Authentic southern food (deep, deep south)

Main Street in Johnson City shows a lot of promise. There are one or two late night bars, some shops, some restaurants, and, of course, almost all of this was closed in the middle of a weekday, which is when we showed up.

Our choices for food were pizza or nothing else, so we drove down Roan St. toward a more residential area and came across authentic Mexican food by Ole's Guacamoles.

Mexican counts as southern food, right? Deep, deep south?

From the Ole's Guacamoles Facebook page.

We've had authentic Mexican before, so this wasn't the very best we've tried, but the food was tasty and they surprised us by providing an awesome bean dip with our free tortilla chips.

With a starter like that, we should've known we wouldn't be leaving hungry.

There was a complimentary salsa bar with different flavors, too, as if the bean dip wasn't enough.

It may not be southern fried chicken and biscuits, but Ole's Guacamoles is awesome and Johnson City locals should be excited that it's in their backyard.

It looks like there are only two Ole's Guacamoles out there (the other one is in North Carolina), so show this local restaurant some love when you're in town, and help keep them going strong.