Going to north carolina, going to be near boon. any good places to eat at?

heading up to NORTH CAROLINA, staying near boon, can anyone tell me some good tips on great places to eat! we are traveling to Grandfather mountain as well. We like BBQ, ITALIAN, SUSHI, & ECT. 

Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, and Linville are all tourist towns.
There are some good places to eat but I can't think of any roadfood discoveries to be made.
The country ham at the Mountain House on Blowing Rock Rd in Boone is good. Hunam near the Walmart in Boone is under fairly new ownership and still is one of the few places we still eat out at. The Mellow Mushroom down by ASU  is a chain, a little expensive for pizza but good beer with the pizza. Sonny's in BR has closed. The Ham Shoppe on the road out of Boone to Banner Elk serves a nice sandwich. Melanie's for breakfast and lunch on King St is very good but often crowded. The Mexican grocery behind the Burger King in Boone has tamales they sell out of a cooler on weekends that are a real treat. The Ward family has a great new breakfast and lunch place in Valle Crucis: just across from the Mast Store. That can be recommended.

Further afield if you are driving around looking at leaves and such there is Mike's Bar-B-Q just across the state line in Tennessee. On 421 just after the first stop light in Mountain City serves a really good pork sandwich: messy but tasty. And over in Ashe County north of Boone is Isabelle's. Go fetch style-walk by and they will fill your plate with want you see. Ask Isabelle what is for the aficionado and what is for the local. That is a Roadfood Wonder. Really further afield are the two best places in the east-the Ridgewood for the best bar-b-q in this star system and Keaton's near Statesville for the best bar-b-que chicken I have ever eaten.
I am going to be checking this thread for recommendations too.

PS: The Grand View in Foscue is good for breakfast. And way up the Blue Ridge Parkway (25 miles or so) and right on the Parkway is a little diner that has very nice ham biscuits. The only diner on the parkway in these parts. It is a national park concession and is seasonal. Peppers in the Harris Teeter shopping center has been here for 30+ years and has good sandwiches, (esp the Jean Lawson) and their new bar next store is a class act.
These are the road food places. There are high class places esp Linville and Blowing Rock but I didn't think you were thinking about these even if you mentioned soo-che.

Boy, I must have that half-timers disease.
There is the Daniel Boone for which ASU parents and others stand in line for an hour-family style, inexpensive and good service.
Knight's on Main in Blowing Rock- regular food done right, served right.
The Peddlar is a steakhouse near Walmart.
Stick Boy bread (across from ASU on 105 extension) has increased a lot of folk's BMI for the right reasons.
Joe's Italian in the strip mall behind the Burgher King in Boone brings Brooklyn to Boone.

dolphindan2313


heading up to NORTH CAROLINA, staying near boon, can anyone tell me some good tips on great places to eat! we are traveling to Grandfather mountain as well. We like BBQ, ITALIAN, SUSHI, & ECT. 

What a coincidence....I am sitting in a hotel room in Asheville as I type this.  Went up to Blowing Rock after spending Fri night in Lenoir.  Got up early and headed to Grandfather Mountain on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Beautiful right now!!  Got to Grandfather Mountain and paid half price to get in because the top of the mountain was closed due to snow and ice.  Never got to the top to walk the swinging mile high  bridge. I have done it before so it was no loss.  Great park to anyone who has not been been there....The park was just bought by either the state or nation and will be a national or state run park. http://www.grandfather.com/


Jumped back on the Blue Ridge and headed south see Linnville Caverns and had a great time there.http://www.linvillecaverns.com/

Jumped back on the the Blue Ridge and headed to what I hope would be the star of the show....Mount Mitchell.  Just before the entrance of Mount Mitchell,  we had to stop and turn around. North Carolina finest had the road shut down due to snow and ice.  We had to turn around and head all way back to Hwy 80, then 70  and then to I40 west.  We hope for better weather tomorrow as we head down to Smoky Mountain National Park..

Awesome scenery with neat little places to stop at.  Like little apple orchard places?  Lots of them.  Too bad the weather didnt cooperate.  I wish you  better luck.

Blowing Rock will probably give you the best type places to eat the kind of food you have mentioned just  off the parkway but you will pay for it.  Blowing Rock is a sort of high end little town with lots of fancy type gift shop places and higher end bistros/ country club type places But honestly, other than that, there are not alot of places to eat between there and Asheville.  The mountain terrain and lack of towns between the two will limit you.  There was a little town off 326 called "Little Switzerland" that had some good looking little roadfood places worth exploring.  One looked like it may cater more to the biker crowd though. 

Good luck and enjoy the gorgeous scenery.  The colors are at their peak now above 3500 feet.  Even with all the rain, the colors looked good.

Some places in Blowing Rockhttp://www.blowingrock.co...php?memcategoriesid=28

It all sounds good! Are there any type of mom & pop places that are great there as well?

All the places I mentioned above are locally owned establishments. The pizza place and the steak place are probably small chains but the owners are local and run the places that way. Hence they are as close to Mom and Pop's places. There used to be a place on the highway called Mom & Pop's. It wasn't. And they aren't there any more.
The diner up the road on the Parkway is closing very shortly for the Winter. It is run better than other places leased out by the federal government that I have visited.
 
Boone. We like the E.
 
Like I said this is a tourist neighborhood and also a lot of visitors with the University (Appalachian State) so we all try to be friendly with folks from other parts. We already know how they do things in "Boca" probably the main reason we live here.

http://www.shatleysprings.com/

Enjoyed the Pizza at Capones when I was there.

We were in Boone last month for a wedding... We ate at THE DAN'L BOONE INN. I would reccomend this family-style eatery
HIGHLY.

Capones was great & priced right in this little college town of Boone.  We loved the Italian place called Cafe Rustica, in Boone...... It's  LITTLE PRICY, but worth it! there Pasta is home made! the sauces were great!  

Capones was very good & very reasonable! 

dolphindan2313, the fact that the pasta at Cafe Rustica is homemade speaks volumes as to why the place is a "little pricey". Great food made with TLC is always worth paying extra for.

I can't believe any one on this forum would recommend the daniel boone inn, boone,nc I don't care if if there is a line out the door the only thing real at this place to have is the water everything else is taken right out of the box or can and microwaved or boiled to death in a pot of water,sure they give you all you want to eat(?) but all of total crap is exactly that,crap.stay away from this place

Wow Tedr what did you eat there that was so bad?  Also another great spot to eat was Black Cat Burrito just off of King ST. in Boone.  This place is a little hole in the wall & it's cheap in this little college town. Burritos were big!

Also Woodleys  BBQ  in Blowing Rock was great! I had to go there twice! the baby back ribs were awesome! they also give you 3 sides of your choice & corn bread or hush puppies as well! A lot of food for sure. go during lucn from 12 -2 & receive $1.00 off.  

I live in Boone.
I mentioned the Daniel Boone Inn first because it is a tourist and student's family filled place. I last ate there 5-6 years ago. I don't know what befell Tedr but it's not that bad. That's how folks in these parts eat with the food half cooked to death. The potatoes are grown locally, the biscuits made in the kitchen,
the cooked to death green beans I don't know about. I think the country ham is cured nearby. Again I don't know about the fried chicken but it isn't half bad.
Shatley Springs mentioned above is a similar place-"family style"- copied by Golden Corral (golden trough) except it isn't "go fetch" but the servers bring it to the table.
 
Not healthy.
 
Not my taste very often but I am not adverse to taking out-of-town visitors there.
 
But certainly not as unpleasant as mentioned above.
 
Maybe Tedr disagrees with the owners' politics.

I enjoyed the Daniel Boone several years ago. We used to take the MIL when she would visit us in Tennessee. Never really noticed the owners politics but I do remember they didn't take credit cards and on my first visit there discovered that AFTER the meal was over. Luckily they did take a personal check. Probably haven't been there for 10-12 years.