Ford H.
Yelp
They should call it appalachia chowder co. My good friend mark and I went in this afternoon for some cookies. It's a classic day after a Boone monsoon kinda Saturday if you're catching my drift. We had just watched a movie, and were preparing to chow down on some delicious cookies before shopping for a new winter hat. I'd been dreaming of these cookies for weeks now. I finally found a spare moment and decided to spring for some sweet treats. Good experience starting out - nice fellow up front took my order, but perhaps could've been a bit more knowledgeable on pricing. I ordered the 4 "secret menu" cookies, which are actually no secret at all, as they frequently advertise them all over my Instagram feed, but I was a sucker and fell for it. I also ordered cheesecake and blueberry white chocolate oatmeal cookies to complete my half dozen. I was astounded to find out my cookies wouldn't be ready for 15-20 minutes, but alas, I wasn't angry because I knew they'd be fresh. After going for a walk with my friend steven who I mentioned prior, we came back to our cookies nice and ready. Ecstatic, we opened up the box outside and started chowing down. We began with the Cinnamon Toast Crunch looking cookie, but let me tell you, it was no cookie at all. This thing was a pile of goo, perhaps no more than halfway cooked through, and I'm being generous. Confused and bewildered, we continued. Next up was the s'more cookie, and my goodness, this thing was a thick pile of chocolatey, sticky, goopy, poopy, soupy, mushy, gushy, cookie dough chowder. This thing gave a whole new meaning to the word uncooked. Beaten down and morale dropping, we continued rummaging through this forest of cookie dough madness. We moved on to the pumpkin creme brûlée or whatever it was, along with the Reese's one. We were blessed to find the pumpkin one truly did resemble what I had envisioned when I had originally walked in. It was nicely cooked and delicious in flavor - a remarkable experience. The Reese's one however fell just in line with the first two. A sludge of near motor oil consistency with a hint of peanut butter chocolate flavor. Finally having persevered through the four secret menu cookies, we went on to the regular menu ones, the cheesecake and blueberry white chocolate oatmeal. We discovered both of these to be wonderful, coating my taste buds with that sweet cookie goodness I had been craving. Once we had tried all of the cookies, we went back in and asked if they were supposed to be so gooey, to find out that indeed they were. Disappointed, we left the store.
Overall, this place really isn't that bad. We found that once the cookies sat out for about an hour, they firmed up nicely and were much more manageable. Just heed your expectations on the secret menu ones if you're going to try them out, we were extremely disappointed, especially when paying 5 dollars a cookie.