Sandy's, Kingwood, WV

Buckwheat cakes in the off season.

Every restaurant, firehouse, church, community center in Preston Co, WV sells buckwheat pancakes at an all you can eat price.  They always come with Preston Co sausage.  Sometimes they are served with a side of applesauce, what for, I don't know.  Now, I have been known to help the Marion Co 4-H cook buckwheat cakes for the Firemens Breakfast at the Buckwheat Festival (last Saturday of September).  It is grueling work.  A lot of people come in on Saturday morning to have cakes before the parade.

We went to Sandy's in the middle of the afternoon.  The buckwheat cakes were fine.  I only ate one stack, my friend ate two.  The flies were a distraction.  I managed to nail one on my friend's cake kinda like a kung fu master catching a fly with chopsticks, only not quite.  I was a little unnerving.

The buckwheat cakes served at the Buckwheat Festival are the best, most sour, buckwheat cakes I've ever had.  They are the true, pure, unadulterated cakes that all buckwheat cakes should aspire to.  That's all I can say.