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    Best Biscuits

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    Creative Loafing has been presenting Atlanta’s Best People, Places and Events since 1972. These are some of the past winners for this category:

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (Atlanta locations)

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Home grown GA Restaurant (Featured)

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2018
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » Oral Pleasures » Critics Pick
    Happy Donuts (Permanently Closed)

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2018
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick
    Flying Biscuit (13 ATL Locations)

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2017
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2017 » Oral Pleasures » Critics Pick

    Food Writer

    From Erika’s website:
    Erika Council is the charismatic food writer, recipe developer and photographer behind the popular website, Southern Soufflé. It is here the reader is taken through a brilliantly southern focused epic, with tales of food, love and freedom. Erika has become a fixture in the southern culinary world with her popular Biscuit Pop-Upsin Atlanta GA.

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    Known for her famous pop-up Sunday Supper Club, ERIKA COUNCIL’s biscuit recipe (and perhaps her graceful charm) comes by way of her grandmothers. Lately, she has been popping up at B’s Cracklin’ BBQ, mixing and folding flour, butter, shortening (or B’s famous lard) and buttermilk into layersmore...
    Known for her famous pop-up Sunday Supper Club, ERIKA COUNCIL’s biscuit recipe (and perhaps her graceful charm) comes by way of her grandmothers. Lately, she has been popping up at B’s Cracklin’ BBQ, mixing and folding flour, butter, shortening (or B’s famous lard) and buttermilk into layers by hand. The softest, fluffiest biscuits and her iced Cinn-rolls draw long queues and early sellouts. Council’s grace extends to her pretty blog, Southern Souffle, where she shares her recipes and stories of the South. We crown her our Biscuit Queen. www.southernsouffle.com. less...

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2017
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2017 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick
    Flying Biscuit (13 ATL Locations)

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2016
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Oral Pleasures » Reader’s Pick
    Flying Biscuit (13 ATL Locations)
    And other metro Atlanta locations.

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2015
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2015 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick
    Flying Biscuit (13 ATL Locations)
    And other metro Atlanta locations.

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2010
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2010 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick
    Flying Biscuit (13 ATL Locations)

    And other metro Atlanta locations.


    Runner-up: Thumbs-up Diner


    573 Edgewood Ave. S.E., 404-223-0690, and other metro Atlanta locations. www.thumbsupdiner.com

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2009
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick
    Flying Biscuit (13 ATL Locations)

    And other metro Atlanta locations.
    Runner-up
    Pastries A Go Go
    235 Ponce de Leon Place, Suite E, Decatur, 404-373-3423, www.pastriesagogo.com

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2009
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick
    Flying Biscuit (13 ATL Locations)

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2008
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick
    Flying Biscuit Cafe - Candler Park
    and multiple metro-Atlanta locations

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2007
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick
    Flying Biscuit Cafe - Candler Park

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2006
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick
    Flying Biscuit Cafe - Candler Park

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2005
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2005 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick
    Flying Biscuit Cafe - Candler Park

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2005
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2005 » Oral Pleasures » Critics Pick
    Pastries A Go Go
    PASTRIES A GO-GO has located to sunnier digs across the street from its original location on Ponce, and now the weekend breakfast line ripples even farther out the door. Famished? Here’s a tip: Fight your way to the counter and order a biscuit with sausage, egg and cheese to go. In less thanmore...
    PASTRIES A GO-GO has located to sunnier digs across the street from its original location on Ponce, and now the weekend breakfast line ripples even farther out the door. Famished? Here’s a tip: Fight your way to the counter and order a biscuit with sausage, egg and cheese to go. In less than five minutes you’ll have a fluffy, flaxen beauty in your hands that is layered with just the right amount of wake-you-up ingredients. Just don’t smirk too broadly as you dodge envious looks on your way out the door. less...

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Flying Biscuit Cafe - Candler Park

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Pastries A Go Go
    Slathered with sausage gravy, stuffed with ham and cheese or used as an implement for scooping molten grits out of a cup, the gigantic biscuits at PASTRIES A GO-GO are as fluffy and dreamy as the Atlanta summer is long. With just butter and jam, they’re almost a full meal, but sidled up to sunny-sidemore...
    Slathered with sausage gravy, stuffed with ham and cheese or used as an implement for scooping molten grits out of a cup, the gigantic biscuits at PASTRIES A GO-GO are as fluffy and dreamy as the Atlanta summer is long. With just butter and jam, they’re almost a full meal, but sidled up to sunny-side up eggs and thick ribbons of crisp bacon, Bob Light’s biscuits are well deserving of their Decatur cult following. Arrive early on weekends or tearily watch everyone else tear into their breakfast while you go without. “250 W. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur. 404-373-3423.” less...

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Flying Biscuit Cafe - Candler Park

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Flying Biscuit Cafe - Candler Park
    Where else but THE FLYING BISCUIT can you enjoy a cloudy white or whole-wheat biscuit morning, noon or night? This restaurant, an Atlanta institution if ever there was one, hangs its name on their biscuits. They are fat, tall, soft and fluffy with a slight tinge of sweetness that lingers on your tongue.more...
    Where else but THE FLYING BISCUIT can you enjoy a cloudy white or whole-wheat biscuit morning, noon or night? This restaurant, an Atlanta institution if ever there was one, hangs its name on their biscuits. They are fat, tall, soft and fluffy with a slight tinge of sweetness that lingers on your tongue. Eat them plain, glob on some of the Biscuit’s cranberry-apple butter, or try one stuffed with eggs and cheese. If you want to skip the long weekend lines, get a sausage biscuit to go. “1655 McLendon Ave. 404-687-8888 and 1001 Piedmont Ave., 404-874-8887. www.flyingbiscuit.com” less...

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Flying Biscuit Cafe - Candler Park

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Flying Biscuit Cafe - Candler Park
    We’ve tried the rest, but we always come back to wait in the long lines for the best at the THE FLYING BISCUIT CAFE. The fluffy, high-rising biscuits at this Atlanta breakfast institution send you heavenward when lavishly spread with butter and housemade cranberry apple butter. The whole-wheat versionmore...
    We’ve tried the rest, but we always come back to wait in the long lines for the best at the THE FLYING BISCUIT CAFE. The fluffy, high-rising biscuits at this Atlanta breakfast institution send you heavenward when lavishly spread with butter and housemade cranberry apple butter. The whole-wheat version (available only at the original McLendon location) have a rich, nutty taste that lolls you into a smug, if false, sense of virtue. “1655 McLendon Ave. 404-687-8888; 1001 Piedmont Ave. 404-874-8887. www.flyingbiscuit.com.” less...

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2000
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2000 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick
    Flying Biscuit Cafe - Candler Park
    No Southern breakfast is complete without biscuits, but the Flying Biscuit has made the biscuit — cakey, oversized and with a touch of buttermilk — the cornerstone of all its meals, even its lunch-menu items and dinner entrees. Next door to the restaurant, there’s a small to-go shop that’s alwaysmore...
    No Southern breakfast is complete without biscuits, but the Flying Biscuit has made the biscuit — cakey, oversized and with a touch of buttermilk — the cornerstone of all its meals, even its lunch-menu items and dinner entrees. Next door to the restaurant, there’s a small to-go shop that’s always crowded where you can get your biscuits, sold by the dozen, to go with your morning coffee. Don’t forget the apple butter — somewhere between apple jam and applesauce. P.S. the Flying Biscuit gets the other necessary breakfast elements — cheese grits, bacon and eggs — right also. less...

    Best Biscuits BOA Award Winner

    Year » 2000
    Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2000 » Oral Pleasures » Critics Pick
    Mammy’s Kitchen (Permanently Closed)
    Mammy’s Kitchen has been serving biscuits and gravy for 25 years. Nearly all the customers here are regulars, and the only available seating is at the counter facing the griddle. The menu on the wall lists breakfast — two eggs, grits, biscuits and coffee — as the foundation from which you begin,more...
    Mammy’s Kitchen has been serving biscuits and gravy for 25 years. Nearly all the customers here are regulars, and the only available seating is at the counter facing the griddle. The menu on the wall lists breakfast — two eggs, grits, biscuits and coffee — as the foundation from which you begin, adding gravy, cheese or hotcakes as you please. You may also order biscuits a la carte, with salmon patties, country sausage patties, bacon or country ham. Mammy’s biscuits are flaky and light with a touch of buttermilk. less...

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