Ironwood Tavern has put its Masters-themed menu to the fore during Tournament Week.
Its featured selections for the week include items like its Green Jacket Burger, the Green Jacket Salad, and a pesto-based Birdie on the Green pizza, and its fried peaches and cream dessert.
The cocktail menu gets a boost as well for golf visitors, with featured specials on the likes of red and white Wagner Family wines, or Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, “and then just a whole bunch of other like really nice bourbons and tequilas that we don’t usually carry all year round,” noted manager Laura Bryant.
Business starts picking up well before golf week for the small Evans restaurant, which has its food distributors bring in large, refrigerated trucks to park behind the building, keeping extra items in stock. The kitchen staff is also quadrupled to handle all of the extra prep required to keep up with the influx, Bryant explains.
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“It’s about a two-and-a-half-week thing for us,” Bryant said, noting the restaurant’s proximity to Champions Retreat. Monday found Ironwood “slammed” through lunch and dinner amid the practice-delaying weather. “But usually, on a normal day, we don’t really start to pick up until about four o’clock, and that kind of goes through all the way up until we close nine times out of 10. When we close, we decide to stay open at least an hour later on most nights, just because there’s still so many people here.”
Ironwood Tavern is located at 5117 Washington Road. in the Riverwood Town Center in Evans.
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Skyler Andrews is a reporter covering business for The Augusta Press. Reach him at skyler@theaugustapress.com.
