This returning Macon restaurant offers Southern home cooking to go. Chitterlings anyone?

A restaurant known for its Southern home cooking has returned to its roots in Macon.

Silly Lilly’s Soul Food started out on Pittman Street nearly a decade ago before moving to Fort Valley’s Main Street.

Owner Latasha Green recently opened up Silly Lilly’s Soul Food #2 at 3189 Mercer University Drive. The Fort Valley restaurant remains open but under a different owner.

Nestled inside a small, orange building at the corner of Dexter Avenue and Mercer University Drive in Macon, Silly Lilly’s offers up a variety of soul food favorites to go — though there is a concrete table outside with no shade if you want to sit down to eat.

The eatery has both a drive-thru window and a separate walk-up window and accepts cash and cash apps only.

Dishes include oxtails and rice, chitterlings and rice, fried pork chops, fried chicken, baked chicken, turkey wings, turnip greens, candied yams, butter beans, okra, squash and dressing. The menu changes daily.

“It’s just Southern home cooking,” Green said. “I named it after my mom. She’s still living. These are her recipes, and she ran the one on Pittman Street.”

Green worked alongside her mom at the first two locations. She was a cook. This is the first one she’ll own and operate herself.

“Those are her recipes because I didn’t know anything about cooking … I just had to carry the recipes on,” Green said.

Today, Green’s daughter, Ashley Cummings, works with her at the restaurant. Her daughter also owns and operates Glam and Glitz Boutique near Van’s Pawn Shop at 3771 Mercer University Drive about a mile down the road from the restaurant.

“It means a lot for me to be able to carry her name on,” Green said of her mom, Lilly Jackson.

The restaurant generally operates from 11:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and from noon until 7 p.m. on Sundays or “until the food runs out,” Green said.

“Last Sunday, I sold out at 3 o’clock — depends on how my crowd is,” Green said.

Telegraph photographer Jason Vorhees contributed to this article.

This story was originally published July 22, 2021 at 5:00 AM.