What to expect when Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit opens on Friday
As a kid, Carrie Morey helped her mom, Callie White with the family catering business in Charleston. Morey served the handmade country ham biscuits to hundreds of customers.
“People went crazy for them,” Morey, 47, told CharlotteFive. “I don’t think she realized it because I was the one serving the biscuits, while she was in the kitchen making them. I would see people go weak in the knees or hear people say, ‘Oh my gosh, where can I get these?’”
Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit opens its fourth eatery and its first Charlotte location inside the Penrose Apartments in South End on Friday. Order the Queen Bee Biscuit, made especially for Charlotteans and it’s not on the menu. It’s a shortcake biscuit topped with turbinado sugar and drizzled with honey from Blue Pearl Farms in South Carolina.
Charlotte is the No. 2 city where the company ship biscuits, one of the reasons Morey chose Charlotte for expansion. But she also spent time in Charlotte in her 20s — she likes the vibe and sees it as an up-and-coming foodie city.
“We knew we had a lot of fans in Charlotte,” she said. “We fell in love with the new South End, the revitalization of the area.”
Black pepper bacon biscuits, buttermilk biscuits, country ham biscuits
All the biscuits are made by hand. The little biscuits are 2 inches by 2 inches in size and available in eight flavors: black pepper bacon, blackberry, buttermilk, cinnamon, country ham, cheese & chive, sharp cheddar and shortcake. Mix and match three for $6.
The larger four-inch by four-inch biscuit sandwiches are piled high with eggs, bacon, sausage or pimento cheese. Morey’s favorites are the sausage, egg and pimento cheese and the fried chicken sandwich. Sandwich prices range from $6.95 to $8.95.
Order up: Specialty coffees
Also special to this Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit is the espresso maker – espresso, latte and cappuccino are on the menu. They also have a nitro brew, French press, orange juice, lemonade, water, hot and iced teas.
Morey used her mom’s recipe to launch Callie’s Charleston Biscuit in 2005 — an online business selling frozen biscuits — way before food delivery services and most online food sales. In 2014, she opened Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit, an eatery in Charleston. Since then she’s opened another in Charleston and one in Atlanta.
“There’s something so comforting about a handmade biscuit,” Morey said. “I think people always have, whether you’re from the South or not, you gravitate toward the biscuit because you have a story about a biscuit in your childhood. I think it’s nostalgic comfort food. For me, it’s the bread of the South.”
What to know about the opening
Opens Jan. 31 at 10 a.m.
First 10 people in line receive free coffee for one year. It’s the Callie’s Biscuit Blend from King Bean in Charleston — a bold and buttery dark roast.
First 100 people receive a swag bag.
Everyone gets a free biscuit, any one of the little biscuit flavors.
Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit
327 W. Tremont Ave., Suite B (at The Penrose)
(704) 831-8103
Instagram: @callieshotlittlebiscuit
Open Saturday-Sunday: 8 a.m.-2 p.m. or Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.- 2 p.m.
