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Wednesday
July 13, 2011

Food Tales From The Best Places To Work Road Tour

Filed under: Best Places to Work Road Trip 2011

From Counselor’s Andy Cohen, as he hits the road for the 2011 Best Places to Work Summer Road Tour …

Road Eats: A Banner Day

Eating on the road is really a hit-or-miss proposition. For every roadside stop that you’d like to forget about the moment you leave the establishment, there’s also those stops that make you want to turn around and ask for more as you walk out. Well, consider today a home run when it comes to food on the road.

Eating CherriesIt began with a breakfast provided by the fine folks at distributor firm Brand Fuel in Morrisville, NC. Not only was the coffee extremely welcome and needed after a late night of driving, but the waffles in various shapes (pigs, cows, and some sort of barn-like-looking thing that I partook in) stole the show. A nice barn-shaped waffle with some bananas and real maple syrup…a perfect start to a day that would cover about 600 miles on the road.

The next stop, though, was a genuine find. Price’s Chicken Coop in Charlotte, NC, has the hands-down best fried chicken you will ever eat. This isn’t fancy cuisine by any means, but trust me: It’s the juiciest and most-perfectly-cooked fried chicken you can imagine. Yes, we had to eat it in the rental GMC Acadia (sorry, Hertz), because Price’s doesn’t even have any seats in it. But the extra effort was most definitely worth it. If you’re ever in Charlotte, don’t walk, run to what we’re now affectionately referring to as “the coop.”

BiscuitsOf course, no road trip is complete without car snacks. Today’s were limited – I’d say that waffles in the morning and fried chicken, tater tots and hush puppies for lunch are probably enough food, but well, you know, snacks are still important. I wasn’t expecting to eat nearly a whole bag of Sour Patch Kids, but hey, what happens on the road stays on the road. And, while I didn’t eat the fresh cherries that Melinda and Joe scarfed down in the middle of the day, the effort that went into this could only be pulled off by a road trip pro. As I was speeding along the highway toward Charlotte, Melinda opened the front passenger’s seat window, grabbed the box of cherries in one hand and a bottle of water in the other, and she, yes, cleaned the cherries outside the window of a car going let’s just say more than 65 miles per hour. Very admirable—check out the accompanying pic. 

Today’s dinner didn’t take the same amount of road tour ingenuity, but the Sagebrush Steakhouse in Newport, Tennessee certainly didn’t disappoint. A 10-ounce ribeye (medium-rare, thank you), wedge salad, side of mac-and-cheese, and an ice cold Bud Light topped off a perfect day of road eats. Oh, and the fresh-baked cheddar cheese biscuits were awesome. See me eating one in the pic. Let’s hope tomorrow brings similar results.

 

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