Middle Georgia’s Japanese dining scene clusters heavily around two formats: hibachi steakhouses with tableside teppanyaki grills and quick-service teriyaki counters. Macon supports roughly a dozen Japanese or Japanese-influenced restaurants, a…
Macon’s Italian dining scene has been anchored since 1984 by Natalia’s, founded by Natalia del Basso-Orsini, a native of Abruzzo, Italy, who brought old-world Italian fine dining to Middle Georgia…
Macon sits roughly 170 miles inland from the Georgia coast, yet the city has built a surprisingly deep seafood restaurant scene. Much of the fresh catch served here travels up…
Macon, Georgia sits at the heart of Middle Georgia’s fried chicken culture, where the “meat and three” plate is a lunchtime institution and independently owned soul food spots have served…
Nu-Way Weiners has operated in Macon longer than any national fast food chain has existed in America. Greek immigrant James Mallis opened the first stand on Cotton Avenue in 1916,…
Ingleside Village Pizza introduced Macon to hand-tossed, made-from-scratch dough in a neighborhood storefront, and that local-first approach still defines the city’s pizza identity. Independent pizzerias outnumber national chains in Bibb…
Macon’s Chinese restaurant landscape looks different from most mid-sized Georgia cities. The market here leans heavily toward takeout and delivery, with several popular spots operating without dine-in seating at all….
Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto passed through what is now Macon in 1540, making Hispanic roots in Middle Georgia older than the city itself. Over the past four decades, Macon’s…
Fincher’s Bar-B-Q has been pulling pork on Houston Avenue since 1935, making it one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants in Macon and a reference point for the city’s deep…
Downtown Macon’s restaurant scene has more than 52 dining establishments packed into its revitalized core, and American restaurants anchor much of that growth. The Moonhanger Group, a local hospitality company…