Hooray. The Biscuit is back in Chapel Hill and ready to eat. After a somewhat disappointing culinary experience in New York, where the ratio of bad restaurants to good ones was much higher than you’d expect, the eating opportunities in the Triangle are quite exciting. Plenty of places that opened over the summer are calling […]

February, right around now, happens to be The Biscuit’s birthday (the blog and the blogger, coincidentally). To celebrate, we thought we’d eat a whole load of cupcakes from the two boutique bakeries in town, Sugarland and Bliss, then figure out which we liked better.

Turns out, this was a true rumble, and picking a winner wasn’t […]

The Biscuit would like to avoid straight-up reviews of restaurants, but it looks like that’s what we’re in for this week with the newly opened Noodles & Company.
The original intention was to go in with a video camera and film (in first person) ordering food for the first time. It would have been pretty cool, […]

There is a never ending duel on Greensboro Street in Carrboro. Two loncheras, or taco trucks, are fighting for business, and The Biscuit thinks it’s time to step in as a mediator.
This past weekend, with friend Steven Chu, The Biscuit visited both and tried to figure out who could call itself supreme.
Latin Grill, as […]

Well, well, The Biscuit has been doing some writing on the side lately and got a little piece published in The Georgetown Independent. It’s a student paper, but the school is home for the summer.
The Biscuit analyzes why we all (do we?) like chain restaurants: predictability, branding, affordability and reputation. The beginning is intentionally […]