Mary Mac's Tea Room

Atlanta

224 Ponce De Leon Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30308

From Soul Food Paradise

What they say: "Georgia Peach Cobbler" (fresh peaches smothered in homemade brown sugar, nutmeg & cinnamon cobbler sauce topped with a candied crust served a la mode), "Southern Special" (3 entrees including meatloaf, chicken & dumplings, roast pork, country fried steak, roasted turkey, and baked or fried chicken and 3 sides including fried green tomatoes, sweet potato soufflé and tomato pie)

Listen, the short and long of it is, I am a Southern boy by birth, by heart, by soul, and by belly. American (food) by choice, Southern (food) by the grace of g-d. You can take the boy out of the South, but you cant take the South out of the boy. However, you can take the southern food out of the boy by taking the boy out of the south.

I appreciate southern soul food, and love when it is done right.

Southern food is at its best when it is made at its core, its name sake, in the south. You wouldn't get waffles at pancake pantry or pancakes at waffle house, so why would you get Southern food not in the South.

Mary Mac's Tea Room is the perfect evidence of why Southern food excels to perfection when it is served below the Mason-Dixon line. Some of the finest soul food around. Everything is battered, fried, sugared, and creamed. Sweet tea. And it is all done so to greatness. Mary Mac's Tearoom is the epitome of Southern Soul food and a landmark and epicenter as well. Where recipes have been passed down from generation to generation. Where recipes don't come with measurements, but with a "dash", "pinch", "splash", or "dip".

Come on down to Mary Mac's Tea Room you hear!