Callaway Gardens Dining-The Gardens Restaurant

gardening, plants, Callaway Gardens — Here’s part two of my **Callaway Gardens** post. I needed to do a whole other post about our dinner at The Garden Restaurant at Callaway Gardens. This flower will be the only non food thing in this post…enjoy.

During our stay at Callaway Gardens we dined at The Gardens Restaurant, the most upscale of the many dining options at Callaway. So upscale in fact that my husband made sure to teach our kids to eat like sophisticated people, both pinkies out please.

Let’s start with the appetizers:

Callaway Garden, The Garden Restaurant at Callaway gardens, crab cake, appetizer — The kids split a crab cake appetizer with lemon butter sauce and micro greens. They both loved the crab cake but my daughter raved about the sauce.

garden salad, The Gardens Restautant, Callaway Gardens — My husband had a fresh, crisp garden salad for his appetizer.

New England Clam Chowder, The Gardens Restaurant, Callaway Gardens — My appetizer was a deliciously creamy New England Clam Chowder. With tender clams it was perfect on a cool day.

On to the entrees

Lamb chops, The Gardens Restaurant, Callaway Gardens — My son ordered the Balsamic Marinated Grilled Colorado Lamb Chops
With toasted walnut pesto, Brussels sprouts with pancetta and cheddar grit cake

scallops, the Gardens Restaurant, Callaway Gardens — The scallop entree. Prosciutto-Wrapped Scallops, sweet potato puree, maple butter and spaghetti squash. Scallops were perfectly cooked to an almost creamy consistency.

Braised pork shank, The Gardens Restaurant, Callaway Gardens — I ordered Braised Pork Shank
with wild mushroom demi-glace, cheddar grits and sautéed spaghetti squash. DELICIOUS! I love a rich demi glace served with grits to catch it. The texture was perfect, the really know how to cook protein. They got it right every time.

Flat Iron steak, The Gardens Restaurant, Callaway Gardens — My daughter had the Marinated Grilled Flat Iron Steak
With wild mushroom demi glace, oven roasted red and gold beets and herb mashed potatoes

Drinks and Dessert

Hot Buttered Rum, Pyrat rum, The Gardens Restaurant, Callaway Gardens — Hot buttered rum with Pyrat rum. Pyrat is the Man’s favorite drank. He was not too sure about the “butter” but once he tasted it he was happy

apple tart, The Gardens Restaurant, Callaway Gardens — And he can’t resist any apple dessert. Warm Apple Galette
With housemade cinnamon ice cream

Pumpkin creme brulee, The Gardens Restaurant, Callaway Gardens — My dessert, pumpkin creme brulee, super creamy and not too sweet

Chocolate lava cake, The Gardens Restaurant, Callaway Gardens — Chocolate Lava Cake
The kids shared this Chocolate ganache center with housemade blood orange ice cream for dessert. They absolutely DESTROYED IT!

Chef de Cuisine Peter Stiles did a fantastic job. Service was smooth, warm and friendly all in all we had a great evening

25 Comments

25 Comments on Callaway Gardens Dining-The Gardens Restaurant

Janeane Davis (@janeanedavis)
December 20, 2013 at 10:54 am (10 years ago)

Everything that your family ordered looks absolutely delicious and even the descriptions of the meals sound good.
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Classic Mommy
December 20, 2013 at 4:17 am (10 years ago)

I am seriously drooling over here! That looks like an amazing meal for all of you! Those lamb chops, pork, and steak… Oh my! I need to make a return trip to Callaway so that I can experience this as well.
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Chrishelle Ebner
December 20, 2013 at 3:25 am (10 years ago)

The food looks divine. I would love to try that flat iron steak. The desserts look so yummy. I think we will have to give The Restaurant at Callaway Gardens a try.
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Candy Olivares (@Candypo)
December 19, 2013 at 8:04 pm (10 years ago)

What amazing food! I’ll have to write the name down in case we are ever in that part of the country!!
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Krystyn @ Really, Are You Serious?
December 19, 2013 at 7:44 pm (10 years ago)

It shouldn’t be allowed for me to look at all of this yumminess being so pregnant. That crab cake and everything looks really good (except lamb, but that’s just because I don’t care for it!)
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Katherine Bartlett (@KBWhiskey)
December 19, 2013 at 6:47 pm (10 years ago)

This is such a great gift idea for the holidays! Thanks for the idea! I love Callaway Gardens!
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misstywatson
December 19, 2013 at 7:29 am (10 years ago)

I’ve never heard of Callaway Gardens but everything looks so amazing! And, the dessert looks amazing!
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- sweetsavant
  December 19, 2013 at 10:55 am (10 years ago)
  
  We had so much fun and ate such great food, it was a great weekend
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Liza @ Views From the 'Ville
December 19, 2013 at 5:50 am (10 years ago)

Wow, all of that looks amazing! I’ve been to Callaway Gardens once, years ago, but we didn’t have time to eat at the restaurant. Looks like we should have made time!
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- sweetsavant
  December 19, 2013 at 10:57 am (10 years ago)
  
  It sounds like you’re due for a return visit
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brett
December 19, 2013 at 5:07 am (10 years ago)

i’m not sure i’d be able to walk out of that place. those dishes look and sound amazing!! we do shared dishes here, too
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Melissa
December 19, 2013 at 5:01 am (10 years ago)

Oh, what a fun experience! Everything looks so delicious!
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Liz (@blueviolet)
December 19, 2013 at 3:52 am (10 years ago)

They don’t fool around with their menu, do they? Everything looks outstanding!
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Ashley M
December 18, 2013 at 11:36 pm (10 years ago)

I’m so glad my dinner is almost done because you have my drooling! As I was reading i was trying to decide what I liked best but I simply can’t
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- sweetsavant
  December 18, 2013 at 11:53 pm (10 years ago)
  
  It was hard for us to decide too. That’s the best part about going with the entire family SHARING!
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Jennifer
December 18, 2013 at 10:45 pm (10 years ago)

My mouth is seriously watering!! I need to talk my hubby into talking me to a fancy restaurant for some scallops!
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- sweetsavant
  December 18, 2013 at 11:29 pm (10 years ago)
  
  It will be worth it. Just remembering the taste of the scallops is making me hungry again
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Ellen Christian (@scentednights)
December 18, 2013 at 4:40 pm (10 years ago)

I would love to visit some day. It sounds like a wonderful time.
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- sweetsavant
  December 18, 2013 at 10:34 pm (10 years ago)
  
  We had SUCH a great time. I can’t wait to go back so hubby and the kids can do the TreeTop adventure and zipline…I will be touring the azaleas
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Henrietta Newman (@ahensnest)
December 18, 2013 at 3:59 pm (10 years ago)

Wow! What a fabulous family meal! That flat iron steak looks so very juicy! I love it when the service and food are spot-on when going out to eat.
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- sweetsavant
  December 18, 2013 at 10:35 pm (10 years ago)
  
  I was very good, my daughter ordered it but you know I had to taste some. Very juicy
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The Rebel Chick
December 18, 2013 at 3:45 pm (10 years ago)

Everything looks so delicious! I especially love those lamp chops, that’s one of my favorite things to order when I go out to eat because I can’t really cook them at home!
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- sweetsavant
  December 18, 2013 at 10:36 pm (10 years ago)
  
  Everything was DELICIOUS! The lamb chops were tasty but those scallops were fantastic
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