My favorite Roadside Cafes, BBQ Pits, Diners, Holes-In-Walls, Greasy Spoons, and Down Home Cooking.

Forever a work in progress. There will always be another great joint just around the bend. 

What's New:    Pig Out BBQ Pit in Glen Mills PA.  Updated Wynnorr Farms, my secret corn place. Red's Eat's in Maine - Owner Al Gagnon passed away this June. Wimpys Hamburgers and Jovan's Yugoslavian restaurant in Philadelphia.  Jersey Joes and a newer Tony Buff's in Jersey.  A bunch of corrections folks kindly brought to my attention.  Most of the places I ate through on Isla Mujeres, an island just off Cancun, Mexico.   Please let me know if anything else needs correcting - ie a restaurant has moved or passed on.
The Hot Dog Page 
Updated July 2008		 Eating Philadelphia
 My home chomping ground
Updated August 2008
Eating the New England Coast 
Updated August 2008		 Eating Jersey Dogs
 Updated July 2008
Eating The South
Updated February 2008		 Carolina Barbecue
Updated August 2004
To Charleston SC For Oysters
Updated March 2004		 Eating The Midwest  
Updated February 2008
Eating Isla Mujeres,  Mexico
Some of the best eatin in the world
Updated February 2008		 Hopscotching Europe  
Prague, Budapest, Brussels, France, London
Updated July 2005
Eating The West
Updated February 2008		 New York, New York
Updated February 2008
Eating My Way To Texas Wheeling and Elsewhere in WV
Petit St. Vincent Resort
A Break In Content		 Eating State Fairs and Festivals
Updated June 2005
Memories Of Meals Gone By Memories of Eateries Gone By
"Retired" Restaurants no longer open.
Me (Holly)
Why Holly Eats - a short bio		 Send Me Email.

Over Served

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Site published July 5,  2000          Site Last Updated August 9, 2008
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.  See the Lobster Roll and New Orleans Segments on YouTube.

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   

Our Patron Saint - Calvin Trillin

   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 on my shirt, the more I
    relished my meal.  

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

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.