Saturday we had to drive to RDU to drop off some friends early, early in the AM. Decided to drive on to Chapel Hill and have breakfast at Mama Dips. I have wanted to eat there for several years, since I saw Mama on Sara Moulton's show. I will say that the food was good, although I don't normally spend over $20 for breakfast for two. (Listen, I don't live in New York or California, so a couple of eggs, bacon and toast are usually around $4) Anyway, I got the smothered pork chops with an egg, hash browns and toast. The pork chops were "gnaw worthy" (and I did, but discreetly). I don't know where they get their bread for toast, but it was really good, nice and thick. My husband was disappointed with the biscuits. I am not a biscuit lover, so I didn't taste them. He thought they would be "cathead" biscuits since this was North Carolina farmhouse type cooking, but they were petite. The bread basket came with butter and what I thought was honey. I asked the waitress for some jelly, and she pointed to the "honey" and said it's here. I said I would like grape jelly, I know I have no imagination when it comes to toast and jelly. "We only have apple." WHAT?!?!? A restaurant has one flavor of jelly and it's APPLE? NO WAY! I hate apples, okay, so I do love the fried apple sticks at Big Oak Drive In in Salter Path, but really, they're all about the sugar and grease! So my first visit was a little disappointing. I will probably eat there again, not at breakfast, but seeing as it took five years to make it this time, I may never make it back.
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