Basically a truck stop. Do...

Basically a truck stop. Do NOT use the address 47 Gainey to try and map out a driving route. You will end up about 20-30 miles off course in the middle of planting field or wandering through trailer parks on private roads with potholes bigger than their flipping cars. So, after blowing about 2 hours of my time because of this snafu, I actually went to the place after redoing my route while parked in someone's back yard (with a group of people probably trying to figure out whether to shoot me or help me). Thank goodness for nationwide broadband access. I might still be wandering the NC countryside at the rate I was going. Google has a photo of the place online, which is quite wrong. Part of the fun 20 miles off course was driving up and down tiny roads looking for a big white building with huge green letters. But I digress.

The actual place is indeed off Exit 70 on I-95 in Dunn, NC. Since Dunn, NC is about the size of a postage stamp I can't tell you if I actually saw the town or just every little patch of grass claiming to be Dunn. For those who don't know how to map a highway exit, you can use the intersection of the two roads off I-95 (State Highway 1786 & Bud Hawkins Rd) in Dunn, NC as a reference point. If you need a street address, you can make it the Relax Inn around the corner (2937 Bud Hawkins). Why am I telling you all of this? Mainly because I asked multiple people at the cafe where I was, what street I was on, what town I was in, etc. Wound up spending a few minutes in my car looking up the info myself since the help I received was not terribly useful. How does someone not know the street of address of the place that employs them? BTW, State Highway (SR) 1786 is the Gainey Rd referred to in the address listing, but as mentioned before is not a reliable one to use for mapping. SR 1811 (the name of the exit from the interstate) is Bud Hawkins.

About the cafe itself. It's only worth visiting if you happen to be driving by 95 heading somewhere else and hungry. Being 24/7 is a nice touch, but I really would have rather had the hours I wasted as additional time in Fayetteville since I ran short there. Toni was someone I spent time talking to once inside, and while she was a little more experienced than I usually go for and very tiny (not shot in a bad way, just tiny) she might have been able to convince me about a dance if they had table options along with booths ($30/50 options). The stage itself is along the back wall and backed by a wall, with small poles every couple of feet between the dancer and customers. Kinda like a cage, like the other review said. The whole scene is hard to describe, really, but image a diner bar with topless dancers gyrating over your omelet and pancakes. They also had small tables away from the stage if the last line made you queasy. As a guy who's had dancer goodies way too close to his draft beer and buffalo wings (but not here) I'm not judging, I'm just saying...if not local and driving there, you've been warned.