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Just down the road from Dillard House, visitors to the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center can learn all about traditional mountain culture. But at Dillard House, they can taste it.

Dillard House is perhaps the most legendary southern Appalachian restaurant still overstuffing guests with boardinghouse-style dinners of house-cured hams, just-picked vegetables and rustic cornbread. The 92-year old eatery, which has hosted such discriminating Southern eaters as President Jimmy Carter and Senator Max Cleland, serves family-style meals to hundreds of hungry guests every day.

 Dillard House bills its cuisine as “honest cooking,” which is another way of saying their farm-fresh ingredients don’t require fancy preparations. Chickens are fried, beets are pickled, beans are stewed and tomatoes are sliced. As folks have been discovering since circuit-riding minister Rev. Henry Byrd became the Dillard’s first customer, it’s an approach as delicious as it is simple.