Joined in February 2022

Based in Arlington Heights, Illinois

Simple and humble beginnings is how we started this journey in 2012. from serving our neighbors and friends to running a full fledged culinary business, we have grown! Now it would be a feat in and of itself if we could say this journey has been easy. Through many long hourswe made it!​We are no over-night sensation. Actually, our story began long before I was born. My Grandmother, Virginia Lott, started this adventure a long time ago. Serving as a cigarette girl for Al Capone, she learned that she had a talent.  That talent was cooking.  ​So Virginia put down her cigarette tray and picked up an apron. She began teaching housewives how to cook in Marshall Field's Department Store in Chicago, IL.​Her famous cooking class was featured in the Chicago Daily News on September 24th, 1968.Let's fast forward a little bit to 2016. I met a person that would change my life forever. Who would have known that a little ole taco would have inspired someone to blindly invest in my dreams. Ever since that faithful day, my partner, James Jenkins and I have been steaming right along. Re-creating my grandmother's favorite dishes with a little modern day flair. Then taking the Urban Food Scene and flipping it on its ear...  re-branding it Urban Soul Food!