Blackbird Bakery

You know how there are signs before every interstate exit telling you what gas stations, restaurants and hotels are at each exit?  Well, between Knoxville, TN and Abingdon, VA there is one of those boards that only has one restaurant listed.  The blackbird bakery.  My family drives to Abingdon, VA from time to time to go to the Barter theatre.  Side note: If you have never been to Barter theatre in Abingdon, VA you should totally go!!

Anyway.  Back to the sign.  It has always intrigued me.  I thought do they have food or just sweets.  Why is it the only restaurant listed?  Is it cute or is it something beside a gas station.  Well, today I had asked some friends where we should go have lunch and low and behold right next to where we parked for the restaurant they had suggested was the Blackbird bakery!

We, of course, had to go in.  I need to tell you something first.  My son is Alexander, he is 13 years old.  He is very literal and has a quick wit that often times flies over the heads of even adults!  Alexander was with me on this little venture.

In we walked.  To the right is a window seat with stools that face a counter that is butted up against the window looking out to the street.  All the way back are tables.  To the left is the counter.  The decadent, beautiful, sugary counter.  Imagine the most extravagant bakery you have ever seen and this is like that only on crack!  I had no idea what to order.  Everything looked like something that needed to be tried.  Everything was frosted, sprinkled, drizzled and toasted to the patrons delight.

Now, I am Jim Pierson's daughter, and if you don't know him I will tell you that he can talk to a brick wall and have a perfectly fantastic conversation...not literally, just meaning that he loves people and so do I.  So I leaned forward to the woman in line in front of me and asked have you been here before?  She indeed had.  I said What do you get when you come here?

Without missing a beat Alexander said Diabetes?

Love that child.