GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Chez Olga LLC has been serving Haitian delicacies within the Grand Rapids Eastown district for over a decade, inviting the group to partake in savory Caribbean and Creole dishes.
The eccentric and various restaurant, at 1441 Rich St. SE, first opened in 2010. Now, 13 years later, the identical prospects maintain coming again for the proprietor’s household recipes.
“Persons are all the time blissful to be right here, and so they all the time include a smile on their face as a result of they can’t wait to attempt our meals,” Olga Benoit, proprietor of Chez Olga LLC, advised MLive/The Grand Rapids Press. “By the point some prospects park their automotive, I begin cooking the meals as a result of I do know what they eat.”
A few of Benoit’s best-selling creations embrace the jerk rooster entree ($15), the rooster curry ($15) and the hearty gumbo ($16). Prospects can order most dishes with both rooster, greens, tofu, shrimp, or beef.
Different featured choices embrace favourite recipes like fried plantain, Caribbean fried rice, pate and Haitian Island drinks.
Benoit mentioned she is not any newcomer in relation to dealing with nice delicacies. She discovered her methods from her mother and father who she labored alongside as a meals vendor in streets of Haiti.
“It’s not new to me,” she mentioned. “All that’s new goes from a small place cooking on the road to opening up a enterprise in a unique nation.”
Benoit touts the restaurant as a family-oriented and blissful place the place folks can come for dialog and good meals. The constructing is over 100 years outdated, and Benoit has put some life again into it.
“Folks would simply move by,” Benoit mentioned. “However now folks out of nation, out of state, everybody is aware of this place now due to me. It’s so joyful. Folks can transfer out of Michigan and once they come again, they will’t wait to cease on this constructing.“
The Chez Olga is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday by way of Thursday, and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday by way of Saturday.
The restaurant might be reached at 616-233-4141.
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