Food & Drink in Boone

Dan’l Boone Inn, first firing up its griddles more than 50 years ago, caters to connoisseurs of comfort fare with a fixed menu of Southern staples served up family style. Soup or salad kicks off each all-you-can-eat dinner, paving the way for hearty heapings of fried chicken and country-style steak (up to $15.95 depending on age, free for children younger than 3). Between bites, tongue dive into a slew of flavorsome sidekicks that include coleslaw, country-ham biscuits, and fresh stewed apples. A delectable dessert then acts as the coda to a homestyle spread fit for the patron saint of the South, Elvis Faulkner himself.

Frogurt Boone’s staff sprinkles 96 dessert garnishes, including granulated peanuts and mandarin oranges, onto fro-yo flavors such as root-beer float, cranberry-hibiscus tart, or french vanilla. Frogurt frozen yogurt ($0.43/oz.) nourishes bodies with digestive-friendly probiotics, calcium, and modest amounts of sodium and cholesterol, making it a healthier alternative to scarfing down cookies or chugging Pepsi-flavor toothpaste. Sugar-free and dairy-free flavors also await yogurt-craving tongues.

The Broyhill Inn & Conference Center in the heart of the High Country, Boone NC. Recharge at our Inn & dedicated extensive conference center, a mountainous retreat at 3535ft. Enjoy our culinary talent, our flexible meeting space and our guestrooms. A Simple Philosophy; our guests become our friends, returning each year.

Crave treats diners to the fine art of food shrinkage with their internationally influenced menu of tapas. Tapas are smaller plates intended for snacking, sharing, combining, and carting home in microscopic doggy bags to create unique full-course meals. Crab-cake sliders layered with roma tomato and remoulade ($4.15) slip past dental defenses to tickle exposed taste buds, and fried goat cheese ($3.95) fills tonsil caverns with the echoing flavors of its pecan crust and granny-smith apple garnish. Chefs reflect their global modus operandi with battered plates of vegetable tempura ($5.95), bowls of spicy tomato-tortilla soup ($3.95), and miniature cowboy hats filled with 4-ounce portions of filet mignon ($9.95). Those saddled with heftier hunger pangs can satiate themselves with a large plate, such as duck confit with mushroom risotto, french beans, and mushrooms ($16), before stifling cacophonous sweet chompers with a delectable dessert of poached anjou pear with Grand Marnier sauce ($4.55).

For the past 30 years, Makoto's has remained a reliable tableside performance grill and sushi bar that has satisfied patrons with Japanese seafood, steaks, and other savories served up by expert and entertaining chefs. The sushi bar artfully decorates plates and stomachs with offerings such as the spicy kani salad ($6.95), inari or smoked salmon nigiri ($3–$4.50), and rolls ranging from the spooky roll with calamari and asparagus ($7.95) to the exotically creative fuji apple roll with apple, goat cheese, samurai secrets, and spicy tuna ($11.95).

The Gamekeeper Restaurant offers modern mountain cuisine in an elegantly rustic setting featuring in-house smoked meats, wild game, fish and vegetables prepared over a wood-fired grill. Most food is indigenous to the area and only the freshest offerings from local farmers, cheese makers and mushroom growers are used.

Crestwood is a family-owned-and-operated mountain retreat located in the heart of North Carolina’s High Country. Guests can choose from five available rooms, such as the Luxury Queen, featuring two queen-size beds and a private terrace with a mountain view, or the Elite King, which houses a king-size bed, mini fridge, fireplace, and full bath for a perfect couples' getaway.