Bostwick, GA |

Here in the small town of Bostwick lays this small, quaint market café; Market 83, where inside you’ll find friendly faces, and fresh, mouthwatering smash burgers cooked to order. It’s a concept Stan and Venessa Nabors have always loved but thought it would look differently than it does now.

“Back when we first started selling our beef, one of Stan’s goals was he wanted to have a hamburger in a restaurant. So we tried that. We approached restaurants. We had restaurants approach us, and the door just felt like it kept slamming. So, just one day I told Stan jokingly, I said, ‘you know what? We’re going to have our own place one day where we can serve our own hamburgers using our ground beef'”, says Vanessa Nabors, Owner of Market 83.

That idea of course is now very much a reality for the Nabors, as they opened up the café last Fall. According to Vanessa, it has been nothing but a dream come true, as they’ve gotten to put their passion and hard work ethic to good use by raising a great herd of cattle that’s used to create fresh, wholesome food that people know exactly where its from.

“I told Stan, I said, ‘well, this will give us an opportunity where we’ll have a market, we can sell our beef, other local goods, and then we can have a cafe where we can serve hamburgers and hot dogs, milkshakes.’ I’m a lot like a lot of people out there; we just have that nostalgic side to us, and again, we all know how our food is nowadays, and I just wanted a place where people could come and have a good hamburger and good quality food,” says Nabors.

Nabors says that business continues to thrive, and says that what they’ve found to be most important to both them and their customers, is continuing to produce and offer great tasting products people know is produced locally, whether that be fresh ground beef and steaks they can take home to cook themselves, or even a burger and milkshake cooked to order in their cafe.

“What drives the passion for Stan and I and our goal here for Market 83 is to continue to have good food that people can come here and know that they’re going to get a good meal. The quote that I use is ‘a taste that you’ll remember’ because nowadays it is hard to go out to a restaurant and really taste the fresh quality that a lot of us are used to having when we were growing up, because we get a lot of people say, ‘oh yeah, we grew up and we would harvest a cow and have it in the freezer, and my grandmother would have a garden, and we’d always have fresh veggies to eat.’ So, I feel like we’re able to bring some of that back here at Market 83,” says Nabors.

By: John Holcomb