Visit · Aiken, S.C.
On the west side of Aiken, beside the training oval on the dirt-road side of town. Look for the screen door, the porch bulb, and a few pickup trucks. If a horse is being walked out front, you are in the right place.
We are in season. Doors open at seven, every day of the week, through the end of May, when the horses head north to race and we close for the summer.
In-season hours
note Last orders fifteen minutes before the hour. We start cleaning up around ten of, no offense.
Reach us
We do not take reservations. We do not have a booking page. The phone is on the wall by the kitchen, and Slim answers when he can.
A note about the season
The Track Kitchen has been open since 1962, and since the start it has run on the same calendar as the training oval down the road. We are open when the horses are in town, and we are closed when they are not. Aggregator listings sometimes mark us as permanently closed in summer. We are not. We are temporarily closed, and we will be back in October.
Fall
Oct, Nov
Open every day, 7a, noon
Winter
Dec, Jan, Feb
Open every day, 7a, noon
Spring
Mar, Apr, May
Open every day, 7a, noon
Summer
Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep
Closed, the horses are out of town
Directions
From downtown Aiken, take Bluegrass Lane north to Fairway Drive, then Pinewood Lane west. The Kitchen is on the south side of Pinewood, just past the training-oval entrance. The screen door faces the rail.
Parking note
On the dirt lot beside the building, or anywhere along Pinewood. The regulars take the spots closest to the rail. Visitors park where they fit.
Walking from the track
If you have just finished a set on the oval, the screen door is maybe sixty paces from the gap in the rail. Coffee is on the urn before you sit down.
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