"When Katie Owes opened her Brooklyn soul-food restaurant in 2014, "Tik Tok" was still just a Kesha song and her customers consisted mostly of family and church members. Eleven years later, the food at Katie O's (yes, it's a play on her name) remains unchanged, based on the recipes Owes's grandma Peaches learned to cook in North Carolina before she moved to New York with her husband in their late teens."
"Owes was always the sous-chef in her grandparents' kitchen, helping cook for a revolving door of visitors. What is now Katie O's menu was her family's Sunday dinner: crunchy fried chicken, shrimp, fish with homemade tartar sauce, pork chops, smothered turkey wings with sides like garlic whipped potatoes ladled with gravy and collard greens flecked with smoked turkey. Owes's restaurant was something of a hidden gem for over a decade"
Katie O's opened in Brooklyn in 2014, serving recipes handed down from grandma Peaches, rooted in North Carolina cooking. The menu replicates the family's Sunday dinner: crunchy fried chicken, shrimp, fish with homemade tartar sauce, pork chops, smothered turkey wings, garlic whipped potatoes with gravy, and collard greens with smoked turkey. Owes worked as sous-chef in her grandparents' kitchen and uses Peaches's paprika-heavy spice blend. A TikTok video by Brandon Hayes and subsequent posts drew a flood of new visitors, creating block-long weekend lines. The restaurant has hired staff and adjusted kitchen routines to handle increased demand while keeping recipes unchanged.
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