Restaurant review, Bobwhite Gives You the Bird.

According to the Sibley Field Guide to Birds, the bobwhite is a short, squat member of the quail family, native to the Southeastern United States. With feathers in muted shades of red, brown, and rufous, this understated creature's most prominent feature is the male's talent for endless self-promotion, incessantly chirping, "Bob white, bob white, bob white."
And Bobwhite is also the moniker of the city's latest attempt to re-create a real Southern-style diner, the kind you still find in places like Edisto, South Carolina, and McDonough, Georgia, where the so-called New Southern Cooking—unfrying the cuisine's standards and piling on nouvelle ingredients—has had little impact. Bobwhite Lunch and Supper Counter is the full name, an attempt to completely describe a rather unusual operation.

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