Couple serving up Southern comfort in Bermuda Run | Dining
Southern Spice Cuisine opened Aug. 31 at 5411 U.S. 158 in Bermuda Run.
Jessica Jimenez, 30, and Ulises Jimenez, 35, opened Southern Spice Cuisine on Aug. 31 at 5411 U.S. 158 next to Gym 365 in the Shoppes at Bermuda Quay shopping center.
Southern Spice Cuisine opened in the former location of Asian View Chinese Restaurant. Jessica and Ulises Jimenez rented the space in May and renovated it, doing much of the work themselves.
Southern Spice Cuisine’s cowboy burger features an 8-ounce beef patty, bacon, cheese, lettuce, mayo, onion rings and barbecue sauce.
Southern Spice Cuisine’s barbecue chicken, with yams and mashed potatoes and gravy.
Southern Spice Cuisine serves breakfast six days a week, beginning at 6 a.m.
Southern Spice Cuisine’s country-fried steak with green beans and mac ‘n’ cheese.
Southern Spice Cuisine’s homemade cornbread.
Southern Spice Cuisine offers daily specials, including pot roast, chicken and dumplings and lasagna.
A husband-and-wife team of veteran restaurant workers have opened their own restaurant in Bermuda Run, offering Southern comfort food for breakfast, lunch and dinner six days a week.
Jessica Jimenez, 30, and Ulises Jimenez, 35, opened Southern Spice Cuisine on Aug. 31 at 5411 U.S. 158 next to Gym 365 in the Shoppes at Bermuda Quay shopping center.
“I’ve been working in restaurants since I was a teenager, and we met in a restaurant,” Jessica Jimenez said. “We worked for other people for so long. We just really love working in the restaurant business, and that’s where we want to be for the future.”
The two met at Dynasty Chinese Restaurant in Mocksville. Most recently, the couple had been working at CJ’s Bar-B-Cue in Mocksville.
Ulises Jimenez, the chef, is a native of Mexico, and he has worked in all kinds of restaurants here in the States. But the couple decided to go with an all-American menu for Southern Spice.
“This is Southern comfort food — meatloaf, country-fried steak. Ulises makes all these daily specials,” Jessica said.
Breakfast runs the gamut — eggs any way, pancakes, waffles and French toast, served with choices of bacon, sausage, livermush, ham and more. Full plates with two eggs, meat, toast or biscuit, and choice of grits, gravy, hash browns or rice and gravy run from $6.45 to $7.95. The biscuits aren’t made from scratch but the gravy is.