Everyone knows that either you score bigly or lose a bet when you stop at a rural country diner. Sometimes you get a delicious and generous meal at a great price and you water at the mouth thinking about years down the road, and sometimes you wind up with the opposite.
This place is the opposite.
Service was friendly when we got it. When there are all of 7 people in the place, and your server is sitting chatting with one of them, and the cook with another, getting up to greet new walk-ins wasn’t an urgent priority. No big deal. Rural joint, slower pace. Ok. Server was very friendly.
Menu is what you’d expect. Simple diner fair. Here is where the pricing is confounding- you can have a sammich of sorts for under $3 (IKR!?!) but if you want fries with that- it’s another $2.50.
For $2.50 you’d expect a generous amount of fries. For $3 I would NOT expect a large or generous sandwich.
The sandwich was not generous. The burger was scant. Less filling than a dollar burger off the McDonald’s menu.
The fries were also not generous.
The burger meat was tasty but the buns were not the freshest and very small. Think “high school cafeteria bun” aged for a few days. The fries were scattered around the plate like a Pollock painting. Here and there, and scant.
Had their tea, and wished I hadn’t.
Food didn’t take long- there was barely enough of it to take any time to cook anyway.
With the arrival of the food came the flies. More like tiny fruit flies or some kind of voracious gnat . In the very short amount of time it took to inhale a burger (a little larger than a White Castle, not by much) my daughter had spent so much time waving her hands to keep the critters away she gave up and stopped eating.
It was simply gross. The place didn’t seem dirty- tables and chairs while very old seemed clean. Guess not. Two out of three of us had indigestion not long after leaving and we decided it was probably the tea.
Also gross- the undusted souvenirs and memorabilia. Quirky and quaint become trashy and disgusting when left to gather dust and grease and gnats for ridiculously long periods of time.
We went out of our way to stop at a locally owned place vs grabbing fast food by the interstate and chose this place based on reviews. I don’t know if the reviews are all made by friends or if they’re all old, but they are most definitely...
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