Brunch Spots — Serious Biscuits and Local 360

Had a quick brunch at Local 360 in Belltown.

Loved the décor in the restaurant with a little Western feel.

Local 360 was a sustainable restaurant and sourced locally for their ingredients.

The menu was fairly extensive and the rabbit pot pie caught my eye and along with it, could not pass on the fried chicken and waffle.

Service was fast and friendly.

The rabbit pot pie looked stunning upon arrival.

It was very creamy and rich, a little on the heavy side for me; but I loved the lean gaminess from the rabbit.

I wish there was more rabbit meat — only a few pieces were swimming around in the sauce.

The pie crust floating on top of the sauce was very buttery, flaky, and delicious.

The fried chicken had good flavor and tender; there was a hint of spiciness in the coating and was made deliciously.

I loved that the waffle which was made with corn meal, it gave great corn flavor and gritty texture that was interesting and rustic; the down side was that the waffle was a little dense and soggy.

The flavors were there for the dishes but were not perfect.

There were quite a few items on the dinner menu that sparked my interest: PB&J bon bons, crispy pigs ears and smoked pork shank.

Even though their brunch had not wowed me, I would be interested to give dinner a try.

I had been wanting to stop at Serious Biscuit for quite a long while.

We were in a hurry, and got 3 biscuits to go: fried chicken, catfish and vegetarian frittata.

First, the biscuit.  I was disappointed.

The biscuits were hard and certainly not as fluffy as Morsel’s, it felt like the biscuits were in the oven just a little too long.

Overall flavors of all the biscuit dishes were good.

My favorite was the catfish with green olive tartar.

The catfish was in a form of a catfish cake — very tender with herbs, and the light crunchy coleslaw contrasted the texture of the fish brilliantly, and no doubt, the catfish was the star.

My second favorite was the truffled frittata with tomato caper relish and arugula.

The frittata was on the denser side with mild truffle flavor and smooth texture.

It paired really well with the tangy tomato caper relish and the spiciness of the arugula.

The fried chicken one was smothered with black pepper tabasco gravy.

The chicken itself was delicious with soft meat; edges of the chicken pieces was a little over-fried and dry but it was well marinated with garlic.

The black pepper tabasco gravy had fantastic flavor but a little chalky to the mouth.

I would head back to Morsel when I crave biscuits.

Morsel

Doof Out

Am I glad that Morsel exists!

Really great biscuits and flavor combinations!

We went there very first time after lunch to try out their dessert biscuits.

They were so superb that we went back the next day to sample more flavors!

The first day, we had these blackberry meyer lemon compote on buttermilk biscuit.

The biscuits were huge, just about 5-inch diameter.

They were soft and fluffy inside with nice hint of buttery flavor and the crust was toasty hard.

The blackberry compote was sweet and tart, and the meyer lemon compote was bitter but full of juiciness.

It felt like I was eating a raw sweet lemon.

Paired with a lightly sweetened whipped cream filled with vanilla flavor and creaminess,  there was multiple levels of fresh flavors bursting in the mouth.

I picked up a roasted garlic biscuit with bacon jam to take home for next day breakfast.

The garlic flavor was mild yet very pleasant.

The bacon jam was most certainly a winner!

It was spicy, chunky and meaty with sweetness and smoky flavor.

I could taste the labor of love of someone standing, chopping down hunks of bacon, mixing the bacon bits with something sweet and something spicy to make this jam.

After the breakfast biscuit, we returned to the store for second breakfast.

We had the Spanish fly, which consisted of arugula, fried egg, manchego cheese, tomato jam and prosciutto.

It was one of the most wonderful breakfast sandwich I ever had!

We were able to choose the type of biscuits and egg doneness.

I had Spanish Fly with their cheddar cheese and chive biscuit for extra cheesy flavor, and had the eggs runny for the biscuits to soak up the yolk!

I loved the slight burn which enhanced the sharpness of the manchego cheese, and it made the cheese crispy.

There was spiciness in Spanish Fly, likely from the spicy tomato jam which had excellent flavor and extremely addictive.

Soft runny egg with fresh arugula rounded up the biscuit sandwich with freshness.

For dessert, we had the special pomegranate pear.

The pear chunks were prepared excellently – cooked just right in texture that it still had the chew of fresh firm pear but cooked just enough to be caramelized and to release more flavors.

The pear also carried the aromatics of brown spices, which coupled fantastically with the pomegranate molasses and was sweet and tart.

With the dollop of sweet cream on a delicious buttermilk biscuit, it was a filling and tasty treat.

They are still plenty more fixings (strawberry balsamic jam for one) and sandwiches I have still yet to try.

Will be returning soon!