The Other One Diner Dive - Oak Ridge

10/10 I encourage everyone to go ASAP, but be prepared to wait even if they're sorta busy because the burgers are hand pattied to order. This place is nuts and very eccentric, but the food is top notch. They have a gigantic burger and hot wing eating challenge that neither one of us were interested in trying today lol. Some of the regular menu items are the Little Boy with three 1/3lb patties for $13.20 and the Tobin with double patties, bacon and entire grilled cheese sandwiches as buns.. top AND bottom.. also for $13.20. Their burger game is real and they have plenty of options in the standard price range for high quality, fresh burgers too. I just wanted to highlight those two and I can't forget to mention the big mack daddy one for $26.40.. it's called the Fatman and it has 2 pounds worth of patties with a pantsload of bacon and cheese. I had the double patty melt and it's impressive... plenty of onions with a bit of crunch that aren't cooked to death (I'm sure they can cook them longer if you prefer), cooked medium-well (again, just preference) and this stellar toasted marble rye with an unbelievable amount of butter and burger juice in it. I really don't know how the bread holds that much liquid.

First time today, I 've been missing out. The OODDD has a great menu. The Vol was delish (according to the wife) and I had the Tank. Outstanding. Best onion rings I 've had in a while, maybe best ever. Wings were very good as well but you gotta try the watermelon habanaro lemonade! Not sure if it 's a seasonal or what but it 's goooood! Went on lunch break so I couldn 't partake but I am going back to dine in and have a cold one!

Amazing sandwiches!!! My favorites are The Club and The Italian. They take about 10-15 minutes for food to be prepared. Service staff is friendly. Cleanliness is okay. Sandwich day is my favorite day. One of my goals this year was to do a sandwich tour and this is a GREAT place to try different types of sandwiches!! My favorite sides are onion rings and fried pickles

Great food, and atmosphere. The menu is almost endless as well. They do get pretty busy sometimes, so it may take a little bit to get the food..it's worth it though.

Definitely not a review I want to be writing! I have, historically, been a huge fan of the Other One. After reading about the issues they 've had upon reopening, we decided to wait before visiting this iteration so that had time to work out the kinks. But oh. The kinks, they have not been worked out. Upon coming in, we were told that it would be a 45 min. wait for food. We were in no rush, so said sure. Upon being seated we looked around in disbelief. While a sign at the register asks customers for patience since the new restaurant has a capacity 3x that of the old, there were only 6 booths occupied. Some had already received their food. They were not accepting carryout orders. 45 minutes? Given the menu, a skilled cook should have been able to push the mains quickly while one of the plentiful front of house staff dropped fries or expedited. Needless to say, this did not happen. But that 's getting ahead of the story! We ordered cheese curds as an appetizer; we were told they could bring those out while we were waiting on the mains. 30 minutes later, we were told there were no cheese curds. We were also informed that my original side was unavailable. We went through replacements: Curly fries? No. Sweet potato fries. Yes! Okay, wonderful. 1 hour and 7 minutes after ordering we had our sandwiches and sides. Our sandwiches were a BLT and a mushroom Philly. I can only assume the cook was making one order at a time for it to take 1 hour and 7 minutes to present a sandwich which only needed 2 3 strips of bacon on the grill, and another whose main grilled component was mushrooms. But at that point the wait was almost funny. The bigger problem? The third choice sweet potato fries were, to put it nicely, well done. To put it honestly, they were burned to a toasty shade of brown black with some pure black accents on the edges. The waiter took a look at them and brought them back to the kitchen. They were then sent back to us, with a waitress ? claiming that they were simply a new brand Great Value Walmart 's finest , and that while they looked burned, they tasted just as good. Reader, I tasted them. They were burned. The edges were charcoal. We sent them back again. The same waitress ? insisted they 'd only been in the fryer for a minute, so they must have been fine. Have you worked in food service? I have. A frozen fry, sweet potato or otherwise, should not take under a minute to cook, and certainly shouldn 't take under a minute to burn. They claimed the oil had been changed the day before, and our onion rings came out fine, so my suspicion is that they 'd allowed the sweet potato fries to thaw and then tossed them in the fryer. Hence the overcooking/burning. And still, the restaurant insisted they were perfectly okay. Now, I 'm not a the customer is always right sort of person. Frequently the customer is wrong. The customer can be unreasonable or difficult. ...But sometimes the food is just burned and it makes much more sense to say, Sorry about that, we 'll try with a fresh bag, than to insist a product that is clearly burned is fine. It 's not all bad. Our waiter was very good, and trying his hardest he seated us quickly, was prompt with taking the orders and doing drink refills, and was apologetic about all the mishaps. Of the food we received, both of our sandwiches were good, and the onion rings were fine. The product shortages were a little frustrating, but Covid, supply chains eh. Just communicate to FOH what 's missing at the beginning of the shift. The wait time was completely unreasonable given the number of customers again, we were quoted 45 minutes already laughably long and it took over an hour! . And the sweet potato thing! Why, why, why would you keep insisting to a customer that a burned product is fine? We have tastebuds! They desperately need an experienced GM who knows the business and is willing to address problems rather than making excuses. We 'll be back eventually, but it 'll be after another few months. Maybe by then the kinks will finally have been worked out.