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Circle II Restaurant, 205 S Hughes Boulevard, Elizabeth City, NC (2026)

12/17/2022

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05/04/2022

"The Skywalker"

10/24/2021

Sunday buffet happening now! Only $13.99
Fried and baked chicken, roast beef and pork, chicken and pastry, ham and cabbage, veggies, salad, desserts and more! YUM!

10/18/2021

Lunch plans this week? Come see us!

09/27/2021

Hello hungry people!
Its meatloaf Monday! Served with mashed potatoes and green beans for $7.49. Come see us!

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03/24/2021

Hello again Hungry people!

It’s our Wednesday Hump Day, the first of our new spring season. Let’s all see how we make out scaling today’s hump and sliding down its backside toward another weekend! Of course, today’s hump is very special as it plops us right down in an Easter Weekend! What could be more special? You all know that Easter has traditionally been a big eating day at Circle II and there is no difference this year. Look for the traditional Easter Sunday buffet to make an appearance this Sunday with all your holiday favorites in quantities enough to sink a battleship! We’ll have full details on all that including the bill of fare in just the next day or so. Meanwhile you guys just sharpen your appetites and get ready to enjoy some top quality eats this coming Sunday!

In politics it’s always who you know and seldom what you know. That little maxim proved true this date in 1663 when the Provence of Carolina was awarded to eight Lord’s proprietors in return for their help in returning English King Charles II to the throne. After a failed attempt to create a Carolina Colony in 1645 Charles than awarded charters to The Duke of Albemarle, Earl of Clarendon, Baron Berkeley of Stratton, the Earl of Craven, Sir George Carteret, Sir Williams Berkeley, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. The proprietors needed colonists to help defend their holding against Spain and they wasted no time in offering religious toleration, political representation, and even some control over taxes. The first government in Carolina began in Albemarle County in 1664. By 1712 the division of the colony into North and South was complete.

It’s going to be all about who you know around here on today too! Folks who know Thomas and crew are assured of a hearty, delicious, blue-plate special featuring savory baked ham served atop a mountain of freshly stewed cabbage and potatoes. It’s our mid-week special and it never fails to paint smiles across the faces of everyone in the dining room! You know we’ll have a variety of other specials on tap today too including the best fried chicken since Aunt Bea discovered Wesson Oil. If you’re looking for a place that will chase away the hungries today Circle II is it! Why not come on in and enjoy you some good eats today!

Get Elizabeth City’s best breakfast every day in our dining room from 5:30 am until 11:00 am. Grits are optional but recommended!

Come on in to treat yourselves to all our Wednesday specials and to your favorite selections from our delicious Circle II menu. Enjoy them all today from 11:00 am until 8:00 pm closing.

Great food, friendly service, and everyday small-town prices make Circle II all you really need to know about dining out in EC!

Y’all go on now and get ready for Easter! It’s going to be a blast! We simply can’t wait to see you all circling the buffet again as you try to figure out how to get all you want on a single plate! (Hint! Use two!)
And while you all make your Easter plans we’ll be right here cooking up everything you love to eat. Our goal is to have your Easter best running just a little snug by the end of the day. That’s because here T Circle II we love hungry people!

Please stop in again soon for another visit!

03/23/2021

Hello again hungry people! Welcome to Tuesday! Our week is beginning to percolate right along. Temps forecast in 60s and 70s for the remainder of the week even though a bit showery at times. We’ll take it! Wouldn’t you rather endure 70-degree raindrops than 30-degree snowflakes? That’s what we thought!

As life goes on and the events of the evening news unfold your humble servant tends to think of himself as being increasingly shock proof. But occasionally an item arises that just stands everything I think I know on its head. Such an item has just come to my attention. It’s called Bear Spray. I have read news reports describing its use against law enforcement officers at the January 6th insurrection at the Capital. Those who know me understand that I am a bit naïve and have a tendency to take things literally. I therefore assumed that Bear Spray must be some evil, noxious, toxic elixir of grizzly piddle that would incapacitate any strong man with a single whiff. The truth is much worse. Not made from bear p*e, the stuff was created for use as a bear repellant in the wild. It is actually a concoction made from plain, ordinary, hot peppers like we’re won’t to sprinkle on our pizza and hot dogs. The hot stuff in the peppers is extracted, refined, and enhanced until it reaches a potency hundreds or even thousands of time stronger that that found in nature. Add to this the fact that it comes in aerosol cans that emit a fog of the stuff rather than a stream and you have folks falling victim to the chemical warfare that require intensive and long-term hospitalization to recover. Now I’m the guy who eats jalapenos right from the jar. I never knew that they could be like Darth Vader, turning to expose a grizzly dark side that would send us all to our ends writhing and screaming in agony.

Now with that tidbit of information posted we’ll move right along to our Tuesday blue - plate special. Old fashioned, country style chicken with pastry is the featured special each Tuesday. We serve it up with taste tempting yams and pork seasoned green beans in generous portions all for only $7.49. It’s a satisfying and delicious plate inspired by the poor folk’s country cooling for the Depression Era when stewed chicken with layer upon layer of tasty pastry on top was as close as most folks ever got to a big, thick, juicy steak. Truth known, it was probably more delicious than the steak and better for you. We made enough for everyone today so come on in to enjoy yours today!

A variety of other specials are being offered today as well as our complete and delicious Circle II menu. And folks, we promise! Not a single hot pepper to be found unless you request it!

Stop in today or any day for Elizabeth City’s best breakfast. Served daily from 5:30 am until 11:00 am right here in our dining room.

Treat yourselves to any of our Tuesday specials and to your favorite selections from the delicious Circle II menu all day today from 11:00 am until 8:00 pm closing.

Great food, friendly service, and every day small-town prices allow you to embark on a hot pepper free culinary adventure every day at Circle II.

Y’all go ahead on now and keep those springtime plans cooking! You do realize that Easter Sunday is just one week from Sunday next, don’t you? Yes, it’s on April 4th. I’m not supposed to tell you yet, but Thomas is planning to do the traditional, big, delicious Easter Buffet again this year! We know that’s going to get your attention. We’ll have full details to share on that in just a couple of days. So anyway, prepare to be fed! Enjoy these warm days and try to stay out of the showers. And while you do that we’ll be here cooling up everything you love to eat. Out goal is for your Easter best to be just about one size too tight. That’s how you look your best. It’s all because here at Circle II we love hungry people!

Please stop in again soon for another visit!

03/22/2021

Hello hungry people!

Welcome to the first Monday of spring! We’re coming off a coolish weekend that saw temps only in the 40s and 50s, but just look at what lies ahead. We’re starting off the new workweek in the low 60s and 70s are forecast for later in the week. Our grass is still a bit sluggish, but you may rest assured that the weeds are all aquiver at the prospect. Lawn mowing may break out without notice at almost any time in our neighborhood!

Have any of you noticed the renaming of Triangle Park on Elizabeth Street? It’s one of the oldest in the city and was not too long ago renamed as the Hummer Park for Children in honor of former 2nd Ward city councilperson Anita Hummer. It seems appropriate as Anita Hummer seems to have served on City Council since the days before Elizabeth Street was a paved road. She’s a fixture in Elizabeth City, that’s for sure! Strangely however, as well known in our community as Anita Hummer is and as much as she had done for our community, she’s still not as widely recognized as the vehicle which bears her name. I heard that! Y’all get serious. You know there are no cars on the road called Anita! No, it’s the Hummer, that huge, hulking, land yacht that weighs over 10,000 pounds and gets a whopping 8 mpg. Of course in their days as consumer vehicles rather than military they have been downsized, restyled, and made a bit more economically sustainable. But to most they still represent everything we know about the excesses of American society. We mention all this today because it was precisely 38 years ago today on March 22 of 1983 that the Pentagon signed the contract with American General Corp. to build about 55,000 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles know as HUMVEEs for the US armed forces. America got its first good look at them during the war in Iraq and the love affair was on. By 2010 the flames of passion had faded, and GM produced the last Hummer. Celebs would have to find another flashy car to support their lifestyles. But wait, there’s more! Everything old truly is new again and General Motors is reviving the brand with a new electric powered Hummer. It’s a powerhouse said to be able to go from stop to 60 mph in 3 seconds! But with a base price of over $110,000 I have to tell you I had hoped for something that looked less like a 2001 Chevy Avalanche and more like the future of the auto industry. Alas, I chronically expect too much from General Motors. But didn’t Anita Hummer always look good wherever you saw her?

On a high note economically today, we want you to know that for the price of one 2021 Hummer you could purchase almost 15,000 of our blue plate specials. We hope you won’t order them all at once as that would probably lead to mass resignation of our staff, but we just wanted you to know what a bargain our daily special can be. For only $7.49 our every Monday blue-plate special features homestyle meatloaf just like Mom used to make. It’s crafted from fresh, choice ground beef, seasoned just so, and served up with our popular pork seasoned green beans and homemade mashed potatoes. It’s nothing if not comfort food pure and simple that’s designed to help you transition from weekend leisure to workaday chaos with no bumps, shakes, or jolts. And we’ll be serving a selection of other specials today plus our complete, delicious Circle II menu as well. You might want to begin your week with the best fried chicken since the discovery of bottled water and at Circle II we make it possible for you to do just that!

Don’t forget your breakfast! Best in Elizabeth City served daily in our dining room from 5:30 am until 11:00 am. Waffles anyone?

Come on in to enjoy any of our Monday specials and all your favorite items from our extensive Circle II menu all day today from 11:00 am until 8:00 pm closing.

Great food, friendly service, and everyday small-town prices make every visit to Circle II an occasion to remember.

Y’all go on now and get a good start on this new spring season. There is lots to do and we see the garden centers and home center stores are already bustling. Me? Not going to be too busy, but I’ll get a few things done eventually. Right now, I’m just looking forward to not hearing that gosh darned heat pump running continually. Sorry Elizabeth City. You probably won’t collect as much from us this time around but by the time summer heat sets in you’ll get caught up and then some!

Don’t forget that Circle II is open and serving every single day. If the new season has you too busy to cook we have you covered. Our mission, after all, is to keep you in a wardrobe that’s about one size too small and amaze you at just how delicious 2021 is turning out to be. That’s because here at Circle II we love hungry people!

Please stop in to see us again real soon!

03/21/2021

Good and Joyous Sunday hungry people! Our second day of spring has the weather improving. After a chilly and rainy couple of days things are looking dry today with a slight warming trend into the mid-50s. Even warmer as the week progresses with temps forecast to hover around 70 degrees for the second half of the week, but a few scattered showers. Sounds like perfectly appropriate springtime weather that we all should be able to enjoy and appreciate.

In fact, our weather is looking almost as satisfying as the Sunday offerings in our dining room at Circle II. We’re coming down the homestretch of our third month for 2021 and still upholding that new year’s resolution to continue that famed Tarheel tradition known as Sunday Dinner. Pay a visit to our dining room today and you may be confronted with entrees including the best fried chicken since the discovery of Wesson Oil, savory baked ham, tender, flavorful roast pork, beef tips over rice, tender sliced roast beef, old-fashioned, country style chicken with pastry, sliced white meat turkey breast with dressing, home style pot roast, and even more possibilities. We don’t necessarily serve all of these every Sunday, but you’ll find enough of the offerings from this list to keep your choice from being a simple one! And expect to fine unannounced surprises too! Veggies and side dishes are over the top too every Sunday with homemade tomato pudding, our famous broccoli casserole, pork seasoned green beans, yams, corn, homemade mashed potatoes, fresh collard greens, lima beans, pineapple casserole, stewed apples, and even more! We’ve all known since childhood that Sundays in North Carolina were made for eating. Now that we know Circle II was made for Sundays our lives are lots more convenient and delicious too, aren’t they?

Remember that you can start every day with a good breakfast right here at Circle II. Find it served daily from 5:30 am until 11:00 am. Even later if you’ll only ask.

Cone on in to enjoy any of our delicious Sunday specials and all your favorite selections from the taste tempting Circle II menu all day today from 11:00 am until 7:00 pm closing.

Great food, friendly service, and everyday small-town prices are the best way we could find to welcome the new spring season to Elizabeth City. Come on in and join is in the celebration!

America is a nation dominated by television. It’s true. Many of us don’t accept any item as fact until we see it reported on TV and for some of us that’s only if it’s covered by the right talking head on the right channel. All else is relegated to the felgercarb bin. Our obsession with TV is nothing new. It has been going on for years, though today’s political ramifications are more intense and widespread than in days past. Yes, the idiot box has woven itself into our national fabric like nothing before. Do I lie? Let’s take a little test. Without a Google search tell us who was POTUS on today’s date on 1980. Take your time. Give up? It was Jimmy Carter. Now, tell us what happened on TV this evening of March 21st, 1980 that America is still talking about. Oh wow! That was fast! I heard several of you say JR got shot. Yep! The final episode of the second Season of Dallas provided us with a cliffhanger for the ages. The shooting of the man America loved to hate was the talk around office water coolers, the topic of church sermons, and the subject of much speculation in the media. You wore T-shirts asking, “who shot JR?”. Your Ford Pintos had bumper stickers asking the same question. It wasn’t until the debut of season 3 in November that we learned JR’s mistress and sister to his wife, was the assailant. It seemed we just couldn’t get enough! America stuck with Dallas for 12 full, drama and suspense laden seasons. Today we may not need Larry Hagman like we once did. Today we have CNN and Fox News to do battle for the minds of America each day. But somehow I seem to think that the drama on Dallas may have been more relevant to my life than today’s babbling news programs. At least in November of 1980 we finally knew once and for all that Kristin Shepherd shot JR. There were no recounts, no claims of fraudulent behavior, and no court challenges. And everyone in America was in full agreement that JR Ewing was a horse’s patootie and deserved to get shot. Life surely was simpler in the 80s, wasn’t it?

Just so there’s no confusion, there is no cliffhanger as to where we should go for a good meal in Elizabeth City! Circle II is open every day and serving up everything you love to eat. You’ll never have to wait until next season to find something delicious here. It’s all because here at Circle II we love hungry people!

Please stop in soon for another visit!

03/20/2021

Welcome to the weekend hungry people!

And welcome to a fresh, new spring season filled with optimism and hope! Winter has passed away, the flowers are all abloom, and warmer days are on the horizon. This weekend is looking coolish and maybe a bit showery, but that’s okay. We’re celebrating the arrival of spring and would still be doing so even in the face of a late March blizzard. We sure hope all of you were as excited as were we to turn that last page on the calendar. But be prepared. Along with warmer days come thunderstorms and all too soon Memorial Day with the annual invasion of tourists. If any of you are planning a leisurely stroll along the beach better get there soon.

There is little doubt in anyone’s mind that some day far in the future someone will be flipping the pages of his calendar of historical facts and will discover countless entries concerning Covid-19. The pandemic, the vaccines, the politics of the disease, and, of course, Dr. Faucci will all figure prominently. But odd though it might seem, today’s page of said calendar features entries focused on sickness and disease as well.

Beginning here in the US we see that it was on March 20th of 1861 that both Willie and Tad Lincoln, youngest sons of then POTUS Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln were diagnosed with measles. Hi young sons were the light of Lincoln’s life and added much energy and excitement to his time in the White House. There’s little doubt their illness added heavily to the burdens he carried as president. Both boys made full recoveries, but sadly neither lived to adulthood. Tad passed away at age 18 in 1871 and Willie passed from Typhoid Fever in February of 1862. Only their eldest son, Robert survived dying in 1926 at age 82. The president and First Lady never fully recovered from the deaths of their children.

Perhaps some of you remember the big pop hit by The 5th Dimension from 1969 that told is “When the moon is in the 7th house and Jupiter hovers with Mars, then peace will rule the planets and love will fill the stars”. It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Those attuned to astrological signs thought that a utopian age was dawning, but I’m still waiting anxiously by the mailbox every day to receive my invitation. We’re guessing lots of you have already given up. But astrologers weren’t always painting a picture so rosy as the Age of Aquarius. Some pointed to this date in 1349 when it’s said a triple conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars in the 40th degree of Aquarius was responsible for the creation of the Black Death or Plague that swept across Europe, the Mid-East, and Asia in the 14th Century amassing a death toll of over 25 million. We think Dr. Faucci would have told those folks to look to the rats infesting the ships of commerce in those days instead of the stars, to wear masks, and practice social distancing, but we could be wrong. But we’re sure that back then no stimulus checks turned up in anyone’s mailbox no matter how bad it got.

All of this might be more than a little bit depressing, but the good news is that once again the stars have aligned themselves in perfect order to make your Saturday as delicious as it possibly can be. As you’ve come to expect we’ll be serving our traditional weekend blue-plate special of old-fashioned, whole hog, North Carolina, pulled pork barbecue. We prepare it just like our ancestors used to for full flavor and superb texture. Then we marry it to a generous portion of our famous Circle II homemade coleslaw, fries, and hushpuppies all for only $7.49. It’s a delicious plate that our regular customers will all tell you just can’t be beat! Look for all your other favorite weekend treats in our dining room today too including tangy barbecued chicken, taste tempting Brunswick stew, the best fried chicken since the discovery of the deep fryer, and those fantastic, bacon seasoned baked beans. And naturally, we’re also serving our extensive and complete Circle II menu all day too. We’re long past the Age of Aquarius. Welcome to the age of full bellies and happy taste buds!

Don’t forget breakfast! Enjoy a good one every day in our dining room from 5:30 am until 11:00 am. I think country ham on sweet potato biscuits sounds good today!

Treat yourselves to all our weekend specials and to any of your favorite selections from the Circle II menu all day Saturday from 11:00 am until 7:00 pm closing.

All your favorite foods, friendly service, and everyday small-town prices make Circle II the ideal launching pad for your new weekend and our new spring season!

You guys go ahead now and get a jump-start on all the springtime activities. I’m shopping for a new lawnmower as our last one finally played out. No, nothing big, new, or shiny. A secondhand machine will do just fine. I’m not about to give my weeds the satisfaction of being cut with a $400 machine! Whatever your first of spring plans remember that Circle II is open and serving. Our goal is to keep your wardrobe a little snug as you marvel at how delicious 2021 has been. This is all because here at Circle II we love hungry people!

Please come in soon for another visit!

03/19/2021

Good Friday Hungry people!

Are you all ready for the weekend? Looks as though after a rainy Thursday we may be a bit showery today. Cooler and dry tomorrow, warming on Sunday, and then you guessed it, beautiful, warm, and sunny weather on Monday just in time for us all to go back to work. But the really good news is that by this time tomorrow winter will be slowly receding into our rear-view mirrors with springtime laid out before us in all its resplendent, if showery, glory! I think maybe in celebration of the new season we should all meet up in Waterfront Park and try the hula hoop thing again. I was the only one who showed up last time. Maybe springtime will motivate more to come outside and play.

Just want you all to know that I’m doing my best to clean up typos and other errata that may be found in today’s post. Our cat, Hazel has been helping me on the keyboard today and folks, she can’t type any better than I can. Thus far she has put my laptop into airplane mode, shrunk the display to half its normal size, turned off the audio, and on three occasions has redirected me from Facebook to a web site showing a video of people dressed all in spring flower costumes but doing things that no daffodil has any right to do online or anywhere else! I thought I had forgotten how to blush, but apparently not.

And on that topic of spring flowers, die you know realtors all say they make this the most productive time of year to sell your house? It’s true! Apparently all the blooms, blossoms, and flowers in the yards entice buyers to make more and bigger offers and are credited with closing many real estate sales. No word on what may have been abloom in Memphis, Tennessee on today’s date in 1957 but it was nigh unto springtime and you have to think something was sprouting on the grounds at Graceland when 22 year old Elvis Aaron Presley stroked a check for $1000 as a deposit on the $102,000 13 acre site. It’s said he bought the house for his mother. Elvis loved his mom! It was the second home he bought for her, the first having proven too small and its neighborhood unable to accommodate all the traffic that Elvis’ presence there created. Officially Graceland was home to the Presley family but over the years an entire “Memphis Mafia” of friends, associates, and hangers on populated the site. The property went to Elvis’ daughter, Lisa Marie on his death in 1977 and she has maintained it just as it was when “The King” passed. It’s a huge tourist attraction today, second only in the number of visitors it receives each year to the big house at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, DC. At $47 per person, you have to know they’re raking in the dough down there!

We don’t know what your plans might entail for today but think you should be made aware that for the price of admission to Graceland you could enjoy six of our Friday blue-plate specials. That includes it all. The golden-brown fried fish fillets, the Circle II homemade coleslaw, and even the fries and hushpuppies. It’s all yours for only $7.49 every Friday right here in our dining room. It’s delicious. It’s satisfying. And it’s probably the best dining out value for miles around too! And of course, we’ll be serving other specials today too including spaghetti with a really zesty, homemade meat sauce. Take your pick from our delicious Circle II menu too including the best fried chicken since the discovery of Pepsi-Cola. Whenever hunger sets in around Elizabeth City complete satisfaction is always just as close as Circle II.

Springtime should begin with a good breakfast!
Get yours tomorrow and every day from 5:30 am until 11:00 am right here at Circle II. Yes, we’ll still be serving grits in springtime.

Come on in to enjoy any of Friday’s specials and all your favorite selections from the delicious Circle II menu all day today from 11:00 am until 8:00 pm closing.

Great food, friendly service, and everyday small-town prices help us bid fond farewell to winter and welcome spring this weekend at Circle II.

We hope you all have big plans laid down for this weekend! It would be simply a shame for spring to arrive and we not make any noise about it. No matter what your weekend may entail remember that we’ll be right here serving up everything you love to eat all day, every day. Our mission is for you to keep those pants just about one size too tight and to think of 2021 as the most delicious year of your lives. It’s all because here at Circle II we love hungry people!

Please stop in to see us for another visit real soon!

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