The Fillin Station

The restaurant about a hundred yards from our dock is called the Fillin Station and has different specials. On Wed., you get a hamburger, hot dog, potato salad and baked beans for $4 cash, Thurs. 2 pork chops, scalloped potatoes and vegetable for $5 cash and on Friday it is steak, baked potato, and vegetable $10 cash. Any way you look at it this is a GREAT deal. Fitz loves pork chops and when we found we had to stay the extra day we earmarked this for dinner. We had been warned there were NO variations and everyone gets the same thing on these nights. If you are a vegetarian and want no meat the price is the same. If you don’t want the hot dog—you get it anyway—you are to give it to someone or throw it away. You can’t get a hamburger on Thursday. The Food Nazi with a good deal. So even though it is raining we head to the Fillin Station for dinner. Inside the front door is the karaoke bar, then a pool table and on back porch is the restaurant full of locals. Fitz stops at the kitchen, gives the cook $10 and we go sit down at the only available table. The people watching was fun and we noticed everyone had a to-go box in front of them and about 5 empty beer bottles each. After about a half hour, the cook brought us 2 plates with 2 pork chops (deep fried—is this a viable way of fixing pork chops?), potatoes, corn and green beans. For $10 we had enough food to feed a village--and it was delicious. Of course we needed a to-go box and when I went to get one the cook said she would bring me one. 15 minutes later Fitz went to get the box—came back empty handed. 15 minutes later we get the to-go box. At the front door we stop to give the rain a chance to slack off and get to watch some of the worst karaoke (can’t remember watching it before but this was so bad it will be memorable). Two hours later we are back at the boat having spent an amazing evening. This morning we are up early to leave for a night at anchor and then into Charleston. Rest assured we will eat well in Charleston but I don’t believe we will get a better deal.