TV Restaurants

Is The Dillard House Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2 Dillard, Georgia

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, The Dillard House is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed August 2026.

What the source shows: The resort's own website, checked September 7, 2026, carries photo content dated as recently as August 2026 and an active events calendar. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

The Dillard House is a family-style Southern restaurant and mountain resort at 768 Franklin Street in Dillard, Georgia, run by the Dillard family in the North Georgia mountains and known for all-you-can-eat meals of fried chicken, country ham, biscuits, and fried mountain trout served alongside sweeping farm views. The property has been passed down through multiple generations of the same family and also operates as a resort with lodging, a working farm, and event space beyond the restaurant itself, drawing both local diners and mountain-area tourists. According to the business's own website, dillardhouse.com, checked September 7, 2026, the site carries photo content dated as recently as August 2026, and the property continues to list an active calendar of events for visitors.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 2

Episode 4
Air date not confirmed
Title: Salty Goodness · What was featured: family-style all-you-can-eat Southern meals with fried chicken and biscuits

Also in Season 2 Best Thing I Ever Ate

Season 2: 64 of 102 still open · 8 renamed, moved or under new owners

All 13 Season 2 episodes →

Nearest restaurants By distance from 768 Franklin Street

All 146 TV restaurants in Georgia →

Before you go: Businesses change fast. Always confirm directly with the restaurant — call ahead, or check its own current website or social media — before making plans around anything on this page.

Sources we checked 1 reference

  1. dillardhouse.com https://www.dillardhouse.com/
See something wrong?

We work hard to keep every status accurate and dated, but restaurants change fast and our sources aren't perfect. If something here is wrong — a status, a name, an address, anything — tell us what you're seeing and where you saw it, and we'll check it.

Tell us →

Share

Record btiea-0116 · checked by Cal Marchetti.