Vonda's Kitchen, Newark

Vonda's Kitchen is the third restaurant venture for Chef Vonda McPherson who has taken on Southern BBQ and healthy cafeteria food. This time she tackles Southern comfort food from jambalaya and catfish to beef short ribs and shrimp and grits. At her kitchen, breakfast dishes, such as french toast and chicken and waffles, are served all day long instead of bursting into flames at the stroke of noon. She also serves up collard greens, black eye peas, and oxtails over rice and beans with glasses of sweet tea and flavored lemonade to wash it all down.