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But service moves quickly, and you always have the option to eat in your car with the AC on full blast.Īlso, parking and table space are as sparse as the hours the Handsome Biscuit keeps – 10 a.m. First is the lack of air conditioning a visit during the height of a Tidewater summer can be a sweaty affair. Wash it all down with a revolving selection of fizzy, house-made Aguafrescas ($1.50) – the cantaloupe basil concoction was the best one I tried.Ī few small blemishes are worth mentioning. Be sure to ask for a shot of the Lupo hot sauce to go with your choice. Try the seared greens with garlic and chili ($3) and the hash-brown krisp with melted onions ($3). It comes with the option of house-made pecan pesto, which you certainly want as the jagged intensity of smashed garlic and basil helps offset the stodginess of the mayo in the salad. The riff on humble chicken salad includes tangy sweet blueberries, topped with cucumber and pickled fennel. If your palate is accustomed to strong flavors, then this thing is a Beethoven concerto.Ī rotation of daily specials include the Eddy Benson – Edwards Surry ham with pickled green tomato and a runny pimento cheese, which I found texturally unpleasant – and the Friddell ($3), a biscuit thick with ripe tomato and a slap of Duke’s mayo.īut if I have to pick a favorite biscuit, it comes in the form of the recently added Boom Chick Boom ($6). The bite is sharp, savory and not for the faint of heart. It’s a towering sight to behold, a genuine crowd-pleaser, and it only gets better when you ask them to top it with an oozy fried egg.Īnother fried chicken variant is the Bleu Blazer ($6), topped with spicy pickled red cabbage and drizzled with blue cheese dressing. The kitchen staff somehow manages to insert a juicy, boneless fried chicken breast into a biscuit, tops it with bacon and cheddar, then smothers all of it in luscious red-eye sausage gravy. The granddaddy of them all is the Hella Fitzgerald ($6.50). The options you have on the short menu do not lack for imagination. They make eye contact when taking your order, learn first names quickly and appear genuinely interested in maximizing the quality of your dining experience. However, in contrast to the always-irate proprietor on the show, the staff here could not be more pleasant.
Now that I’m a Handsome Biscuit veteran, I can say the same for these sandwiches. What always struck me about that episode of “Seinfeld” was not the dyspeptic owner but the willingness of the customers to absorb the abuse and keep coming back for more. E-Pilot Evening Edition Home Page Close Menu
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