Mallery Street Cafe — Restaurant in Georgia

It's awesome!

It's clean. Though, the menus could be fixed & maintained better. It's my recommendation that you could laminate menus & place on walls of each table (perhaps surrounded by cute frames). This way, menus are handled less (& also creates less of a catalyst for destruction) & dirty hands aren't contaminating them therefore it would help reduce plastic waste & tree health which allows humans to breathe better oxygen & furthers our initiative to cleaner atmosphere & Earth.

Service is great.

Food is even better.

If you are familiar with my other reviews (see 'my contributions') you'll know I never give 5stars unless it's absolutely perfect. Perfection is hard to attain so I rarely rate that many. I also have high standards. It's my opinion the world won't change 1 iota without extreme considerations. I think reviewers rate way too easily without much thought.

The only other thing I would concern myself with, to grab that elusive 5th star, is make things less cluttered. There's an empty golf bag, coats hanging about, purses laying around, etc. These objects are employees personal items. It makes it seem clumsy & uncared for or neglectful. In which case it may, subconsciously, equate to (or make someone consider) the food or service could be (or become) neglectful. I'm observant & I consider all angles so I know that's not the case but it certainly couldn't help to clean some things up around there, either.

My thoughts while eating there today were that they should expand their business. I think they would want to stay local: service can remain the same & management can control the little details better. On the other hand, I know this great little restaurant that began the same way.

Bob Evans has expanded exponentially. They're choices were first breakfast meals. Their service standards were excellent so they could compensate for expansions. Granted, not every Bob Evans is grand but, Mallory's is the type of standard that makes for a serious consideration for growth. As long as you keep the service on fresh food, customers & community you'll go far.

The other reason for 4stars is their involvement in community. An island vibe (& island mentality) is fantastic so if you convey this throughout your relations then you could become unmatched.

Keep it up!

We made our mark on their table today because the food is so fresh! We also were able to easily watch the Veterans day parade! You can tell community is important to them. I appreciate this.

Update! We came back the next wknd. Was busy, no tables inside. We're die hard fans enough to sit outside in the cold (48°F!). Here's another 2 pics for evidence...

I visited the Mallery Street Cafe on the second day of my vacation to St. Simons Island based on a good review score here on Google. It's really close to all of the village shops, conveniently located, and we had no trouble finding parking. This is going to sound like hyperbole, but I had the single greatest salad I've ever had in my life. The "Black and Blue Salad", which is a NY Strip steak (I ordered mine medium rare and blackened), bleu cheese, and fried green beans over a mixed greens salad with cucumber and tomato. The steak was cooked and seasoned PERFECTLY. There was just the right amount of bleu cheese, and the citrus vinaigrette was an amazing accompaniment. I'm serious in saying this would be my death row meal. Every bite of steak accompanied by one of the fried green beans was a perfect bite. The batter that they coat and fry the beans in is DELICIOUS. If you don't order this incredible salad, at the very least get a side of the beans. My family got breakfast foods and all said they loved them, too. The pancakes were big and fluffy. All of the portions were big and everything is reasonably priced. I thought about the black and bleu salad all week and had to go back again for my last day of vacation. It was my favorite meal on the island, and I was able to have it twice, and can happily report my second experience was consistent with my first. It still stands as the best salad I've ever had in my life, and it was my favorite meal...

Came about an hour before closing, waited for a table outside on the patio as we did have a dog, finally was called to seat and as soon as we were seating another woman who in all fairness was there prior to our coming came up and asked for her table, the waitress then told us oh sorry didn't see you had a dog sat the woman at the table that we were going to sit at and were about to be sitting at. Fine whatever, was then seated at a table closer to the door, they took our order it was then we waited for our food, and waited, and waited. We watched the lady who was at the table who had been seated right before us get their food, then a couple who had been seated about 20 minutes before closing and after us get their food, about 10 minutes to closing at this point we asked about our food got and oh sorry, and our food was brought right out to us at that point not only was it able to be told that it had been sitting under a heat lamp as soon as we got it due to it being Luke warm we got handed our receipt! My Monte cristo chicken was mainly tendon so I could not eat most of the chicken and the bread would have been fine if it hadn't been getting extra toasted by the heat lamp. Not worth the 13 we paid for it, my husband's angel hair pasta was over cooked and his chicken was cold. Again not worth the price. Make your own opinions this is only our...