11 Must-Try Restaurants Serving Sorghum


Going on a vacation? Traveling for business? Looking for a new place to eat or just don't feel like cooking? No matter the reason, trying new restaurants can be a fun, enjoyable experience - especially if you’re a foodie. Sorghum is a trendy ingredient showing up on more and more menus across America. In fact, sorghum is now included on 1.6 percent of menus across the nation, an eightfold increase over the last three years. If you’ve been searching for places to try sorghum, look no further. Here are 11 restaurants coast to coast serving up delicious dishes made with sorghum.

Avo, Mountain Brook, Alabama

  • Grilled Salmon Salad - Local spinach, red onion, sorghum vinaigrette, pecans

  • Mini-Biscuits and Sorghum - Buttermilk biscuits with tenne sorghum

  • Hot Cakes - Griddle cakes, hot buttered sorghum

Benjamin Bar and Lounge, Washington, DC

  • Smashed Avocado - Lime, cilantro, puffed sorghum

Big Jones, Chicago, Illinois

  • Blue and Raspberry Carolina Gold Rice Pancakes - Filled with coconut cream, topped with local farm berries, powdered sugar and Caudill’s sorghum molasses

City House, Nashville, Tennessee

  • Roast Beets, ricotta, hazelnut, walnut gremolata, sorghum

Fifth Street Eatery, Durango, Colorado

  • Chicken and Waffles - Two-piece buttermilk fried chicken over a corn waffle, your choice of sorghum molasses and brown sugar syrup or 100 percent pure maple syrup

Hugo’s Restaurant, Los Angeles, California

  • Create a plate - Spanish sorghum

Guy Fieri Smokehouse, Louisville, Kentucky and Norfolk, Virginia

  • Bird is the Word - Crispy chicken sandwich, aged cheddar, sriracha sorghum, citrus slaw, garlic toasted brioche bun, house pickles

  • Bourbon and Sorghum Brined Pork Chop - 14-ounce bone-in Berkshire pork chop, pit baked beans, bacon apple jam, citrus slaw, pickled chilies

Milktooth, Indianapolis, Indiana

  • Sorghum Glazed Bacon

Oliver’s Public House, Madison, Wisconsin

  • Buckwheat Crepes - Golden beet and chevre filling, asparagus and beet salad, popped sorghum, blood orange, buckwheat

South City Kitchen, Atlanta, Georgia

  • Wheatberry Salad - Bibb, dried apricot, black pepper ricotta, pistachios, sorghum

The Rarebit, Charleston, South Carolina

  • Bourbon Sorghum Pecan Pie

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