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    Cook Out

    3.0 (62 reviews)
    InexpensiveBurgers, Fast Food, Hot Dogs
    Closed 10:30 am - 4:30 AM (Next day)

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    Casual
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    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    #cookout #cookoutboonenc #preservefootprints
    Ivy L.

    CookOut Boone The fastest Drive-thru experience, we got 2 milkshakes, a double chocolate and peanut butter fudge and a hotdog. Amazing speed service The milkshakes consistency is perfect and delicious also the hotdog is filled with maximum toppings. We should get more of these often!! 1179 Blowing Rock Rd, Boone, NC 28607 daily 10.30AM - 3.30PM Fri-Sat 10.30AM - 4.30PM between $1-$10 per person ℹ cookout.com #cookout #cookoutboonenc #preservefootprints

    Low key love this cookout but today Im giving them 1 star bc wdym I drove 30 mins for specifically a milkshake and you only fill it up this much. BROTHA

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    Great service and good every time. I added an updated menu and prices. I love the CheerWine

    Great food! I would consider myself a cookout regular and this is some of the best tonight!

    This is a rat poop looking thing in my drink

    We got 3 milk shakes and they all had pieces of Styrofoam in them that we chew on. The other one had like a rat shit looking hard piece in it. Very unappetizing don't recommend

    Chicken bone

    i got my buddy a cookout trey for his birthday and while he was enjoying his food he bit a big ass bone in the chicken wrap, cmon cookout do better! food was gas besides the bone so i will be coming back :)

    Brad J.

    Not bad if you area into Dairy Queen. Very inexpensive, but you get what you pay for. every tasted good, I got the 5.25 meal. Seems to be the local kid hangout. I also got a chocolate milk shake, one of the best I ever had. You can't sit and eat there, so either do the drive through or be prepared to eat standing up. I will go back but with different expectations, basically fast food

    a burrito wrapped in tin foil

    Ordered a Buffalo chicken wrap and I opened it there was a full piece of hair in it sticking out

    Jessica C.

    *updating to 4 stars! I meant to do this originally. The only thing that docked a star for me was seating and seasoning on the burger :) My brother in law recommended we try this spot out and we were excited about the concept. You can order what's called a "tray" and they are only five bucks. It comes with an entree and two sides as well as drink. You can upgrade your drink to a milk shake for a buck which we did. I got the quarter pound burger with bacon cheese lettuce and mayo, and onion rings and cole slaw. Over all it was pretty good! The milk shake was amazing - I opted for peanut butter fudge. They had a lot of really great options for milkshakes. I wish the burger had better seasoning. I do like that it was better than fast food quality. I got a side of the Cookout Sauce to dip my onion rings in and it was so good! I ended up using the rest for my sandwich. This place isn't somewhere you eat inside. You can drive through or walk up and order. The service was quick and they were busy. My only complaint is that they had benches but no tables. I learned this is the norm for Cookouts but it would have been nice to eat inside rather than our car. We would come

    Sarah Ann B.

    Hush puppies: Duh, yes please. (I mean NO ONE else does drive through hushpuppies!) Mint chocolate chip shake: Who can say no? (Best Drive-Thru shake you'll ever have with that many options) Two drive through lines: You are so kind! (All the better to wrangle the riled up onslaught of college hormones) Open late: How did you know I would need you so?! (Suck it Mcy D's) In n Out, please meet Cook Out, your almost-as-good-looking southern cousin. Let's all be friends and call each other Sue!!

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    great amount of sauce and my food was so flavor full the worked a little mean but bean and spicy make things very spicy

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