Wheelhouse Memories

[Teresa]

yes!



see Kitty...that's where you went wrong...you have to "get your grease on" at least twice before you are hooked...


i gotta stand up for the ole' dive. I miss it and there just isn't enough southern beach grunge here for my taste...am I the only one??? i'm ok with that...

a couple more that I love that ya'll will want to avoid are:
Freeport Cafe (fresh fried mullet) and the Sunnyside Diner (Greasy Burger) in PCB...both are classic SoWal in my book.

I can go for a good greasy diner! a trip to Bruce cafe is always funn! IMO - the wheelhouse was just nasty all the way around. but love the real cafe's in the little out of the way places.

I hear Big Daddy's on back beach road has some fine soul food - real down home food. best fried okry. let's go!

 

[Rudyjohn]

I agree with Hop. The Wheelhouse was always a bustling, vintage greasy spoon and my heart sank when I learned it had burned. We always stopped and had breakfast there on our way to the airport to return home. It was used as a landmark; something was either a couple of miles east or west of the Wheelhouse. It was good, old fashioned Southern food. Yes, my grits were always cold, or worse, runny. The toast was dry, white bread, no sourdough or multi-grain. They had breakfast sausage that I have never had anywhere else but there (& that could be either a good thing or a bad thing!). It was not fine dining and it was never meant to be. It is a part of Americana that is gone.

 

[rickybubbles]

I agree with Hop. The Wheelhouse was always a bustling, vintage greasy spoon and my heart sank when I learned it had burned. We always stopped and had breakfast there on our way to the airport to return home. It was used as a landmark; something was either a couple of miles east or west of the Wheelhouse. It was good, old fashioned Southern food. Yes, my grits were always cold, or worse, runny. The toast was dry, white bread, no sourdough or multi-grain. They had breakfast sausage that I have never had anywhere else but there (& that could be either a good thing or a bad thing!). It was not fine dining and it was never meant to be. It is a part of Americana that is gone.

I'm glad that you were there to see it and be it, Johnrudy. Keep the wheel spinning in your memory and never forget those shty grits---keep them pressed close to your heart, no matter how cold and shty they were.

"HERE's to The WHEELHOUSE, her ladies and cooks, to the surly guy at the counter and the befuddled canucks, to her funky sausages and whitebread, long live the WHEELHOUSE, seagrove's queen of cold grits is dead."

 

[Hop]

[QUOTE "HERE's to The WHEELHOUSE, her ladies and cooks, to the surly guy at the counter and the befuddled canucks, to her funky sausages and whitebread, long live the WHEELHOUSE, seagrove's queen of cold grits is dead."

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amen...

 

[Teresa]

I'm glad that you were there to see it and be it, Johnrudy. Keep the wheel spinning in your memory and never forget those shty grits---keep them pressed close to your heart, no matter how cold and shty they were.

"HERE's to The WHEELHOUSE, her ladies and cooks, to the surly guy at the counter and the befuddled canucks, to her funky sausages and whitebread, long live the WHEELHOUSE, seagrove's queen of cold grits is dead."

:clap_1: yes!

JR - please never refer to it as GOOD SOUTHERN FOOD. a sacrilege!

speaking of good southern food. mama is coming this week!!!

 

[Bobby J]

I remember many a lunch buffet at the Wheelhouse.

Prior to that, I remember Emory Elkins' Seagrove Restaurant. Yum.

What a shame...

Emory was one of my first real jobs. I worked for him one day for 12 hours and at the end of the day he handed me $10 bucks!!! I never showed back up.

 

[drunkkenartist]

I used to love the Wheelhouse for the simple pleasure that it was. Two things I did avoid however was the buffet and the bathrooms; equally nasty. I used to walk there when I lived 7 houses away on 30A, at least 2-3 times a week. I miss the fried chicken and grouper.

Along these lines, I also miss the OLD Donut Hole, just off the west end of 30A. Back in the day when, was it Jimmy VanZant(?) that ran the place. Boy I haven't thought of that name in ages. I have never been able to get a proper "Fred's Special" since, unless I made it myself.

For those of you that never had the pleasure, a "Fred's Special" consisted of a large opened freshly baked buttermilk biscuit, topped with scrambled eggs and patty sausage, topped with the best white gravy on earth, all served in a bowl. I can just feel my arteries clogging now.

THOSE were the daze.

 

[southof30A]

yes!



see Kitty...that's where you went wrong...you have to "get your grease on" at least twice before you are hooked...


i gotta stand up for the ole' dive. I miss it and there just isn't enough southern beach grunge here for my taste...am I the only one??? i'm ok with that...

a couple more that I love that ya'll will want to avoid are:
Freeport Cafe (fresh fried mullet) and the Sunnyside Diner (Greasy Burger) in PCB...both are classic SoWal in my book.

I've always wondered about the Freeport Cafe. Drive by, windows steamed up, fresh fried mullet. Tell me more, is it worth the trip? Other than mullet, what's on the menu?

 

[Teresa]

For those of you that never had the pleasure, a "Fred's Special" consisted of a large opened freshly baked buttermilk biscuit, topped with scrambled eggs and patty sausage, topped with the best white gravy on earth, all served in a bowl. I can just feel my arteries clogging now.

THOSE were the daze.

yum! gotta go to confession after that dish!

 

[Hop]

I've always wondered about the Freeport Cafe. Drive by, windows steamed up, fresh fried mullet. Tell me more, is it worth the trip? Other than mullet, what's on the menu?

i don't think i've ever seen a menu at the freeport cafe...i go for the mullet....when you see the guys skinning it out back...that's the best time to go...