Vern's

Bethany and Dano Heinze's Cannonborough restaurant runs a five-course tasting menu and a tight à la carte option from a small open kitchen — modern American cooking with Southern roots, frequently changing, deeply personal. The couple cooks and runs the dining room themselves; the format rewards regulars. Earned a James Beard semifinalist nod for Best New Restaurant. For a small-room chef's-counter experience that feels like dinner at someone's very ambitious house.