Broadnax Diner
Location
If you want to experience small town eastern North Carolina the way it used to be stop by the Broadnax Diner for a meal as I did one Saturday morning. Owners, Johnnie and Carolyn Lassiter were working hard behind the counter trying to keep up with the hungry crowd of customers and fixed me a “big breakfast” with eggs, bacon, sausage, and hash browns while I learned about the prospects for the corn and peanut crops from a local farmer. The Lassiters bought the restaurant about 12 years ago from the family of Seaboard’s mayor, Melvin Broadnax. Their only request, according to Carolyn Lassiter, “was that we keep the name, which we have been proud to do.”
Hrs: Mon.- Fri., 6 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; Sat., 6 a.m.-11 a.m.
From I-95
Take Exit 176 and follow NC Hwy 46 toward Garysburg for 3.5 miles. Turn L on to U.S. Hwy 301 and then immediately turn R on to NC Hwy 186. Go 7.5 and turn R at Park St. in Seaboard.
Map
Interstate Eateries is published by Our State magazine.
