Dillard House
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The Dillard House, located in Dillard, Rabun County, Georgia is most importantly a famous restaurant known for its "family style" menu and Southern cooking.
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[edit] Restaurant
The Dillard House is an all you can eat, one menu, waiter served buffet, also called "family style." The day's menu is placed on the board when you come inside the restaurant. The staff brings every dish on the menu to your table, and that table can eat as much as they want, and ask for more of any dish. The food is Southern and Appalachian with apple butter and acorn squash sufflé among the notable house specialties.
[edit] Motel
The Dillard House also features a motel, conference center, petting zoo, stables, and several other types of lodging, including Swiss-style chalets, and rooms in the original stone Dillard House, now called the Oaklawn Inn. It is a popular destination for leaf watchers drawn to the areas abundant foliage and sometimes brilliant colors seen shortly before the deciduous trees begin to lose their leaves.
[edit] Other versions
In the late 1970's through the late 1980's the Dillard House Jr. was located in a building on Georgia Highway 441 next to Jim Dillard's Best Western motel. It served food similar to the original Dillard House, along with standard American food like hamburgers and steaks. Orders were placed by the individual, and did not feature the one menu approach of the original Dillard House.
[edit] Trivia
In the Dillard House restaurant lobby there is a photograph showing four Dillard siblings: Jim, Louise, Earl, and Henry. All four have since passed away.
John Dillard is now the manager of the Dillard House.
On days of home American football games at the University of Georgia, the breakfast service at the restaurant will be packed with UGA fans stopping by on their way to the game, even though Athens, Georgia and the University are some 81 miles distant from the Dillard House.
The restaurant's dining room windows command a spectacular view of the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School.
The back of the property abuts the Dillard Town Hall, which until the early 1990s was known as the Rabun Gap Community School (RGCS) and included grades 1-6.
