More talk of the namesake. This week The Biscuit and friends went on a stomach-stuffing eating excursion from one end of Franklin Street to the other in search of the best biscuit. Each eatery offered something different from the next, and, with a few exceptions, they were all pretty good.
We went from upscale with Crossroads at the Carolina Inn to standard with Ye Olde Waffle Shoppe to chain with KFC to try to find the most delicious one, visiting 11 different places in all.
It was hard to choose the best one, but check out the gallery (starting at the bottom of Franklin and moving up toward Carrboro) for commentary on each and then scroll down to see the winner.
The decision was tough but the battle’s victor is ::ahem:: Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen.
All in all, their biscuit tasted the way we thought the baked good should. It was simple, but delicious, the gold standard. A few other places, like Time Out and Elmo’s were very good, but they didn’t prepare the ideal kind of biscuit you think of when reading a southern tale or watching the Food Network.
There may be a few places we didn’t stop by because they were closed, so let us know if you have any other favorite places, or if you like a biscuit not offered on Franklin or living somewhere in Durham or Raleigh.
And one last thing, The Biscuit mentioned a few weeks ago that Bojangle’s puts out a mean biscuit. Although it’s not on Franklin and The Biscuit doesn’t like to support chains, when Bojangle’s does everything right, it’s a formidable opponent for any of the above biscuits, even at Sunrise.
May 18th, 2008 - 10:39 pm
I’ve had biscuits from most everywhere I can find along the main strip of Chapel Hill/Carrboro, and I feel like Elmo’s is consistently at or near the top. There, along with Sunrise and Time Out, always have warm (not reheated) biscuits.
Also, have you tried the Cajun place that set up near Cat’s Cradle yet? I’ve been wanting to but haven’t done so yet.
May 27th, 2008 - 3:48 pm
I have been in New York City for over two weeks now and in all the searching that I have done, I have not been able to find a decent biscuit. Furthermore, all the places that do have biscuits are either rip-off “Real Southern Cookin!” restaurants that do not even serve sweet tea or terrible fast food joints with biscuits that taste like floury gum.
If you have any recommendations, please let me know. Also, while you are still in North Carolina, I beg you to go to Big Ed’s in Raleigh.
June 27th, 2008 - 12:31 pm
Though Bojangles’ *is* a chain, it’s headquarters are in Charlotte and the franchise office for the Triangle locations is in Raleigh. Bojangles’ is very much a North Carolina company. Many people do not know that and somehow, for some, knowing that Bojangles’ is a North Carolina company balances out over the fact that they are a chain.
December 1st, 2008 - 2:40 pm
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