Nobody ever looked back on a great brunch and wished they’d stayed home instead, and The Toasty Hot Spot in Columbia, South Carolina is the kind of place that makes that point impossible to argue with.
It’s a family-owned restaurant with a menu full of serious food, a dining room that looks like it was styled by someone with genuinely good taste, and biscuits and gravy that have earned a reputation across the entire state.
Here’s the thing about biscuits and gravy that most people don’t say out loud.
It’s a dish with a very low floor and a very high ceiling…