NoVA Bows to Southern Favorite
Posted by The Editorial Desk / Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
(Image: Jonathan Timmes)
While the food cognescenti busy themselves with prognosticating next year’s restaurant trends, we’d like to slow things down a bit and simply give thanks for the sudden revival of one of our all-time favorite dishes: fried chicken and waffles.
We first stumbled upon the best-of-all-possible-worlds soul food staple last summer while poking around the Shenandoah Valley, but have since seen the dish (or fanciful variations thereof) pop up everywhere from the Wine Kitchen’s dinner carte to Restaurant 3‘s retooled brunch offerings to Eventide‘s just updated lounge menu.
If this trend continues, we fully expect 2011 to be a banner year for terrific eating.
–Warren
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