It took a misinformed New York Times article to bring The Biscuit back to life, but before, here’s some explaining.
After a deep breath, here it goes:
Yes, The Biscuit has been gone for sometime. You might have even considered this site stale, and you’d be right if you did. Short story is that school gets in the way, but the same hardwork got The Biscuit a job in Manhattan this summer, so celebrate. There will be almost too many eating opportunties and experiences to share.
It’s going to be difficult to keep this site super updated with a real job and being away from Chapel Hill. So we’re going to stray away a little from the norm and talk about New York dining when we can. But every post will hopefully be a comparison between eating in the North and South.
For example, barbecue (BBQ, they call it here) is super popular up in NYC, but they don’t exactly know what they’re doing even when they call it NC style. One guide book says that a place here has shrimp and grits as good as, quote, Crooks Corner in Chapel Hill, where the dish was originally developed. Get the idea? Finding the parallels will be fun.
For now, let’s start with sharing a quick article from the NY Times courtesy of Biscuit friend, the Muffin, that suggests what to do if you have 36 hours in the Triangle.
Overall, it seems like a decent itinerary when there’s too little time to see it all. Surprisingly, they didn’t mention Lantern, which every foreigner seems to be in the habbit of bring up now.
While it might be in Durham, it’s close enough and good enough to praise the paper for mentioning Taqueria La Vaquita, though they missed the wonderful quail in mole sauce - one of the most delicious things in the whole area.
The Biscuit has to disagree with the Chapel Hill choice of Mama Dip’s though, where we’ve yet to eat anything above average. Longtime residents will always tell you how it good it used to be. Can’t people move on? Seems a little bit like the reporters got all their info from word-of-mouth, not food-in-mouth.
Check the article out, and see what you think. Until next time, keep eating. The Biscuit has photos and videos and notes on dozens of eating experiences in Chapel Hill that will be here one day in the future.
