Parker’s is a Panavision-wide restaurant with multiple dining rooms where customers crowd the lined-up tables for great platters of chopped pork accompanied by hushpuppies, boiled potatoes, corn sticks, and cole slaw. Cooked and chopped each day, the pork is moist and tender but laced with crunchy shreds from the outside of the shoulder from which it has been cut. There is scarcely any sauce on it, just a veil of vinegar and peppers to accentuate the wood-smoke savor. If you need to doll it up, tables are set with plain vinegar and a hot sauce that has a vinegar base.
Meals are sold by the plate or family-style to groups who want seconds and thirds — pay $10 per person for all you can eat barbecue, 2 pieces of fried chicken per customer, and all the sides and fixins.
The restaurant is popular among locals as well as travelers along nearby I-95, and it always seems hugely busy. It’s quite a trip maneuvering to and from a table as waiters zoom past toting platters piled high with food.
| Sunday | 9am - 8:30pm |
| Monday | 9am - 8:30pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 8:30pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 8:30pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 8:30pm |
| Friday | 9am - 8:30pm |
| Saturday | 9am - 8:30pm |
324 MILES
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5 hr 21 min
No matter how delicious it may be, cole slaw always plays second fiddle. When visiting barbecue parlors in North Carolina, the curious eater will encounter a handful of slaws that test that rule. Not that they overshadow the pork they accompany, but they can be truly memorable. We wouldn't expect anyone to tour the Tarheel…
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