Mama's Boy, Athens, Georgia

Sometimes you only need to look in your own backyard to find something special and noteworthy. Poncho and Lefty often find this to be true… especially since their backyard happens to be the cultural and culinary melting pot that is Athens, Ga. In a town with a population to restaurant ratio that can only be found in a place made up of one third college students, surely there are more than a few good places to eat!

Mama’s Boy is just such a place.

In an unassuming building overlooking the Oconee River Greenway, Mama’s Boy offers “southern fun dining” in wonderfully retro atmosphere complete with jazz on the radio and not-too-sweet tea in a mason jar.

Poncho likes to call this kind of cooking “fancy southern”. It’s the way your grandmother would have cooked if she’d been shipped off to cooking school to learn how to add goat cheese to her macaroni.

Mama’s Boy pulls all of this off to perfection. The fried chicken is brined in sweet tea, the green beans are still crisp, and the French fries are hand cut. Homemade breads and sweet herbed butter are not to be skipped.

Lefty’s meatloaf was well-seasoned, but he preferred to scrape the marinara off and just add Heinz 57.

The servings were plentiful with the menu featuring several “southern fun” additions such as milkshakes, a signature strawberry-lemonade, and even espresso drinks made from Athens’ own, Jittery Joe’s coffees. Poncho and Lefty shared a memorable blueberry cobbler a la mode.

The laid back atmosphere welcomes guests to bring their own bottles of wine (or coolers) to enjoy at the comfortable tables and booths indoors or on the deck out back. Perfect for a week night or a date night, the food here may just make Mama’s Boys out of all of us!

Mama's Boy can be found at:
197 Oak Street
Athens, Ga
http://www.eatatmamasboy.com/
(706) 548-6249