Road Trip 2011: The Dwarf House, Atlanta, GA

Yes, these posts are hideously out of order, but I'm writing them in the order of ease of collecting my thoughts.  Sorry about that :-)  Maybe I'll force the dates around some when I'm all done.

We started out in Greenville, SC on the last day of our road trip.  It was about 2 1/2 hours to Atlanta and I had the kids think nice and early about what they'd like for lunch.

Tangent: I learned this nice and early in our roadtrip -- I let the kids choose at one point and the request was for Taco Bell.  I plugged "Taco Bell" into our GPS and we had passed one about 20 miles back...and there were NO MORE Taco Bells on our route for the next couple hours.  So I learned to have the kids decide at least an hour in advance.

Anyway, since we were going through Atlanta, I figured we'd have no problem finding what the kids were looking for...

...and then they requested Chick-Fil-A!  Seriously!

For my non-US readers, the Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich was invented in Atlanta.

(Okay, actually it was invented in Hapeville, GA, but that's right outside of Atlanta).

A light bulb went off in my head!  Why not take the boys to the "original" Chick Fil A restaurant.  And that's what we did.  Luckily, The Dwarf House is less than a mile off our interstate highway route.

The Dwarf Grill was opened by S. Truett Cathy and his brother in 1946.  It was essentially a basic short-order grill diner, serving basics such as burgers and sandwiches.  In 1967 Chick-Fil-A restaurants began to appear in mall food courts, featuring the chicken sandwich that was made very popular at the Dwarf House.  The restaurant chain has grown to more than 1,500 retail outlets, in malls, airports, hospitals and stand-alone restaurants.  It's one of my kids' favorite places to eat.

We got to The Dwarf House right at 11am and we chose to eat in the diner area right in front of the Seven Dwarves animated mural.  By the time we left 45 minutes later, there was quite a line to be seated.  This restaurant is across from the Delta corporate offices and I'm guessing a lot of the patrons were from there.

Note the short front door.  There's a regular sized door on the side, but most customers use that little red door, which is about as tall as Timmy.

It's a full service diner, made for a nice lunch experience.

Along with the other diner fare, you can get the full Chick-Fil-A menu as a "platter" with two sides.

This is my yucky iPhone picture of the animated Seven Dwarves.  The dwarves are moving along a bicycle-chain-type conveyor from home to the mines.

Jacob loves the Spicy Chicken Sandwich.  Everything (except the milkshake that you see on the far right) was served on china with real silverware.

Timmy got nuggets with waffle fries.

The waitress we had was so sweet, I meant to take a picture of her with the boys, but I didn't, sorry.  She brought little stuffed cows for the boys after lunch.  I asked for a bunch more for Dave's squadron (they use the Holstein cow as their mascot).