$10 Deal: Three Little Pigs gives us a twofer
Three Little Pigs Bar-B-Q on Quince Avenue serves a no-frills but properly-cooked breakfast on the cheap. The breakfast plate, with two eggs over easy, two slices of bacon and two biscuits, costs $6.39. (Jennifer Biggs/The Daily Memphian)
You can’t do it just anywhere, but it’s not hard to get a breakfast $10 Deal; they’re easy enough to find.
But this week we got two breakfasts for $10.29, including tax, which means this could be our first two for $10 Deal.
I met a friend who lives in the neighborhood for breakfast at Three Little Pigs on Quince Road, which was recently purchased by brothers NaMario and Napoleon Yancey. The menu is the same, and the place is still as full as I remembered it from the last time I ate a cheap meal there, during a time I was without a washer and dryer.
Three Little Pigs Bar-B-Q is located at 5145 Quince Ave. next to the Yorkshire Launderette. (Jennifer Biggs/The Daily Memphian)
The restaurant is next to Yorkshire Launderette, and that day, a cheeseburger was calling my name. This week, it was biscuits and gravy.
Two of them, split and smothered in peppery white gravy, are $2.99. How much that is, by the way, is a whole plate full, but get this: I ordered a breakfast plate with two eggs over easy, two slices of bacon and two biscuits, and it cost $6.39. We split it up: An egg, a slice of bacon, and two gravy-covered biscuit halves each.
That was plenty of food, so we had two full biscuits left, never even touched. We could’ve ordered the breakfast with a side of gravy and eaten for roughly $8 for two. Can you even do that at a fast food joint? To be fair, we drank water, but we’d both had plenty of coffee by that time.
Three Little Pigs was full at 9:30 a.m. on a weekday, occupied by folks who appeared to work together, older couples or older women catching up, drinking coffee and lingering. It’s cozy and warm, comfortable for a visit despite the bench seats in the booths. The people are welcoming; the vibe is very much sit-a-spell.
But it’s frills-free: The breakfast comes on a Styrofoam plate and the water in a Styrofoam cup. The knives and forks are plastic and flimsy, but the eggs were cooked perfectly, the bacon was crisp the way I like it, and the biscuits light yet filling.
And it’s super cheap.
Three Little Pigs, 5145 Quince Road, is open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m.-9 p.m. on Friday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m. on Saturday and 8 a.m.-7. p.m. on Sunday. Call 901-685-7094; a menu is available at threelittlepigsbar-b-q.com but it doesn’t include prices.
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Jennifer Biggs is a native Memphian and veteran food writer and journalist who covers all things food, dining and spirits related for The Daily Memphian.
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