Tupelo Honey Café

Frommer's Review

No other restaurant in Asheville so effectively captures the imagination of both the down-home breakfast crowd and, on weekends only, the very-late-night supper crowd. Set behind a storefront in downtown Asheville, it's a place where Sunday-morning breakfast crowds line up and wait (in some cases, for up to an hour) for an available table. Students at the nearby university also drag their parents here for a sense of how much Asheville really does respect old-fashioned Southern virtues and cooking. Breakfast is served throughout the day and, as such, provides nourishment late into the afternoon with such dishes as grit cakes stuffed with cheddar cheese and served with green tomato salsa; sweet-potato pancakes; many kinds of omelets; and crab cakes topped with poached eggs and hollandaise sauce. Lunches and dinners focus on updated Southern favorites such as shrimp and grits (in this case, the grits are flavored with goat cheese), Cajun-seared catfish, and Tupelo burgers. And in honor of Elvis ("The King"), you can order a grilled peanut butter and banana sandwich, prepared with either honey or (if you're a "hard-core Southerner") mayonnaise.

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