The Maple Street Biscuit Company – Knoxville TN

Time to take a break from our adventures and exploration of Ireland to check out another dining opportunity here in East Tennessee…

This is the Maple Street Biscuit Company on Kingston Pike in Knoxville Tennessee.  We had tried to dine at another Maple Street location in downtown Chattanooga on two occasions but failed.  The first time, I had a ‘fight’ with a credit card parking meter that wouldn’t give me a ticket and I drove away frustrated and unsatisfied!  The second time was on a Sunday…and that location was closed… 

This is a view of the service counter and the kitchen area of the Maple Street Biscuit Company.  The young woman taking the orders had the perfect personality for this particular position. 

Customers check out the menu and place their order…and then you provide the counter person a name to call when your order is ready.  They seem to have a theme for your ‘order name’.  On this day, it was something that you are grateful for.  We chose “good friends”.  Other choices we heard included “family”, “Jesus Christ”, “Christmas” and “Skittles”…

The dining area is long and narrow with tables on the right by the wall and a bar at the left with stools.  The overall ambience is the currently popular industrial look with metal, wood and polished concrete floors.

We were particularly impressed by the hardworking biscuit maker…who never stopped producing more batches of fresh biscuits while were there.

The first Maple Street Biscuit Company Store opened in Jacksonville Florida in 2012.  Today there are 20 locations in Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia with the 21^st due to open soon in Georgia.  The company prides themselves in being a ‘community store’ and there are religious tones in their mission statement.  As a company policy, the stores are closed on Sundays…

Well…what about the food?  This creation was Laurie’s brunch.  This is called “The Five and Dime” ($9.00) It consists of a biscuit, an all-natural fried chicken breast, pecan wood smoked bacon and cheddar cheese topped with homemade sausage gravy and an egg.  It was amazingly good!

Without the egg, this is called “The Five”. ($8.00) A number of other options are offered involving items such as goat cheese, spinach, honey mustard, shitake mushroom gravy, maple syrup, collard greens, lettuce, tomato, blue cheese, apple butter, etc.  It is an imaginative menu to say the least…

I had exactly the same thing to eat as Laurie did…just adding my usual Tabasco to the mix!  FYI...that sausage gravy is a real winner!

Customers can order just biscuits and gravy, add eggs to it, order a waffle (with or without fried chicken), a salad, oatmeal, a “Bluegrass Grits Bowl”, Smoky Mountain Mac ‘n Cheese or even a “Hashbrown Cake” with smoked gouda cheese, topped with chives to which one can add an egg, gravy or both… Laurie also ordered a very nice latte to accompany her meal…

The Maple Street Biscuit Company that we visited is at 9314 Kingston Pike in Knoxville Tennessee.  They are open from 7 AM to 2 PM Monday through Thursday and from 7 AM until 3 PM on Friday and Saturday.  Phone: 865-247-6793.  The company’s website is at https://maplestreetbiscuits.com/.  

I will mention the fact that one of our friends visited this restaurant just before closing one day and they felt that their biscuit had ‘been around for a while’ and it was a bit hard.  We didn’t have that problem and we really liked this restaurant and the concept behind it!  We will return ASAP!

Just click on any of the pictures to enlarge them…

Thanks for stopping by for a bit of brunch!

Take Care, Big Daddy Dave