Let's start by saying this was delivery. Would have gone back if in restaurant. Well ...lots of…read moregreens anything that was high cost, protein, nuts, beans etc..in short supply. Ordered Sweet brussel bowl, adds corn, spicy broccoli and hummus. Almost no chicken no hummus. Also ordered Nashville hot Chicken bowl add chickpeas, broccoli, hummus sub blue cheese dressing. Same chicken as brussel bowl...same small quantity. Hummas this time. No blue cheese dressing. $2 add for humans..... Delivery pushed back almost 15 min. Hope this was an oversight not just because it was delivered.

Food. Fresh! The server, a nice young lad, diced up egg in front of me and used a fresh avocado…read more(scooped out of the vegetable itself) to prepare the "Cobb Boom" that I ordered. The chicken and bacon looked great. Overall, my salad was delicious and tasty!! :) I also liked that the sodas they serve from beverage dispenser include mexicaine cola that has less and more organic sugar than our American counterparts. Ambiance was good for a strip mall sort of place. The servers were nice and knowledgeable! :)

Lunch was delicious! Got the Avo Press and enjoyed a lovely location while in vacation with my…read moresisters.

This is a tiny restaurant, so not good for large parties. My husband and I went for date night and…read moreit dis not disappoint. We ended up coming back a second time with our kids within a couple weeks. I had the brisket Philly cheese steak. The meat was so tender and had a lot of cheese. The sweet potato fries were delicious too. My husband had the chuck which is a double cheeseburger with onion rings. The onion rings are beer battered and crispy. You order at the counter and they bring your food to the table when it is ready. Soda and iced tea are self serve at a drink station. The ambiance is very cozy. Prices are about average. We spent about $30 for the 2 of us.

Nice angled parking spaces in front. Approach coming around from Jefferson Street to Washington…read moreStreet. Live music Monday makes conversation impossible, but other nights should provide quieter ambience. Excellent Italian food. Menu varies, but it's all good. Waitstaff is very good.

Dinner again for my wife's belated birthday. Nick was our waiter and he was great in being patient…read moreand attentive. The place was very busy with a wine tasting going on in the front of the house. For apps we have the meatballs and calamari. Mains were my favorite oxtail ravioli, house lasagne, and linguine with clams. All were excellent with perhaps a little bit of grit in the linguine with clams. Dessert was tiramisu and an absolutely outstanding coconut brioche cream brûlée. Presented a bit like a flan floating in a crème sauce. Incredible. We will definitely be back.

talk about a comeback…read more The Southern Table staff and management sought to ensure we had a great experience this time and excelled. Great customer service and I greatly appreciate their accountability/ willingness to make up for our previous visit. Last night we started with the crab croquettes, STELLAR. Absolutely loved and devoured these. The crunch on the croquette was to die for, topped with a refreshing crab salad, perfect. For my entree, I had the lamb rack with house potatoes & broccolini. My boyfriend had the blackened catfish with the grits. Both dishes were phenomenal . To finish up we tried their new chocolate strawberry bread pudding, so rich and delicious. This restaurant is quickly becoming one of my favorite spots in Northern Alabama. Go give them a try! We'll 100% be back.

8/2026 update: Hubs and I had dinner at Southern Table a couple of Saturdays ago. The experience…read morewas more of a 3.5 star rating. I was disappointed because it is rare for us to enjoy a meal out, and Southern Table, to this point, has been my favorite place to have dinner in the entire north Alabama region! I crave Chef Yokley's wood-fired oysters and find this dish consistently filling and delicious as it has been for years! Because Hubs did not want any oysters, I got 2 pairs of oysters on the happy hour menu which were extremely reasonably priced at either $1.00 or $2.00 per oyster. Were they wood-fired? Yes. Were they rich and decadent like all previous times I have tried them? No. Were they small? Yes. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a small oyster, in fact my favorite oysters, Murder Points, are typically small, or small-ish. The recent visit, the oysters were way smaller than the shucked shell they were heated in with the parmesan cheese sauce, meaning the cheese overwhelmed and dominated any oyster goodness (brininess) you could have tasted and enjoyed. And, the last of the four oysters had some tough mollusk piece that I actually had to just spit the whole oyster out in my napkin. Either bad shucking or lack of expediting/checking the dishes leaving the kitchen, or both. It was sad. Chef Yokley posts a lot of photographs of his dishes/drinks on Facebook and I had seen his crab cakes with a unique and very interesting sounding salad with citrusy flavored greens and unique berries I had never tried. Well, wouldn't you expect the server to tell you about the specials and describe them? Ours did not. I had to pull up the photograph from Facebook and ask the server about it. They offered an appetizer size of the dish and an entree sized version. I got the appetizer. It was okay. There wasn't as much of a sear on these smallish crab cakes, as I like and the "salad" was more of a garnish, meaning, it would have been nice to have more of the salad than I received. I had to chase down the server to get hubs water refilled (he would have had non alcoholic beer but Southern Table doesn't have any) and to get me a second glass of house white wine. Hubs ordered a wood fired pork sandwich with French Fries. He said it tasted a lot like Lawler's barbecue. He added "and that's not a bad thing!" The sandwich was nothing special, honestly to the Hubs. It will be a while before I return to Southern Table, sadly. I think Chef Yokley needs to step up his expediting game and his attention to detail.

Panera is a morning go-to!…read more I love this location in particular because of how friendly the staff is. They always seem so happy and it makes me happy. Also the food is always prepared delicious and fresh! The restaurant is always super clean also!

Great Panera location!! Super friendly employees and cozy dining area. They are super great about…read morefixing anything that may be wrong with your order and being kind about it. Their cinnamon crunch bagels are SO good, as well as everything else they serve. Lots of parking and a nice outdoor seating area available! I love how warm and welcoming this Panera is and can't wait to come back.

We had lunch there after church and the food was amazing! The only minor negative was that it took…read morea little while to get our food but everything was fresh and fantastic

Had a dinner date at this restaurant last night. The hostess and our waitress were both very…read moresweet, friendly and excellent service. We had the bacon wrapped shrimp for an appetizer-DELICIOUS! For my entree I had the shrimp Alfredo & my date had the steak & shrimp. The shrimp Alfredo was decent, the sauce was not creamy but very thin. With that said I took the leftovers home and had it for lunch. This made a world of difference! The sauce thickened to the desired consistency, and everything was delicious! My date didn't make any remarks about his meal but I can say the steak was cooked to his satisfaction, the baked potato and vegetables looked good as well.

Burger is great! Easily, one of the best in Athens. Chips are provided with burger. Would love for…read morethem to consider fries!

Really more like a 3.5, FWIW…read more Took a lil roadtrip out to Athens with my folks on a day off last week. We wanted to try this place. Since it is in the main part of downtown, super close parking is a bit of a big ask; we parked at a public government building about two blocks down and walked over. The inside is very small and only has a couple of two-seater tables and one bench setup, but there are multiple nice metal tables outside to sit at if the weather is good. Fortunately, we lucked out in that regard, as it was a nice day. The inside of the restaurant smelled absolutely amazing, so I was excited to order. Their lunch menu mostly consists of sandwiches and burgers, with limited sides like chips, broccoli salad, soup of the day, and so on. Bottled drinks and a couple of desserts round it all out. My parents split a Philly cheese steak sandwich with pasta salad; I got a chicken cheese steak with a cup of the soup of the day (potato), and we shared a slice of strawberry pretzel salad for dessert! The employees were nice enough to bring our food out to us while we were at a metal table on the patio, so that was sweet. Food came out relatively quickly and was definitely fresh. Overall, it was fine! My favorite thing was probably the strawberry pretzel salad; I wish I'd had a little more but I should've ordered my own portion! lol. The potato soup had really nice garlicky croutons on top that I enjoyed, though I wish there'd been bigger chunks of potato in it. I liked my chicken Philly just fine though I feel like it was missing some sort of flavor somewhere. My parents felt the same about their regular Philly. Unlike me, though, my mom unfortunately got several gristley bits she had to spit out. The chicken didn't have that same problem. Overall, a pleasant enough experience though I wouldn't say our socks were knocked off, haha. I'd return and try other menu options if I come back in the future.

My favorite sister and I had a great belated birthday lunch for her here at Salty Cod on a fairly…read morequiet and fairly slow Friday that I took off work for - which is rare for me! She enjoyed two lovely cups of their coffee and then I think water, and I had some vino since she was driving. We split a 10 ounce filet mignon (which is not on the lunch menu but is available if you ask for it) and it was beyond delicious! I trusted our excellent server (I think her name was Holly) to select the cut of meat for sister and me from the butcher shoppe, Corkshire, and it was beyond excellent!! It was just as good, if not better than the filet I split with my Sorority Sister when we came here for my birthday in February! Sister and I also shared their take on a bruschetta. It was good; however, for me, it was the "weak link" - I like a traditional bruschetta with buffalo mozzarella, balsamic, fresh ripened tomatoes, etc., and this was more akin to a charcuterie board on toasty bread slices. It looked beautiful! The meat topping was plentiful and lovely, it had more fat on it than I care to have. There was a sort of berry relish on another layer and that's where I called it quits on the bruschetta. My sister did enjoy it, though, which is what mattered! We ordered two mac and English cheddar cheese fritters for Sister, and she really really loved those! They were presented wrapped individually in their to go box, to keep each one warm, and again, Sister, loved them! Neither of us had room for desert which, since Salty Cod has a separate bakery/gelato shoppe, would have offered some delicious options! Thanks, Salty Cod, for another memorable, relaxing birthday celebration!

The Easter buffet was the best!…read more It was the usual sausage and scotch eggs, but it was very fun to taste the special event! The fresh cream of the French toast was fresh and very delicious！

Food is great just need to practice speed on getting orders out in a timely manner. Also need to…read morekeep more bone-in chicken up.

Jacks in Athens is a great place to visit if you're looking for a good burger or a shake. The…read morestaff is friendly and the food is fresh. Jacks is one of those places, that in my opinion, is either crazy busy or has an empty parking lot. The breakfast is spot on and consistently so, and the #4 is my go-to for lunch or dinner if I'm in the mood for a burger. Check out Jacks if you're in the area!

What a neat venue. We came here after an event for a family meal. They have great area for larger…read moregroups, and even though we were a group of 10, they very easily accommodated a larger party at the same time, and there was plenty of room for more. Smaller tables were closer to the front so the large groups didn't bother/overwhelm with the noise. We had several shareables for the table including the pimento cheese balls, the Bavarian pretzel, and the loaded bar chips that could have easily been a meal themselves. I had the Reuben (surprise) and the sweet potato fries. The were a treat, and after all the shareables, I was able to take some fries and part of the Reuben home with me. Would love to go back and sit on the patio for happy hour one evening.

Met my son and his family for what we thought would be a good meal but was very disappointed in…read moreeverything. It took about 45-50 minutes to be seated and then about 40 more minutes to get our food. I wanted to leave but other in our party wanted to wait it out. My food was cold and so was another in our party. The tacos were good and hamburger good. I understand that things happen that are beyond the owners control but they could have at least given us a discount or maybe a free appetizer while acknowledging the delay. We found out later that they were short handed. But wish they would have told us this upfront so we would at least know what we were in for.