The Old Store

Traveling down Hwy 74 often, I am always looking for non-​fast food restaurants. I love local diners and usually my first impression is how full the parking lot is. This restaurant must be the only game in this area because there were lots of locals dining but I’ve definitely had better.
The first cool thing is that each table has a bowl of peanuts in the shell. Unfortunately they were stale. We then perused the menu. I chose fried chicken — dark meat with fried squash and green beans. «Sorry, we’re out of fried chicken and fried squash.» Ok… So my friend and I ordered pintos, green beans, turnip greens and fried okra with cornbread. Our plates came quickly and lying on top of the little bowls of vegetables was a pancake. I thought this was interesting. But where was the cornbread? Well, turns out the pancake was the cornbread. They were so greasy that we took napkins and blotted them to get out some of the grease. They tasted ok and we were hungry — you do what you have to do. The vegetables were nothing spectacular but acceptable.
I will say that The Old Store was clean and had a lot of interesting antique signs and other memorabilia scattered around. The service was good. Will I return? Probably not. I’ll stop at Mamie’s in Laurel Hill or continue on to Laurenburg.
Cash Only.

If I could give them a half of a star I would. The peanuts on the table were good but the rest of our food was absolutely disgusting. Kids meals did not come with fries like the menu advertised, the BBQ was mushy from what I could tell since I was never even given a fork to eat it with, their hamburgers are tiny and none of the condiments I asked for were on there. It was an awful experience and would NEVER recommend someone stop there to eat.