Soul 2 Soul Cafe

Specialties

We specialize in Southern Soul Food. St. Louis style Fried Ribs, Oxtails, Meatloaf, Smothered Porkchops, Gumbo, Smothered Chicken and more. Be sure to try our desserts Banana Pudding, Peach Cobbler — desserts and menu items change daily see our website for full menu or better yet give us a call!

History

Established in 2014.

Ouida wanted something more — something more fulfilling. Her fondness for cooking started to trickle through as she remembered the summers she would spend with her grandmother in Mississippi. She went to the grocery store to buy the ingredients for meatloaf and mashed potatoes to make plates of food to sell, leaving the house with 16 plates and returned 2 ½ hours later without any leftovers. She sold them all. Ouida started looking for a place to sell her Southern cooking out of and stumbled upon a cozy beauty salon which she immediately took. Soul2Soul has only grown — now at its new location close to the Cruise lines.

Meet the Business Owner

Ouida C.

Business Owner

«With hard work, you can do it,» says Ouida Cook, owner of local favorite, Soul 2 Soul Café.

Her vision is one of effort, ambition, conviction and love. Ouida hasn’t always been on the food side of business. She was a finance director under Alan Greenspan at the Federal Reserve for a non-​profit agency in Houston, Texas just before she found herself homeless with a baby. Like others after the horrific Hurricane Ike in 2008, she found herself without a job trying to make ends meet, finally finding a temporary place to stay helping an elderly friend.

Ouida wanted something more — something more fulfilling. Her fondness for cooking started to trickle through as she remembered the summers she would spend with her grandmother in Mississippi. She was nervous about starting something new, jumping feet first in almost-​unfamiliar territory, so she did what she always did when she was unsure about something: she asked her father for advice. «What are you waiting for?» he responded.