Three snaps is inadequate for this fantastical find! Wow - we spend a lot of time in Burnsville and…read moreare so glad we spent a recent Saturday afternoon at Snap Dragon. We will be back every time we are in town. In fact, we might plan special mountain trips just to go to Snap Dragon. For food, everything we had was yummy and plentiful. We had a burger, fries, a salad, and cannon balls - all delicious. The fried pickles are the best we have ever had, anywhere! The cocktail selection is great! Try the hurricanes - don't evacuate! These are not super sweet and there are many options. Category 2 and Category 3 are are favorites. We also enjoyed the Fire Tower and Painkiller. To top it off, the setting on the Burnsville square is quaint and Snap Dragon has indoor and outdoor seating amid lovely plants. They have beer and cider on tap, too. The service is outstanding as well. Go to Snap Dragon and enjoy!

A small place with BIG flavors!!! If you're visiting the area this is a MUST STOP for!! The food is…read moregreat and the staff are awesome! I would post a pic of the habanero cordon bleu but it was so good I had to eat it!!!

Pizza was good. Salad was okay. Disappointed that it came with deli meat turkey and not carved…read more Great outdoor space

Love their pizza, esp the 9-in size. Perfect for one. Friendly service, too. Been going there the…read morelast 6 years.

Stopped in during the art festival. They were very busy but the line for a table moved quickly…read more Service was attentive and friendly. We split the bbq pork sandwich and they let us get 2 sides (side sales and the pasta salad). Sandwich was very good (could have used a bit more sauce). The pasta salad was great! Garden side salad had super fresh local tomatoes on it that were . We also got the tuna salad plate with potato sales. Again more of those super fresh maters....tuna salad was good, prefer a bit more mayo and the tater salad was pretty good. Overall, this place was great. When back in town, we wouldn't hesitate to come back!

A nice little restaurant. Most of the staff were friendly but a couple employees were brusque…read more The chili was excellent. The chicken in the chicken quesadilla was tough and stringy. Beer and wine only. No spirits are served here.

Stopped in for a quick cocktail the staff was so friendly and we had a very nice spicy margarita…read more Tasty and a bit boozy looks like a great place all the food going by looked great. I need to stop back for a proper meal

Wonderful food !! Wonderful sweet people!! I got takeout but I am definitely coming back to sit…read moredown. My daughter said it is the best Mexican food in the area and she was right !!!!

Breakfast was delicious. I got the Pig n Grits breakfast. The eggs were over easy and cooked…read moreperfectly. The coffee was delicious and the waitress kept our cups full. The restaurant has aluminum barn feel which is very country and clean.

Never disappoints! This time we had the ribs with hush puppies, bacon cheddar grits and corn on the…read morecob. Everything was delicious. I had the country fried steak with mashed potatoes and hush puppies, very good. Love that they have dog-friendly outdoor seating. Will definitely be back, maybe we will try breakfast next time.

I haven't had a single thing to eat from Bubba's that I didn't absolutely enjoy! Give me the philly…read morecheesesteak every day for the rest of my life, and we'll be on good terms. It's my go to. The funny thing is, I didn't also expect to find the best salad in Burnsville - but I did. When I wanted a fresh, crisp salad that tasted like it was cut and prepared when I ordered it - I only found that at Bubba's. If that's not what they're doing, do not tell me otherwise. Service has always been exceptional and friendly. The atmosphere is equally family-friendly and the decor is supportive of local sports, and our industries. This is the neighborhood place. And unless you are going off hours, it's always packed and there's as much seating as it can accommodate, but that's not a whole lot. So, I'm always picking up and eating at home. I am a local now, I'd love to join the locals here, I'm just not sure when I'd do that, and as a solo-flyer, I'd be robbing people of valuable food real estate. Maybe in the Spring, more people will be eating outside and I can find a seat. Right now, that fifth star is on hold until I can experience the atmosphere first hand during a meal.

Went in on a Saturday at lunchtime. The service was great and the food was delicious. Try this…read moreplace out.

The food here is great! The meat is so tender, the vegetables so fresh, and the rice is cooked…read moreperfectly every time! Service is always fast and friendly! Portions are large! We always sit on the patio with our dog.

The food was delicious. Vegetables were very fresh and sauces were tasty and not greasy. Service…read morewas very fast and friendly.

A well established roadside diner with great food. The…read morebuilding is old, the sign is old, the inside is old. Everything you would want from a roadside diner. The server was great, always on top of everything and making sure you have everything you need. The cheeseburger was very good, same level of great as FarmBurger at less cost. I will come back many more times.

I visited Lil Smoky's Drive-In for a late lunch on a quick day trip up to Burnsville. As I've noted…read morein other reviews, I'm working on getting a hot dog in every county in North Carolina and this was my Yancy County Dog (county number 99!). The lunch rush was wrapping up as I pulled into the parking lot. Main tables were still full but were clearing out. When I walked in, I wasn't totally sure if it was an order at the counter or seat yourself type place. For those reading this after, you can just seat yourself and a server will bring a menu by. The locals that came after me got a much warmer welcome than I did, but it was great to see that this community is tight-knit. I ordered a hot dog with chili, mustard, and slaw and a bacon cheeseburger. Everything came out pretty quickly. The hot dog had a nice chewy bun but the chili had a flavor to it that I didn't love. Maybe a spice, cinnamon? I not sure but it wasn't my favorite. The burger on the other hand was really good. I think it's simplicity is what makes it delicious plus a really nice serving of bacon. :) I got a slice of peanut butter cake to go. You know when you see 7 tupperware cake carriers on top of a counter that the desserts are going to be homemade and delicious. and it was! All in all, a nice stop. Thanks Lil Smoky's!

Delicious coffee and drink choices, and some of the tastiest baked goods around! If you stop here…read moreyou have to try the huge homemade oatmeal cream pie or any one of their muffins...YUM!

To speak intelligently about this experience, I need to invoke another time, another place. Despite…read moremy desire for it to be otherwise, my mind drifts back to my days in Vietnam. At that time, meals were not something we could take for granted, flavor was not a luxury, and the MRE's were simply a way of keeping ourselves going, a necessary evil in the face of capital E Evil. I don't remember a single meal I ate in those days, and I'm glad for that. Well, this experience was kind of like that. It was a hard day for many reasons - hot and humid amid the barren landscape of any available breakfast in all of Burnsville. Sad, but an understandable result of our times. Imagine it - ordering a breakfast sandwich but no prices for any of the ingredients listed: will this sandwich be 9$ or $20? I can't know until it's time to pay, and by then it's too late (if I want to remain a gentleman). And imagine further - a 20 minute wait in the upstairs so quiet, so empty, that even casual conversation with my comrade echoed off the walls for all to hear. My belly rumbling could even have been confused with flatulence, for which I am apologetic. Picture the sandwich coming, my great relief, and the resulting disappointment to find that not a single piece of bacon awaited me. Bacon that I not only wanted, but needed. Stay with me - I took the sandwich downstairs, hoping for a quick remedy, but alas, it was not to be. Another 20 minutes elapsed, and my compatriot finished his breakfast burrito which near broke his wallet (he does have a decadent streak). I walked downstairs, confused and distraught. The sandwich had been waiting all along, but I was not made aware. I took it upstairs and as a matter of principle, peeled back the bread to see two pale, thin, soggy pieces of bacon, as if they had simply pulled apart a microwave Jimmy Dean microwave breakfast sandwich and applied that wan and insulting offering to my "food." I ate the sandwich, but I didn't enjoy it. I didn't enjoy even a single bite. And yet I knew that there was a whole day to live, and a trying journey to Ingles yet to come. I adjusted my attitude as I made some cursory field notes, which you are now reading, and resolved myself to, in the words of my friend and yours Charlie Kirk, carry the flame even as my digestive fire was dampened and abused. This review is part of my process that I learned in harder times, because I saw in my father (and cousin Tommy) what repressing emotions can do. Thank you for reading, thank you for caring.

The food just isn't very good honestly. It's not expensive, but definitely on the lower spectrum…read moreoff the food truck.

Just save your money. Ordered at the counter 3 separate times and by the time we got home it was…read morecompletely wrong. 3!!! 3 times! Not many places to choose from in Burnsville but there are definitely other choices! We should have learned by now. However when the team member reads back the order and STILL made wrong! Unbelievable!!! No accountability from anyone.