If you go
* Where: Home Plate Grill, 7807 Nashville St., Ringgold, Ga.* Phone: 706-935-4663.* Website: http://homeplategrillga.com.* Hours: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday.* Price range: $7 to $9 range for most meat-and-veggie plates.Daily specials (entrees and sides)* Monday: Grilled marinated chicken ($8) and hashbrown casserole* Tuesday: Meatloaf ($7.50) and broccoli casserole* Wednesday: Chicken parmesan ($8.95) or spaghetti ($7)* Thursday: Chicken and dressing ($8) and sweet potato casserole* Friday: Smothered chicken ($8.95) or all-you-can-eat catfish ($14.95) and squash casserole* Saturday: Meatloaf ($7.50) and hashbrown casserole
I don’t get to Ringgold, Ga., with any regularity, except for the Dixie Highway Yard Sale in June and the occasional trip to prowl through the downtown antiques stores. But Ringgold Feed & Seed Antiques was celebrating its third anniversary last Saturday, so off I went, unconcerned about the torrents of morning rain and the 65-mile round trip from home.
Alas, the antiques stores yielded nothing on this venture, but my stop for lunch more than made up for this rare shutout. While poking around the cluster of businesses on Nashville Street, I spied Home Plate Grill and scored one of the best lunches I’ve had in a while.
THE MENU
Home Plate Grill rounds the bases several times with its sports metaphors. The menu is divided into Short Stops (appetizers), Outfield Salads, Hits (popular sandwiches), Home Runs (specialty plates) and the Daily Curve Ball (the Monday through Saturday specials).