Jerry’s Grill

It’s not the world’s greatest breakfast/​lunch spot, but it does the job. The wait is kind of long, but worth it.

If you can get around smelling like a typical «old school» hot dog and hamburger joint, Jerry’s does not disappoint! I always get the 2 hot dogs w/​fries combo — less than $ 6 for that much food is pretty much unattainable anywhere else, and the hot dogs are perfectly messy :)

Always a better option than any fast food place because they use real meat in their food.

Fresh, juicy burgers; fair prices. I’ll definitely go back.

No one has ever had a bad meal at Jerry’s (actually now that I think about it I have) but no one has ever had an amazing meal either. It has a fairly reasonably priced lunch menu with some classics. It’s mostly processed food that is never amazing but you can’t say you dislike it either. Certain days of the week they have $ 1 hotdogs and they have daily lunch specials for different sandwiches. Their signature sandwich is the Blue Rock. It consists of grilled deli ham, a fried egg, Swiss cheese, lettuce tomato and I believe blue cheese on a kaiser roll. It is good but how could something that greasy be bad. People swear by the place but I’ve tried most things and although the prices are fairly low, so are the portions. It’s somewhere I will hit up every six months or so just for a quick lunch but never somewhere I leave desperate to go back again. It’s been there so long and I love hole in the wall places like this but it is just hard to give them over 3 stars for anything. Let me know if there is something I have been missing on the menu because I have yet to find anything.

This tiny place is located about a ½ block off Wake Forest Road, just around the corner from a Snoopy’s Hot Dog location — obviously good, quick eats abound in this small area of Raleigh. This is basically a fast food setup with limited seating available inside, and a couple of tables out front. They have been serving breakfast items, sandwiches, and country cooking here since 1968 — means they’re doing somrthing right.
The Chili Dog here is very, very good — decent weiner, soft bun, and house made chili with excellent flavor — and all for only 99 cents. The Cheeseburger is even better than the Chili Dog. It is decently sized, juicy, and with a nice outside crust from the flat top grill, and they are not stingy with the cheese.
They serve a number of the usual sandwiches, and an unusual one or two, like a Cuban Sandwich, but it doesn’t contain roast pork, or pork of any kind for that matter. Service is quick and friendly — and there is a lot of verbal interchange and joking between the staff, and with the large number of first name regulars here — this would be called banter in an upscale restaurant, I guess. Good food, good prices, good folks here.