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A Place to Eat During the Holidays

Ruby’s Kitchen: 15 Years of Satisfying Diners

Sojourner’s Truth Staff

Ruby Butler opened her restaurant, Ruby’s Kitchen, at its previous Dorr Street location in 2004. On Friday, July 29, 2016, she moved to her present site – 805 N. Reynolds.

And immediately those customers found her and arrived in droves to help christen the new facility. And help Butler on the next step of her journey. It’s a journey that has brought a great deal of pleasure to a great many customers.

In these past, almost 15 years, Butler has done exactly what she always felt she was meant to do – apply the cooking skills taught to her by her mother for the enjoyment of many others.
 

“I have loved to cook all my life,” she says of her long-time avocation, now her vocation.

“I was a homebody,” she says of her youthful years honing her culinary skills under her mother’s tutelage. “I learned to do it all – cleaning chitlins, canning, cleaning greens. And I always wanted a restaurant. I was taught so well, and taught that whatever you do, do it right.”

It’s really been a labor of love for Miss Ruby, as her customers call her. “I love being here, I love this restaurant,” she says. “I love pleasing customers and meeting new people.”

Butler is obviously committed to providing the very best dining experience for her customers. “I like Southern food,” she says of her product. After all her mother was from Alabama and Southern food was what Butler learned about from an early age.

Butler, however, is committed not only to her customers but also, in equal measure, to her community. Over the years, from the moment she opened her first establishment, Butler has made it a point to hire those who would ordinarily have difficulty finding employment – ex-offenders, for example.

Helping Butler over the years has been her chief cook, daughter Sonda Hicks. Mother and daughter have worked together from the very beginning pleasing diners with such delicacies as smothered pork chops, rib-eye steaks, chicken wings and Butler’s personal favorites – the catfish filets and the whole catfish dinners. Of course, no dinner would be complete if one didn’t sample the peach cobbler.

“People love the peach cobbler,” Butler notes with pride.

Actually people love just about everything at Ruby’s, she says, as verified by the number of loyal customers. “We cook to order. Everything is fresh here. We don’t have pre-breaded items.”

Cooking to order may take a little longer, says Butler of her commitment to quality, but it’s worth it, she adds.

“When you come here, you are going to be satisfied when you leave,” declares Miss Ruby.

Ruby’s is open on Tuesday and Thursday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.; on Friday from noon to 8 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 7 pm.
 

 

   
   


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