This is a must-try if you like BBQ and collards. I’ll break down the menu a little bit more for you, but here are your best vegan options: But how bizarre is it when you order the Vegan BBQ Burrito – or another vegan meal, asking all the correct vegan questions like, “You’re sure there is no dairy or eggs in this, right? And please leave off the feta cheese” – and there, on your plate, is one of their ( non-vegan) biscuits and a foil-wrapped pat ( or two) of real butter? Yes, I KNOW the restaurant is called “The Flying Biscuit” and they are quite proud of their biscuits. Yum! Plain room temperature tofu! Woohoo! Glad I’m paying money for this (not)! And, I’ve ordered the Tofu & Tater Salad when the tofu was definitely NOT marinated like the menu said, but just cold, plain, fish belly white tofu crumbled on the salad with a shake of tamari sauce on top. I’ve had the Vegan BBQ Burrito when it was great! But when my partner recently ordered it, instead of draining the collards, the chef apparently just dipped some collards out of the pot and flung them into the burrito, along with about 1/4 a cup of “pot likker.” Result: a super-soggy, awful mess. And, unfortunately, with several of their signature dishes that means it’s either very, very good or very, very bad. If you tell them to keep their feta cheese to themselves, several more options become vegan. The Flying Biscuit has a serious feta cheese fetish, and they put it in almost everything – even places it really shouldn’t be in, such as the otherwise vegan Tofu & Tater Salad ( “tamari-marinated tofu and oven-roasted rosemary potatoes on a bed of field greens tossed with balsamic vinaigrette and topped with feta cheese and red onion spears”). For example, the house-made veggie patties they use on their Angel and Devil Burgers are vegan, but that’s not stated anywhere on the menu.
In fact, The Flying Biscuit does have a number of vegan choices, but there’s no way you can tell that by the menu.
The Flying Biscuit is widely known as “vegetarian friendly,” but one quick glance at the menu seems to suggest they have only one vegan item – the Vegan BBQ Burrito ( “BBQ tofu, collard greens, and mushrooms folded in a sun-dried tomato tortilla topped with salsa verde”). Lines and the wait to be seated can be long, especially for weekend brunch. It has all the old, familiar standbys – fried green tomatoes, collards, grits, breakfast all day – but it’s got a bright, funky, crowded vibe. The Flying Biscuit Cafe is a Southern diner, but it’s not your mother’s Southern diner. Restaurant Review – Flying Biscuit Cafe By Catherine of VegCharlotte
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