There’s a moment on every great road trip through North Georgia when hunger strikes and you’re faced with a critical decision that could make or break your day: settle for a sad gas station sandwich or hold out for hidden culinary treasure?
Let me introduce you to the Old Sautee Store in Sautee Nacoochee – a 19th-century time capsule where sandwich-making isn’t just food preparation, it’s an art form preserved in the mountains.
Driving along GA-17, you might mistake it for just another rustic building if not for the cluster of American flags proudly fluttering outside a wooden structure that’s been standing since Ulysses S. Grant was president.
The Old Sautee Store isn’t trying to hide – it’s been right there since 1872, serving generations of locals and lucky travelers who stumble upon this culinary oasis in the Sautee Nacoochee Valley…