2 Best Restaurants in Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Crockett's Breakfast Camp

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Heaping plates of flapjacks aren't hard to come by in Gatlinburg, but they're not all served on rough-hewn tables in a dining room modeled after an early-20th-century logging camp. But the rustic digs and taxidermied animals—including a coyote lying over the fireplace—aren't the primary appeal: that's the skillets of sausage, scrambled eggs, and towering "griddle cakes."

The Peddler Steakhouse

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It's not every day in the Smokies you walk past an 80-foot-high redwood tree to eat at a riverfront steak house comprising five historic log cabins. And it's probably just as unusual to have your steak brought table-side and custom cut before being sizzled over Texas hickory charcoal while you graze on hot homemade bread and items from the salad bar. Chicken, shrimp, salmon, and fresh boneless English mountain trout are also on the menu, along with desserts like hot blackberry cobbler or Peddler's version of strawberry shortcake.