If you’re even remotely serious about breakfast—or just crave the kind of Southern food that sticks to your soul—you’ll want to carve out time to visit Hey Y’all, a food cart on Barger Drive in Eugene that’s making biscuits and gravy an art form.
This isn’t one of those gimmicky Instagram carts. There’s no neon sign. No over-styled branding. What you’ll find is a humble little trailer with a steady line of locals, a hand-scrawled chalkboard menu, and the smell of bacon fat and buttermilk biscuits wafting down the street. It’s authentic, affordable, and just Southern enough to make you wonder if you somehow crossed into Tennessee without noticing.
Hey Y’all is the brainchild of a Tennessee native who grew up eating the kind of food that now defines this cart—sausage gravy made from scratch, chipped beef that actually tastes like something your grandma made, and fried chicken that’s been brined, battered, and kissed by hot oil until the outside shatters and the inside stays juicy. It’s Southern food, done right.
Biscuits are the backbone of the operation. Big, buttery, golden, and impossibly fluffy, they’re made fresh daily and serve as the base for nearly everything on the menu.
You can keep it simple with a single biscuit topped with housemade apple butter (imported from The Apple Barn in Sevierville, Tennessee, naturally), or go all-in with the Biscuits & Gravy Full Order, which includes two biscuits smothered in rich, peppery sausage gravy.
For something with a little more drama, there’s the Chipped Beef Gravy & Biscuit—an old-school dish that’s hard to find these days, but unforgettable if you grew up with it. The gravy is saltier, the texture silkier, and when paired with that biscuit? It hits deep.
The menu isn’t huge, but that’s the point. Each item is clearly loved, dialed-in, and consistent. You’ll find a Biscuit Sandwich with your choice of bacon or sausage, egg, and cheese—cheddar, Swiss, or pepper jack.
You can sub in country ham for a small charge, and if you know what’s good for you, you will. The ham is sourced from Benton’s in Madisonville, Tennessee—a name that Southern food folks know well. It’s salty, smoky, and thick-sliced. Simple. Perfect.
But the sleeper hit? That’s probably the Jam Session. It’s a biscuit sandwich layered with fried chicken, hot honey bacon jam, and pimento cheese. It’s rich, messy, over-the-top in the best way, and somehow still perfectly balanced. There’s even a souped-up version called the Hog Wild Jam Session, which adds sausage and egg to the pile.
Other fan favorites include the Fried Chicken Biscuit (regular or spicy, with a drizzle of hot honey available), the Uncle Benny (a Southern-style riff on eggs Benedict with sausage patties, fried eggs, and sausage gravy), and the Cousin Monte—a brioche French toast sandwich filled with sausage, scrambled eggs, and Swiss, served with maple syrup for dipping.
As one local put it:
“Bill is absolutely the best—how can you not want to go there just to see the guy and hear his infamous laugh?! Their biscuits are manna from heaven. The apple butter is like nothing you’ve ever tasted—I should have ordered a pint of it.”
That quote gets to the heart of Hey Y’all. Yes, the food is fantastic. But the experience is too. There’s something comforting about ordering from someone who clearly cares about every detail, who remembers your name, and who doesn’t mind if you linger a minute longer just to talk biscuits.
The drink lineup also deserves a mention. House-made sweet tea is available in peach or orange (or classic, if you’re a purist), and the lemonade is made fresh—lemons, sugar, water, nothing else. There’s also an Arnold Palmer if you can’t choose, or a Red Bull-based energy drink with your pick of flavors if you need to wake up fast.
Want dessert? Don’t skip the Deep Fried Bread Pudding Bites. They’re made from cubed-up house biscuits, soaked in a cinnamon custard, deep-fried, rolled in cinnamon sugar, and finished with salted caramel glaze. It’s not diet food. It is joy.
Hey Y’all is located at 4190 Barger Drive, and they’re open Tuesday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday from 8 to 2, and Sunday from 9 to 2. You can order online through DoorDash, or better yet, just show up. The vibe is casual, but the food is anything but. For a full menu and more info, check out their website at hey-yall-biscuits.square.site.
No reservations. No reservations needed, either. Just bring your appetite and maybe a few extra napkins. Whether you’re in the mood for sausage gravy, fried chicken, or just want to bite into a biscuit so good it makes you pause mid-sentence, Hey Y’all is worth the trip.
Eugene might not be known for Southern food, but this cart is changing that. One hot, flaky biscuit at a time.
