Sunrise Biscuits of Oxford

My trip was over, but I had one more stop to make on my way out of the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area (this is about an hour outside of Raleigh).  Sunrise Biscuits, where I heard the biscuits were fluffy, fresh, and the chicken divine… how do you not want to stop there?  Love the old school look of the place.  If you look really closely – that’s Blue Thunder on the left side of the pic – you will see the ever curious Keywee who wants to know what I’m doing.  My order was quickly taken, and took a few minutes [...]

Freshly Ground Meat & Friendship

I am forever grateful to my super lovely host and hostess for making this impromptu road trip possible; for opening their lovely home to not just me, but to my surprisingly well-behaved dog (except for that moment of panic when I realized she was no longer in the backyard and had wandered ACROSS THE STREET – I ran outside barefoot and almost had a heart attack!); for just being all around awesome people to board a stray food blogger with a lot on her mind AND her dog, to listen to that same food blogger blab on and on about [...]

Waffle House

Ever since Beer Boor wrote about Waffle House, I admit I’ve been dying to try one.  I’ve mentioned before my affinity towards chain restaurants – I am not a food snob, I hope to heaven that I am never accused of being one.  I can appreciate the need for chain restaurants, and there are some I like a lot, some I really detest (because the food is bad), and some I will visit over and over and over again whenever I pass by (Cracker Barrel, Denny’s – though I passed many, many of these on my drive down and did [...]

Snoopy’s Hot Dogs & More

After our jaunt through the Raleigh Farmers Market, someone was hungry and perhaps a bit grumpy (not me this time!).  We drove past a place that Guy Fieri featured on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives, but the line was out the door so we drove a few extra blocks and landed at Snoopy’s.  I was curious about the name… but it didn’t appear to have any affiliation with Charlie Brown at all.  The menu was pretty straightforward – all American drive through type of place with hot dogs, burgers, fries.  I went with Snoopy’s Famous Hot Dog – it’s famous, after [...]

Raleigh Farmers Market

After our breakfast at Bojangles, my friends decided to take me to the Raleigh Farmers’ Market to take a peek.  We drove by the flea market first, but because the State Fair was the following weekend (yeah, I should have timed my trip better!), they were closed to prep for the Fair.  Oh well!  Though October had just started, there were pumpkins everywhere!  Big ones… little ones… Even white ones, which I’d never seen before!  During my time in R-D-CH, I found it hilarious that everything I found said “Tar Heel State!” and “UNC!” and so very little Blue Devil [...]

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