Boone area food

DSM Turbos

DSM Turbos

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Going to be in the Boone / Lenior / deep gap area soon. Any places to reccomend for food over a couple days there? Dog friendly places preferred. Going to do some hiking out there as well but we have done most of the major ones so any swimming hole water fall type stuff recommendations are welcome as well.
 
DSM Turbos said:
Figured you would know some. The town doesn’t even look the same from when I went more often. my brother was at asu from 98-02
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Hell I finally moved out in 12 and it has changed a ton in just the last decade. Still some great locally owned businesses though. If y’all venture up to Banner Elk, go grab some ice cream at BE Scooped. @IBREAK and his wife own the place.
 
Sunny Rock Cafe in Blowing Rock for breakfast. Can't beat the breakfast burrito.

Coyote Kitchen is awesome. Never would I have thought salmon and sweet potatoes would be so good together. Also, get sweet potato fries as an appetizer. I'm not sure what kind of crack they sprinkle on them, but its top shelf. I don't think you have little kids, but if so, they eat free too!

Casa Rustica is great too like @StretchASU said.

The Cardinal has great burgers, but a bit pricy.

If you like deep dish pizza, Capones pizza is amazing. I'm a huge fan of deep dish, and don't really like tomato sauce, so their deep dish with Alfredo sauce is one of my favorite pizzas ever.

Black Cat Burrito is not what it used to be, but is still quite good.

My wife loves Storie Street grill in Blowing Rock and Our Daily Bread in Boone.

Of those, Coyote Kitchen is the most dog friendly (covered outside seating), and the Cardinal and Capones might also have outside seating.
 
Bocca Bistro is a new Italian place in town that has great food, very reasonable prices too. My friends own it. And if you’re out near Todd, try the Riverside Restaurant. Gotta check out their burgers.
 
336wheeler said:
Bocca Bistro is a new Italian place in town that has great food, very reasonable prices too. My friends own it. And if you’re out near Todd, try the Riverside Restaurant. Gotta check out their burgers.
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Riverside is about 30 mins from where we are staying which is about the same as boone, so we may have to try it out. Plus we can go to the town named after me.
 
anvilrubi said:
It was good, they sold out to peddling pig, the foods twice the price with half the menu. Quality of food has went down. Definitely not the same vibe anymore.
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Oh no! When did this happen? It has been many many years since I have eaten there.
 
BigClay said:
Woodlands BBQ is also good
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Agreed, ate there a few weeks ago, They were understaffed... like everybody, but very tolerable. Don't know if it's bc school was between session.
anvilrubi said:
It was good, they sold out to peddling pig, the foods twice the price with half the menu. Quality of food has went down. Definitely not the same vibe anymore.
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Don't know if I'm just used to things here being inflated but i didn't find it that bad. We had way more food than we could eat. Maybe I'm not fat enough.
 
anvilrubi said:
It was good, they sold out to peddling pig, the foods twice the price with half the menu. Quality of food has went down. Definitely not the same vibe anymore.
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We stopped there a couple of Fridays ago and ate outside bc dogs. Everyone was as friendly and helpful as always and the food was about as good as we remembered from probably 3 years ago. The one guy brought our food out and a flyover scared the little one, so he brought us some banana pudding on the house bc he said he felt bad. Prices didn't seem out of whack but < shrug >.
 
I will say we've only ever eaten outside at woodlands (or taken it to go) on Grand Tour trips, so no comment on service in the restaurant.

Edit: It was cheaper than CFA for the 6 of us, including tip.
 
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trailhugger said:
I will say we've only ever eaten outside at woodlands (or taken it to go) on Grand Tour trips, so no comment on service in the restaurant.

Edit: It was cheaper than CFA for the 6 of us, including tip.
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Good to know I’ll give it another shot
 
Good to see a list, seems every time I went (LIKE twice) in the last 3 years it seemed all the growth hid the good hometown restaurants. Sadly my opinion of all the growth equals ASU and the area becoming a festering :poop:pile. Simply don't like what it has become. I prefer to avoid it now.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
Good to see a list, seems every time I went (LIKE twice) in the last 3 years it seemed all the growth hid the good hometown restaurants. Sadly my opinion of all the growth equals ASU and the area becoming a festering :poop:pile. Simply don't like what it has become. I prefer to avoid it now.
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It's not what it used to be, but nowhere is. I still love the Boone/Blowing Rock area, and there are a lot of good places to eat and things to do.
 
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Been in the Boone/Todd area for the past week tubing the New river everyday and enjoying friends and family. We are breakfast people so that's our focus. Bettys biscuit truck is the bomb. Troys diner on 105 is second, Melanies is third, Dinner we'd say Coyote kitchen is best in Boone. In West Jefferson New River Brewing was great as was The Tavern bar, grill, We carry our pup with us everywhere and usually only eat at pupper friendly places.
 

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went to Boone last November the town was still trying to enforce masks, it and Asheville are on my never again list
 
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