I got ‘Plucked Up’ by how good this sandwich was at this Columbus restaurant l Opinion

The smell of fried chicken, biscuits, sausage and jelly fill the air as you walk into Plucked Up Chicken & Biscuits on First Avenue in Columbus.

The brick walls are lined with encouraging signs, paintings, and metallic chickens that remind folks of going home to your mother’s house where the only directions are to live, laugh and love.

With how good the food is though you’ll be happy to do all three. After gazing over the menu and playing eenie, meenie, miney, moe while trying to choose which mouth-watering dish I was going to get, I settle on the Whitewater biscuit with cheese grits.

What is the Whitewater? The Whitewater is a Southerner’s gateway to nostalgia of their childhood where they woke up to a family member pouring every ounce of love they had into the food cooking on the cast iron on the stove. This was long before they had to worry about their cholesterol levels.

The Whitewater is a soft and flaky biscuit topped with a tender and crunchy seasoned fried pork steak (pork chop) and smothered in old-fashioned creamy sausage gravy. The biscuit sunk beneath my teeth as I failed miserably to keep the gravy from overflowing the sides of the steak.

The slight crunch of the breading on the pork steak was a welcome texture while the salt, pepper and seasoning of the breading was perfect.

The sausage gravy was creamy with the pieces of pan sausage interspersed giving a good smoky flavor to the gravy. With each bite I was reminded of the cake-pan buttermilk biscuits of my youth.

The cheese grits were perfectly cooked with no lumps and the cheese melted in with the grits. I ate the bowl in under two minutes.

My father has been on me to have the gravy and biscuits. I obliged but added a fried pork steak, though I’ll definitely be going back until I try everything on the menu that piques my interest.