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Ancestor: Biscuits and country ham
Benne-seed biscuits split and griddled, 18-month country ham shaved to lace, red-eye butter whipped with our own coffee. The biscuit recipe is Maren's grandmother's; the nerve to serve it at supper is ours.
Country ham smokehouse (Yancey Co.) · Laurel Fork Dairy (Watauga Co.)
Pepper-vinegar mousse piped back into the whites, smoked Cane River trout roe on top, chive blossoms from the back lot. Four to a plate. Nobody has ever ordered them once.
GFVeg optionCane River Trout Co. (Yancey Co.)
$14
Ancestor: Diner meatloaf & mashed
House-cured Berkshire pork and dry-aged chuck, pressed and sliced like a terrine, lacquered with sorghum and black pepper. Charred-onion jus, stone-ground grits. You will want the pan drippings — they come in a little pitcher.
Sourwood Gap Farm (Madison Co.) · Stone gristmill (Buncombe Co.)
Sweet-tea-brined pastured chicken, fried in leaf lard, set on a Jimmy Red corn waffle pressed thin as a pedestal. Spiced sorghum, bread-and-butter turnips, a dust of sumac. Eat it with your hands; we'll bring extra napkins without being asked.
Pastured poultry farm (Yancey Co.) · Stone gristmill (Buncombe Co.)
$26
Cider-braised rabbit under a leaf-lard crust with rolled dumplin's where you expect them least. Root-cellar vegetables, thyme velouté. The crust is stamped with our marquee arrow, because we couldn't help ourselves.
Market garden (Buncombe Co.) · Laurel Fork Dairy (Watauga Co.)
$31
Jimmy Red cornmeal crust on Cane River catfish, pot-likker greens, hominy cream, pickled-ramp tartar. Served on butcher paper over the plate, the way a fish fry ought to be — the plate underneath is just manners.
Cane River Trout Co. (Yancey Co.) · Stone gristmill (Buncombe Co.) · Market garden (Buncombe Co.)
$27
Dry-aged chuck smashed thin, aged Ashe County cheddar, sorghum onions cooked past reason, rye griddled in beef fat. Cut on the diagonal, held with a marquee pick. The best thing we make that we almost didn't put on the menu.
Sourwood Gap Farm (Madison Co.) · Laurel Fork Dairy (Watauga Co.)
$24
Ancestor: The diner pie counter
Buttermilk chess pie from the counter case, torched burnt-honey meringue, benne brittle. The counter holds six pies a night; when the case is empty, it's empty. Check the marquee on your way in.
Laurel Fork Dairy (Watauga Co.) · Market garden (Buncombe Co.)
A short list, poured with the same accent: sorghum old fashioneds, muscadine spritzes, a rotating cask from two breweries down the mountain, sweet tea steeped dark, and a root-cellar shrub for the designated driver. The full list lives on butcher paper at your table, because it changes weekly.
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Six counter seats and two window deuces stay walk-in every night. The rest of the room takes the book, 30 days out.