White Columns Restaurant — Restaurant in Ellijay

We arrived around 3pm, they close at 4pm. We were able to seat ourselves as business that time of day is always alot slower. There was one server on and she came right over and got our drink order. There were 4 of us and we made up our minds what to order pretty fast. The young lady put in our order and continued waiting on a few other tables. Our food arrived about 10 minutes later. Our food was cooked hot, fresh and each order was correct. We asked for a few condiments and she was back in a flash. She was Very personable and friendly with a sweet smile. We had 2 orders of Country fried steak with white pepper gravy. 1 had mac and cheese, the other mashed potatoes and white gravy and turnip greens. 1 order of a bacon cheese omelet and 1 flounder dinner with mashed potatoes and green beans. Everything was spot on, hot and delicious. They only complaint was packaged tartar sauce was too sweet and bland. Other than that we all enjoyed a wonderful late lunch for under $40! Plenty of food, like most authentic southern little restaurants. We tipped our server well and complimented the food. If we're ever back in Ellijay, we will be...

Fantastic late lunch. Even though we were about an hour from closing, we were welcomed. We chose meat and 3 - with a dessert for one of the three! We both had fried chicken. It was a little tough, due to being cooked a while - but it was juicy and flavorful. Green beans were the best I have ever had in a restaurant. Seasoned, but not loaded in onions. Other vegetables we had was corn, baked beans, Mac & Cheese - all were good. Dessert!! I had banana pudding and it was fantastic - just the right mix of bananas, vanilla wafers and pudding. Hubby had German chocolate cake. He said it was very good with the cake being nice and moist.

We will definitely eat here the next time we are...

Restaurants (And any place of business) should treat their customers with respect. If not for them, how would a business survive? This wasn't the case with my mother in law today. She was treated absolutely inhumane. Would YOU want to eat anything that had a mysterious black foreign object in it? I certainly wouldn't. When she pointed out the problem, the owner of this establishment was completely rude and nasty, and tried to make my mother in law feel as if everything was her fault. You don't treat people that way. Especially a paying customer. None of us will ever darken the door of this clip...