A beloved Langley brunch location is growing its culinary horizons into the Freeland brewery scene.
Lisa Carvey, proprietor of the Braeburn Restaurant, is hopeful beer and fried rooster will be a match built in heaven. She a short while ago took over possession of the food truck that resides future to Penn Cove Brewing Company’s location in Freeland.
Aptly titled the Braeburn at the Barnyard, the mobile undertaking specializes in all matters crispy and breaded.
“Fried rooster variety of got us by means of COVID, so it retains a pretty particular location in my coronary heart,” Carvey claimed.
A number of many years in the past, she never would have dreamed that her flagship cafe would be known as a fried hen joint. In the course of the pandemic, the most effective-offering product was a loved ones fried chicken supper that people usually purchased to go.
She decided to carry on the theme at the new food stuff truck, which has formally been in procedure for about a week.
Poultry fans can obtain it in a sandwich, beside mac and cheese, or on a biscuit or waffle. Vegetarians can even nosh on a plant-based patty which is also been fried.
For Carvey, who grew up in Vermont, fried rooster was not a staple of her childhood. It became something she explored in adulthood. In the course of the renovation of her restaurant a handful of yrs back, she and her partner ate their way as a result of the fried hen scene in Charleston, S.C.
“It has grow to be one of my favored foodstuff. I attempt not to indulge in it all the time. Currently being on a rooster truck just about every day could be hazardous,” she reported with a giggle.
With 40 attainable mixtures of hen sandwiches, she programs to rotate the food truck menu each and every so frequently.
Carvey bought the truck on an impulse from Gordon Stewart, who has plans to start out yet another cafe in Coupeville. He is the perfectly-identified chef powering Gordon’s on Blueberry Hill. When he owned the truck, Stewart also had rooster on the menu.
“I consider men and women like seeing there’s some crossover amongst what Gordon had and what we have,” Carvey stated. “It’s a new truck but there is a minor little bit of familiarity there.”
Even though the small house can be difficult, she is obtaining it to be exciting.
“After jogging a total-assistance restaurant, the food truck does not experience overpowering,” she explained.
Carvey bought the Braeburn about a decade ago. She by no means cooked skillfully just before shopping for the restaurant.
“I found that I genuinely preferred remaining a line prepare dinner,” she mentioned. “I actually relished the chance to remember to persons with the foodstuff.”
It’s something she’s performed significantly less in excess of the yrs – due to a shoulder harm – but the meals truck has allowed her to return to cooking in small batches.
Operating with a further business like the brewery, she reported, has been gratifying.
“I adore the atmosphere up there, and that was what drew me to the concept of operating the truck,” she stated. “It’s these kinds of a interesting spot that they’ve developed.”
The Braeburn at the Barnyard is located at 5488 S. Freeland Ave. It is open from 3-8 p.m. Wednesday via Friday and 12-8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Several hours will probable develop during the summertime. For far more facts, stop by braeburnlangley.com/braeburn-at-the-barnyard.
Photo by Lisa Carvey
A chicken and waffle served with whipped maple butter and maple bourbon bacon jam.
Picture by Lisa Carvey
A signature fried hen sandwich, acknowledged as “the Sammy.”
