"Simple and perfect, this basic yellow cake with chocolate frosting was every bit as good as Mama Dip's renowned pies."
Michael Stern
"No soul food menu would be complete without sweet yams."
Michael Stern
"Of course, sweet tea is available to drink. But this refreshing mango peach lemonade is not to be ignored."
Michael Stern
"The menu's list of more than a dozen vegetables uses asterisks to indicate which ones are cooked with pork. These collards have an asterisk and also deserve an exclamation point. They are seriously porky and delicious!"
Michael Stern
"Mama Dip's menu is large, so the sampler platter is a good strategy for tasting maximum number of appetizers. This plate holds hushpuppies, fried zucchini, fried broccoli and cheese, bread and butter pickles, and fried green tomatoes. The hushpuppies are especially excellent, with a sharp buttermilky tang."
Michael Stern
"Fried chicken, served with sides of black-eyed peas, squash casserole and corn bread. Photo and caption by bearcuisinenm."
Bruce Bilmes and Susan Boyle
"These fried green tomatoes are cooked to perfection."
Anne Ritchings
"Chicken fried steak served with a side of mashed potatoes and gravy will feed the heartiest appetite."
Anne Ritchings
"This is a Southerner's idea of a vegetable plate: mashed potatoes with gravy, butter beans, black-eyed peas and squash casserole."
Anne Ritchings
"The catfish, lightly coated with cornmeal, is some of the best I have ever tasted. The shrimp and oysters were also well cooked."
Anne Ritchings
"Fried chicken wings and fried okra make a filling and tasty lunch."
Anne Ritchings
"This group is having a celebration lunch for one of their friends."
Anne Ritchings
"If the dining room is full, the porch is a pleasant place to eat."
Anne Ritchings
"This distinctive sign ensures that you don't miss the restaurant as you drive down Rosemary St."
Anne Ritchings
"Two hearty bone-in pork chops, cooked to perfection, completely smothered in brown gravy."
Mike Iacoucci
"Perfectly-fried white meat chicken, a breast and wing. A mound of the chopped barbecue sits behind the chicken, rounded out perfectly with a generous helping of mashed potatoes with gravy."
Mike Iacoucci
"The mark of an excellent restaurant: an autographed photo from Ben 'Cooter' Jones!"
Mike Iacoucci
"Cup of Brunswick Stew, generously full of a wide variety of vegetables and shredded meat, served with saltines"
Mike Iacoucci
"Mama Dip" is Mildred Council, founder/owner/chef at Chapel Hill's beloved soul-food restaurant. Ms. Council, nicknamed "Dip" by her siblings because she was such a tall kid, wrote Mama Dip's Kitchen in 1999; and it is a valuable cookbook that includes many of the recipes she has used in her restaurant.
