Best breakfast in a long time. And when you go ask for Hollywood's table. This waitress was the best witty morning energy that we needed to start our day without being too sweet and energetic where you just want to punch her We love REAL Sausage grave and they had it, plus good southern grits! We will be back again!!!! Wish I had pictures to post but the only thing we had left wa empty plate....oh, and great crispy hashbrowns that were perfect and not overcooked!! read more

Meh. Supermarket frozen food. Reheated. Our expectations were very low going in so we weren't disappointed. I definitely wouldn't go again.

This place was a huge disappointment. The burger I got was good once they replaced the burnt bun. My husband got breakfast. The hash browns were real greasy and the rest wasn't much better. We won't be returning. Do yourself a favor and find somewhere else. read more

Ordered this via delivery (restricted travel due to newborn). Spent just over $20 per person. I ordered salmon, and chicken fried steak for my wife. Portions were small. Seasoning was lacking. Service was slow. And food was cold. Will not be back to this place... literally McDonald's is better. read more

I was a little worried when I saw it is located inside a truck stop, but I was so happy we went in as the food was great and the waitstaff so friendly!! read more

Great service and really good food. Waitress was very nice and attentive. With very few full service breakfast options I was very pleased with this restaurant. read more

As my friend and I were Door dashing up in the mountains of NC and we stopped at a TA travel center for some food. They had a restaurant called Country Pride and it was just like a IHOP or Denny's The decorations were cute for the holiday but the food was nothing to write home about. I had chicken Parm which is the same anywhere and my friend had the chili bread bowl which was cold. 3stars read more

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Decent prices and okay food. Good steak but meatloaf, mashed potatoes and eggs were all meh. If you don't like instant mashed potatoes this is not the place for you. Also no desert menu, sad. Cool staff though. read more

My lunch at Country Pride really hit the spot after a long day of snowboarding. Got chicken fried steak, salad (already finished in pic), and hashbrown casserole for my side with sweet tea to drink. All were delicious, highly recommend! read more

Country Pride - Chicken fried steak and hashbrowns. - American Near Me - Candler, North Carolina

MY STEAK AN EGGS WAS HORRIBLE Service was alright , nothing had any flavor my steak tasted like plastic ... do not recommend! read more

Food was perfection. Came out quick. Decently busy. Waitresses were sweet & working hard. Portions decent. Price decent. Location good. Place is clean. REMEMBER TO TIP WHAT YOU WOULD WANT TO BE TIPPED. Ordered a second plate to go haha. read more

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This is a diner. Sit down. If Yelp calls it "fast food," it's only because of how it's likely to pass through your colon. It's clean, as greasy spoons go, located in a TA truck stop. If you have delusions of the ratings this place has received by the current crop of Yelpers, you ascribe to the saying: "If this place doesn't meet your standards, then lower your standards." When I see "Hiring Cooks" and "hiring servers" signs, I should run, but it was close to our B&B in the middle of nowhere, so I bit the bad bacon and entered. The good news, truckers, is, if anything on your rig needs lubricant, that you can bring along the hash browns, and smear 'em on good. Scrambled eggs so hard that I found the "Acme" gag gifts imprint in the rubbery block. Toast was bread, with a hint of brown. Butter on it was scarcer than a Biden/Harris sticker on a red neck pickup truck. Better than a Waffle House. Worse than a Cracker Barrel. read more

Awesome, we wasn't sure about this place since it was in a truck stop however it was around the corner from our hotel. We walked in the restaurant was very clean the waitress (Angela) was awesome and very friendly. They had a wide range of foods. The breakfast was amazing. One of the nice things I like really liked about it was they toasted the biscuit just like my mother did when I was growing up. We come down I-40 a lot coming from and going to Knoxville TN. We will differently stop by here again. read more

It's a down home place - in a truck/gas plaza right off the Interstate. If you are hungry for plain old food - don't let location stop you. Service is a bit rough around the edges - but friendly. Basic American grub - breakfast all day, pork chops, hamburgers, club sandwich and the like. Breakfast is excellent. Freshly prepared, eggs are cracked, shredded hash browns, toast. Nothing amazingly unique - but a hot fresh solid breakfast. Lunch/dinner different story - quality is all over the place. Would not order fish again, but pork chops were good. Hamburgers are decent. But as with all things, pricing has gone up - I think it's worth it for breakfast, not for dinner. read more

Soooo you're driving for like forever coming from Gatlinburg and you're starving....& this pops up with good reviews. Looks like it says, Country Pride---Mmmmk, let's do it. At first, OH no, it's next to a gas station, probably for truckers-then you go inside and the service is quick, the place is clean and the menu has Breakfast in addition to lunch! It's like "Perkins" but way better with real food products. We both got omelets and it was delicious. Perfect place for travelers who are hungry, just not the place you take a fancy date to...unless you're both not into fancy. :) (Why didn't we stop in places in other towns on route? Honestly, sometimes I feel uncomfortable and unwelcomed with soooooo many confederate flags flying and just get a tad nervous....) read more

Overpriced for what you get. Staff is a mixed bag depending on the time of day you go. It's a truck stop, so don't expect much. It feels like a Denny's. The salad bar isn't bad, and offer a soup every day. read more

Good food, service is great. Try the pancakes, they are amazing. They are really good with butter and syrup, but it's just my opinion.

I stopped by for lunch - nice soup / salad bar for a very reasonable price. The veggies were fresh and tasty. I was disappointed with the soup - straight out of a can. Wait service was fast and friendly - I will come back again. read more

As a first time visitor to this part of North Carolina, Country Pride doesn't look like anything very impressive or special at first glance. It's connected to a truck stop and fuel station with lots of traffic in and out. After reading a few positive reviews, we chose this spot for lunch and left completely blown away by the food quality/price/value. For starters, the soup/salad bar was better than any chain restaurant salad bar I've ever had. A meal all by itself, really. Very clean, fresh and full of fruits/veggies and some unique items I've never seen on a salad bar. It was still pretty early in the day when we stopped (11:30ish) but a lunch crowd was quickly forming. This soup/salad bar is on a whole different level compared to places like Ruby Tuesday's, where I often go when I want to fill up on some veg. Country Pride's (amazing) soup/salad bar is included with (most) entrees. Speaking of entrees, they have a "special" they do on each day of the week. On Friday's, it's all you can eat whitefish (fried or grilled) with your choice of a side item AND the soup/salad bar AND as much toasted garlic bread you can handle. So. Much. Food. The price: 13.99. For all that. And the waitress was nice enough to offer me another plate of fish right before I packed up a to go box. The fish plate was outstanding. If they are taking a little bit of extra time to bring out your food, stay patient because it's definitely worth it. Good things take time, especially when they aren't pulled from a freezer. Will be returning very soon hopefully. read more

Country Pride - Fried whitefish plate w/ tater tots & garlic bread. - American Near Me - Candler, North Carolina

Good old time truck stop. Large menu, food is good. It's never too crowded to get a seat. The waitresses are all long term employees. You see the same faces every time. Last time, got one of the breakfast platters. They are LARGE. We split this one and we both were full. Their pancakes are --Perfect-- Definitely a great road stop. They won't be sticking a Subway in this place any time soon. Enjoy! read more

The 4.5 star status is very misleading. It has to be the worst breakfast I've ever had. The eggs were a strange texture, the pancakes were a weird flavor and at the hash browns were full of grease (which they forgot and we waited while the server had to cook them. With it being a gas station restaurant my expectation are not super high but when it has 4 stars I had higher hopes. The inside is a cute old fashion diner feeling with nice booths. read more

This is great home cooking and service! The salad bar is HUGE. A local told me about this and he was right. Best salad bar around !!! The country fried steak is tender and cooked to perfection!!! If in canton or candler, it's worth the stop.... at the truck stop !!!! read more

Fantastic waitress Brandi!! Not only did Brandi provide excellent service but did it with a smile. We have been traveling and this is the best service we have received!! Food was also excellent ordered the "Long Haul" and the coffee was very tasty. If we are back again this way we will make this place a stop. read more

Country Pride - Long Haul - American Near Me - Candler, North Carolina

The service at this restaurant was phenomenal. I only saw one Server and he was hustling. He was courtyard polite to every person that I saw him speak to. We had driving the entire 11 hours and we're so tired abs hungry. I ordered the chicken stir fry which also came with a side salad. Hubby had the jalapeño burger. We have no complaints about the food. Reminded me of diner style food in NJ. This establishment is highly recommended. read more

This is my go-to greasy spoon, truck stop diner! I go for the breakfast food, loving on the chicken fried steak, eggs, and biscuits with gravy. The atmosphere is great if you like hearing surly truck drivers (in a funny way) and few just as comical waitresses. It's not just the food, but it's the show! Go! read more

Crazy great!!!!! Food is sooooo good!!! Hollywood was our waitress and she was awesome too!!! read more

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Clean restaurant. Menu with lots of choices. Friendly, professional waitress. Tasty food at a fair price. It's all good!

Excellent food and service! Friendly family vibe! I got the farmer's omelette and it was delicious. I am a biscuit and gravy lover and this restaurant knows how to do a biscuit and gravy! Definitely worth the stop!! read more

this is a course for the Country Pride not for the TA portion.. this has always been a very good through the years and still is back in the days of the travelport the roadway motor plaza the buckhorn Restaurant is it changed its name Through The Years course no longer 24 hours like the majority of ta restaurants but no surprise anymore.. that you take a lot of pride in this they have great employees great waitresses and a whole lot more that do a fantastic job at this one so caught up with you but they'll do their job right the salad bar is second-to-none it is always stocked fresh as can be all the soup choices leave a little bit for me but that's no big deal.. most people know I love carrots my whole life and I still do at just few months shy of 50 years old...BAHA! although that's a hard place to park in a truck car parking is still very good it does attract a lot of travelers and especially local still to this day.. the breakfasts are Fantastic four dinners are very good compared to the TA up there by Spartanburg South Carolina there a Duncan it's like night and day.. I do like to stop here but I also know if it's past about three or four in the afternoon a lot of times parking is going to be tricky as probably going to be a Subway or something up yonder.. or I'll stop and chow down before or after I come through.. as I said I stopped you're a lot for breakfast today I want to start with a nice salad bar it was fully stocked in fresh fantastic had started with some nice lettuce and I had some cucumbers and cheese on top throughout some ranch dresses and celery nice and chopped up Chow mein noodles where I like it a couple of croutons and French dressing.. then I had a nice soup bowl full of grapes they've got a great grapes year he is getting better and better when they get them in there not the green or white ones is there, but they're too sweet juicy red ones.. sometimes that's all I want I could fill up on a salad bar but today I decided to be a glutton and pig out so I started up order the grilled chicken breast and a baked potato waiting for that I decide to grab some kidney beans.. that I got some apple sauce to go with my dinner.. the grilled chicken breast was great but a little black pepper and Heinz 57 sauce the way I like it baked potato was so good at the whole damn thing skins and all butter and sour cream just fresh piping-hot not nasty great job... then for about the fourth trip up to the salad bar I wandered up and got some chocolate pudding off of there for dessert.. and now I need a wheelbarrow and someone to cart me back out to the truck cuz I'm way in the back of the parking lot LOL..hello Uber how much do you charge to go from one under the parking lot to the other?? LOL SH LIKE A LOT OF THE YELP REVIEWS FOR MOST PEOPLE ARE VERY SATISFIED BY HERE BECAUSEEVEN THOUGH THIS IS ONE OF THE OLD SCHOOL TRUCK STOPS FROM WAY BACK IN THE EARLY SEVENTIES THEY KEEP IT UP QUITE WELL..THE TA PART THAT WAS SHOWING ITS AGE AND IT'S NOT A FIVE-STAR BUT THIS RESTAURANT HERE EVERY TIME I COME IN I WALK AWAY SATISFIED AND ONCE AGAIN A GOOD SHINE IS WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND AT OTHER DINERS ENJOYING THEIR FOOD AND THAT LOOKING DISGUSTED AT THEIR FOOD.. SO FROM THE LOCALS, TRAVELERS, AND TRUCKERS, THIS IS DEFINITELY STILL ONE OF THE GOOD COUNTRY PRIDES THAT I DO FREQUENT VERY OFTEN . read more

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This is a great place to eat. Breakfast is fantastic. The other meals are very good also. I will stop here any chance I get. read more

Country Pride - American Near Me - Candler, North Carolina

Extemely clean. Friendly service. The food was abundant and delicious!!!! Nice little stop for families and kids eat free Memorial Day through Labor Day!!! And they have a gas station also! Easy off easy on for the interstate !! We will stop again when we travel through. This is also a TA for trucks paso g through but not a crazy busy one. Just a good quiet quick stop with good food and friendly service. Oh and it's a pocket on stop where they give you free stuff for the level you are on just show them your avatar level. read more

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Simply good food. Great customer service. Food tasted fresh and smelled great. Will stop here again. We really enjoy the food and atmosphere. You should try stir fry. It is good. read more

The service and environment were inviting and comfortable, but the breakfast food was really disappointing. Eggs, both scrambled and in omelet, we're of the fake egg beater variety. Sausage was really off (processed, kind of spongy) and the gravy was definitely from a tin can with way too much salt and pepper. The biscuits were edible. The best part was probably the fresh veggies in the omelet. If you're looking for simple diner quality breakfast (not necessarily farm-to-table, but eggs that have been cracked right there and sausage that has more meat than filler), try cracker barrel on exit 44 or waffle house on exit 33. read more

Great breakfast. Great service. Stopped in while travelling. Will come back for sure!

Not open 24/7 They close at 11pm Super legit soup and salad bar! Best potato soup I've ever had! The service was fast and the waitress was nice. Most entrees come with soup and salad bar so you can get full before you even get your food then take the rest home. read more

Our breakfast was very delicious, service was amazing, and our hostess Vanessa was outstanding!!! Highly recommend eating at Country Pride!!! read more

Amazing breakfast.. Nice staff. Definitely a stop on our vacations to the mountains. I have been here a few times and the breakfast is to die for... amazing!! read more