Willa Jean NOLA, 1885 Grill ‘Nooga, The Glory Of Laminated Biscuits, And The Intl Biscuit Festival

Willa Jean, from a couple of different visits
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Light fixtures encased in big Hobart-style whisks

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Willa Jean, New Orleans

SEC biscuit: sausage, egg, pimento cheese
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Pigs in a blanket + apricot mustard

This was a little plate of different toasts: smoked salmon / avocado / mushroom
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fried chicken sandwich on a Hawaiian roll
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for dessert, we shared chocolate chip cookies with vanilla milk and a little whisk of cookie batter
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Everything here is just great.

Love sweet Shug!
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my favorite of everything here on the menu are these buttermilk biscuits

they’re laminated (that folding in of butter that makes flaky layers) so every bite is perfectly buttery
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On the speakers at Willa Jean, a lot of 70s and 80s, including:


Okay, let’s talk about these laminated biscuits. Another place we really, really like, 1885 Grill in Chattanooga, does biscuits that same way and it’s just delicious.

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Knoxville’s Marble City Kitchen won People’s Choice Award at the International Biscuit Festival in May of this year for their “Bourbon and Blue”: Meyer Lemon Southern Biscuit stuffed with Blueberry Cobbler, topped with our very own George Dickel Single Barrel Vanilla Maple Cream Sauce

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