Long before Cumming became one of metro Atlanta’s fastest-growing suburban communities, Dimitri and Eleni Tzortzis opened a restaurant in Lakeland Plaza with a straightforward ambition: prepare familiar food carefully and make customers feel welcome.
That was in 1991. Thirty-five years later, Giorgio’s Family Kitchen remains in the same Cumming shopping center, still serving the Italian and Greek comfort food on which the restaurant built its reputation.
The milestone matters in a region where the restaurant landscape changes quickly. New dining districts have emerged, national chains have multiplied and Forsyth County’s population has grown several times over. Giorgio’s has survived those changes without abandoning the identity of a traditional family restaurant…