Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles is a small chain. The one I visited is just off Sunset, in Los Angeles.
I'm not sure why they offer B&G... The biscuits are merely adequate. Where they really fail is the gravy. It's a brown gravy, almost certainly from a mix, the likes of which you'd expect on a cheap piece of meat. It makes you wonder if they even known what B&G is all about, or if they've ever had it elsewhere.
Need I explain the flavor of brown gravy on biscuits? It's just... weird. Not terrible, actually, but certainly not wonderful. I did finish most of the dish - thinking that maybe it's weirdness would start to grow on me. It did not.
Perhaps B&G isn't a popular dish in southern California. When I got up to pay my bill and leave, the very friendly host asked "You're not from around here are you?". I explained I was from Oregon. He replied that only people from the South and the Northwest order B&G. I didn't feel like telling him that nobody from the South or the Northwest would ever order B&G twice from Roscoe's.
To be fair to Roscoe's, they do not claim to specialize in B&G. Like many restaurants, they include it on the menu in order to offer a thorough array of breakfast options. The place was fairly busy, on a weekday morning. They must do something right... probably waffles. And chicken.
B&G like this makes me think that breakfast restaurants should only offer B&G if they consider it a specialty. B&G should never be listed on the menu for merely obligatory purposes.
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