Big Ed's City Market Restaurant ★ 4.2
At the City Market since 1989, Big Ed's serves scratch-made biscuits, country ham, grits, and eggs. The antique-laden room is deliberately unchanged.
OrderScratch biscuits, Country ham and eggs, Grits
The NC country ham biscuit at Big Ed's is the most traditional Southern breakfast in downtown Raleigh: scratch-made biscuit from White Lily flour with salt-cured, dry-aged country ham, fried in a cast-iron pan until the edges caramelise. Red-eye gravy (the fond and coffee) served alongside if requested. Big Ed's has served this in the same form at City Market since the mid-20th century; it is a direct line to NC farm-breakfast tradition.
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