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    McKinney's Pond

    3.9 (14 reviews)
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    5 months ago

    Great food and service every time my husband and I visit ! Steak and the salad are amazing. Prices are very reasonable also.

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    4 years ago

    Great meal tonight. Steak and shrimp. The coleslaw is out of this world! Great to visit

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    9 years ago

    Seems like they have a hard time finding and keeping a good chef. It has been just okay the past several times we went.

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    Had a first date there, the private room was great for private conversation, the food was excellent. We will definitely be returning

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    Country Boy's Cooking

    Country Boy's Cooking

    4.3(55 reviews)
    29.8 mi
    $$

    We heard from a friend that Country Boy's has amazing steaks so we decided to give it a try. I…read morecalled ahead to see if it was busy since it was Valentine's Day but ultimately we decided to chance it. The restaurant is a bit off the beaten path, but the drive is definitely worth it. There was a line when we first arrived but the friendly staff moved everyone through very quickly. Fortunately for us there was a valentine special so we were able to get two steaks and two sides each for a great price. There is a large variety of sides to choose from - mac and cheese ( we'll talk about this again later), broccoli casserole, green beans, potato salad, cole slaw, broccoli salad, layered salad, sweet potato casserole and more. I chose the Mac and cheese and broccoli casserole. Ok - so the Mac and cheese. Oh. My. Goodness!!! This was worth the trip to Country Boy's alone. Some of the best I have ever had. Really. You know the kind I'm talking about with a thick layer of cheese on top AND more cheese throughout. Then there is the steak. Let me just say it was cooked perfectly and literally tasted just like a steak my dad would have grilled in the backyard over a charcoal fire. AMAZING! We truly enjoyed our visit to Country Boy's. The food was wonderful and definitely worth the drive.

    If you love BBQ and haven't tried it, this is your place to come!…read more AWESOME CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!

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    Country Boy's Cooking - The inside has good setup for groups and families.

    The inside has good setup for groups and families.

    Country Boy's Cooking - Medium rare ribeye, sweet potatoes, and Mac cheese.

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    Medium rare ribeye, sweet potatoes, and Mac cheese.

    Simply Southern Restaurant - Buffet style southern cooking.

    Simply Southern Restaurant

    3.3(4 reviews)
    14.7 mi

    I found this place by accident. One of our coworkers just happened to say they had a great meal at…read morethis Southern place but he forgot the name. We were driving by and he pointed it out. I am sure glad he did. The is a full service restaurant with a nice lunch buffet. Fried chicken, sausage and onions, au grauten potatoes, rice and gravy, homemade pork rinds and collared greens. I had the buffet and I thought it was delicious and a great value. My lunch with a sweet tea was $8.50 out the door. I thought the fried chicken was moist and crunchy. They had a sauce with tomatoes, onions and beef that was perfect to put on top of the rice. The potatoes they had going was a cheesy potatoes with pork chop chunks in it. This was the best side dish they had. One of my buddies ordered the chicken salad and I thought this looked fresh and delicious as well. He liked it and said I should try it next time. I will come again and update my review.

    I've been twice. First time I got the grilled chicken salad, which consisted primarily of iceberg…read morelettuce and croutons. The grilled chicken was dry and bland. The second time I went, I got fried chicken from the buffet. Two breast pieces and one thigh. Both breast pieces were very dry and hard, as if they had been under heat lamps all day, but I had arrived shortly after noon. The thigh piece was good. Cooked just right, juicy, and flavorful. Therefore, I gave an extra star. If you order water to drink, be sure to ask for lemon, because the water tastes pretty bad. The two people that ate with me were as unimpressed as I was.

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    Simply Southern Restaurant - Plenty of comfortable and clean seating.

    Plenty of comfortable and clean seating.

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    Simply Southern Restaurant

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    Jacqueleen's Southern Porch - Salmon Stacker

    Jacqueleen's Southern Porch

    4.0(9 reviews)
    12.1 mi

    The food and service is the best I have experienced! It reminds me of my grandmothers food and…read morefamily time. My wife had pork chops I had the lobster Mac dinner ! if I said I liked one over the other (wife let me taste hers) i would be a liar! Both perfect and taste left me wanting more, if I were not so full! Portions are amazing! I highly recommend eating here and most of all enjoying the time. Do yourself favor and DO NOT BE IN A RUSH! Plan the experience!

    Small town Georgia was blessed to have Jacqueleen arrive with the most incredible southern food and…read morecharm. She has transformed a 1915 home into a quaint and intimate setting for food your family will love. It's eating at home without eating at home. Starting with fried green tomatoes are a must. We also had the okra. The dishes are what you would expect from meatloaf (what I had) and pot roast (my aunt had) to shrimp and grits or fried pork chops. Numerous desserts will close your evening and leave you smiling. We had cheese cake, peach cobbler, apple pie, and brownie al a mode! The service was sweet , we got to know the owners who even showed us a photo album of the progress of the remodel. It was their 2 year anniversary the night we went. Check hours- they may only be open on the weekends. I want to try the brunch!!

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    Jacqueleen's Southern Porch - Front menu

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    Jacqueleen's Southern Porch - Here is the receipt. She discounted one meal, which was incomplete, and took off an inedible one and the items we NEVER received.

    Here is the receipt. She discounted one meal, which was incomplete, and took off an inedible one and the items we NEVER received.

    Jacqueleen's Southern Porch - Amazingly perfect

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    Amazingly perfect

    Peggy's Restaurant - Small dinner plate

    Peggy's Restaurant

    4.6(98 reviews)
    30.5 mi
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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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    Peggy's Restaurant - Dining area and check-out counter

    Dining area and check-out counter

    Peggy's Restaurant - Turkey and dressing, cabbage, Mac & cheese and cornbread

    Turkey and dressing, cabbage, Mac & cheese and cornbread

    Peggy's Restaurant - Supper time ~5pm

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    Supper time ~5pm

    McKinney's Pond - southern - Updated September 2026

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