Back to Etowah for a Bite at Shelby’s…

Another day and another drive in beautiful Eastern Tennessee!  This time we were off to buy some produce from the old order Mennonite Farmer’s Market in Delano.  After shopping it was time for lunch…

The last time we stopped at Shelby’s, it was for breakfast… This time, based on a 4.5 rating on Yahoo re: the restaurant’s hamburger, we decided to have a little lunch.

The sign in the first photo isn’t all that big and it’s sort of lost among nearby buildings and other signs.  As you can see above, Shelby’s Restaurant would be easy to miss if you didn’t have your eyes wide open.  The parking lot is unpaved with a gravel surface and the building does not grab your eye as you drive by…

Inside Shelby’s it has a fairly typical ‘local diner look’.  There are a few stools at the counter and a scattering of tables at the other end of the room. 

Here are the tables down at the opposite end of Shelby’s Restaurant.  It was past the ‘normal’ lunch time but they still had a few customers.  The place is clean and the service is friendly…

I ordered the bacon cheeseburger with a side of fried green tomatoes instead of French fries.  As you can tell, I started on the tomatoes before we remembered to take pictures…  The burger was too small for the bun although it was thick enough.  The bacon was generous and it had great flavor.  However, except for the bacon, the burger was fairly ordinary…perfectly acceptable but ordinary.  The fried green tomatoes were quite nice and they were quickly inhaled.

Laurie ordered a patty melt...which she also started to consume before we remembered to take photos.  The burger was a bit overcooked for her taste and she’d never had a patty melt on white bread…it’s almost always on rye, but she said that it tasted OK anyway.

The prices are right at Shelby’s…cheap/inexpensive eats… In retrospect, we think that our breakfast experience at this restaurant was superior to our lunch break.  Lunch was OK but the breakfast I wrote about a year and a half earlier was superior to most breakfasts that we’ve had here in Eastern Tennessee.  To check out breakfast at Shelby’s Restaurant, just click on http://bigdaddydavesbitsandpieces.blogspot.com/2011/10/breakfast-etowah-tn.html.

Shelby’s Restaurant is located at 327 North Tennessee Avenue (U.S. Highway 411) in Etowah Tennessee.  Phone: 423-263-0053.  I couldn’t locate a website for Shelby’s…

Just click on any of the photos to enlarge them…

Thanks for stopping by to see what we were having for lunch!

Take Care, Big Daddy Dave