While Johnson City’s restaurant boom has been grabbing all the attention lately, our neighboring towns and counties are quietly growing a diverse sampling of new restaurants that are gaining interest and customers. One example of this is a local area restaurant named Primo’s Italian Cuisine.
 
Long successful in their Elizabethton location, Primo’s decided against expanding their business into the culinary whirlwind of north Johnson City, choosing instead to open their second location at the always busy Walmart center on Rocky Bottom Road in Unicoi County. The restaurant can be found in the out-parcel of storefronts just off the nearby Interstate 26 interchange with Unicoi’s Tinker Road, meaning this Primo’s can expect a steady stream of hungry customers, not just from Johnson City to the north, but also Erwin and even Asheville, North Carolina, to the south.