Last of the Old-Fashion Roadside Diners
by Spence Cooper on 09/23/09 at 10:08 am
Keeping bellies happy since 1954
Ah yes, caviar and white chocolate, smoked bacon and egg ice cream, French toast and tomato jam. There’s only one thing better than the refined pleasures of molecular gastronomy — a good old-fashioned roadside diner. The sign on the kitchen door says “Mom’s Kitchen”, where Mary Elizabeth Brown, 76, has been cooking at Allman’s Bar-B-Q in Fredericksburg, Virginia for almost 50 years.
Mary Elizabeth Brown claims the recipes for her BBQ sauce and Cole Slaw dressing go back over a century. For those that ask for even a hint of ingredients, Mary laughs and says, “I ain’t telling you!”
Located along U.S. 1, Allman’s opened in 1954 in the same modest building it’s at today. Then as now, a waitress slings each food order clipped to an overhead cable into “Mom’s Kitchen”. The chrome and neon, the original spinning counter stools, the aroma of old pit cooked Smithfield pork, makes dining at Allman’s a nostalgic step back in time.
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