City: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN

Category: Restaurants

Telephone: (865) 286-0364

Address: 2430 Teaster Lane

Description: This inexpensive and relatively new family sports grill tucked back from the road in Teaster Crossing has quite the local following already. For starters, the homemade fried pickle chips with ranch dip are surprisingly crunchy, tangy, and totally addictive. You can order cold beer and hot wings (they have 18 different flavors) while you watch sports on the flat-screen TVs. The burgers here are quite good, and you’ll also find an unusually extensive menu of hot dogs, of all things. The dessert menu has only a handful of options, but it includes a peanut butter pie that will send you into orbit. The Blue Moose also dishes up live music on the weekends.