Location: I-95, exit 6 – Stamford, Connecticut

City Limits Diner is a gourmet restaurant masquerading as a diner. It offers the same great atmosphere and gourmet-to-family fare as the two White Plains locations. This City Limits Diner (which is attached to Marriott’s Fairfield Inn) has an upscale retail area for pastries, breads and dessert sales. The Stamford location also features a spirited decor, state-of-the-art bakery, an extensive bar featuring fifty varieties of beer, as well as an array of wines and spirits, and a spacious seventy-seat private dining room. One can sample a variety of foods, from haute cuisine such as Maryland lump crab cakes and prime New York strip steak, to homespun recipes such as veal meat loaf and balsamic apple glazed grilled pork chops.

I love City Limits Diners because it is great for families, kids, couples and people of all ages looking for a gourmet meal at a great price.

Location: I-95 Exit 138 – Rocky Mount, North Carolina

We were tired of all those fast food places with greasy food and cardboard taste, so we stopped off at the Outback Steakhouse at exit 138 east bound in Rocky Mount, NC. We’ve eaten at other Outback’s in other parts of the country and found this one to have a particularly nice atmosphere, great employees and the usual good food associated with other Outback’s. It was great to get a decent meal for a change.

We spoke to the manager of the restaurant and told him we were very happy to find a decent place to eat for a change. This Outback is located at 210 Gateway Boulevard in Rocky Mount, NC. Take the eastbound exit 138 off I-95 to the first exit. Turn right and go to the traffic light and you’ll find it on the left side right behind the Comfort Inn in the Convention Center Park.

Location: I-95, Exit 20 – Lumberton, North Carolina

If you were ever in love with “Southern” cookin or “Soul Food,” do not pass by Fullers Family BBQ. For a moderate price, $12.95 last time I was there I think, you get a well stocked buffet that contains all of the traditional southern favorites and some you have never heard of. Do you like veggies, try the collards, mustard greens, fried cabbage, boiled cabbage, black eyed peas, limas, creamed corn, fried ocra, etc. The Carolina style pulled pork BBQ is excellent, as are the variety of sausages, including liver pudding and blood sausage.

Do you prefer something else, try the fried oysters, fried catfish, fried chicken, Johnny Cakes, and home made pork cracklin’s. If you can still fit another spoonfull of food after all that, you’ll get what you deserve, a not very good desert. This place has such good southern food you can almost feel your arteries starting to clog. This is a DO NOT MISS!

Location: I-95, exit 118 – Thornburg, Virginia

We got off on this I-95 exit to go to a Subway for a change and when we saw Angela’s we said why not. That was 4 years ago and we stop every time we head South on I-95 now. They have great seafood, spaghetti and grinders especially there BLT. You won’t be sorry.

Location: I-95 Exit 57 – Newburyport, Massachusetts

Giuseppe’s is a great family restaurant with melt-in-your-mouth pasta made by Giuseppe himself. You can take-out or eat in. They have delicious lasagne and other basics with specials on the gourmet end of the spectrum. The atmosphere is very informal and cozy… it’s just a hole-in-the-wall in a strip plaza (go east on Rte 113 about 1/4 mile, then right on Low St to first strip plaza on right.) but you will return. Beer & wine are also available.