I am a North Carolinian -- and a booster of our indigenous foods -- but I must admit that your Pine Restaurant looks more like something one would more typically see in the Northeast than in the South...roadhouses, tarverns, rural restaurants. I wish that our countryside was sprinkled with one-of-a-kind, owner/operator restaurants.
Found that place in Floyd, Va. about 45 minutes S.E. of Roanoke. Built in the 1920’s and run by the same family for that long.