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Top 10 Dishes of 2011: Serious Biscuit Ham Biscuit

Photo courtesy Serious Biscuit.

‘Twas a fine, fine year to be hungry in Seattle. For ten days I’m reminiscing about just how fine, in my annual recap of the top ten plates of the year.

#5 The tiny Westlake biscuit bar started as Dahlia Workshop, became Serious Biscuit —and given owner Tom Douglas’s penchant for changing names, may well be on its fifth sign by the time you read this. As long as they don’t mess with the ham biscuit, we’re good. Double-park outside if you have to (the joint closes at 3pm) and run inside for the goods: a golden biscuit, crisp and square and almost creamy within, sliced and stuffed with housemade ham, plenty of gooey egg yolk, melting Beecher’s cheddar, and apple mustard. The sweet-meets-savory intelligence of this beast vies for prominence with its sheer comfort-yumminess, making it a classic of the Tom Douglas school and, at $8, one of the best bangs-for-buck in town.











Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Senior Writer Seattle native Kathryn Robinson, award-winning restaurant critic and senior writer at Seattle Met, has been anonymously reviewing restaurants for over 30 years—first as editor of the Best Places guidebook series, then as staff critic at Seattle Weekly and contributing critic at The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine.  Midcareer she spent a year-long sabbatical studying comparative religion as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she had been an undergrad 10 years earlier, gaining a knowledge base she now calls upon for her monthly “Back Fence” column on our collective urban existence and the meaning it holds for our personal lives. In her off hours she is a partner and a parent—which means she has no off hours.