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Three picks for great eating during market

Heath E. Combs, Staff Writer -- Furniture Today, March 25, 2007

I haven't checked out Harvey Dondero's Las Vegas picks yet, but here are three of my High Point Market picks for mom-and-pop places in the Triad region (High Point, Winston-Salem and Greensboro) that want you to love their restaurants every day.

Pollo Pasta Pizza, just off N.C. 68, behind the Taco Bell/Pizza Hut and Subway, about a mile south of the Interstate 40 interchange.

So, you want a thin slice of New York Style pizza and live in Greensboro? You go to New York Pizza on Tate Street. In Winston-Salem, you go to Burke Street Pizza. For a slice in High Point, I like Rome.

But the best slice around is a place smack dab in the middle of the Triad called Pollo Pasta Pizza. The sauce is amazing and the slices are so big you could wrap them around your head.

When I worked in High Point, I used to treat myself by driving 20 minutes out of the way to pick up a couple slices, some sauce and a cup of sweet tea. Now that I work at Furniture/Today, it's a minute away. The first few months here my obsession with this place bordered on addiction. I have yet to see a harder-working crew at a pizza place, and there's much more on the menu too.

The Biscuit Factory, near the intersection of Main Street and Eastchester Drive in High Point.

Jenny, the gal at the leasing office when I moved down here, told me you couldn't get into The Biscuit Factory on Saturday mornings, when a loyal mass akin to a crowd of crazed Black Friday shoppers gathers to stuff back filling Southern fare. You can read the story I wrote for a local paper about this place framed on the wall while you wait for a fat, fluffy biscuit the size of small infant.

I'd go for an egg and cheese biscuit, but they've got a huge chicken biscuit too and amazing hot dogs. If you're really looking to fill up, get the fries too — if you can finish a biscuit.

This place closes later in the afternoon and isn't open on Sunday, so roll in around 7 a.m. before you start your market.

Jimmy's Seafood, in Winston-Salem, go down Stratford Road and you'll see it just past the Hanes Mall Boulevard intersection.

There are quite a few Greek-owned restaurants in this area, and my favorite is Jimmy's. Not only does it have 150 items and great seafood and steaks, but offers signature dishes.

There's the Carpetbagger Filet Mignon, a six-ounce fillet stuffed with blackened oysters wrapped in applewood smoked bacon and topped with lemon thyme butter, named after the northern opportunists who stuffed their bags and moved south during Reconstruction.

I also recommend the pan-seared, sesame-encrusted tuna, thinly sliced and topped with a shiitake ginger cream sauce, and classic pecks and half-pecks of fresh, wild-caught oysters shucked in front of you at the bar. The steamed oysters with a little hot sauce are my favorite.

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