Remember Piggly Wiggly? If you do you're showing your age. If you don't, you missed out, sorry. Back in the day, Piggly Wiggly was THE neighborhood grocery. Especially in the Five Points area of Raleigh.
A few years ago that PW was closed and turned into NoFo at the Pig, a neat store upstairs and restaurant and bar downstairs. I've been on many occasions and holidays, always looking forward to a great meal.
On a recent visit celebrating having both girls, Hayley and Hannah, home for Mother's day weekend I was reminded that NoFo has been sliding down a slippery slope for a few years. My wife and had the special, a blue crab-stuffed flounder filet with lightly sauteed asparagus and wafer thin sliced onion-topped rice, all atop a delicious lemon cream sauce base. The flounder was overdone, which overshadowed the sweet chunks of blue crab nestled inside. The asparagus was perfectly done and the lemon cream sauce was a great complementary base.
Dessert is a slam-dunk here. Sticky toffee pudding. That's all I'll say. Try it, you won't regret it. We order it every time.
The service was a bit slow, good thing we weren't in a hurry. Our waiter was new but very competent, and I noticed the other tables were slow to have their food delivered. Must have been a slow night in the kitchen. But that was the excuse we used on our last visit, too.
If you go and have a hankering for shrimp and grits, Crooks Corner style, they put on an excellent rendering of Bill Neal's shrimp and grits.
And now a word about their accessibility. I use a wheelchair and when possible I report on an establishment's facilities and ease of use. They have very accessible bathrooms, good placement of grab bars, sinks, soap dispensers and paper towel holder.
