Country ham with red-eye gravy is a signature dish of United States; we have verified places to eat it in Lexington. Salt-cured Kentucky country ham fried hard and deglazed with black coffee into a sharp, thin gravy. Start with where to eat Country ham with red-eye gravy in Lexington.
Country ham with red-eye gravy · Lexington
Salt-cured Kentucky country ham fried hard and deglazed with black coffee into a sharp, thin gravy. A Bluegrass farm breakfast that Lexington's butchers and biscuit kitchens keep in circulation.
Kentucky farm smokehouses cured hams in salt through the winter long before refrigeration, and the fried-slice-plus-coffee-gravy breakfast followed wherever tobacco and horse farms fed their crews at dawn. Central Kentucky remains cure country: Critchfield Meats cuts country ham on Southland Drive, Crust folds it into charcuterie boards, and biscuits-and-ham breakfasts survive on menus across Lexington.
Where to eat in Lexington:
- Critchfield Meats Family Market
- Crust
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