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Mon.-Sat. 7AM-2:30PM, 5-10PM
Sun. 7AM-3PM

Parking

Free lot

City's Best

Toot-N-Tell Family Restaurant   

903 W Garner Rd
Garner, NC 27529
919-772-2616

Rating: 2 out of 5  (8 Ratings)   Read Reviews (8)    Rate and Write a Review

Originally opening as a drive-in back in 1946, the Toot-n-Tell restaurant is now primarily a family-style sit-down restaurant that really gives the town of Garner some flavor. With the capacity to hold 300 diners, the family-owned and run restaurant serves up to 1,000 people a day. Many come for the Toot-n-Tell's most popular dish of fried salt pork, which some refer to as streak-o-lean. The owners claim to fry up about 500 pounds of the stuff each week. The fried chicken, country-style steak, butter beans, sweet tea and even chitlins also score big points. Mornings here means plates running over with pancakes, omelets, hash browns, stacks of toast and just about every type of breakfast meat imaginable. The customer base comprises mostly regulars, from retirees in the mornings to business people at lunch and families at dinner. Prices here for a meal of meat and two veggies, or for a complete breakfast, usually fall under the cost of a movie ticket.

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Review rating 5 out of 5
Great Food and Service
By sportzbabe0901 on 07/06/2008
I would like everyone who reads these reviews to know- this restaurant has good food. I asked to go back to the kitchen to see how they cook their food. No, they do not refry their chicken. No, they do not use week-old vegetables. Yes, rotten food does go in the garbage. The person lying about this stuff should be absolutely ashamed. i have seen it firsthand; it is not a plantation, people who want to quit can quit, people who are doing bad are fired. It's as simple as that. They have excellent service and food. My favorite food, for example, is the hamburger steak. It has never been undercooked, overcooked, or rotten. I think, even if it was undercooked, they would find you a new hamburger steak. nobody should say anything bad about this restaurant!
Nanny loves me
Review rating 5 out of 5
great restaurant
By Nanny loves me on 07/06/2008
I have been a long time customer at Toot-N-Tell. I have never seen any cockroaches, it is more sanitary than McDonald's. They have an A sanitary rating. Most of the rude comments are coming from a waitress who was fired a long time ago. I would say that most of the waitresses at Toot-N-Tell are very happy. They are very kind to their customers and could only be accused of doing too much. Anybody who writes something bad about this restaurant is either angry for getting fired or just write mean things about people they don't even know. Toot-N-Tell is, yes, an old restaurant, but they DO serve over a thousand people daily, and they DO have great cheap food.
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Review rating 1 out of 5
ynnep49
By Watchmecu on 07/04/2008
whoever u are that eats at that place everyday, you should be ashamed! why would u defend a dump like that? they are predjudice people. what shade might u be? if its brown, they want ur money. if not for black folks they would be out of business. use your brain. they must be feeding u for free!
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Review rating 4 out of 5
About the nasty food comment
By Ynnep49 on 05/30/2008
You should be very ashame of yourself for I know for a fact that you work there and yes you did eat that chicken you are referring to. This may or may not be the place to do this but when I read something like this i have to respond. Please tell me why you would do something like this and this place was your meal ticket for months. I eat at toot n tell almost everyday and I haven't had a problem .Like all other resturants their is always left over food to be used on the line the next day. We at home use leftovers so why is it resturants can't do the same as long the food. is ok. On that plantation you were one of those workers you were not complaining then so why are you complaing now is it because they "fired" you. Like I said please forgive me for resopnding like this but the truth is the truth and one person comment will not hurt a place like Toot n Tell.The owners and the workers there are all friendly ,nice, loving and caring people. Upset customer