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	2007 Nominee James Beard Foundation Outstanding Restaurant in America
	GOURMET (October, 2006) Top 50 Restaurants - #11 Magnolia Grill Whereas many temples of local produce treat their products with worshipful reverence, Ben Barker’s cooking is daring, almost reckless. Read more...
	CREATIVE LOAFING (June 22, 2005) Bill Addison Magnolia Grill does not look the way I imagined it would. For a nationally recognized bastion of New Southern Cuisine the restaurant seems positively . . . spare. Read more...
	NEW YORK TIMES (May 23, 2004) On the Road: North Carolina R.W. Apple Jr. The problem with driving from the Northeast to Florida, Charleston, Hilton Head or Savannah consists of a letter, a dash and two numbers: I-95. Read more...
	GOURMET (October, 2001) Top 50 Restaurants - #11 Magnolia Grill The blank whitewashed facade gives no hint that hidden within this former corner grocery is one of America's regional treasures. Read more...
	BON APPÉTIT (June, 1998) Jean Anderson In an era where new restaurants pop up like hushpuppies in deep fat – and collapse faster than a cooling soufflé – Ben and Karen Barker’s Magnolia Grill still packs them in. Read more...
	DIVERSION (May, 1996) John Mariani The Magnolia Grill is handsome without being fussy, appealing to a sophisticated, well traveled crowd... Read more...