Cathead Biscuit appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Cathead biscuit and gravy · 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.
Where to eat in Asheville:
- Biscuit Head
- Sunny Point Café
- Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen and Bar
- Early Girl Eatery