An oversized Southern biscuit, fluffy and split warm to take pork sausage gravy or jam. Editor history on TableJourney with where to eat it and a home recipe.
The cathead biscuit takes its name from its size, allegedly as big as a cat's head. Scots-Irish settlers brought the biscuit tradition to the Western North Carolina mountains in the 1800s; Asheville's modern revival starts at Biscuit Head, opened by Jason and Carolyn Roy on Haywood Road in 2013, with a jam bar of house preserves, hot honeys and fruit butters as the defining innovation. Sunny Point Café's biscuit-and-gravy version anchors the West Asheville brunch crawl; Tupelo Honey on College Street downtown serves the touristy-but-canonical fried-chicken-biscuit format. Country ham, sausage gravy, sweet potato butter and apple butter are the four classic toppings.
4 editor picks for Cathead biscuit and gravy in Asheville, ranked by editorial score. All Asheville signature dishes · Cathead biscuit and gravy across every city.
Biscuit Head ★ 4.5
west-asheville · 733 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806
Jason and Carolyn Roy's Biscuit Head opened the West Asheville flagship on Haywood Road in 2013. Cathead biscuits with a jam-bar of house preserves, hot.
Sunny Point Café ★ 4.5
west-asheville · 626 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806
Sunny Point Café on Haywood Road in West Asheville opened in 2003 as a family-owned breakfast and lunch room with an on-site production garden.
Early Girl Eatery ★ 4.4
downtown · 8 Wall St, Asheville, NC 28801
Early Girl Eatery on Wall Street in Asheville opened in 2001 and has been the downtown Southern breakfast benchmark since. Editor pick on TableJourney.
Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen and Bar ★ 4.2
downtown · 12 College St, Asheville, NC 28801
Tupelo Honey opened on College Street in downtown Asheville in 2000 as an eclectic Southern cafe. The original location of what is now a regional chain.