Breakfast also starts early at the Knotty Pine (801 N. Royal Ave., 540-635-3064). Locals have been coming here since the 1940s, when the soda fountain, still in use as a service counter, was new. Go for lunch: perhaps crunchy fried chicken, four pieces for $7, and choose two sides. Prices are low, plates are full and folks are friendly. You could keep to yourself, but it would be hard.