I was on a job site in Greenville Mississippi a year or two ago and on the first night I asked the local Foreman where I could go grab some grub. He said if I like steak I should go check out Doe's. Be careful though, it's in a bad part of town and whatever you do, don't drive further down Nelson street than the restaurant is. Okay. I lived in Detroit for a while, so this sort of thing doesn't bother me.
I brought a co-worker with me and we found it okay. It's an old corner store turned into a restaurant. And I mean old. Run down, chipped paint, doors hanging off the hinges . . . and an armed guard standing out front. He kept an eye on everybody's cars parked along the street as there was no parking lot.
You enter through the run down, sticky kitchen and one of the guys working there handed me a beer out of the cooler on my way by. Once you get inside you see the exposed plumbing, exposed wiring, crooked floor, cheap little tables with red and white checkerboard table cloths on them.
They did have a small menu, but there wasn't much on it . . . and no prices. Hmm . . . oh well, the company is paying for it anyway so I guess it doesn't matter. Besides, how much could a couple steaks cost in a run-down joint like this?
Neither of us was very hungry, so we just got fillets, a potato, and a couple shrimp to go with it. The first thing they bring us is some of the home-made, cast iron skillet cooked toast. Toast, you ask? I'll tell you right now I have never had a piece of bread that compares to what she handed me. I could have eaten a loaf of that for dinner and been completely satisfied. Then came the steak & shrimp. Oh. My. God. Hands down, no exceptions, the best hunk of meat I've ever stuffed in my pie hole. Wow.
Then I got the bill. 2 fillets, 2 small side orders of shrimp, and 2 beers . . . $110.
I don't know if that counts as a dive due to the cost, but I'll tell you the place sure looked like a dive.
http://www.doeseatplace.com/