Shirleys is now announcing our All You Care To Eat Fish Fry on Thursday, June 5th from 5pm to 8pm.   MENU items are as follows, Skillit fried White fish, Skin-on fries, corn muffin hush puppies, slaw, dessert and a drink $10.00

Shirley's Home Cooking is located across from Watauga Lake on Highway 321 near Butler. The restaurant is owned and operated by Grant and Shirley Sharpe with help from their sons Forrest and Jeff, daughter-in-law Angie, and grandchildren Austin and Kaylyn. Austin helps with breakfast and Kaylyn helps out in the Country Store. The Country Store has a wide variety of quilts, candies, wooden toys and various other handmade items.

Shirley's has a lot to offer, including great food, live music, and a family atmosphere. They also offer carry-out and can accommidate large parties. Shirley's cooking, which she learned first-hand from her mother, has made her restaurant one of the best in the area.

Grant is the original "chicken fryer." He started the mouthwatering tradition of some of the best fried chicken you will ever eat. And after some training, he passed on the tradition to his son, Jeff.

Shirley's opened in 1990 with only threee tables, serving mainly local diners. However, word of Shirley's homemade family style meals spread fast and renovations throughout the years allows Shirley's to seat around 300 customers.

All the menu items at Shirley's are made from scratch and if you order your meal family style, "just like at grandma's," it's all you can eat.

The menu items in the meat category are boneless breast fried chicken, fried country ham and Black Angus roast beef. Also on Friday's meny is country fried stead with white gravy, Saturday is meat load and on Sunday chicken livers is the extra meat.

The vegetables are slow, cabbage, cornbread salad, fried apples, macaroni-and-cheese, creamed corn, mashed potatoes, gravy, soup beans, green beans and sweet carrots.

Thehomemade desserts are hot fudge cake, yellow cake with carael icing, peach, straqberry and cherry cobblers, banana pudding and "when Shirley takes a notion" pineapple upside down cake.

If breakfast is your meal, you should give Shirley's a try. Family-tyle breakfast consists of fried country ham, sausage and bacon, biscuits and homemade sausage gravy, fried apples, grits, fried potatoes and eggs made to order. Shirley's is open for breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays from 8am until 10am.

Family-style is serious business at Shirley's and it starts in the kitchen where Angie spends most of her time. With help from Becky, Judy, Mary and Travis, the prepare, dip up, and deliver the 13 platters of food to the waiting customers who have traveled far and wide to experience a meal at Shirley's.