This is a Mobil gas station with an Alltown convenience store, located at the busy intersection of routes 1 and 138, just south of "The Tower." It's a convenient stop only if you're driving south on Route 1; otherwise, you will have to access it from Route 138 and possibly fight the URI traffic. Also, in my opinion, the parking lot is too small for such a busy location. The exterior of the property is well-kept and nicely landscaped, though.
Inside, the store is nicely laid out, with a good variety of food, drinks and snacks, plus kiosks of common convenience store items. There are also bathrooms, although you have to ask at the counter for a key (I wonder how many people have handled those keys? Yuck! lol). The men's room is not as clean as ones at Seasons Corner Market, likely because this location sees heavy traffic between URI students and summer beach-goers. There is graffiti in the bathroom as well.
I recently stopped there for a quick lunch, but the pizza looked like it had been sitting in the warmer way too long (and this was 12:30 p.m., peak lunch time). Then, I considered a wrapped-up hamburger and asked an employee behind the food counter what time it had been made, and she said 10:30 a.m. Um, no freakin' way (I do appreciate her honestly, at least). Getting desperate, I moved to the cold sandwich case and settled on a chicken ceasar wrap instead. The sandwich was actually good and fresh, though I wish it had been a bit larger. My total tab for the sandwich, a Rockstar energy drink and a Twix candy bar totaled $10.34 - kind of pricey for a gas station lunch, typically a notch below a fast-food lunch, which you can easily get for that price point.
As the other reviewer opined, the employees are very friendly, but it can't make up for food that is sub-standard, even by convenience store standards. In retrospect, I wish I had gotten lunch at Subway, which is next to a Dunkin Donuts on another corner of the same intersection. read more