The Blue Ridge Diner - Boone

They don’t serve breakfast, but the grilled cheese sandwich was delicious.

The food is generally good, but they've been quite inconsistent lately, and it takes a long time to get my phone orders ready. Waiting 50 minutes is just too long.

This restaurant is fantastic! The food and staff are both exceptional, and they truly go the extra mile for First Responders. My partner and I had nothing to complain about and highly recommend this place to anyone seeking great food and excellent service.

The family and I recently stopped here for lunch while passing through on a trip. The place was probably a little under half full when we arrived but it took close to 20 minutes for anyone to even come and take our orders. It took an additional 45 minutes for our food to arrive which considering what we ordered was ridiculous. Dad ordered the fish sandwich which arrived to the table without the coleslaw and tartar sauce he ordered. The chicken tender sandwich I ordered also didn't have the cheese the menu claimed came on the sandwich. The real kicker though was the grilled cheese sandwich mom ordered. How do you screw up a grilled cheese you ask? Apparently you use a melon baller to measure out a portion of cheese, dump it half hazardly onto a slice of bread, and then apparently cook it open face and without any type of butter on the bread to help crisp it up! Now, the sandwich also supposedly came with bacon as well. For a $3 sandwich a single slice of bacon ripped in half seems like a weak attempt but no one was really upset by that. What was even more galling though was the fact that when we complained that the GRILLED CHEESE was neither grilled properly or had cheese not one, but TWO separate waitresses, instead of apologizing and offering to remake the sandwich, tried to gaslight us into believing that's what you get for a $3 sandwich. And the second one was making excuses for the bacon. No one cared about the bacon. What we cared about was the fact that we came to this diner for lunch, were here a sum total of over an hour and ended up being served a grilled cheese made by a toddler with no concept of what a grilled cheese actually was. Shame on you for having such low quality standards. If you can't make a proper grilled cheese sandwich for $3 then take it off the menu or bump the price a little. Everyone understands that with inflation cost of goods and labor is rising, it's a fact of the world we live in. But to serve sub-par food and then blame the customer for complaining about said food? Do better.

This is a local gem. Prices are great in today's economy. Waitresses are friendly and service is fast. Parking can be a little tricky right at noon.