[birds chirping]
- I love everything about Louise's.
Just the ambiance of the restaurant, you know,
comin' in, especially in the warm weather,
sittin' on the front porch.
The folks that work here I've know for years now,
they're all friendly, they're all courteous,
they're just, they're great people.
- Everyone here just treats you really nicely.
And it's a very casual place to come and eat
and not feel like you're at a restaurant,
just feel like you're sittin' on your own porch.
- You should definitely stop by Louise's for breakfast
or lunch if you're comin' in to Black Mountain to visit.
The breakfast food's fantastic.
They're lunch food, sandwiches and soups are awesome.
No matter what you get here, it's gonna be good food.
And the atmosphere here is fantastic.
- We're a breakfast and lunch restaurant.
We have awesome food, the kinda food that people crave.
It's an amazing setting, whether you're sitting inside
in one of these beautiful rooms,
or outside on our porch with your dog.
Our food is comfort food that people are familiar with,
but with a little twist.
Our grit cakes, lot of people have never had
grit cakes before.
- The grit cakes, they're one of our best sellers.
What we do is we take cold grits,
that we have cooled over leftovers really.
We add our black bean corn salad to that,
we dust 'em with cornmeal and fry them
and then we serve 'em with a sriracha sour cream lime sauce,
fresh local greens, and a fresh pico de gallo on top.
And it's great with an egg.
It takes about eight different egg farmers
to produce the eggs that we need on a consistent basis.
We try to source from small, local farms.
So all of our milk, eggs, sausage, bread,
comes from within 90 miles of where it's grown,
or raised by a local farmer, small farm.
Of course we've got our classic two-egg breakfast,
so it's two eggs with a choice of bacon or sausage.
And you can substitute fresh fruit if you are a vegetarian.
And we have toast options with that
as well as potatoes or grits.
The Big Boy Burrito, it's got eggs, sausage,
bacon, pico de gallo, potatoes, and cheese in it.
We kind of just take everything that you would want
in a breakfast and stuff it into
a roasted red pepper wrap and serve it with sour cream.
[birds chirping]
- This is my favorite thing to do in the day.
As soon as the sun starts to come up a little,
I grab Sonny here, and we come down
and we get our breakfast, and it's a ritual,
every single day, the two of us.
But I've come here since the day they opened.
It was another place before that.
And it has maintained such an even score,
all the time, they just consistent with what they do.
This building I understand is the oldest house
in Black Mountain which is cool.
Right now you know we have the cherry trees
that are blooming all around the perimeter,
so there's always flowers, there's always something,
smells good, looks good.
It's fun, it's friends, it's a meeting place.
- [Man] Get that belly in the picture?
[laughing]
- Black Mountain's been awesome to us.
I mean, we've lived all over the world,
And this is the best place we've ever lived.
It's the people, I mean, this is a small town feeling.
It's the lack of traffic.
It's the fact that you can walk everywhere.
We started with nothing and the reason that we're here
is because of all the support from the community,
is pretty awesome.
- We started with two hot plates and a flat top from Walmart
and we just kept growing, the community kept supporting us
and it really becomes like a family gathering of locals,
and tourists as well.
- This is my first time being in Black Mountain area,
and this is my first time eating here
and just the food was awesome.
Had some unique items on the menu,
and just got some stuff that you can't get other places.
- [Bud] Curried chicken salad was actually something
my grandmother used to make when I was a kid growin' up.
It's not a spicy curry, we use a yellow curry,
so it has a lot of flavor without too much kick.
We add toasted pecans and fresh red grapes into it as well.
We use really choice meat for our corned beef reuben.
We pile it high with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese,
and our homemade Russian dressing.
The veggie quesadilla, we took that roasted red pepper wrap
and our house-made pimento cheese, we add pico de gallo,
black bean corn salad, fresh local greens,
and toast it so the cheese is just melted.
And again that goes great with a fried egg inside.
- The food's phenomenal, everything
about comin' here is just amazing.
- I love Louise's because it feels like home,
it's just a really relaxing place to be.
- I love it when people say that every time
they come to visit Black Mountain,
we're their first stop, I heard that today.
- A lot of people come in my shop you know,
asking "Where do you get breakfast around here?"
All I have to do is point them down the street.
Louise's, it's this white house.
Go to it, you'll love it.
[relaxing music and birds chirping]
- Louise's Kitchen is at 115 Black Mountain Avenue
in Black Mountain and they're open Monday through Saturday
from 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
and Sunday from 10:00 to 2:00.
For more information give them a call at 828-357-5446
or go online to louisesblackmtn.com.