...About Us...
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| Amy, Wilson and Tim Roberson |
Tim and Amy Roberson are the owners and
operators of The Filling Station Catering Service, Sunset Stables
Cowboy Cookhouse and The Sundown Cafe, located at the Senator Bob
Martin Eastern Agricultural Center in Williamston, NC.
The Filling Station has been catering for over twenty five years
now. Our staff combined has over 60 years experience and thousands
of successful caterings under our belt.
We are the go anywhere, cook anything, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
full time catering operation. There is no limit as to how far we
will
travel to cater. Tim says "we'll go anywhere so long as they pay us
when we get there!" We have many popular menu options such as pig
pickings, seafood, steaks, chicken, etc., but are not limited to
just those. If you can think it...we can cook it!
Thank you for coming to our website and please read on to learn more
about your catering options and how to contact us.
...History of our Dining Room...
The Filling Station
Restaurant and Catering Service originally started as a restaurant
in Robersonville, NC owned by the Roberson brothers.
In 1990,
the brothers purchased and moved a pack house built around 1909 from Gold Point,
NC and attached it to the current restaurant. They wanted to preserve
the murals and provide themselves with a new "main" dining room, for
their restaurant "The Filling Station." And so, it still stands til
this day, as our Historic Dining Room! The pack house became an
instant attraction.
Before being relocated, the pack house had been
a grocery store, owned and operated by the late Jim Johnson. In
1947-48, Bill Bemis, a native and artist, from Massachusetts, was
asked to paint murals high on the store walls. With a "Secret
Mixture" of paint, he painted the scenes at night, after his normal
job. The most famous of these works is the 40's fox hunt scene
portraying the Johnson family during a hunt. When the store closed,
the original artifacts from the store were bought by the NC Museum
of History before the building was moved to its current location
by the Roberson brothers and attached to the Filling Station Restaurant.
In 2005, Tim and his wife Amy became sole owners of the restaurant and catering business. For many years the
restaurant served the community before it closed in 2012.
While the restaurant is no longer open to the public, it can be
rented for private parties. The catering service continues to grow,
(see Catering Service)