Jim Stalvey's Restaurant

3132 US-278, Covington, GA - (770) 787-5091

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Posted By Michael Stern on 2/16/2003 4:22:00 AM

If you want to eat good beef east of Atlanta, come to Covington and put yourself in a booth at Jim Stalvey’s. You know this place is serious about red meat when you enter and see that the primary decorative element in the vestibule is red meat: large packs of it piled up in a glass-walled refrigerator case just below the cash register.

Have it your way: T-bone, rib-eye, strip, or filet, in sizes that range from a filets mignon of six or eight ounces to a massive sirloin for two that arrives on a sizzling platter. Our personal favorite is the filet mignon. It is prime beef that is firm and juicy and endlessly flavorful. On the side you can have a baked potato with butter and sour cream, French fries, or what the menu lists as The World’s Best Fried Onion Rings. They ARE superb: crunchy battered hoops that virtually melt on the tongue with a light ribbon of sweet onion inside.

There is a choice of three places to go when you enter this fine steak house: a family dining room to the right, where you sit in comfy booths at bare laminate tables; a smoking room to the left, which offers a picture window with an entertaining view of the kitchen; and a bar room at the far left where customers knock back highballs and beer and watch the overhead TV.

Lunch at Jim Stalvey’s is less beef-focused than supper. It’s a meat-and-three affair, with such entrees as turkey and dressing or chicken livers accompanied by your choice from a long list of side dishes that include turnip greens, rutabagas, crowder peas, fried green tomatoes, and four different styles of potato.

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Overall: Legendary - Worth driving from anyplace

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"A half-pound filet mignon with Stalvey's famous onion rings"
Michael Stern

"Jim Stalvey's has been a meat-eater's destination east of Atlanta for more than 20 years."
Michael Stern

"Located on busy Highway 278, this is one restaurant that provides a comfortable respite from commercial sprawl. "
Michael Stern