Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen
Fried Chicken Biscuit
Virginia Ham Biscuit
Buttered Biscuit
Cinnamon Roll
Beginning our last day in Raleigh-Durham with a long outdoor run on freshly thawed streets it was after a quick shower followed by packing that we pointed the GPS towards Chapel Hill, a noon date at The Dean Dome to be preceded by a three-part breakfast beginning at the drive-thru and walk-up only stand considered by some to offer the best buttermilk biscuits in the land.
Titled Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen and every bit the sort of mom n’ pop operation that needs to be seen in order to be fully understood, it was just a few minutes after 7 o’clock that we turned right off East Franklin Street and queuing up behind a few cars it would not be long before the line snaked out into the street, most wise locals opting to park and take the walk-up route only discovered by tourists like ourselves after procuring a bag of hot biscuits and looking for somewhere to stop and nosh.
Undoubtedly a space happy to ‘do one thing, and do it well’ it was with little hesitation that our four part order was crafted and beginning with a simple buttered biscuit topped with a sidecar of honey the rumors of greatness were immediately confirmed, the light salinity of a golden top giving way to the fluffy interior of an unthinkably light buttermilk round.
Opting next to indulge in two sandwiches, the sliced biscuits themselves standing up admirably to toppings despite the loosely-packed crumb, suffice it to say that although the chicken was good it was the briny seared ham that really impressed…though not quite as much as the frosting topped biscuit dough snailed around butter and cinnamon that is thus far the best $1.25 I’ve spent all year.
