Butter + Milk Biscuit Bar - Visalia, California

Brandon Davis

Me and my wife visited this establishment on a Wednesday morning. To our surprise it was packed! Thankfully even then we were able to find seats as they have a few tables inside and have a beautiful outside seating area. As busy as it was we got our food pretty quickly and was hot and fresh. The tacos were phenomenal. Side of gravy was excellent. The biscuits and gravy was also on another level! So fluffy! We needed extra side of gravy because of how great it was lol! Excellent and will for sure be back!

Lisa Walsh

Great little place with indoor and outdoor seating. Went with the Hunky Dorey two fresh fuffy bicuits with well made sausage loaded gravy and a bit of black pepper spice on the backend. Fresh soft scrambled eggs on top.

Roger McCort

SHORT VERSION:
Breakfast diner specializing in biscuits and gravy. If you like those, you'll love it.

LONG VERSION:
I am in a quest for the best biscuits I can find at a restaurant, so naturally a place that bills itself as a biscuit bar got my attention.

I love a good breakfast diner, but this place is a little more storefront than dine in, even though they have a number of tables inside and a pergola-covered set of tables on the sidewalk outside. It was clean and neat and decorated in storefront diner style but they keep their cooler for cans of Pepsi products on the inside of the counter instead of being grab-n-go.

The menu board outside apparently needs to be updated, as a dymo label stuck to the top announces that prices have changed. Inside, the menu (with current pricing) is on LED screens hung above the register station.

I ordered a basic biscuit with the choice of homemade strawberry jam or honey butter. And I also ordered their French toast platter, called "Sweet Cheeks ," to get a feel for their non-biscuit menu. Biscuits and gravy are the heavy hitters here, but my onion allergy tends to keep me away from gravies and sausage crumbles. I can say the b&g option was very popular among the steady stream of customers here in the eight-o-clock hour. There were also quite a few folks ordering the breakfast burritos and they all looked happy.

The biscuit was an excellent size! And it was done right - not too dry and not that pasty, underdone gumminess you get. If I was rating on the biscuit alone, I'd give a 4.5. It's pretty near perfect. It was also absolutely affordable at $3.50. When I come back this way (and I will!) I will definitely get biscuits again.

The French toast was French toast. It had a heavy coat of powdered sugar, but nothing else stood out. It was good, it was reasonably priced. It didn't really stand out and it came as three slices of French toast by themselves - not even a garnish. So, no complaints. I might order it again. But the biscuit really is the draw. It's a very good biscuit!

There were two problems, neither of which is a complaint about the very good food.

The first was the jam. I'll try the honey butter when I come back. The menu says the jam is homemade, but it tasted a lot like that strawberry glaze which gets poured onto strawberry pies. Overly sweet, very pink, no seeds and, at least in my serving, no strawberries either. I'm not sure how a homemade jam would end up without any fragments of the berries from which it is made. I regretted putting it on the really quite good biscuit! I had syrup left over from my French toast which would have been a better biscuit topping, even though it was ordinary Smuckers pancake syrup out of a little sealed portion cup. This is a common complaint of mine. Restaurants that have an excellent specialty item often do themselves a great injustice by using prepackaged or other add-ons that let you know they haven't put as much thought or care into that as they did the main dish.

Which is my other problem: total lack of presentation. Those of us dining in got the same plastic (compostable!) take-out shells as everyone taking their to-go meals. Pop them open and the food was just lying there. Not ordered or layered or set in any way. Sure, there's not much you can do with a biscuit in a box by itself, but French toast is usually placed in angled stacks, not laid out flat. It was fine, just looked... flat.

The jam was in a little solo cup and when I took the lid off the words on it were imprinted in the jelly and stayed that way until I stirred them away. This doesn't detract from the fine food, but it does remind me of the importance of presentation. We really do eat with our eyes first.

I give a solid 4 stars here, and the biscuits are really close to perfection! The prices were fantastic. I WILL come back, which says a lot. This place is a long way out of my way (about 25 miles), but I'll come here over many places closer in.

THE BOTTOM LINE:
If you like biscuits, make a point of visiting if you're within 30 miles at breakfast time.

Unfriend Me

Updated review: 9/30/24 Came back after not being here for 9months .. been back twice in the last week and the biscuits were so dry I almost choked.. definitely cannot be eaten by itself u will need gravy or something lol wooow plz do better for a 9.25$ egg & cheese biscuit.

Food was hot & fresh .. biscuit & burrito were huge and yummy.. will be back again !!

Jeff Gricewich

Great place to hang out if you like to wait 45 minutes for mediocre food. Small and plain dining area, very "no frills." The wait was far to long, almost 45 minutes after ordering. I had "Big for his Britches." The bacon crumbles were old and burned, they clumped together in a nasty, greasy ball. The sausage patty was so burned on the bottom that it was almost impossible to cut through. Biscuits were also a bit burned and crunchy on the bottom--guess that's why they were so dry. Gravy was really good though. I won't be back.

Tim

AMAZING - I’m a huge biscuits and gravy guy and this place knows how to get it right!!! The food was excellent - eggs on a biscuit with gravy?! Perfect. Biscuit with honey butter?! Incredible. Everything was spot on. Plenty of parking and seating. Expect to wait just a little bit because the food is that good. Service was excellent and helped us pick out what was right. We had the avo toast and the southern comfort. Perfect breakfast.

Rebeka

It was good. I had the sunrise tacos filled me up, mom said the biscuits was fluffy. Dad said the gravy tasted like it was made with water not milk ‍♀️. But cute little restaurant very busy but good environment

Lawrence Leung

Probably some of the best coffee and gravy I've had. The coffee was incredibly smooth and flavorful, and the gravy rich and heavy