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| - From the January 21, 2013, Champaign Urbana News Gazette:
Leah Pettit will soon introduce Champaign-Urbana diners to Mississippi-style barbecue and an array of dishes from New Orleans.
Her restaurant, Louie's Dixie Kitchen, is set to open at 1104 N. Cunningham Ave., U, on Jan. 28, with a grand opening slated for early February.
The location is the former site of El Toro, which moved up the street to 1601 N. Cunningham Ave., U, last fall.
Since then, Pettit and her business partner, Dirk Bodine, have renovated the old El Toro building to make it resemble a Southern shack with a porch.
Louie's will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and customers will have a wide selection from which to choose.
For lunch, look for barbecue, shrimp po' boys, muffuletta sandwiches, red beans and rice, gumbo and jambalaya.
For dinner, choose from all that and more, including crawfish pie, etouffee, shrimp-and-grits and fried chicken dinners.
Louie's breakfast menu will include sausage gravy and biscuits, French toast, eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, omelets and grits.
"We'll eventually add a Saturday brunch, where we'll have things like Crab Cakes Benedict -- more upscale food," Pettit said.
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