Oakwood Cafe

Oakwood Cafe is a restaurant in Dalton, GA, located at 201 West Cuyler Street. The restaurant has been a fixture on Cuyler Street since Johnny and Mary Metcalf moved a 30-year-old diner to that location in the 1940s, and it continues to operate from the same spot today. Oakwood Cafe serves a broad menu of southern-style comfort food, with entrees that include pot roast and tilapia with Cajun seasoning, alongside a selection of vegetables and other lunch plates. The restaurant also offers catering for larger gatherings. It holds a rating of 4.50 based on customer reviews.

The restaurant operates with extended hours through the week, opening at 6:30am Monday through Friday and closing at 8:30pm on most of those days, with Saturday hours running from 7:30am to 8:00pm and Sunday closed. Guests have brought groups of up to 15 in for office outings, and the kitchen has served multiple entrees at once for those tables. Catering inquiries and contact are handled through the restaurant's listing at the same Cuyler Street address, with a phone line at 706-529-9663 for orders and reservations.

The restaurant sits on West Cuyler Street, with West Morris Street and South Thornton Avenue each about a tenth of a mile away. Courthouse Annex Park and the Dalton Courthouse Annex are within a short walk to the south, placing the restaurant near the heart of the Dalton Commercial Historic District. Burr Performing Arts Park is roughly two-tenths of a mile from the front door.

A Dalton institution that has now spanned three generations of diners on the same block, Oakwood Cafe draws on a menu and a setting that have been part of the city's daily life since the 1940s.