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    Big Chick

    4.1 (14 reviews)
    Closed 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
    Updated 3 months ago

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    Just a step up from a little stand on the side of the road
    Kristin B.

    Every year, the Demosthenian Literary Society at the University of Georgia makes a pilgrimage to the home of one of its most prominent alumni, General, Congressman, and Senator Robert Toombs. Toombs' antebellum mansion is just a few houses down from this Washington institution, and thus the Big Chick has also become part of this UGA tradition. With such delights on the menu as a side of "O A" and "Pot & Mac Saad" and chicken "brest," you know the Big Chick is one of those special institutions that can only exist in a small town. You're guaranteed a win with pretty much anything that can be cooked in a deep fryer. The fried chicken on the bone is delicious and definitely among the best fast food chicken. The fries are better than average, and tossed in seasoning salt for a little extra flavor. The cornballs were awesome -basically little breaded scoops of creamed corn (think hushpuppies on corn steroids). Though we scoffed at the few in our group that ordered hamburgers, when they unwrapped their burgers at the nearby park benches we were silenced. These burgers were massive and obviously homemade, no premade patties here. Minus a couple of stars for being out of white meat, gizzards, livers, and okra as well as the slightly curt service. But I guess not many people go to a glorified roadside stand like the Big Chick for five star service... But still, it's worth a visit, as is the beautiful Robert Toombs House just up the road, open for tours Wednesday-Sunday.

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    4 years ago

    Absolutely delicious can't believe I was lucky to experience this place it is definitely a hidden gem

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    6 years ago

    Stopped here while passing through. Great food at a really good price. The 3 ladies who waited on us were very friendly.

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    10 years ago

    Good food there chicken is really good and there fried okra is amazing good place to stop and get a bucket of chicken

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    Grits & Gravy

    Grits & Gravy

    4.6
    (5 reviews)
    34.6 mi

    I saw this place as we were in our way to our worksite. The name caught my eye and it was all I…read morecould think about. We went here for lunch. It's a small place sort of looked like it could have been a fast food restaurant. There was plenty of seating. You could order from the menu or from the hot table (not sure what else to call it). There were two ladies working up front and it took a long time to order. I had the fried chicken with mashed potatoes, green beans, a cornbread muffin and a tea (half sweet/half unsweetened). My colleague had meatloaf, Mac and cheese, green beans, and a biscuit. We each ordered peach cobbler. They serve a lot of food! My colleague said she was going to take some for dinner. Well. . . she ate everything. It must have been really good. I haven't had good fried chicken in a long time and it was delicious. I ate all the green beans and the cornbread. I took the chicken to eat later. The mashed potatoes started out tasting good but then I started to notice an after taste that I didn't like. I didn't eat them. My colleague could not eat the cobbler. I'm not sure what was wrong with it but she tasted it and said she couldn't eat it. I unfortunately never got to eat mine. It sat in the fridge in the hotel and I ended up tossing it before I left. I was a little disappointed. I really was expecting some grits and maybe some greens (not green beans).

    My bestie and I stopped here on our way to a service, and we are SO glad that we did. I got grits,…read morecheese eggs and a fried pork chop, bestie got grits, eggs and sausage patties. We didn't need to add anything to our food and it was perfect. Those were some of the best grits I've ever had in my LIFE. I will make a special trip out of the way for good food, and this is a spot that I'd come to every week if I lived closer. The cooks' hands are blessed, because the way I INHALED that food should be a crime in itself. The decor was cute and festive for the occasion, but all I could concentrate on was that FOOD.

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    Peggy's Restaurant

    Peggy's Restaurant

    4.6
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    There were 18 of us coming from a trip to Pennsylvania. Bus driver brought us to Peggy's…read morerestaurant. The entire staff was most welcoming, the generous portions of real southern cooking was absolutely delicious, the service was spot on, the price was extremely reasonable. Every one of the 18 of us enjoyed our lunch. What an amazing little gem in Wrens, Ga. When our paths cross again we will certainly stop here.

    Best kept secret down this stretch of the South might just be Peggy's fried chicken…read more Now, a great many places have the confidence to fry a bird. That is not the same as knowing what they're doing. Plenty can make chicken hot. Fewer can make it memorable. Peggy's managed the rarer thing. This was the kind of fried chicken that makes a man quiet for a minute and reconsider whether he has properly valued his past blessings. They had other meats on the menu, and I do not doubt they were prepared by decent people with honest intentions, but ordering anything besides the fried chicken would have felt like showing up at a revival and asking for directions to a yoga class. And the sides, Lord help me, the sides were no afterthought. If I had not attended the funerals myself, I might have suspected my great grandma, grandma, and momma were back there in the kitchen, keeping an eye on the pots. Forgive me, Mammaw G, Mammaw, and Mom, but Peggy's had the better day with that chicken. I say that with love, respect, and a willingness to dodge a lightning bolt if one has been set aside for me. Fried okra, green beans, sweet potatoes, and mac and cheese, which any Southerner with good sense knows is a vegetable when it needs to be, spread across our plates like a family reunion of the righteous. The only medical advisory I'd offer is this: if your doctor has warned you against coating your insides with salt, you may want to admire from a respectful distance. And the sweet tea was right. Not tea-flavored water with ambition. Sweet tea. Properly made. The sort that lets you know nobody in the building is interested in modern nonsense. Next time I'm rolling down I-20, I may well make the turn toward Wrens again just to see whether Peggy's can do it twice. But judging by the regulars, the handshakes, the easy way the staff knew folks by name, and the fact they made us feel halfway local ourselves, I'd say this was no one-off. This felt less like a lucky meal and more like the kind of place that still believes doing something well is reason enough to keep doing it.

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    Turkey and dressing, cabbage, Mac & cheese and cornbread
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