Lambert’s Café — a Southern-style pilgrimage.

Elena Tucker
4 min readMay 20, 2021

It is huge. There are many places to sit inside this massive barn-like building. It contains its own gift shop and it is famous — well, famous in Southeast Missouri and throughout most of the South. It is the home of “throwed” rolls, and has enough pass-around foods, such as fried okra, and fried potatoes with onions. It is a restaurant called Lambert’s Café.

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Elena Tucker

Writer and storyteller, immigrant, wife, mom, knitter, collector of jokes, lover of cheap, sweet wine.