Brits First Time Trying REAL Southern Food in Atlanta’s Friendliest Diners! 🇺🇸
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Our First Time Trying Southern Food in Atlanta! 🇺🇸
It’s the biggest football tournament in the world and England are playing, so what better time to explore one of America’s greatest football cities? Join us as we head to Atlanta, Georgia, to discover authentic Southern food for the very first time!
Our first stop is Home Grown, one of Atlanta’s most popular breakfast spots, famous for its Southern comfort food and classic diner atmosphere. We tucked into crispy chicken and biscuits, legendary chicken and waffles, sweet peach waffles, blueberry and peach sourdough, fried green tomatoes, crispy fried okra, and washed it all down with a refreshing Arnold Palmer.
After Kevin’s recommendation, we jumped back in the car and made the drive to Matthews Cafeteria in Tucker, Georgia, where we met third generation owner Mike. Here we experienced a true Southern cafeteria, loading our trays with slow cooked brisket, more Southern fried chicken, creamy mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, collard greens, and all the classic Southern trimmings.
As Brits trying authentic Southern food for the very first time, this was everything we hoped it would be. Friendly people, incredible comfort food, and two unforgettable local restaurants that showed us exactly why Atlanta is one of the best food cities in the USA.
If you’re planning a trip to Atlanta, looking for the best Southern food, or searching for authentic Georgia comfort food, make sure you add these places to your list.
A big shout out to my amazing producer, Jack Davidson, for setting everything up and making sure everything ran like clockwork. He’s the best in the business!
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Restaurants featured:
Home Grown – Atlanta, Georgia
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Matthews Cafeteria – Tucker, Georgia
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that's not a proper southern diner. that's a pretentious, carefully curated take on a southern diner. vegan collard greens.
If you want “your” gravy you ask for brown gravy. White gravy is called country or milk gravy. A lot of people make it from bacon grease after they cook bacon so it doesn’t always have sausage but you’re right it’s just a bechamel that starts with pork fat instead of butter and you use heavy pepper instead of nutmeg other than that you make it exactly the same.
Nice! Will go to Home Grown in a minute. All looks sooo good 🙂
This is SOUL FOOD. Not necessarily southern . By saying southern you erase a people!
Matthews is good but it is not like it used to be. The food used to be so much better. I used to tear that place up in the 90's LOL
That's not a southern restaurant with vegan greens. Wtf?
Southern biscuits are made from a soft winter wheat (preferably White Lily) which is low in protein, so makes for a softer, lighter bread. Scones are made from a denser flour. The Europeans who first settled Appalachia and the Southeast were mostly Scottish/Ulster Scots and English. Some people feel biscuits are direct descendants of scones.
Just a few observations from a proud southern woman: Thanks for calling the gravy bechamel bcs that is what it is. This is also served with fried cubed steak, leave bits in pan and make the sauce, great with Real mashed potatos for dinner. For anyone interested we often serve savory, not sweet, toasted pecans with cocktails.. So easy so delicious. Pecan halves, melted butter, little salt and little Herbs de Provence. Toast slow at 350 degrees,, stir once, toast not burn! serve warm! we also make a version of English "devils on horseback" bacon wrapped dates put under broiler to crisp bacon, secure w toothpick. These two items make a splendidSouthern cocktail party! Remember the South was ruled by the British, Spanish, French mix with African which is what makes our food so good. Yes, we do love fried okra and cornbread! ya"ll come see us again.❤️🇱🇷🙏🏻
I'm an American. And I grew up half of my youth in the south (Panama city Florida). I've never had chicken and waffles. I have no intention of ever trying it because it's clearly wrong. I would make a deal with someone, I'll eat a full plate of chicken and waffles, but only if you eat a weird concoction that I will make up. You have to eat a slice of graham cracker crust blueberry cheese cake with a tin of sardines in heavy oil, covering the cheese cake, and stinky buttermilk poured over it.
Enjoy Atlanta. Hope you hit up New Orleans.
Habañero is the Spanish (Mexican) name for the Scotch Bonnet pepper.
Don't you Brits know Americans only eat hambergers and fries and sodas? We're all just existing on fast food, right?
The Texas Pete peppers are for the turnip greens.
8:34 – "This has no bearing. If you're from the UK, this has no bearing on our gravy." – Of course our sausage gravy is nothing like brown gravy….That goes without saying…Why are making that comparison? You do realize that there are more than one type of gravy….We have brown gravy, turkey gravy, sausage gravy, country gravy, chicken gravy, etc. Our brown gravy may or may not be just like your brown gravy…but I know you have other types of gravy as well…..But saying this sausage gravy in nothing like your brown gravy…..is like saying our apple pie has no bearing on your meat pie…which is true…but I know you have apple pie there as well…and we also have versions of meat pies.
Our ancestors lived on collards, beans and corn bread, they only usually ate chicken on Sundays. They worked the fields all day and didn't have diabetes. Let's remember that my fellow Americans. Much love.
I am sorry … if dude is making collard greens without meat I will never eat in his restaurant for any reason …
8:18 needs molasses or sorghum syrup
8:45 Sawmill gravy
Fried chicken, collard greens, mashed potatoes and cornbread are sooo good. Then top it off with peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream. ❤
I like chicken and waffles but i dont usually eat it together in one bite lol
Vegan is a modern accommodation that's not traditional southern soul food. Those greens usually cooked with ham hocks or turkey necks. You are in the way in kitchen. Mexican food not traditional southern soul food either. This is fusion cuisine. Any Caribbean dishes or Euro like German or Dutch? Int'l cuisine? Or Add Canadian poutine and Alaskan caribou for complete North American food. First restaurant great.
I was a photographer for the Atlanta paper and shot the dining review for HOMEGROWN. Epic spot on memorial drive.
Matthew’s! Heck yes!!!!!
I'm of Texan origin so I'm a fan of long, low and slowly cooked BBQ with darker sauce than that sauce.
Texas Pete or pepper vinegar on the turnip greens or collard greens. Crystal Louisiana hot sauce on the biscuit and sausage gravy. Libby's makes a great sausage gravy. Add 1/4 cup of milk ,heat up