Hot Lunch: Christina’s Restaurant

320 St. Charles St.

336-9512

Breakfast Monday through Wednesday, 6 a.m. – 11 a.m.

Breakfast Thursday and Friday, 6 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Breakfast Saturday, 7 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Lunch Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

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A popular downtown breakfast spot serving up down-home favorites like biscuits with sausage gravy and country-fried steak and eggs, Christina’s is also a great place to grab a hearty Southern lunch.

The menu board reads like a page out of your grandmother’s cookbook: red beans and rice (pictured), lasagna, beef tips, mustard greens, buttered corn, potato salad, candied yams. If daily specials don’t suit your fancy, the menu has a variety of salads, po-boys and sandwiches, including the traditional club sandwich. Thin slices of smoked turkey, ham, bacon, lettuce, tomato and American cheese are sandwiched between three slices of good ol’ toasted white bread and served with a heaping mound of golden french fries. It doesn’t get any better than that.

The waitresses call the regulars by name, and everyone else goes by “sweetie” or “honey.” And speaking of sweet, they keep the iced tea flowing.

Save room for Christina’s old-fashioned pies—lemon ice box, Mississippi mud and French silk. You’ll head back to the office feeling all warm and fuzzy inside.