9 Best American Restaurants near Rocky Mount

“Great food at affordable prices! Wonderful staff as well! Gotta try the hamburger steak!“

“great food great people old school truck stop“

“We went to the Ally Cat for drinks and dinner on Saturday. Cant say enough good things about our visit! Food was great (fried baloney sandwich and the dorito taco salad) and the beer selection was awesome! Jessica at the bar was awesome as well! Great vibes! We will be back!“

“Good food friendly staff and very attentive to the customer“

“First time eating at this Bojangles since the remoldel. The place looks nice. More parking in the back is a definite plus. The ladies helping me were very friendly and helpful. The food was good, typical Bojangles. There is also a Dairy Queen right next door, so you have options.“

“We visited on May 17th 2026, and our server Taylor was awesome!! She was incredibly nice and attentive, and even the manager was nice and honest about food being a bit delayed, which we didn't mind!!
Definitely the best Applebee's experience I've had so far visiting :) We've been unlucky with servers in the past, but Taylor was incredible!“

“I went to this restaurant, The 77, back about seven years ago, on the day my dad had a heart attack. I had been friends with the small-town family owners—my kind of people. I think they get mixed up and serve people out of order but no eatery is scientifically precise with sequential ’order up.’ The owner is older now anyhow, but she’s a doll. I knew a server there years ago that I haven’t seen her since, but her kids I think go there with their teams. Everybody knows everybody in town so they don’t take kindly to strangers, especially if you’re trying to pay with a credit card. I embarrassed my wife with a visa on several occasions and that time my mom’s cousin Jenny took out her card, she said, “Electronic for the exact amount,” and the server looked at her…she wasn’t angry, but she wasn’t happy neither. I didn’t like that. But it was a Friday, seafood night and the fried guppies always turn my frown upside down and never turn my stomach. Only fish I can eat is at 77.
The atmosphere, the home cooking, the country love is so thick u can sink your milk teeth into it like the fresh biscuits the cook whips up on Sunday after church. I even saw the cook walking on campus. Like whaaa? I asked him about it, he said, “What’s the problem about walking on campus after work?” I couldn’t help myself y’all . I looked at him a little funny with my chin down and eyes up, like ’really’ and thought he might think I was looking at him like I was the weird one. But I wasn’t the one walking on campus although I might as well have been. I don’t even think he knew Kevin Kleeber or the other co-eds.
Kleeber n my family and I weren’t close. My family is generally unkind, but not so much with strangers. Speaking of strangers, Years ago, my family.. Papa specifically, before we was dining with the angles, (bless his heart), well papa ordered the country steak; we ordered the beans cooked in water; Dana ordered the ‘crawdady cottage cheese’ . I had the Hush Guppies of course cooked rare. Paying with a check was an option or so we presumed, but my check, written and signed with tip added was soppy… had something on it cause the table was sticky after dinner, naturally. The server said they wouldn’t accept because it was greasy. But turned out it wasn’t sauce, nor was it grease! it was a little bit of my homemade lotion, (which I am selling, by the way). the check actually wasn’t even my own check..I should have known better, #hindsight2020 lol. Guess whose check it was…locals know….freakin. Trevin. Pleaver’s. Mhmm, mark my word y’all.…how’d I get my paws on Trev’s paper yer wondering? Kinda an accident, kinda not ;) I’ll give you a hint. Campus ;) I know I’m the worst.“

“Ordered for the first time tonight. Very impressed everything was great. We’ve been on the hunt for a truly spicy burger & their Habanero Burger was it! Will return!“

“I have never been here, but I only drink homestead creamery milk. I have gone through most of my adulthood trying to find a milk that hits the same as the box milk in public school. This is it. Immediate flashbacks to when I could go through a gallon in 4 days. Putting financial stress on my folks with how often I would drink milk. I have the same passion about Homestead Creamery milk. You guys have set the bar high. Really high.“