WE LOVE LOCAL!
Founded in 1945, the Dogwood Restaurant has been serving award-winning food for 78 years.
Owner Keith Poff bought the restaurant 31 years ago. Poff told WDBJ’s Logan Sherrill last year, “Me and my dad came down here and tried some of the food, and the next week we bought it. Came home and told my wife – we just got married – she goes ‘What are you doing buying a restaurant!?’”
Poff began building a local following of customers with a menu full of offerings that taste like home cooking. His best friend since second grade, Jamie McCarthy, was preparing the special of the day, pork chops and chicken livers, when Sherrill visited. “We bread them ourselves and fry them in cast-iron frying pans which is what I call the old-fashioned way of cooking, and everyone loves it,” McCarthy told Sherrill.
If pork chops and chicken livers aren’t your thing, there’s French toast, pancakes, omelets, biscuits and gravy, steak, meatloaf, burgers, spaghetti, salads, fruit cobblers, and more. Whether it’s breakfast, lunch, or dinner, loyal customers at Dogwood Restaurant all call it the same thing – delicious.
Dogwood Restaurant is located at 106 E. Lee Avenue in downtown Vinton, and is open Monday through Thursday, 7am to 9pm; Friday, 7am to 3pm; and Saturday, 7am to 12pm.
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