New Warrenville restaurant offers Southern comfort food | Business

Dietra Bynum is ready to deliver her Louisiana flavor to Aiken County.

Southern Gal in the Valley is the identify of Bynum’s new cafe, at 18 Burnettown Loop in Warrenville, but that title could also describe Bynum herself.

Bynum has been cooking considering that she was six many years old, making food items with her grandmother.

“I fell in enjoy with cooking mainly because I savored seeing peoples faces just after they would take in my meals,” Bynum reported.

That led her to start a catering business enterprise in Marietta, Ga, soon after she moved to the Peach State, but she had dreams of at some point possessing her personal restaurant.

Bishop Dr. Walter Kearse, Jr., pastor at Gospel of Deliverance, Inc., offered an chance for Bynum. Kearse owned the setting up the restaurant is in, and it really is situated throughout from the church.

Bynum asked her pastor a single working day what his strategies had been with the constructing, which was vacant at the time. He stated there had been no plans and questioned if she needed it.

Bynum jumped at the possibility, and she provides Kearse a large amount of credit rating. 

The creating experienced to be renovated, which started in November. Now, the restaurant is prepared to open and Bynum is very thrilled.

“I’m prepared to open up now and carry that Louisiana flavor right here,” she mentioned.

Bynum described the menu as “not a very long menu, but (a) very good menu.”

Southern consolation food stuff permeates the offerings, with hen wings, homemade burgers and po’boys. There is also a lot of seafood, such as whole catfish, catfish nuggets, shrimp and whiting.

Saturdays carry exceptional brunch choices, with waffles, french toast, grits, bacon and sausage all done up.

The cafe is currently open Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

Bynum claimed she sooner or later hopes to have karaoke on Thursday evenings and occasional dwell music on Fridays.

“I want this to be a enjoyable place,” she mentioned.

For more data, visit southerngalinthevalley.com.