re: Gatlinburg restaurants

Agreed, but this is tough to do when trying to pack your days unless you bring some pans of stuff to reheat once you get there. Pigeon Forge is mainly chain restaurants, pancake joints, and ice cream shops. I wanted to try Local Goat but there were cars parked out into the street. We had passable burgers at Fuddruckers, and some mediocre tex-mex near Anakeesta. Wait times were so off the chart we finally broke down and bought frozen lasagna and stuff to make sandwiches.