green beans, mashed
potatoes, sweet potatoes, collard greens, macaroni and cheese, and creamed
(sweet) corn...no fried okra! Dessert was Banana Pudd'in, Peach Cobbler &
vanilla gooey butter cake. It is pretty much the standard of, in the south,
having Sunday Dinner after church at grandma's house, it's very good but not
much different than going to www.piccadilly.com/ or if you ever went to
Davis Brothers restaurant cafeteria in Athens where instead of asking you
"What'll Ya Have" they said "Hep ya?". My family and I went every Sunday
after church from around 1970 until 1978 +/-.
You HAVE to do it at least once and if you miss your grandmother's cooking
you need to do it but it's NOT a culinary experience unless you've never
experienced down home southern cooking."
