Home-cooked comfort food at Glenn's Cafe
Photo supplied with permission to use by Glenn's Cafe
If your summer travels bring you to Columbia, Missouri
to visit friends or relatives or perhaps on a business trip and you
feel like a big southern comfort-style breakfast, be sure to head over
to Glenn's Café. The spot has been popular with locals since Glyn
Laverick, owner of Tiger Hotel brought Glenn's Café back to Columbia two
years ago to continue its 77-year history with the city. "We've had
such a great success with Glenn's bunch on Sunday's and many requested
for breakfast from hotel guests and our local customers alike it just
felt like the next step in the Glenn's Cafe tradition," Laverick said.
Glenn's chef, Chris Pender, has been with the restaurant for 19 years
now and is known for his mid-Missouri take on southern comfort food.
You’ll want to bring a big appetite as Pender has some yummy dishes in
store such as Glenn's signature shrimp and grits, home style biscuits
and gravy, and the Country Morning Breakfast plate and lots of other
popular Sunday brunch items.
Breakfast is served everyday beginning 7 a.m. You can dine
in or order out any of your three meals to take on the road, to you
hotel or to your host’s home. Glenn’s Café is located on the corner of
8th and Cherry in downtown Columbia, Missouri. For more information
click here.
Glenn’s Café backstory
Around 1939 there was a small gas station diner on the side
of what was then Highway 40 (today’s Business Loop) named Glenn’s Café
that was founded by Glenn Purdy and his wife Tilley. It operated for
more than 40 years run at that location. In the early 80′s the business,
and sign, were purchased by Stephen Cupp and then moved in 1988 to
downtown Columbia for the first time to the corner of 9th and Cherry
Streets, in what is now the Kaldi’s Coffee building where it remained
with an ever growing New Orleans’ influence.
Flash to 2016 and you’ll see that Glenn’s, which offers two
dozen wines by the glass, has won a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.
It is also highly rated for the diverse menu of Cajun, Creole an
American cuisines.
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