When I first photographed this location in January 2010, it looked like a busy place. That may have been due to the fact that there was an automotive detailing shop next door that only charged $8 for cars and $12 for trucks. The restaurant was once known as the Corner Kitchen and I’m not sure if it was even still open when I photographed it. I imagine it was a good soul food restaurant, a meat-and-three kind of place, and considering the lack of restaurants in Cuthbert, was probably quite popular. The building looks to have originally been a neighborhood grocery store.
That location used be Corner Grocery, back in the late 60s/early 70s…it was a little country store with grocery staples, a meat counter, a Coca-cola drink box and a rack of cigarettes, cheap cigars and cans of snuff behind the counter. There were two gas pumps, premium and regular, on the island out front between the two lanes that cut the corner of the intersection.
I wish you would publish a list of places you like to eat on the backroads of Georgia. My wife and I like to ramble around Georgia on our extended vacations.
Thanks.
Little Woodbine, GA, about 20 miles south of Brunswick on US 17, has a similar but slightly bigger diner that is still operating: Steffen’s. It’s going on 60 years old, so would have seen more traffic in the years before I-95 was built, and US 17 was one of the main roads to Florida. My wife and I stopped in for lunch a couple of months ago, while enroute to visit family in FL. The food was good, prices reasonable, and service was friendly. It was also pretty packed, considering it was lunchtime on a Friday. If you’re ever down that way, I recommend it. Also Capt. Stan’s BBQ, a block north. I think it is only open Thursday-Saturday. Good food!
Thank you. My wife and I make a pilgrimage to SE Georgia every year or so making sure to stop in Darin for great fried shrimp at B&J’s. I’ll add your recommendations to my list of places to try.
Skipper’s On the River in Darien is also a good place for seafood. It’s right on the docks, next to a condo complex, just off First Street.
On St. Simons Island, in the old historic Pier district, Palmers Cafe is a small place next door to J.C. Strother Hardware Co. The food is great, but they don’t take reservations, so you sometimes have to wait until a table becomes available, especially on the weekends. On the other side of Strother’s, on the corner of Kings Way (the main road) and Mallery Street, is a wonderful Argentinian restaurant, Del Sur. We always try for Palmer’s for lunch (they are not open for dinner) or Del Sur for dinner, when we are down that way.
Thanks. St. Simon is always on our plans when we drive UP to the South from the accursed city of Orlando.
My Mother lived in Brunswick from the early 40’s on and my Granfather worked as a carpenter on St. Simons.
A disappearing part of Georgia small town and rural life.
There is not much to Cuthbert.