The Soda Shop

Blown away by some of these reviews..it's a diner. With diner food. Greasy food on paper plates with plastic ware. Perfection!Corned beef hash, sausage, scrambled eggs, and French toast under $10. Another reviewer said it was overpriced. $18 for breakfast for two with an egg cream and root beer float! Where are you getting your breakfast that this is spendy‽ Staff was super friendly, smiley even. They were very attentive and the food was served super hot! All while being packed.Ignore other reviews. My mother-in-law is visiting and said, "This is my favorite place so far." Good enough for that old southern woman, great for you.

Love their omelets and orangeade. Usually with a side of cottage fries. They don't open until 10am so perfect for a late breakfast

Have loved this place for decades!! Adore the vintage vibe with the old wooden booths, checkerboard tile floor, and steel counter stools. The menu is vintage, too, with classics like an Orange Creamsicle Float and a Brown Cow. Amazing menu also offers great choices for vegetarians ~ love the veggie burger!

Wow... I am really surprised this place has a three star rating. It was exactly what I hoping it was. An old diner/soda shop for the 1950s and it delivered! It is super cute inside and they still have the eat at counter, which is a rare find these days. The waitress was tentative and made great suggestions for our meal. I had the Buffalo chicken sandwich and it was great! I could have used a bit more Buffalo sauce but I didn't ask. The sandwich was nice and toasted on a hoagie bun. The wife had a Ruben and it was delicious per her opinion as I don't get down with Ruben's. The fries were okay, we had the curly and cottage variety. Next time we will go with our daughter and get a milkshake! I am sure she will love it and we are excited to go back for another round.

so fun, cool vibes and nice staff. had such a good burger it almost brought tears to my eyes. I thought about it all day. thank you soda shopUpdate: just had another burger here. still banging

The place is cute. A lot of history in the little shop. They even have photo albums on the counter that you can look through.When we stopped in, it was for some shakes. The reason for the 3 stars is for the service. The young woman at the counter when we were ordering looked and acted like she could not be bothered. She had one earbud in, so who knows what she was actually listening to. When we finally ordered, she wasn't even paying attention the whole time, so we had to repeat ourselves.

This place was awful. It's very kitschy but not in a good way, like someone picked out a bunch of random stuff from the ReStore and threw it on the walls. The food was bad, I had the Reuben. I took my first bite and the entirety of the rubbery corned beef came out of the sandwich. And then there was the brown mustard that permeated through what should have been the thousand island, it was unpleasantly unexpected. The fries were cold and the service was below mediocre, no one seemed very friendly. I had higher expectations for this place as it sits on the Main Street of Davidson. Oh well, there are other places to eat that aren't the soda shop.

I came on a week night and it was pretty much empty. My buffalo chicken hoagie was yummy!!! Probably one of the only items I really enjoyed there. I will say the food is slightly overpriced (in my opinion) for what it is and its size. Also they were out of a lot of their sides (salt and vinegar chips, tater tots, etc.) which was disappointing, so I ended up settling on their regular fries (the round shaped things). Honestly, they were really bland and unseasoned. I decided to try a chocolate milkshake because I thought that it would be one of their "specialities" considering it's an old-timey diner type place. However, it was nothing special and just tasted like your regular blended chocolate ice cream. I packed the round fries to go and revamped them at home in the airfryer with lots of much needed seasonings. They turned into crispy potato chips and tasted much better than their original state. I recommend this! My friend got a burger, sweet potato fries, and a float as well. Overall pretty average / not great food place, but the look of the restaurants is cute. Servers were attentive too!

Love it, especially their chicken salad. Soda shop is always a dependable and reliable place to get a great lunch.

Cool little place on campus. Lots of choices on the menu. If you want to go back to the 50's and 60's, this is the place for you.