DINING

Cafes

• Miss Lily's Cafe
  122 Depot Street • Townsend, TN 37882
  865-448-1924
  Southern cuisine and friendly service make Miss Lily's a popular spot for lunch or dinner. Specialties include Fried Green Mater Sandwich, Hillbilly Philly and more.  map

Locally Operated

• Deadbeat Pete's
  7613 Old Highway 73 • Townsend, TN 37882
  865-448-0900
  A one of kind restaurant, Pete's menu offers fun food such as armadillo eggs and tater skins for appetizers, the coyote sandwich, the rancher's ruben, chicken feathers, and micro-brewery beer. Most Friday and Saturday nights, live music is played.  more...

• Debbie's Diner
  8503 State Highway 73 • Townsend, TN 37882
  865-448-0041
  Debbie's offers hometown food in the heart of the Smokies. Serving breakfast all day, this establishment is open Tuesday through Thursday, 7 a.m. until 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday 7 a.m. until 8 p.m., and Sunday and Monday for breakfast only from 7a.m until 12 p.m. Items can be packaged for picnics, and a children's menu is available.  more...  map

• Hearth & Kettle
  7767 East Lamar Alexander Parkway • Townsend, TN 37882
  865-448-6059
  Open from 7:00 a.m. until 9:30 p.m., this restaurant offers a Good Morning breakfast until 11:30 a.m., which includes homemade pancakes, eggs, and grits. For lunch they offer a homemade soup bar, sandwiches and sandwich platters. Dinner entrées include specialties such as sirloin steak, charbroiled chicken breasts, and sugar cured ham steak, just to name a few. Homemade desserts feature cobblers and pies.  more...  map

• Sister Cats Cafe
  7327 East Lamar Alexander Parkway • Townsend, TN 37882
  865-448-0033
  Sister Cats offers great sandwiches and salads for lunch.  map

• Smokin' Joe's Bar-B-Que
  8215 State Highway 73 • Townsend, TN 37882
  865-448-3212
  This family-style restaurant serves some of the best barbecue beef, pork, and chicken in the area plus offers an array of tantalizing side dishes and desserts. The restaurant is open daily for lunch and dinner.  map

• Tuckaleechee Trout Farm Restaurant
  142 Tipton Road • Townsend, TN 37882
  865-448-2290
  At this unique restaurant you can order fresh caught trout from the menu or catch you own from the spring fed ponds on-site. Steak, chicken, fried shrimp, hamburgers, and numerous desserts are also served. They are open from April to late October, Tuesday through Saturday for dinner only. more...  map

• Victoria Station
  7753 Lamar Alexander Parkway • Townsend, TN 37882
  Located Adjacent to Little River Railroad Museum
  865-448-6848
  Open from 8:00 a.m until 10:00 pm.m, this restaurant offers your choice of a full breakfast or menu from which you can create your own, a lunch that includes a vegetable bar, salad bar, entree bar, and a desert bar. For dinner, you may choose from prime rib, Jack Daniels steak filets, ribeyes, fried chicken, trout, shrimp & seafood, all served with homemade bread. A children's menu and homemade desserts are also available.  more...  map