Southern-Styled Biscuit Shack Brings Breakfast Comfort to North Park | Eater San Diego

"I'm reporting that a daytime eatery featuring Southern comfort food, Sunnyboy Biscuit Company, will move into the uniquely situated cottage at the intersection of Park Boulevard, Robinson Avenue, and Indiana Street, replacing The Smok’d Hog after its transplant to Temecula. Owner-chef Gabriel Ferguson, who got his first kitchen job at his grandmother’s restaurant in Washington state and later cooked at Seattle spots including Dahlia Lounge and Ristorante Machiavelli before moving to San Diego a dozen years ago, built a career as a hospitality consultant and with a private chef/catering business called Dine In. As its name suggests, the concept is all about biscuits: Ferguson’s biscuit recipe, partly inspired by the famous Fisher Scones served at the Washington State Fair, will be served with cultured sea salt butter or used as the base for sandwiches ranging from eggy breakfast sandwiches to a sloppy joe biscuit and a Sunday roast biscuit with various braised meats; a “pig in a biscuit” will feature a biscuit-dough–wrapped quarter-pound hot dog topped with bacon, cheese, and gravy. The menu will also include Southern favorites like deviled eggs and mac and cheese plus fresh-baked desserts from strawberry “tallcakes” (a riff on shortcakes) to a variety of pies, about 40 seats split between the interior and a back porch, and plans to open for breakfast and lunch from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a mid-to-late November debut currently scheduled; Ferguson is also working on a separate New York–style deli concept offering housemade pastrami." - Candice Woo