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Cathead biscuit and gravy is a signature dish of United States; we have verified places to eat it in Asheville. An oversized Southern biscuit, fluffy and split warm to take pork sausage gravy or jam. Start with where to eat Cathead biscuit and gravy in Asheville.
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.
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