Harmancos

Finding a place that's both interesting in it's decor, friendly and has good food is something hard to come by in Albemarle, NC.  This place seems to do a pretty good job with all that.  Having grown up in this town I remember when it was a little bit smaller space and it looks like they have added onto the original building to build out a nice patio and bar area.  The bar area actually had a second level also.

I tired the caesar salad with grilled chicken and it was actually really good.  My girlfriend and mother were with me and they had a BLT and club sandwich, both of which looked really good and they had no complaints.  

The stafff was very friendly and made sure we were taken care of.

This place is similar to a lot of southern/Greek diners, but is better than most.  My wife's family is originally from Albemarle, and as such she has a lot of relatives there.  I wasn't sure what to think about this play when we arrived - it definitely looks old, but it's not run down.  As we were waiting for a couple people to arrive, I peaked through the window and noticed the perfect 102 sanitation grade which I was happy to see.  The staff was all extremely nice.  Although we had a group of 7 people, our orders were all 100% correct and came out in reasonable time.  It wasn't perfect, but most of the food was good.  We got fried pickles, but they were very light - some of them the pickles must have fallen out because we had pickle shaped batter.  There wasn't much flavor to them.  No salt, pepper, or other spice was in the batter.  My chicken gyro was pretty tasty.  The wife's flounder had a lot of bones.  My father-in-law's stroganoff was actually penne pasta instead of egg noodles which was unusual but he said it was good.  Everything else ordered was good.  Harmanco's is definitely a decent place to grab a bite in Albemarle.

My family makes the drive into Albemarle for the food here.  The hostess and wait staff are very friendly and helpful.  And the food is delicious!  It spans Cajuin to American to Greek.  Lots of great choices.