Flo’s Kitchen, Wilson, North Carolina

I wrote about last year after my first visit, and you can read a lot of background about Flo’s here. The upshot was that the tenderloin biscuit there overcame my skepticism and justified all I’d heard and read about it. It was good enough that for this trip I determined to spend the night in Wilson so that I could breakfast at Flo’s.

We got back to Wilson from our lunch at Wilber’s after a pilgrimage to the Nahunta Pork Center, one of the Wonders of the Pork World,

which offers hams, sausages, and every cut of pork from the sublime

to more … esoteric cuts that you might find in a Lyonnaise bouchon.

After a stop at Wilson’s wonderful Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park,

we spent the night at a grand old house in Wilson, and rose with the dawn, or somewhat thereafter, for a trip to Flo’s.

Flo’s is in a tiny building at 1015 Goldsboro Street South. There’s barely room inside for the crew making biscuit after biscuit, so service at Flo’s is drive-through or walk-up, and there’s always a line.

You place your order with a young lady, who in this case is wearing a t-shirt although it literally was freezing out.

The server passes the order to the kitchen (and it’s a worthy t-shirt).

John, Allan, and I decided to split three of Flo’s cat head biscuits — a tenderloin, a sausage, egg, and cheese, and a fried chicken. We verified the order with a sensibly clad young lady who advised us that the bill for three biscuits would be $10 in cash. We drove to the cashier, paid, and returned to our airbnb to eat. We cut the biscuits into quarters, which made a mess of the tenderloin, and two quarters disappeared while Allan went in search of a sharp knife.

The sharp knife was much better with the sausage, egg, and cheese

and the fried chicken biscuits.

The tenderloin biscuit was delicious, well seasoned and flavorful. I’d love to learn of a better tenderloin biscuit somewhere on this planet The fried chicken also was good, although it was a chicken breast, not the most flavorful part of the bird. The sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit had a lot of flavor from the well-seasoned country sausage, along with real cheese melted and mixed with a properly scrambled egg. It tasted good, although as almost always I would have preferred more sausage and less egg and cheese.

With those quibbles, I heartily recommend a stop at Flo’s, especially for the tenderloin biscuit. If nothing else, it’s wonderful to see a good filling breakfast for under $4, one that working people can afford. But Flo’s offers much more than great prices. I’ll get a tenderloin biscuit on my next trip, plus another biscuit with … fatback? steak? Let me know what you suggest.

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