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1001 Piedmont Ave NE # 103
Atlanta, GA 30309
(30 Ratings)
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The perfect little corner restaurant does breakfast at Midtown's hottest intersection.
The second location of the Flying Biscuit, located in the heart of Midtown resonates true to the neighborhood in-town energy. Located near historic Piedmont Park, dine inside or outside on the corner patio. The Midtown menu reflects the same defined alternative, healthy items as the Candler Park location with a killer breakfast served non stop all day. The Flying Biscuit Cafe recipes have endured since we opened our doors thanks to the diligence of our employees and the returns of our customers. Stop by today.
- Catering
- Lunch & Dinner Specials
- Fixed Price Friday
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The Scene
While capturing the trademark quirkiness of its sister restaurant in Candler Park, the tiny, likeably cramped locale still feels fresh, streamlined and very Midtown. The dining room, decorated with groovy lanterns and trademark Polly the Potter crockery, focuses on an inviting front-and-center bar. Service is crisp and friendly.
The Food
Expect the same style of New Age power breakfasts at this location. The Flying Biscuit breakfast--two eggs, turkey sausage, grits or potatoes and an enormous, pillowy biscuit--is a tasty standard. More inventive is the Meggxican wrap: scrambled eggs, cheddar cheese and Serrano peppers folded into a flour tortilla and topped with salsa and sour cream. Excellent orange-scented French toast, served with raspberry compote and creme anglaise, is fortunately available in half orders. A tasty slab of turkey meat loaf served with "pudge"--smashed potatoes with sundried tomatoes and olive oil--makes for a solid lunch or dinner entree.
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Parents should take advantage of the kids eat free dinners Monday through Thursday after 5pm.
When to Go
Fixed Price Friday features a three-course dinner and wine pairing for $25 a person ($20 without wine) that changes weekly and offers dishes not on the regular menu.
30 Ratings and Reviews
i'm happy
Good660340 - 07/25/2008Iâve always had good service and good food. I live 1.5 hours away from Atlanta, but I always make it a point to stop there for lunch when Iâm passing through.
Add CommentWhy the hype?
SKPID - 07/01/2008
How do you even rate breakfast? Any monkey can mix a pancake and cook a biscuit. Very average. Anyone that waits 2 hours for breakfast is a moron. Especially with all the great joints nearby. My experience was a long wait, average food, and average service. Exactly what I expected. Once was plenty. See you at R. Thomas'!
Yuck!
PSAljs - 06/11/2008I can't believe people actually eat those pancakes! They taste like straw. Even the biscuits aren't good. They are not flaky at all and look like undercooked baseballs. They can't cook an egg right to save their lives. The only thing good there is the turkey sausage.
- LoriSaraSuzanne - 06/04/2008
Great change for breakfast
tia526123 - 03/04/2007My husband and I had breakfast on a Sunday. It was abolutely delicious. We had been missing restaurants that have alternative choices. The flying biscuit offered turkey sausage as well as chicken sausage, which we loved b/c we don't eat pork. It was also nice to be able to have your choice of egg whites. This is the norm in California (we just moved to ATL 6 months ago), and we were glad to find a place with AWESOME food with those choices. The southern scramble is unbelievable! My only complaint was the wait. They were very busy, and we had to wait around 45 mins. to be seated. However, it was worth the wait!
worth trying but go very early
halley3 - 02/02/2007The place is overrated. I am not saying the food isn't good, sometimes I crave their special bisquit jelly and their smoked salmon egg scramble, but it is not so good that it makes sense to go there when there is a huge line, which is pretty much every weekend during brunch hours. Both locations have a nice atmosphere, once you get a table.
Sucks!
alakecolwell - 08/24/2006The food at this restaurant sucks!!!!! I cannot stress enough how much it sucks. I went there with my boyfriend and another couple. They were vegetarian and they didn't even like the food. I had a chicken salad and the salad was so bad, I just ate the chicken out of it. Please do not ever eat here. If you do, you will end up leaving this place, after paying for your food, and paying for another meal somewhere else!
Way Overated!
atlcrunch3k - 06/05/2006Went to the one on Piedmont and 10th on Sunday. The waiter was very curt and grumpy--until it was time to pay the tip, of course...then he 'magically' grew a personality. Their signature biscuits were about half the size of hockey pucks and so dry that a hockey puck would have have been easier to chew on. It was so cramped in there that it was impossible to have any kind of a personal conversation. Don't waste your money.
dmclean699 - 04/14/2006Soooo overrated!
weaselll1 - 04/14/2006First, just to clarify what a previous rater said, the orange juice is not freshly squeezed, the grits are not bought from a farm in GA, and 90% of what is said to be organic on the menu, indeed is not. I should know because I was a cook there. Furthermore, you would not want to know how some of that stuff is made. Its true that if you wait 2 hrs for a table at 6 in the morning, your food might be good, the biscuits might be fresh, and the pancakes might be soft. Try coming any other time of the day, and the biscuits will resemble hockey pucks, and the pancakes are dry and stale. Not much is made fresh around there, or from scratch for that matter. Also, for those of you who go to the location on 10th and Piemont, they don't even have a kitchen, just a small griddle. All of there food is made at the Candler Park location and driven over in a van days after it has been made. Mmm mm good. And besides, why would you want to eat at a "southern" restauarant that refuses to serve sweet tea?!