Some restaurants are worth a short detour, and some restaurants are worth rearranging your entire weekend.
The Smith House in Dahlonega, Georgia is firmly in the second group, and the Southern food it serves is the kind that makes the drive feel like the easy part.
Dahlonega sits in the North Georgia mountains, about an hour and a half north of Atlanta, and it’s the kind of town that rewards you just for showing up.
The air is cleaner up here, the pace is slower, and the scenery along the way is the kind that makes you realize you’ve been spending too much time indoors…