Voices
“Hark & Holler does the hardest thing in Southern food right now: it takes the meatloaf seriously without ever taking itself seriously. The filling station glows like a promise off NC-209.”
“Every dish names its roadside ancestor on the menu, and every dish honors it. The Bird & Waffle is the best fried chicken within a hundred miles, and the waffle under it is better than that.”The Asheville Ledger
From the register wall
Cards left at the host stand, typed up exactly as written, spelling and all. Dana's has been pinned there since the second week.
“My granddad pumped gas in this building in the sixties. I cried a little when I saw the old bay doors, then I ate deviled eggs with trout roe and cried a little more.”Ruthie C.
“We drove two hours on a Tuesday for the patty melt. We will be driving two hours on many future Tuesdays.”Marcus & Jill T.
“It's the only fine-dining room where the server will call you 'hon' and then pour a charred-onion jus tableside like it's nothing. Both halves are the point.”Dana W.
Come argue with any of them
The book opens 30 days out at 9 am. Six counter seats and the two window deuces stay walk-in every night — if you'd rather take your chances and eat pie standing up, that has always been allowed here.
- Restaurant of the Year
- Blue Ridge Table, 2025
- Nights sold out
- 214 of 260 last year
- Cards on the wall
- Roughly 900 and counting
- Proposals refused
- Exactly one. We stand by it