the local joint

champion sound breakfast sandwich. i recently ate here for a lunch break while landscaping for 8 hours. i got the big bear sandwich. i rarely admit defeat and use silverware to attack a sandwich, but this was necessary given the delicious smothering of gravy on top of the fried chicken, bacon and cheese. this was all on a homemade biscuit. it is as good as it sounds, sided with some in house home fries. the local joint is as its name denotes local food at really reasonable prices, highly recommended.

now open for dinner! fish tacos very good. so happy to see a good restaurant in fairview

we went with a group of 8 (4 adults, 4 kids) on a sunday around lunch. we were all impressed with the menu and especially the kids menu (less than $4 per kid). you can order breakfast until 3:00. i had the french toast, it came with a fruit cup. i would order it every time! others ordered a buffalo chicken sandwich, burger and fish tacos; all enjoyed their meals. the location is misleading, but definitely worth a trip.

really good brussels sprouts. i wasn't as impressed with the buffalo wings. they had cake instead of pie… we sat outside and it kind of stunk.

do not order the corned beef breakfast. it is an overpriced egg (1) with hash browns. you pay for corned beef, but it contains barely any corned beef. cook was rude.

the food is wonderful. it's a locally owned and they use local meats and fresh ingredients. however, the service is lacking. the waitresses seem as if they could careless about actually serving food, but seemed more interested in talking to each other. it appeared to stem from management b/c even the manager acts as if customer service isn't a high priority. it's hard to enjoy even good food when you're service is terrible. i really hope they can turn it around.

an outstanding restaurant. a truly outstanding restaurant for breakfast and lunch. to a great extent, the food is from local farms, breweries, etc. rather than commercial distributors. the preparation is wonderful, in a home style (if your grandmother was a great chef), and served by a neighborly staff. if you are into ironic humor, the local joint is attached to a gas station, not the typical location for a reataurant of this calibre. the name is appropriate in that the local populus for miles around make this their favorite.

the good, the bad & the ugly. i go to the local joint several times a week. i've probably done breakfast, lunch and dinner an equal number of times, week days and weekends, so i feel i'm writing a solid "report".

in some aspects, i absolutely love the local joint. it's wonderful to see a business finally "make it", in this particular spot, where so many have failed. it's even more wonderful to have a restaurant in fairview who uses local farmers and merchants and cares about good, quality, local and organic foods, beers and wines.
with that said:
the good: a pretty unique menu consisting of mostly good food, made from a lot of local farmers and merchants. warm, fun, local environment when you're there with your neighbors or friends, especially on a cold morning (with good coffee!!) ; a nice local gathering spot.
the bad: the wait staff. while they are all different ages and personalities, they all seem to have a common thread....and its not a good one; a apathetic attitude and a sense of entitlement. i've seen 1 female server with a friendly attitude but all of the rest of the waitstaff seems to be hurried, stressed out and very angry or unhappy.
the ugly: attitudes. none of the wait staff seem to give a sh*t if you are there or not and most all of them act as if they are doing you a huge favor by waiting on you or as if you are encroaching upon them if you ask more than 1 question. god forbid if you ask more than one question or have a special request or food allergies! they don't bother trying to hide their displeasure and dirty looks. some of them do little "huffs" and one female server (who seems to be there all the time and works every station) all but rolls her eyes at you every time you say or ask anything.

i also have to say here that i have put in my years as wait staff, in every environment from mom & pop greasy spoons to 5-star restaurants, so i know the life. i know how ugly the public can be and i know how you can be treated and then not get tipped or make any money from it, therefore servers have my empathy and i always treat wait staff with respect and i always tip well, even when the service is less than ideal. (i've even tried tipping the one really obnoxious female server there really well to see if it would make a difference in how she treats me the next time i come in. nope. she doesn't care. she's always just as impatient and obnoxious every single time.)

how do these people keep their jobs?

the cook staff doesn't seem any better. often their eyebrows are furrowed in the most unhappy and even angry expressions. are they unhappy or hung over or just plain miserable, or what?? i've heard the wait staff and cook staff fussing and snapping at each other. "why is this here?" "where's my ____?" if you go to the counter at the end to place or pick up a to go order, the cook staff will be all over the place within a foot in front of you and will not even bother to look up to see if you need anything. i realize that's not their job but i really don't think it would kill them if they could at least look up, make eye contact and at least smile. i don't know....maybe a few of the rigid faces would, indeed, break, crack and fall off.

fairview as a whole is such an artsy fun community and most people in fairview have really great attitudes. all of this negative stuff seems so out of place in fairview!!!! attitudes like this usually "trickle down". if management or the lead wait staff have horrible attitudes, they tend to hire people with the same "energy" or "vibration". i've heard good things about the owner of the local joint, so i have to wonder....is it coming from her? or is she too far removed from the daily grind and it's coming from her management or lead staff?

whatever the source of it is, i sure hope the owner sees this and has a wakeup call.

as much as i love my little local restaurant, i'm afraid my experience there yesterday was just about the last straw. i've tried to look over it, and focus on the good aspects and i've tried to deal with it but i think i've had about enough of the really negative attitudes and i think it's worth it to drive further into asheville, to the restaurants where you're treated as valued and appreciated.

it's a p-i-t-y.

yum. comfortable, friendly, quality food,,gluten free bread available..
great service!

overall the service was okay aside from drinks needing refills and a long wait to pay, but the food was enjoyable. with the lack of a waiting area and the lack of staff privacy we haven’t been back, but i like to stick with a three strikes so i’ll give it another shot in hopes of a better experience.

eat at a gas station? if  the local joint  is attached, you bet! my friend marti and i pulled in, driving past the pumps . . . . . . to the joint’s side entrance. a warm day, if might have been a little too breezy for umbrellas, but they must make the place look even more festive when they’re up. as soon as we walked in i smiled at the diner-come-21st-century interior. compelled to raise my eyes to “eat local”  the minute we walked in, my eye was then drawn lower to dishes and wall tiles, then toward me to red-toned vinyl bar stools with yellow piping, and finally, reaching closest to where we stood, the floor tiles. the hip color palate is throughout. notice the stacked, colored crates bringing color to the plain white tile wall. forward to shelves of colored dishes. forward again and lower to shelves of mugs and condiments that suspiciously go with everything else. could the color palate be ketchup, mustard, pickle? someone has an incredible eye for color. moving on from color and de

middling. we saw good reviews, but i was not impressed. the salad was wilted and brown around the edges, plus the staff was unfriendly. all in all not so good an experience, sorry to say.

amazing food for great prices. i was wary when we first pulled up and saw that it was attached to a gas station, but lesson learned. don't be so judgy!

astonishingly good prices for well-made, local sourced food served in a funky and comfortable environment. i had the cuban panini with sweet potato fries and my spouse enjoyed his rueben with sweet potato fries. we also had the buffalo chicken chips appetizer. around $24 and we will each be getting another meal out of our leftovers.

two things to keep in mind. quality food takes a little time. don't come in here and expect to get your food in the same amount of time one gets regular diner food. the buffalo chicken chips must be meant to be shared by many more than two people (which is fine, love leftovers).

all we could say is wow!!!!!. my daughter and i were looking at property and we met the realitor at the local joint where my daughter ordered a mamosa to begin her morning. it was amazing. we returned for lunch before going back to winston salem and were astounded with the chicken salad sandwitch with a hint of apple and taragon and lettuce and a slice of beautiful tomato. we also had a great rubin and thought both where the best we had eaten yet. the ice tea was superb. we hated we left without tasting the lemon cake. now we have to go back. a true oasis in the beautiful rolling hills of fairview. we shall return.

thanks!. my family loves the local joint! the food is fresh and very good. not always consitantly the same but consistantly good. i recently have developed some food sensitivities which make going to restaurants challenging but last week i gave my complicated order to a smiling server and was served a meal that was delicious and one that fit into my restrictive diet. no huffing or eye rolling (that i saw anyway) about the "difficult" customer. this was the most pleasant dining out experience that i have had in a couple of months.