Rutabaga Café - Chattahoochee

So I decided to accept my wife's offer for a father's day dinner and try the Rutabaga Cafe. The sign outside said cash only, not a good sign, and it only got more interesting from there... We walked in and waited a good 5 minutes before other patrons told us to sit where we liked. We sat down for about 5 more minutes and the only waitress took our drink order. About 10 minutes later, our drinks arrived, but 20 minutes in we still didn't have a menu. I ordered the special, Key lime shrimp, my wife had something called red velvet chicken and my daughter ordered shrimp and grits. At first we were told they were out of grits, then we were happy to learn they found some. I attempted to order a side of mushrooms and onions, but apparently they were out. How do you run out of that? When the food arrived everything was hot and looked good but I was missing something, shrimp. In place of it was a steak? I was told the shrimp were frozen and to keep the steak while they try to get my shrimp thawed and cooked. The steak was cooked medium and was tender and seasoned well. The shrimp and grits were good if a bit under-seasoned. I spent several years in New Orleans, so the bar on that is pretty high. The red velvet chicken was on the sweet side, not my preference, but was cooked well and my wife loved it. Eventually I did get my shrimp and they were good. In total we spent 1 hr and 45 minutes here and probably waited on something for an hour of that. All in all, the food was very good but I don't think I will be coming back any time soon.

Extremely polite and attentive. Food was excellent, especially for such a rural town. This joint in Mobile, AL or Tallahassee, FL would charge twice as much for such a wonderful dinner.

I attended a ticketed event that this restaurant catered (so they knew 60 people). It was awful to say the least. They were extremely disorganized and took way to long serving folks. They had to send someone back to restaurant to get more steak. They were cooking and preparing plates in the dark so an attendee pulled there car up to shine the headlights on them. They only had wine or water to drink, they ran out of appetizers so less than half the people didn't get any, the portions for the main meal was more like an appetizer plate, and they had only 1 of 2 advertised desserts which was enough for only 15 people. What was supposed to be a filet steak was the size of a sausage patty. The blacked snapper was literally two bites (about the thickness of a pencil) with three medium size shrimp and six skinny asparagus. The risotto wasn't prepared correctly, it was like a thick pile of mashed potatoes. There was suppose to be a fried tomato side also but wasn't. For $75 a person, I left extremely disappointed and hungry. I do not recommend Rutabaga's for catering.

Trying to figure out what happened to Rutabega. We?ve made reservations online twice within last 2 months and finally after no response we drove down and discovered a locked and lonely building.. is the restaurant closed for good? We would love to be able to buy Red Velvet Cheesecake!

Have you guys reopened yet? I will be driving 2 hrs and stop by! Love your food. And recommend to everyone!