The Best Southern Cooking in Canton, GA

Meat-and-threes, chicken and dumplings, elevated Southern plates, and real Southern breakfast — Canton's best home cooking.

This is comfort-food country. From a diner that's been here since 1967 to an elevated downtown Southern kitchen, here's where Canton does it right.

Queenie's Southern Restaurant & Bar

151 W Main St, Canton, GA 30114

Warm, stylish Southern comfort food that feels polished enough for a date or client meal but still unmistakably comforting.

Biscuits with house spreads, then the shrimp and grits.

New Georgian Hills Restaurant

69 Waleska St, Canton, GA 30114

A homey, family-owned Southern kitchen near downtown — generous, no-nonsense comfort cooking and plate-sized pancakes. Old-school and cash-only, in the best way.

Biscuits and gravy, or the dinner-plate-sized pancakes — and bring cash (it's cash only!).

Basket Shack

1054 Marietta Rd, Canton, GA 30114

A cozy, been-here-forever Southern diner serving Canton since 1967 — big firm biscuits, crispy fries, and hearty plates with genuine local history. One of the city's oldest continuously running eateries.

The biscuits (their calling card), or country ham with eggs.

Keithsburg Cafe

2452 Ball Ground Hwy, Canton, GA 30114 (Greater Canton)

A genuine country breakfast spot on the north side of Canton — oversized "Cathead" biscuits, gravy, and hearty omelets in an unpretentious local room. Go early.

The Cathead biscuit with sausage gravy, or a loaded omelet.

Family Tradition

6835 Hickory Flat Hwy, Canton, GA 30115 (Hickory Flat)

Cozy, down-home, and friendly — classic Southern comfort cooking at a great value. The Hickory Flat neighborhood standby.

The blue plate special (meat + two + a roll) and the chicken and dumplings.

Four 41 South BBQ Co.

149 Reinhardt College Pkwy, Suite 13, Canton, GA 30114

Casual, smoke-forward, and family-run — pit-to-plate barbecue focused on the brisket and scratch-made sides, not restaurant theater.

Brisket with scratch-made sides — go before it sells out.