Hominy Grill
Coffee
Housemade Banana Bread and Ginger Pumpkin Bread
High-Rise Biscuit and White Corn Cornbread
Peach Buttermilk Pancakes with Pecan Butter
Big Nasty Biscuit – Fried Chicken, Cheddar Cheese, Sausage Gravy
Shrimp & Grits – Sauteed Shrimp, Scallions, Mushrooms, Bacon, Cheese Grits
Perhaps the most famous restaurant in Charleston prior to Sean Brock reinventing the scene at McCrady’s and Husk it was at Hominy Grill that my family experienced the first of a quartet of disappointing dining experiences in the Low Country; one of those rare meals where nothing was particularly ‘bad,’ but everything was so extremely average and overpriced that one we were left wondering what we had missed, particularly given the chef’s Beard Award winning resume. A small space with friendly service and long lines that we thankfully missed by mere moments by arriving just as the restaurant opened the breakfast menu at Hominy Grill would prove to be rather short and with a few daily specials the decision process was simple leading to our first plates arrival no more than 10 minutes after seating with good orange juice but low quality, acrid coffee served as we waited. Busy and bustling but not particularly ‘loud,’ the food started out relatively well with a pair of quick breads that were rich and warm at $2.75 a slice served alongside a fluffy, pale biscuit and alarmingly dry cornbread at $2 each but moving onto our proper plates the cost/value margin skewed far to the left as bisquick quality pancakes with less than half a peach to the plate arrived at $10 only to be outshined in their mediocrity by the $8.50 fried chicken slider and $16 quintet of small shrimp resting on perhaps half a cup of watery grits, the entirety of the plate either surviving on or overwhelmed by the strength of the smoky pork and rich mushrooms, depending on your point of view.
http://hominygrill.com/