My favorite Roadside Cafes, Barbecue Pits, Diners, Holes-In-Walls, Greasy Spoons, Down Home Cooking Restaurants.
Forever a work in progress as there will always be another great joint just around the bend. 

What's New:  Some eating in San Francisco, Kansas City and New Orleans.  The South too.  Cornell's famous Louie's Lunch Truck.   Some new Philadelphia spots.  Most of the places I ate through on Isla Mujeres, an island just off Cancun, Mexico.  Pretty much caught up, now.  Please let me know if there is anything that needs correcting - ie a restaurant has moved or passed on.

See Holly eat a lobster roll.  See Holly eat a cheesesteak.  Live on tape on PBS.  Check your local PBS station to learn when it's on next.  Click the image to the left to go to the Sandwiches That You Will Like Web Site.

Seems I'm getting slower and slower at answering my email.  For a quicker response to questions about where to eat, leave a message in one of the regional forums at eGullet.org.  I'm on there daily as are a bunch of other knowledgeable folks.  You need to register to post, but no cost and no spam.  Keep the suggestions of spots to visit coming to my email address. Thanks.
The Hot Dog Page 
Updated February 2008
Eating Philadelphia
 My home chomping ground
Updated February 2008
Eating the New England Coast 
Updated March 2006
Eating Jersey Dogs
 Updated March 2006
Eating The South
Updated February 2008
Carolina Barbecue
Updated August 2004
To Charleston SC For Oysters
Updated March 2004
Eating The Midwest  
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pittsburgh and St. Louis
Updated February 2008
Isla Mujeres, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Some of the best chowing down in the world
Updated February 2008
Eating The West - California & Vegas
Updated February 2008
New York, New York
Updated February 2008
Hopscotching Europe  
Prague, Budapest, Brussels, France, London
Updated July 2005
Eating My Way To Texas
Wheeling and Elsewhere in WV
Eating State Fairs and Festivals
Updated June 2005
Petit St. Vincent Resort
A Break In Content
Memories Of Meals Gone By
Memories of Eateries Gone By
"Retired" Restaurants no longer open.
Me (Holly)
Why Holly Eats - a short bio

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Site published July 5,  2000
Site Last Updated February 19, 2008

 
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HollyEats.Com is for everyone who:

  • Prefers chowing down to dining.

  • Proudly wears a grease splattered shirt as the badge of  honor it is.

  • Makes it a point to consume one's minimum daily requirement of nitrates.

  • Is at least a bit leery of sparkling clean restaurants, suspicious that their focus is on scouring, not cooking.

  • Is more impressed with a restaurant parking lot packed with pickup trucks and Chevy's than one boasting BWM's and Cadillac's.

  • Passes by the familiar, bland comfort of the Red Lobsters, Olive Gardens and Golden Arches that have taken over suburbia, insisting on driving a few minutes or hours further - knowing that somewhere down the road is a barbecue pit, a truck stop, a diner, a drive-in. a greasy spoon that may well become the highlight of the journey.

The Grease Stain Rating System    

Anyone who has seen my shirt after I've ravaged a cheese steak hoagie understands the grease stain rating system.  

Grease stains don't necessarily mean greasy food, though that certainly works in a place's favor.  Rather, the greater the splatter fallout, the more I relished my meal and the more grease stains that ended up on my shirt.  

Restaurants are awarded  3 to 5 grease stains ranging from "great" to "outstanding."   Those meriting just one or two grease stains will have to fry harder to earn their way onto here. 



Our Patron Saint - Calvin Trillin


If it wasn't for Calvin Trillin's American Fried which I read back in the late '60's, I'd still believe that the only great restaurants were those flaunting silver service, designer clad servers, and Escoffier inspired haute cuisine.

Author of the Tummy Trilogy 
American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third Helpings.