Maisha R.
Yelp
This breakfast lived up to the hype.
We placed our order shortly after they opened on a Saturday morning and then we headed over for the seamless, at-the-door pickup as the restaurant was not open to diners.
The food smelled so good on the ride back and it looked even better when we opened the bag. We tried their famous biscuit sandwiches - the Reggie and the bbq biscuit. We couldn't pass on the seasonal pop tart special, which was hummingbird. We also tried their blueberry cornmeal pancakes, a ham biscuit, a vegan sausage biscuit, and plain biscuits with apple butter.
Everything from Pine State was delicious but the biscuits, their specialty, were divine. They were soft, fluffy, and flavorful. The fried chicken on their most popular sandwich, the Reggie, was beautifully breaded and the sausage gravy was seasoned well and not salty. As one who doesn't usually like the "gravy" in biscuits and gravy, I asked for it on the side but I could've eaten a container of the sausage gravy by myself! It was that good.
The pulled pork biscuit featured their house smoked pulled pork and it was moist and tender. While the barbecue sauce was thinner than I usually like, it was very good. There were so many textures going on with this sandwich with the biscuit, the meat, and the purple slaw. We had it deconstructed for travel and that was great as otherwise, it would've been soggy, particularly with the bbq sauce.
Our two-stack of cornmeal pancakes were thin and light but they were good and full of blueberries. The plain biscuits topped with their apple butter, which tasted like the best applesauce, was so good. The meat biscuits were alright but coming from the south, the ham was not "country ham"! We finished on a sweet note with the hummingbird pop tart, which had banana, pineapple, and pecan cake filling and it was topped with a vanilla coconut glaze. Yum!
All in all, we loved the breakfast from Pine State. Our only regret was sharing the biscuit sandwiches as we definitely could've eaten more.