Connie's Kitchen Review »
After spending a couple of days in the Maggie Valley area (Do: Check out Santa's Land, Don't: Bother with the reopened Ghost Town), we were on our way home and just had to stop and grab a bite to eat. As seems our custom lately, we follow a sign from the freeway that directs us to food and... there's absolutely nothing. We did it a while back for pizza and drove for what seemed like an hour before we actually found the pizza.
In this case, we never really did find what we were looking for - I don't even really remember what it was we started off to find. But we eventually found downtown Waynesville. At least, I think it was downtown. There wasn't much else around, so I'm assuming that it was downtown. And there, we eyed a small restaurant. Perfect, because with not much around - not even a chain restaurant in sight - we were getting pretty hungry.
The restaurant was Connie's Kitchen, and usually when you find a small place in a small town, there's some good eating to be had - especially when there's a name on the front. In this case, that wasn't really the case. Maybe the folks of Waynesville didn't like strangers stopping by on a Sunday morning. Maybe they just aren't ever that good.
But the service was so-so, and the food was average. It wasn't that it was bad, exactly, but i just didn't leave any lasting impression at all. As soon as we left the premises I found myself trying to recall what it was I had to eat (it was actually a breakfast burrito - I think). Not what you'd expect in a small Southern town. Even the cookies I picked up for the ride home just weren't that good.
