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Restaurant roundup: HenDough to serve chicken and donuts

Contractors were finishing up work this week on a front counter at an old house on Kanuga Road that was last home to Bluewater Seafood.
The town has seafood and it has pastries and it has KFC. Paul and Sarah Klaassen are sure that it needs chicken and donuts.
Residents of Hendersonville for about five years, Paul and Sarah had been cooking in upscale kitchens. “We decided to go out and do our own thing,” he said. “We wanted to do something fun do two things that this town doesn’t really have yet.”
Besides fried chicken by the piece and doughnuts, they plan to offer breakfast biscuits and chicken sandwiches plus Southern-style side dishes including mac’n’cheese, collard greens and Brussels sprouts. They also plan to locally source their ingredients, buying from the Mills River Creamery, a coffee company in Black Mountain and Blue Blaze soda in Asheville.
“We are going to have beer and we’re going to try to get some of the local breweries that are in town — Sanctuary and Southern Appalachian,” he said. A brunch offering on Saturdays and Sundays will also offer champagne drinks.
“We’ll have seating for 40 or 50 people and we’re also going to fence in the front yard with picnic tables,” Paul said.
They plan to be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.