VALDOSTA —
Burned the turkey? Relatives showed up to potluck without side dishes? Bent the carving knife? Too hungry to wait for dinner? Here are the following restaurants and grocery stores that will be open Thanksgiving Day for your convenience in the event of a Turkey Day disaster — or if you just don’t feel like cooking.
Restaurants
• Cracker Barrel, 1195 St. Augustine Road, will be open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., and are offering a Thanksgiving special: turkey, dressing, two sides, a serving of ham, a slice of pie and a drink for $8.99. Children’s plates are $4.69. Thanksgiving dinners to go are $49.99 with 24-hour notice. Call (229) 244-5258.
• Waffle House, 3120 North Patterson Street, 1302 North St. Augustine Road, 1819 West Hill Avenue, 3487 Madison Highway and 4600 North Valdosta Road, will be open all day.
• Smok’n Pig BBQ, 4228 North Valdosta Road, will be open from 10:30 a.m. and will close between 3 and 4 p.m., depending on the number of customers.
• Mama June’s, 3286 Inner Perimeter Road, will be open from 10:30 a.m. and will close at 4 p.m.
• Denny’s, 1328 St. Augustine Road, will be open all day.
• McDonald’s, 715 South Patterson Street, 2102 North Ashley Street, 1840 West Hill Avenue, 1177 North Saint Augustine Road, 4109 Bemiss Road, 1709 Iola Drive and 4185 North Valdosta Road, will be open all day.
• IHOP, 1821 West Hill Avenue, will close at 2 p.m. Thursday, and will resume normal hours Friday at 6 a.m.
• Ole Times Country Buffet, 1193 North St. Augustine Road, will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Grocery stores
• Winn-Dixie, 1105 Madison Highway and 3200 North Ashley Street, will be open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• Harvey’s, 2111 Bemiss Road and 4036 Bemiss Road, will be open 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
All restaurants and grocery stores will resume normal hours Friday.
Local News
Where to eat on Turkey Day
Many restaurants, grocery stores open on Thanksgiving
- Local News
-
-
Troopers prepare for Memorial Day traffic
Georgia State troopers are preparing for patrols during the peak travel times this coming holiday weekend.
-
Blaze damages cars, blocks I-75
A tractor-trailer transporting automobiles northbound on Interstate 75 Thursday morning caught fire just north of exit 5 in Lake Park.
-
VECA recognized at VSU
Rising juniors from the Valdosta Early College Academy (VECA) were recognized at Valdosta State University Wednesday night as the first group of students to begin earning college credit while still in high school.
-
Businesses raise funds for Oklahoma disaster
By now, we’ve all heard about the tragedy in Moore, Okla., a mile-wide, F5 tornado with winds of more than 200 miles per hour carved through 17 miles over a span of 50 minutes on Monday afternoon.
-
Southwestern State Hospital to close
One of Thomas County’s largest employers — at more than 700 people — and a longtime regional state mental hospital will close Dec. 31.
-
Search for survivors continues
Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.
-
Curator offers arts a helping hand
If you’ve been to the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts in the past four years, you have seen the quiet art of Bill Shenton.
-
Albino gators visit Wild Adventures
Two rare albino American alligators have joined the other gators at Wild Adventures for the summer.
-
Officers wound man in shootout
A Lanier County man was wounded Saturday during an exchange of gunfire with lawmen, according to a Lanier County Sheriff’s Office press release.
-
Woman fights to live after cancer
To be whole again, the desire that sometimes overwhelms chair-bound Mandy Painter, fuels the Realtor each day through walking lessons during physical therapy and it's also what could see her through a cutting-edge program in Boston, where world-class neurologists can reawaken her cerebellum and see the mother of three to her feet again.
- More Local News Headlines
-



