The Traveling Hobo Café (Watkinsville, GA)

20 Greensboro Hwy, Watkinsville, GA 30677

 

The Traveling Hobo Café is a small restaurant in the heart of Watkinsville, a town close to Athens, Georgia. It essentially is a fast food restaurant with a particular focus on burgers (beef, bison, lamb, vegetarian) and wings. They also have a variety of salads and sandwiches.

 

I get the Fried Pickles ($5) as a starter, which comes with creamy Cajun sauce. The small pickle slices are coated with a thick crunchy batter, but are devoid of any life or taste – they are sad, thin slices of dry, tasteless, rubbery pickle. I then get the Huge Chicken Tenders basket ($7), which comes with fries. The chicken tenders are indeed huge, but also very fat and a bit bland and dry. The Box Car Fries are big and curly and quite good, but a bit overcooked.

VERDICT: 77/100

Not living up to the local hype, but I’ll be back one day to try the burgers.