Betty's

West Virginia


The bacon is crispy and the service slow at this scrappy diner, which is busting at its well-worn seams with everyone in town in the morning. They claim to serve the best sausage gravy in the world. Social media here is listening in on the neighboring table or the crowds hunched by the door.


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