Craving some home-cooked Southern comfort food? Try this new Warner Robins spot

A mother and her sons are behind a new, fledgling restaurant that serves up Southern comfort food, including breakfast, in Warner Robins.

Comfort Foods Kitchen & Grill is at 713 Watson Blvd. across from city hall. Their spot is the former location of Potwah Kitchen, a Jamaican restaurant that relocated to the food court at the Houston County Galleria in Centerville.

Adrena James and her son, Terrence Bey, moved to Warner Robins from Polk County, Florida, in order to open the new spot. Another son, Lennis Henry, plans to drive up from Florida every other week to help with the restaurant.

James knows the owner of the building, and decided to step out in faith when she learned from him that the space was vacant. She’d like to eventually purchase it.

“I’m in this restaurant by faith,” said James, who hopes the venture will help her build a stronger retirement nest egg. “I go grocery shopping by faith.”

Owner takes great care with the food

James shops nearly every day, desiring to keep fresh ingredients on hand and preparing most of the food by order.

A few dishes she prepares ahead in the morning such as a pan of mac and cheese, and she makes more as needed throughout the day.

James patties the burgers herself and cooks them to order.

She offers daily lunch specials that include a choice of one of three meats such as chicken, pork chops and chicken strips with two sides and cornbread.

James rises early, with the restaurant opening at 6:30 a.m. for breakfast with traditional choices of eggs, bacon or sausage links or sausage patties, grits, homefries, corned beef hash as well as country fried steak, country fried chicken and pork chops.

The breakfast menu also features a variety of four-egg omelettes, waffles and french toast. Additionally, pancakes and breakfast bowls round out the breakfast menu.

Breakfast is available throughout the day.

The lunch menu includes several sandwiches such as tuna, chicken salad, fish, grilled cheese, a BLT, grilled or fried chicken breast, pork chop and a turkey club.

Lunch combos with two sides include steak, Atlantic cod, chicken tenders, grilled chicken breasts, grilled or fried pork chops, liver and onions with bacon, homemade meatloaf, hand-breaded fried catfish, tilapia, jerk chicken Philly cheesesteak, and barbecue ribs.

Sides include mac and cheese, green beans, mashed potatoes, crinkle cut fries and fruit. Drinks include Pepsi products, housemade lemonade limeade, strawberry limeade, sweet and unsweet tea, coffee, and hot cocoa.

The menu includes breakfast and lunch options just for kids.

James said she’s particular in how she prepares her food. The chicken tenders, for example, are hand cut from chicken breasts. The strawberry limeade is made with fresh strawberries and freshly squeezed limes.

She also offers homemade desserts such as poundcake that aren’t on the printed menu yet but can usually be found packaged on the front counter.

The menu is a work in progress.

Word of mouth

While she’s focusing on Southern comfort food, James said she also enjoys cooking Caribbean cuisine.

The daily specials might include curry chicken over rice and peas with a salad and cornbread, for example. The daily specials are posted on a white board with a dry eraser.

Since the restaurant opened Aug. 12, it’s started earning a lunch crowd, James said.

Most people order the lunch special, she said. The lunch special is a few dollars cheaper than most of the lunch combos on the menu.

Bey, who’s in training to help out in the kitchen, fires up the grill on Fridays starting at 11 a.m. to serve up jerk chicken, barbecue chicken and barbecue ribs. James makes the house sauce for the jerk chicken, her own recipe.

Bey expects business will pick up by word of mouth as more people give the restaurant a try. As the restaurant establishes itself, James expects to hire staff as needed.

Hours and more

Offering dine-in and takeout, the restaurant can seat up to forty people at booths and tables with room to add more dining for up to 60 people. Delivery is available through DoorDash.

Current hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6: 30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday for dine-in and takeout. Also, orders on DoorDash will be accepted up to 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

James is experimenting with hours and may adjust them as she gauges demand with the restaurant near government offices and businesses that generally operate weekdays.

The number for the new restaurant is 478-434-7936.

This story was originally published August 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM.