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Category: Breakfast & Brunch [Edit]
Neighborhood: MidtownMon-Sun. 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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With so few preconceptions in my life, I came to the Flying Biscuit Midtown with one -- I expected them to serve biscuits and gravy. Apparently, it is only a weekend item and I was quite disappointed. Getting over that initial disappointment, though, I began to look at the menu. The menu is somewhat new-age in what it offers in rethinking the southern menu items, but it fits the Bohemian atmosphere that pervades throughout the many layers of the interior. After some thought as to what we were going to eat, we decided on the following:
Steak and eggs
Shrimp and Grits
Yes, Shrimp and Grits...it just sounds odd, but it was something that I had to try. I almost didn't get it, but I sucked up the courage and ordered it. I didn't know that I would ever get the chance again. When the meal arrived I was somewhat stunned at the presentation -- it was a bowl filled with cheese grits and shrimp that had been sauteed in stewed tomatoes and spices. Very simple in its presentation. Feeling rather demure about eating this concoction, I took a bite of the grits and found that they were amazingly awesome. I didn't want to ruin that flavor and so had a bit of the steak. It was okay -- tad over-seasoned. The eggs were eggs, quite difficult to ruin them unless you just don't cook them properly.
I returned to my dish and went for the shrimp this time. They were not rubbery and the flavor was good. Happiness was setting in. Then came the big leap as I picked up some of the shrimp with some of the tomato and grits. The flavors just melded into my mouth. Whereas the shrimp and tomato might have been a bit over-seasoned, the smoothness in the cheese grits mellowed them enough to make a cool Jazz party in your mouth. I ate they entire meal.
I WILL return here. I have to return here. I might not order the shrimp and grits on every trip, but I do love the grits and I really want to try the biscuits and gravy!
Not terrible, but not really that good either. What's up with the tables here? Squeeze this way, shimmy that way, hope you can make it to your seat without knocking over someone's drink.
Biscuits? eh. Not really biscuits in my book. Don't know why they put all that sugar on them either. It's not supposed to be dessert.
Scrambles are petty decent. Omelets are hit and miss. Sometimes they come fully loaded, other times all the good suff is in one little spot in the middle of the thing. How many eggy bites does it take to get to the center of the omelet? Not a fun game.
Too bad they don't do their beer dinners anymore. Wait, that was when they actually had good food.
When I came to Atlanta, everyone kept telling me to try the Flying Biscuit because it is the best brunch ever. And the line outside on weekends backed up their claim. However, I would not go so far as calling it the best brunch ever, or even in Atlanta for that matter but it's pretty good. Their menu is extensive and full of creative omelets.
If I was only rating their biscuits, Flying Biscuit would get a solid four stars. Their biscuits are really good, especially with butter and that jam. So fluffy and yummy. But as a whole, their food never really hit the spot for me. The french toast was decent, at best. The omelets were a little too salty for my liking.
But the people watching does make this place a lot more interesting, especially if you're not interested in your date (as in my situation one time).
Best Grits, I've ever had! Chicken Sausage was different and excellent! Biscuit was horrible, you'd think if that is in your name you'd nail it! NOT!
Eggs and Jam were as you would expect good not great! I liked the people watching!
Service was good, the server was funny! It's within walking distance from my house!
I'll be back!
alright, fellow yelpers please don't stone me, but I don't come here for their biscuits. I don't even eat them when they come with my meal. Yes, they are fluffy; yes, they are buttery; yes, they are huge, but they are also dry and maybe too big and too thick.
To redeem myself, can I say that I love their cranberry apple butter, and sometimes I may pick at my biscuit and eat the innards... just a little bit.
I love the high flyer meal w/ their yummy pancakes and warm peach compote. I always get extra on the side. Their sausage is to dye for (as in tye-dye, not good enough to actually die).
Their shrimp and grits are a favorite amongst my friends. I, however, do not enjoy their creamy, dreamy grits. I think they must make them with buttermilk (b/c they have a sour taste that could only come from buttermilk). all my friends love them though.
The fried egg salad is great as well as the moon dusted potatoes with rosemary.
Now, if it wasn't so dang busy every time i went!!!
Whoot whoot! I took my two sons and we all loved it. We all tried to clean our plates because the food was so good. We had never had grits so good. I was scared of the chicken sausage at first but it was terrific. Service was great. We will be back!
I love the fact that breakfast is served all day. The fried green tomatoes are to die for. Parking is limited, plan to park on a nearby side street and walk. It's a small restaurant so come early for brunch or expect to wait.
Met a couple of friends at this location, this weekend. I had a much better experience with the atmosphere and food here then I did with the Norcross location a few months back. Norcross wasnt bad but, it wasnt good either it was very unremarkable.
The one in Midtown is in a great location with lots of foot traffic to people watch and to help it give a lively vibe overall.
The wait was about 1 hour so, if you plan on heading here for a late breakfast on a beautiful Saturday morning be prepared. If you need help staying awake while you wait then there is a Caribou Coffee just across the street to run backup for your patience if you need.
Grits and biscuits, its in my blood.
The wait gets extraordinarily long on weekends, but I've got to say it's worth it. There are quite a few shops to browse in the neighborhood, but the hostess is a table nazi so don't stray too far. Soysage, ultra savory wonderful potatoes, warm biscuit, two eggs, and a peach pancake washed down with a hot cup of coffee only set me back $13 with tax and tip. I also tried a bit of the blackbean cakes -- phenomenal. Perhaps if the service was less rushed and slow, I could give five stars.
Another one of those "egg" restaurants...
I don't like flying biscuit. Not even a little bit. Their biscuits are dry and crumble easily and their black bean cakes taste like nothing even though they have some delicious ingredients.
The service is shitty... You have to wait forever to sit, wait forever to order a drink, wait forever to order food, wait forever to receive food, wait forever to receive check... I've had a two hour breakfast here before because I had to WAIT FOREVER to get everything.
It's just too crowded/busy for the amount of staff that they have taking care of everyone. So, bottom line, if you want an Egg breakfast with crumbly biscuits, go here... otherwise, check out some of Atlanta's other AMAZING breakfast spots!
The perfect breakfast, or any meal while in Atlanta, is two fluffy biscuits from the Flying Biscuit and their homemade cranberry apple butter. This is also a short MARTA ride from Peachtree to the Midtown station and a 5 minute walk east on 10th street. The Outwrite Bookstore is just across the street. Look for the pride flag.
On my flight back from Atlanta to LA I packed two biscuits and ate one while waiting to board, and the other once I got on the plane. They were supposed to make it home so that I could share them with my wife. Oh well, next time. This is on my must-eat list on every trip to Atlanta.
The food was good, but not great. The place itself was so cramped and uncomfortable... not my ideal way to spend a meal. If the food was something ridiculously special, then maybe that would justify sitting elbow-to-elbow with neighbors at the next table but that just wasn't the case. I give it 3 stars because there wasn't anything horribly wrong with the place, but just as the star rating description goes, it was just "A-OK".
The Good:
- Extensive list of unique breakfast foods
- Large portions
- The biscuits are better than anything you can get north of Virginia
- Giant water cups
- Great coffee
- Walking distance to Piedmont Park
The Bad:
- Cramped and crowded, especially in the outside seating ring
- Questionable choice of music. Akon and Destiny's Child during brunch?
Is this place for you?
I'm no expert on Atlanta breakfast establishments, but the Flying Biscuit Midtown is an excellent mix of good food and eclectic customers in a great location.
I will never understand why people line up on the weekends to eat at this place. Living nearby, I see the lines and just shake my head and laugh at the poor, misguided souls that choose to spend time hanging out on Piedmont Ave, waiting for rock hard, too-dense biscuits, lame chicken sausage and indifferent service.
I will cop to having one or two decent meals there over the years, but I went during the week for breakfast, and I find the simpler, the better. Eggs and grits and coffee, and that's about it for me.
I'm happy to leave The Flying Biscuit to those to adore it. More room for me at the other great breakfast places in town.
Perfectly average, although you wouldn't know it by the long lines outside on the weekend. I guess as one of the few breakfast specialty joints, they have an edge on weekend mornings. The atmosphere is kinda funky in a kitschy sort of way, the tables are close but not too close, and the inside-outside option is nice if you have a choice. The waitstaff is eh, ok, not rude but does not particularly pleased about working here, so the service can be a tad slow.
The tofu scramble is fine, with a shot of hot sauce, and the biscuit to me is just a biscuit. I've also had the black bean quesadilla which is passable but no great shakes. Whatever they give you to put on the biscuit (strawberry-apple-butter-esque) is good, but they don't give you very much. I thought the coffee was terrible. Prices are average.
Overall its not worth waiting for, unless you have to have breakfast, and you have no other choice. If there is no wait, and you have a hankering, its fine. It is on a corner with a lot of drama, so you do get an occasional scene unfolding that involves lots of head bobbing and finger snapping, and it is quite easy to "accidentally" overhear stories of drama and debauchery unfolding at neighboring tables, which makes things a little more interesting if you're having a slow day (or month).
I wish I read the Yelp reviews about this place before deciding to check out what the big hype about this place was about a few weeks ago.
I am a huge breakfast person and I decided to order a biscuit and an order of grits before ordering a main dish.
However, I saw my friend's plates - which were Piedmont Omelette and the Bacon and Egg Biscuit plate, which I didn't try but they didn't look that appetizing. You eat with your eyes first, right? And not to mention, their comments were along the lines of "This dish isn't as good as I thought it'd be."
That comment was exactly what I thought when I finally tried a biscuit served with apple butter. Totally not that appealing at all. Those Pillsbury biscuits that come in a tube = way better, in my opinion. I was not pleased at all, so I opted not to order anything else here (Read: waste my money.)
The only thing I liked was my order of grits. Creamy and dreamy were the words listed on the menu to describe them and yeah, they were right. I could take a bath in those grits. Yum.
Was it horrifying bad? No. But will I return? I don't think so.
Kiki's hot tip:
While dining on your tasty FB goodies, one can steal Free Wi-Fi from nearby Caribou. Heck yes.
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This was one of the best breakfasts I've had in years (not counting brunches, but brunch is the magical breakfast with alcohol).
The biscuits were excellent, the coffee was great, and I tasted pretty much everyone elses food and couldn't have been happier. The waitress was so nice, and when she accidentally brought us the wrong thing, she let us keep it, free of charge and went to get the right thing.
If I'm in Atlanta again, I'll be seeking this place out.
Your namesake BISCUITS are terrible: Dry and greasy. Not sure how you can get something like a biscuit, to be greasy like that, and dry at the same time. They are not good. Cracker barrel biscuits kick your biscuits' asses and that why they are flying.....send your biscuits makers to Publix and get some of those frozen ones from Pillsbury, that would be better.
I ate some other egg meal at one other time there, had an odd bloody Mary, I think made with sake. No thanks.
Not sure why so many people line up for your food. I disagree with whatever the rave is.
When I moved in next door, I was thrilled to have such a well-reviewed breakfast place steps away from my door. Too bad the place totally blows ass.
I guess it's not fair because I just don't like floofy breakfast. Oatmeal pancakes are okay I suppose. Apple butter is uh fine. I am lame? I like buttermilk fluffies with syrup. And normal bacon. And normal sausage. And good grits.
Do the grits here suck?
I think they might. I don't have any grit credentials, but I wasn't huge on these grits. And I've heard from natives that they are no good, no good at all.
What I do have credentials on is getting smack from bitchy hostesses. I know this is a theme in my yelp "work", but man I fuckin hate getting attitude from people that work for places I'm trying to spend money at. What's the point? I don't need to spend money to get treated like shit. I can get treated like shit for free.
Their coffee was okay.
Look, don't get me wrong, this place is totally acceptable food. But it's expensive and for the reputation its just not that great. 3 stars, knock em down 1 for shitty bitch hostessing.
P.S. I frequently find bitch hostessing at "hot breakfast spots". Read the last two words in quotes there. Wow.
Disclaimer....Picky Eater, you've been warned...
Please don't get me wrong I actually really like the flying biscuit. The service is always top notch. I love this location (great for people watching). Parking is a bit of a pain but not too bad.
My complaint is the food. Again, I stress that I am a very picky eater. I was born and raised in the south, therefore leaving me holding certain foods to a certain standard. I don't know WHAT FB does to it's grits but they can't be called southern style. Creamy and almost too thick to pass through my little throat, I have to say I was a bit repulsed by them. The best part of the meal was the biscuits although biscuits should be able to be consumed with and without jelly (these were only good with the jelly) and I ended up picking over my companies omelet (although I'm allergic).
I give this place 3 stars, because of the location, the fact that I seem to be one of the few people to really dislike the food (so maybe it's me), and the fact that I think this is a really good place for brunch on Sunday after church. If I ever return I'll probably keep it simple with bacon, biscuits and coffee. I can't give it one or two stars because I had a really great time here. I'm just really turned off by the grits (yes the bad grits are worth 2 stars).
The tofu scramble was incredibly passable.
The biscuit was remarkably mediocre.
The coffee was terrifically forgettable.
The $3 mimosas were splendidly average.
The service was perfectly adequate.
This is a well known breakfast place. You can have both in- and out-door seating. During winter the "outdoor" seating is typically with a cold draft. You can literally freeze something off. So be careful with your seating choice.
They have egg, egg, and eggs for breakfast. The variation is pretty good they even have a veggie one. The service is efficient.
The coffee in my experience is varied in quality. I have had anything from terrible (on the heater for an hour) to excellent. Send back cooked coffee!
It is a pretty good place, but I would not stand in line to get in!
I enjoyed my breakfast at the Flying Biscuit.
Yes, it was very crowded on Sun, but I think that is what I liked. I also thought the biscuit and cranberry butter were very good. Maybe I am having SF withdrawal, but I just liked all the hustle and bustle.
This is not the place to go if you are nursing a hang over or wanting to have a leisurely breakfast, but if you want some good food, served in a very lively environment, this is the place!
Good breakfast grub! I had the Hollywood omelet. It was egg whites with spinach and a tomato sauce on top. They give you a biscuit that is OK. It is nothing like the old ones (they were once not franchised). There are better biscuits around town. The coffee is great and the servers were good.
This is the place to go if you want consistent, middle of the road brunch/breakfast food. A good staple in Atlanta.
I finally checked out the Biscuit!
The food was cool. I would def return. I had the shrimp & grits dish which was a little watered down. I prefer my grits to be thicker in paste, but all- in -all it was not too bad.
The biscuits and jam that comes with your food is great! I love the strawberry jam that served with your dish...and the biscuit have this hard base but soft within to keep you wanting more. I see them all over ATL and thought I would stop by and fix my much needed breakfast taste in the evening day.
Not bad at all.
On any weekend Atlanta morning, you'll find people clustered around almost any breakfast joint waiting to get in. I do enjoy Flying Biscuit from time to time, but this isn't my favorite location, and I don't think it is worth the wait. For whatever reason, the food at the original location is a touch better.
The midtown restaurant is extremely crowded. I'm sure this is some kind of fire code violation, but they've packed as many tables as possible into this small eatery. They separate some of the tables by only a sliver, so you just have to pretend not to notice that lovey dovey couple practically sitting on your lap.
In my experience with the service here, it has been pretty good. The people are courteous and very helpful.
My favorite thing is the scrambled tofu. It isn't consistent though. Sometimes it is very good and other times it has way too much sauce. I also enjoy their biscuits and grits, although the grits are on the creamier side.
It's fun casual spot for having breakfast/brunch with your friends. Definitely southern breakfast spot. Grits, biscuits and big portion of all kinds of breakfast items you wish to get. FB does offer some healthy options like egg-whites, whole wheat biscuit, oatmeal pancake and turkey bacon. I loved my egg-white omelet with a side dish of shrimp (big lots of shrimp!!). Good turkey bacon. Fluffy pancake (I had from my friend's plate:) ).
Great start for saturday morning!!
You know, I have lived in Atlanta for nearly five years, and have only been to the Flying Biscuit once. And on that one time, we had to wait approximately an hour and a half for a table. After nearly passing out from hunger (ok, ok I'm exaggerating a bit) as we stumbled to our table, I deemed myself officially 'gun shy' of any Flying Biscuit location.
So when chance had it to find me at the Biscuit on a Sunday morning (aka, prime brunch time), I was thankful that it was early in the morning, before most of Midtown has awoken. We had to wait a mere 25 minutes this time (yay.), and the free coffee for the hungry and patiently waiting patrons gets some points in my book.
Once seated, our waitress was friendly and efficient (with a 'let no coffee cup go dry!' mentality), and I devoured the classic Piedmont omelette and slathered all that jam all over that puffy biscuit.
One thing to note is that this location is tiiigght. And I don't mean in the slang, "That's so tiigghht that you won concert tickets!" kind of way. Like, the tables are packed in like sardines, and even if you barely have any junk in your trunk, your booty is likely to at least graze another diner as you attempt to make your way to the bathroom. So if you have any claustrophobic tendencies, be forewarned.
Thankfully this experience was a (comparatively) delightfully short wait time, and I'm glad that I had the opportunity to break my hiatus from visiting the FB.
"Unbiased Opinion"
"Jumbo Shrimp"
"Soft Rock"
"Sanitary Landfill"
and...
"Healthy Breakfast"
You would think that a restaurant called "Flying Biscuit" would at least have a good biscuit? That thing would make for a good deep sea fishing weight.
But...if you like grits that run like Montezuma's Revenge, waiting in long lines for overrated breakfast food, all for the pleasure of lousy service, THIS IS YOUR PLACE!
I am glad this is quickly becoming a chain, because it puts this place in its rightful category.
It gets 2 stars because it is breakfast after all, and any breakfast gets at least 2 stars.
I have a couple of friends who are always raving about how much they love the Flying Biscuit, and when one of them realized I'd never been, we went for lunch the next day.
It's incredibly difficult to navigate this place. The tables are thrown in here all crazy-like, to the point that if they added just one more, it'd be completely unnavigable and you'd have to walk on top of the tables to get through. Crazy cramped, and the parking lot (about 10 spaces) is even worse.
The paint on the walls is bright, cheery primary colors, but the decor wasn't so much decor as it was a couple of Flying Biscuit t-shirts tacked to the wall for sale. Eh.
Our service was okay, but not great, which I think was partially because we had been seated in the very back corner and it was thus rather difficult to get to us at all. Perhaps I was biased, but it certainly seemed to me that the closer you were to the kitchen & exits, the better people's service was. Regardless, our waitress came by at least three times while my glass of Coke was decidedly empty, and I finally gave up and asked the manager to get me some more after he delivered our food and started to walk away (again, without noticing the empty Coke either).
Now, if a restaurant is named after a particular food item, that food item better be damn tasty. So when we're brought two biscuits that were so rushed through cooking that neither of them have any golden color to them whatsoever, I kind of did a double-take. We were handed two solid white biscuits with some sugar sprinkled on top. The only reason I even knew that the sauce I was handed with it was a "cran-apple butter" was because I heard the waitress telling the next table, not us.
So, back to the white biscuits. Solid...white...biscuits. They could have cooked much longer, especially since they were so incredibly thick. Now, biscuit-making is a subtle art. (Actually, just as I was headed out the door that afternoon to go to lunch, I saw that the front-page article on the food section of the AJC that day was all about how to properly make a biscuit.) Biscuits need to be golden, soft, and flaky on the outside. But this "biscuit" was white, thick, and doughy rather than soft. (I took a leftover biscuit home--the friend I was with had asked for two boxes to take home, and I didn't want to be rude--and I found that the second biscuit actually had lumps of uncooked flour in it that I couldn't even bite through. Gross!!)
The cran-apple "butter" was good, but it was such a distinctly autumn flavor that I was surprised they were serving it to me in March. I don't know, perhaps it comes from my background of going up to the north Georgia mountains every fall in order to get freshly harvested apples, but it tasted so incredibly like autumn in my mouth that I felt it should be a seasonal thing, not a year-round flavor.
For my meal, I ordered the "Flying Biscuit Breakfast." I figured that, since it is a breakfast kind of place, I should start with the basics, since that's probably what they do best. It came with two eggs, two patties of chicken sausage, potatoes, and another biscuit. The chicken sausage was good (tasted just like turkey sausage to me), the eggs were okay (but should have been served when they were a bit warmer), and there was a ton of potatoes on my plate. Seriously, the potatoes were supposed to be the side item, but they took up two-thirds of my plate. Don't get me wrong, I love potatoes, but it just seemed kind of...overwhelming. And I didn't even bother with that second biscuit.
Overall, I found absolutely nothing about this place that made it worth coming back to. The parking was impossible, the seating was cramped, the food was nothing special, and the biscuits were...awful, quite frankly. Maybe that's how some people like their biscuits, but to me, the phrase "flying biscuit" makes me think light and fluffy, not thick, heavy, and undercooked.
Those biscuits would fly about as well as a boulder.
I was honestly expecting a little bit more out of the biscuits, but my meal was good on the whole. I didn't think they were THAT out-of-this-world, which is what I had heard. Maybe I heard wrong. I visited with a large group and everyone enjoyed their meal, from the eggs, to the rosemary potatoes (really good), to the grits (yum!), to the fried green tomato (interesting cashew relish).
I will say that they deserve mad props for substituting soysage for sausage at no extra charge! Great, attentive service and a terrific place for a leisurely mid-week breakfast.
This place is Uuuuber crowded on Saturday mornings! your lucky if you can get a table with an hour. I have one thing to say to for anyone reading this "CREAMY GRITS"
Yes their grits are dang good! I've had them with various breakfast platters even if I had to order them on the side. I also like the restaurants health conscious approach by serving chicken sausage, and oatmeal pancakes with peach compote.
Like I said it's really crowded but it is a MUST TRY!
I hadn't been to The Flying Biscuit in a while and only visited this location a few months ago, but I've been back three times since. Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day so I love anyplace that can get it right.
My favorite menu item is the Egg-stravaganza mainly because it comes with an order of whole wheat french toast with raspberry sauce and honey creme anglais. The biscuits are of course the attraction, but the french toast is close to beating them out. We also tried the turkey burger and added bleu cheese, feta cheese, and mozzarella and was very please with it as well.
On this last visit we got a table by the large panoramic windows that open up to the sidewalk and with the breeze blowing it was great place to relax and enjoy the locals.
Our wait staff is always friendly and this will definitely be a favorite spot. They are also wifi friendly but the last couple of times, I've been enjoying the meal so much that any work I wanted to do had to wait, as it should be.
I got to Atlanta a 6:06 am on Sunday after taking the red eye and dealing with someone's screaming child the entire flight (2 words people: Children's Tylenol). What kept me from leaping over the seats of the plane and harming the child's grandparent for not fixing the situation was the fact that I knew that by the time I landed, got to my hotel, and checked in, the Flying Biscuit would be open.
By some twist of fate, my hotel had a room at 7am and I was able to get a couple hours of sleep. But as soon as I woke up, got decrudded, and bought a marta pass, I was there.
I sat at the bar - the bartender/server Brooklyn was nice and fun. She kept conversation with some of the patrons, but I was still a little tired, so I read my book and she let me be. She also kept my coffee full and warm...which is really 85% of what I need/want/expect from breakfast. I ordered the eggs with the blackbean cakes. They were pretty good -it's definitely one of the UGLIEST meals you'll ever see. So if you don't like ugly food - don't get it. I wasn't wild about the grits...way too much creaminess and not enough grit. I was also shocked that my food came out in like 3 minutes...seriously. WOW.
So there you have it...the meal that saved a grandparent's life....kinda
The place was kind of crowded with a weird inside and outside circles which created a very tight spot. It didn't actually know that this was the healthy choice breakfast joint. I ordered the High Flyer which include eggs (scrambled), turkey sausage, home fries, grits, biscuit and an oatmeal pancakes. The oatmeal pancake topped with peaches was pretty different but didn't actually taste as good as regular pancakes or oatmeal cookies. Lose. The turkey sausage was dry and not very tasty. It felt like a waste of good meat. The biscuit was a bit too much on the hard side. Nothing like a buttermilk biscuit. Probably cause its not. The eggs and home fries were pretty standard. It is kind of sad but the highlight of the meal was actually the grits. I might not a be health nut but I prefer to think that being healthy doesn't mean I have to give up my taste buds.
Homemade biscuits with cranberry apple butter - YES!
I love a good place to have brunch and this is in my top 10. Sure, I frequented the original on McClendon, but this one seems much more convenient for me.
Pancakes, Love Cakes, Omelets, Rosemary Potatoes - all of it is great. It is a little place, so during the rush it is a little crazy to get a table, but the food is great, the servers are friendly and it is a good buy for breakfast lunch or dinner.
You may even want to take home a few Flying Biscuits (I usually do)
This was a place you just wanted to love and support because it was locally owned and operated. It was cute, sweet, and you really felt blessed to only have it in your neighborhood for years. That is until Delia decided to sell out. Maybe after 13 years I would sell out and make a gazillion dollars too. But why to Raving Blands? In cahoots with the likes of Boneheadz, Mama Fu's, Shane's Rib Shack, Doc Green's, Planet Smoothie, PJ's coffee and Monkey Joe's. I have been once to Shane's and that is 45mins I will never get back in my life. Even though the Biscuit never had above par food, it was the atmosphere that made the food taste better. Every soccer mom and spoiled brat in suburban strip malls across the country will never know what it really was...nor do they care. The horror, the horror...
Don't worry about the wait, they're opening up over a 100 stores across the nation in the next couple years....
We live down the street so we always walk there. Like previous reviewers have said-it's SUPER busy on Sat and Sun mornings (even on through the afternoon on nice weather days)-but don't let that stop you.
My husband and I go there in the evenings for a healthy dinner. I switch between the Clifton Omlet and the Oven Fried Chicken. Their daily specials are typically an egg scramble/omelet and a dinner entree. They are always wonderful. And if you see something that doesn't necessarily excite you in the dish-they'll leave it out if at all possible. I'm from Atlanta and I personally certify that those Grits are the best in the city! You heard it from me! :-) And the biscuits are light, sweet and yummy-not your grandma's lard biscuits with butter on top.
The wait staff knows us. It's funny-"Let's see you want a sweet tea and you want a Dasani". It's like Cheers except it's good for you food! Rock on! My husband loves the French Toast, Turkey Burger and Egg dishes.
Our only complaint is since they were purchased by Raving Brands-they took off the Granola/Yogurt side item that my husband LOVED! :-( Boo. I hope they can find a way to bring it back-but in the meantime they DID add Sweet Tea-which I always felt was ODD that they didn't have.. but now they do!
This is our "old standby" when we don't want to go far and know that the service and the food is going to be great! :-) Bravo
So this place is like legendary or somethin'...heard a lot about it from ATL'ers when I visited, so I thought I should check it out.
I was vegetarian for 13 years, and currently I don't do the red meat thing or pork (you know, Pulp Fiction really got to me...don't dig on swine). So it was pretty awesome that the meat selections at the FB are mostly, if not all, chicken or turkey in nature. I'm a fan of that.
I've eaten breakfast there twice, and had lunch there once. The lunch I really can't speak for, as I had a RETARDED hangover, which made me, well, retarded. Jello shots at 3 am-not advisable. AND it was a "morning after" lunch with a dude who has since turned out to be, shall we say, a real piece of work. That's putting it nicely....It was the fried green tomato BLT that I had, and I vaguely recall liking it, but the circumstances were adversely affecting the meal.
Breakfast, however, I do remember! Splendidly! The namesake biscuits were, um, biscuity? Good times; I've said before I'm not a rabid biscuit eater, it's not gonna make or break my meal. Yeah, I'm a yankee, you get the picture. I had a special omlette once; don't recall the exact ingredients but it was dandy; I remember it had a TON of chicken sausage in it, good times! And I had the Southern Scramble once, to taste what I've been missing all my life out there in the great frozen tundra that is the North. It was stuffed with ingredients as well; the collard greens were a nice and interesting touch to put in an omlette! And it went well with the turkey bacon for sure.
So why 3 stars?
It's just way too busy basically. The wait is usually tremendous, which can be quite annoying (esp. on a rainy day where there's no where to wait anyway...) And it's just a tiny space that they cram to the gills with people. And packing the place in inevitably hurts the quality of service that the staff puts forth. The tables are WAY too close for my taste; my seatback was hitting the person behind me the entire time I was there. Quite annoying. And I know the other table was pissed as well. Also, I hate the layout there, with the glass wall separating the inner sanctum from the outer windowed area. Makes no sense to me whatsoever. If it wasn't so busy, it'd be better. But it's good ol' Midtown, so it's packed all the time.
Good food, but if you've got phobias about being around too many people, you better head elsewhere-you might pass out on the table next to you, about 6 inches away.
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