NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jul 2001 18:01:34 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu rec.food.restaurants:53958 Maggie wrote: > In a couple of weeks, we will be traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway from > Cherokee, NC, to Roanoke, VA and would like to have some great food on our > trip. No chain restaurants please!! We do not care for those. We like the > unique, out of the way restaurants which are very good. > > Anyone have any excellent suggestions near the Parkway please. We do not > mind driving ten or fifteen miles off the Parkway to reach a great place!! > > Thanks so much. > > [email removed] In the heart of downtown Floyd, VA, there is a funky little place called OddFellas Cantina. If you have any hippie sensibility at all it's the place for you. About 8 miles off the parkway. http://www.floydvirginia.com/oddfellas/index.html If you are more sedate, the dining room at Chateau Morrisette Winery has a very good menu. It is also right on the parkway. Their own wine is not so great however. Fortunately they have other wines on their list, including Villa Appalachia, which is located just across the parkway and produces excellent Italian style reds. http://www.chateaumorrisette.com/
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:02:51 BST Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu rec.food.restaurants:53964 says... > In a couple of weeks, we will be traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway from > Cherokee, NC, to Roanoke, VA and would like to have some great food on our > trip. No chain restaurants please!! We do not care for those. We like the > unique, out of the way restaurants which are very good. > I'm told the buckwheat pancakes at the Otter Creek restaurant on the Parkway are good! There are some good places in Boone, Blowing Rock, and nearby also, from biscuits and ham at Sonny's Grill to high class food at Mast Farm Inn in Valle Crucis. Do go to one of the Mast General Store's locations. Boone's a nice little town. http://www.mastgeneralstore.com/ Go to http://www.roadfood.com and search Virginia and North Carolina. Mast Farm Inn at http://www.mastfarminn.com/ Check for closures and roadworks on the Parkway here: http://www.nps.gov/blri/closure.htm If you can make it, this location on the Parkway looks interesting! We'll be there I hope on the 6th. August 5-6, 12, 26-27 –Peaks Of Otter Winery - A "Peachy" open house tour. Sample our fresh peaches and nectarines along with our Fruit Of The Farm Wines. Bring your picnic lunch and enjoy our pavilion. Bring the family and enjoy visiting our many farm animals. 8am-5pm. No charge. The Roanoker in Roanoke? Or the place where we would have really loved to go near Roanoke, but the days are wrong: The Homeplace Catawba, Virginia (540) 384-7525 This is the food your mother would have made, if mom was a really good cook! Service is very good, they will continue to bring you good food until you are full, fat, and happy - then they bring cobbler. The only drawback is that they have limited hours, and do not usually take reservations (unless you have a big group, or can sweet-talk them), so there is occasionally a pretty long wait to be seated. The Homeplace does not serve alcohol. GMD Distance to Civic Center: 20-30 minutes Hours:Thursday and Friday 4:00-8:00; Saturday 4:00-8:00, Sunday 11:00-6:00 Other: To get to the Homeplace from I-81, take Exit 141 (rt. 419) to 311. The Homeplace is about 7 miles from the interstate, in the little town of Catawba - on the left. Another Review from insiders.com The Homeplace $$ • 4968 Catawba Valley Rd., Catawba • (540) 384-7252 "Down-home cooking that makes you want to eat all your veggies" is the slogan of this grand old farmhouse and family restaurant just outside Roanoke. The home-style food is served family-style in bowls placed right at your table. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, pinto beans, baked apples and hot biscuits are menu staples here. A neighborly and courteous staff will make you feel right at home. Thursday is Barbecue Night, but you can still order the regular fare. Always plan on a wait of at least 20 minutes, since Roanokers pack the place on weekends. You won't mind waiting on the big front porch, where you can pet the farm felines. Dinner is served Thursday through Sunday. If you're dieting or watching your cholesterol, don't go near this place! They all eat the way Grandma and Grandpa used to, before we knew everything that was bad for our arteries. One of the last Howard Johnson's in Lexington? A review of a restaurant off the Parkway: Parkway Restaurant with all the other locals for breakfast or lunch. By Larry Bly They call it the Parkway, because it's just off the Blue Ridge Parkway at the Route 58 exit, just past Mabry Mill, south. My business partner, Marty Hall, knows all the local folks who work and eat there, making it a bit easier for me than for others who just happen to wander in. For one thing, he knows Tavie. Yep, that's her name -- and waitressing is her game. Well worn, cynical, and somewhat disinterested in the whole mess, but it turns out, she's a right pleasant soul down under the scowl. (Note to readers: I neglected to ask her how it is spelled -- Tavvy, Tavie or Tavy, so in the interest of fairness, I will use all three.) She also knows how to handle a crowd when it gets to be too much. Recently, they got the place over-full and Tavvy didn't have any help. So she came back, tossed an order book at the first intelligent looking soul, and told her to fill it out her own order, then get ours while she was at it. This system sped things along miraculously and we all eventually got fed. Breakfast is great for one reason: Gravy Cakes. Not since I grew up on the farm have I had brown gravy on pancakes. Toots used to use whatever gravy (white, brown, chicken, whatever) was left over from the day before and we'd scoop it onto our pancakes. MMMMMMMMMMMM. But this is the first restaurant I've ever encountered that offers it standard, every morning. You can almost hear your main artery slam shut on these babies, bub. They have biscuits, pancakes, buckwheat cakes, egg and other breakfast sandwiches, all prepared from a kitchen the size of my desk. Amazing. Lunch runs from the usual sandwiches to home made specials of the day to burgers, seafood, steaks, and soups. In other words, a little bit of everything. I only have one problem with this place: the front door. Pitiful. Been there so long they haven't noticed that the aluminum storm door no longer serves any purposes whatsoever, except to hang an OPEN and CLOSED sign on; and perhaps to warn them when someone clatters through it to find a seat. This proves that if you get really used to something long enough you just simply stop seeing it. The restaurant is woefully small and gets overburdened whenever too many locals join with too many parkway wanderers. This, combined with the "Tavy Factor" and you just get gridlock. I like the people and they seem excited that I come in from time to time: Me and Dale Ernhardt being the only really big celebrities they've ever seen -- and even we fail to impress 'em
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A few more near Boone can be found at
http://www.insiders.com/ncmtns/main-restaurants3.htm
>User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.0 (PPC) Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu rec.food.restaurants:54091 In article , "Maggie" Someone wrote: > In a couple of weeks, we will be traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway from > Cherokee, NC, to Roanoke, VA and would like to have some great food on > our > trip. No chain restaurants please!! We do not care for those. We like > the > unique, out of the way restaurants which are very good. I'm not sure where Cherokee NC is, so I can't swear whether you will pass through Linville/Blowing Rock high country or not. From the South: Linville Falls. Best food is Spears. It is a nice BBQ restaurant with outdoor seating and some relatively upscale non-BBQ offerings. Decent wine list. Reasonable prices. In downtown Linville Falls (not that downtown Linville Falls even has a traffic light). It has a reasonable motor lodge next door owned by the same family. I especially like it for lunch if you are taking the time to visit the falls. 8 miles up the Parkway: Linville. Eseeola Lodge. Great ambience. Very good food. Large historic bark lodge and golf hotel. Big fireplace, very charming and still rustic. Excellent food. Formal dining, gentlemen will need a jacket. They do have a few in a closet if you forget. Linville is a beautiful small town. 22 miles up the Parkway: Blowing Rock. Moses Cone Memorial Park exit lets you off before Blowing Rock; the 221/321 exit is just past the town. On 221/321, just off the Parkway towards Blowing Rock, is Riverwood. One of my favorite restaurants, it has a Mobile Star or two. Fine cuisine, slightly pricey. Nice old stone building. Good place for trout. If you take the Moses Cone exit and then turn downhill onto Shull's Mill road, you will encounter The Gamekeeper a few miles down a winding wooded road. The restaurant is in the middle of the woods, and is light at night with thousands of white Christmas lights. Arriving is almost magical, as you are certain to think that you are losts until you see the lights. Fine food, specializing in game dishes. If you turn towards Blowing Rock from the Moses Cone exit, you will be taking 221 into town. Blowing Rock is a beatiful resort-type town. Its main street begs to be walked, especially in the evenings. Several good restaurants line the main street and the side roads. I'd recommend passing through the scenic areas of Blowing Rock even if you dine elsewhere. -Zeb
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 13:58:37 EDT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 17:58:37 GMT Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu rec.food.restaurants:54087 You can forget about going there unless you have a reservation. They only take them 30 days in advance or if you stay at the Inn. They book up very fast. One of the best restaurants in the country and very expensive. Someone wrote: > If your itinerary takes you past Washington, VA there is the Inn at Little > Washington, recognized as one of the great restaurants in the country. > > > Maggie wrote: > > In a couple of weeks, we will be traveling the Blue Ridge Parkway from > > Cherokee, NC, to Roanoke, VA and would like to have some great food on our > > trip. No chain restaurants please!! We do not care for those. We like > the > > unique, out of the way restaurants which are very good. > > > > Anyone have any excellent suggestions near the Parkway please. We do not > > mind driving ten or fifteen miles off the Parkway to reach a great place!! > > > > Thanks so much. > > > > [email removed] > > > > > >