DUNLAP, Ill. (WMBD) – A Dunlap couple is bringing Southern homestyle foods to the north and it is all thanks to a dream.

“It’s often been a large passion of mine. I occur from a quite significant household the place grandma had 10 young children and she also lifted me. So I really do not know how to prepare dinner in tiny parts,” Amber Woods claimed as she laughed.

She finds peace passing the time with her enthusiasm for cooking.

“I experience like just cooking is just how you just–is my reliever–a strain reliever. I experience like you’re upset, it is my way of soothing any situation actually,” she explained.

Now as the entrepreneurs of The Woods Nation Kitchen in Dunlap, Amber and her spouse, Sterlyn Woods Jr. are dwelling out a aspiration appear correct, pretty much. 

“She stated she that had a desire that she experienced a restaurant in Dunlap,” Sterlyn claimed.

Following working by way of some reluctance, Sterlyn reported an chance immediately turned available. On September 20, 2021, the two opened the quaint restaurant within of a regional gasoline station. They say the local community guidance has been too much to handle. 

Amber classifies their style as Southern homestyle meals, giving merchandise like cheeseburgers, chicken wings and onion rings with homemade sauce.

“Just being raised all-around a significant household and we’ve often believed in our Sunday dinners and factors like that,” explained Amber. “And so which is just often been a truly large dream of mine.”

In the upcoming, Amber would like to broaden the menu to include things like soul food stuff. She also has options to include a further chain and open up a banquet corridor when continue to remaining in the present area.

The Woods State Kitchen is located at 403 N. 4th St. in Dunlap.