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Diners Line Up for Southern Cooking
On its first day of operation, Napa Valley Biscuits had a line out the door as foodies hastened to welcome downtown's first locally-owned Southern restaurant.
Napa Valley Biscuits: 1502 Main St., Napa; (707) 265-8209.
is off to a good start: Husband-and-wife proprietors Curtis and Tara Lindley of their new Main Street restaurant at 7:30 a.m. Saturday and quickly discovered just how eager diners have been for Southern-style cuisine.
"We weren't expecting such a positive response," said Tara Lindley, sounding slightly out of breath on Saturday afternoon.
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"We were expecting to (serve) 100 people all day." Instead, the restaurant welcomed more than 100 people in the first two hours, she said.
Among the most popular dishes with first-day diners: chicken and waffles and the "Pappy sandwich," which she described as a slider made with waffles.
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The Lindleys had planned to stay open until 4 p.m., but wound up closing about three hours early because by early afternoon, "we were running out of stuff" and there was a line out the door, she said.
Napa Valley Biscuits will reopen at 8 a.m. Sunday with a projected closing time of 3 p.m., Lindley said.
"We're thankful for the positive response."
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