But yeah, it's morning on Saturday. Richard very kindly allowed me to spend the night in the guest bedroom of his nice home. Feeling a little peckish this morning and having some time before I have to take off from Chicago later in the morning, we go for breakfast. Being a small town and not having too many places open for breakfast on a saturday morning, Richard takes me to Bentley's Country Kitchen which sits at the corner of W. College & N. 3rd. The storefront looks slightly out of place among the traditional brick facade of the rest of the block. From the outside, everything screams "60's diner"!! Polished aluminium, black and white tile and glass blocks adorn the store front looking like that dinner in Back To The Future 1 (or was it 2??), where Marty goes back to to 1955 and meets Biff for the first time. As explained earlier, i don't have any pictures, but guess what?? Google Street View Does!!!
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A quick trip through the door reveals a nice quaint little diner with a disproportionate amount of old folks eating breakfast. I order a black coffee while Richard surveys the menu before finally noticing some chaffing dishes laid out at the back of the diner. As it turns out... it's a diner breakfast buffet! A quick look at the offerings and we made up our mind... the buffet it is!
Up for grabs were the standard breakfast fare, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage patties, french toast sticks, fruit etc. But the thing that really stood out was the mound of freshly baked biscuits next to a huge chaffing dish of white gravy. I grabbed some biscuits, slathered on a hearty helping of gravy, and together with some bits of protein, sat down for some chow.
The protein was ok, pretty standard. But the biscuit & gravy..... Outrageously superb! Most buffet style biscuits were rock hard hockey pucks and probably taste like it too. Many are left out so long that they become bricks. But these were nice and moist. Nice and flaky on the outside but soft, moist and spongy on the inside. They were mildly seasoned and buttery which was quite nice indeed. The gravy was also very tasty. Smooth and creamy (as opposed to harsh and lumpy) with a nice mild hint of freshly cracked black pepper.
Apparently others must have agreed with me because I look up and see that on the wall next to the kitchen, is the "Biscuit Eating Wall of Fame". To get your picture and name up on the wall you need to eat to eat 2-1/2 plates of 4 large biscuits (i.e 10 biscuits). To beat the reigning Greenville IL biscuit eating champion, you're gonna need to chomp down on a whopping 26 biscuits! There are currently 8 people on the wall. The waitress asks me if i wanted to try to make it onto the wall, i politely declined saying that i may have to go train for a couple of years before coming back for a try. Not every asian is a Kobayashi you know....!!
So if you are ever in Greenville Illinois, stop by Bentley's Country Kitchen and pick yourself up some biscuits and gravy. Who knows, you could be the next Biscuit Eating Wall of Famer...
Thank You Richard for Being such an awesome host and for your hospitality. Come and see us in Houston sometime!
I liked,
- The affordable breakfast
- The nice quaint (small town) setting
- The awesome Biscuits and Gravy!
I Didn't Quite Like,
-That i just wasn't hungry enough to make it on the Biscuit Eating Wall of Fame
Bentley's Country Kitchen
Address: 111 North 3rd Street, Greenville IL, 62246
Phone: (618) 664-0328
Website: None >:(
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