{"id":98783,"date":"2022-02-17T00:24:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=98783"},"modified":"2022-02-17T00:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T06:24:37","slug":"chef-marilyns-soul-food-has-been-a-crenshaw-district-staple-for-over-3-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/chef-marilyns-soul-food-has-been-a-crenshaw-district-staple-for-over-3-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Marilyn\u2019s soul food has been a Crenshaw District staple for over 3 decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ashton Edmunds<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LOS ANGELES \u2014 For more than 30 years, Chef Marilyn\u2019s, Queen of Down Home Southern Goodies has been serving the Crenshaw District and the city of Los Angeles with some of the best soul food. The Southern restaurant sits right next to The Living Room bar on the corner of Crenshaw Boulevard with a burgundy storefront that reads \u201cChef Marilyn has been serving the community over 30 years\u201d. On the side of the building, Chef Marilyn\u2019s has two wide posters on the wall with one welcoming people to LA for Super Bowl LVI and the other reading \u201cserving the community since 1989.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis place is banging. The food slaps. You heard me. Go get a plate,\u201d Ngaio Bealum, a comedian and activist, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ngaio420\/status\/1492298346475646977?s=21\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tweeted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> out about the restaurant on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thirty-three years ago, Marilyn A. Cole, aka Chef Marilyn, started her business on Crenshaw Boulevard and 42<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Street. What was then called \u201cMarilyn\u2019s Place\u201d was a sit-down restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now going on nearly 25 years, Cole moved her restaurant to its current location on Crenshaw and Adams Street. She didn\u2019t realize until she was in this business that she was fulfilling her mother\u2019s dream of opening a restaurant. With this dream fulfilled, Cole\u2019s restaurant is the go-to spot for many.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFirst of all, my regular customers are wonderful. I\u2019ve been serving this community for 33 years, and the people love my food,\u201d Cole said. \u201cWhen I came here, I started as a sit-down, then I converted to a 99-cent soul food express. It was the first soul food express, and we did wonderful. Even after I closed the express, I continued to have 99-cent items on my menu.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once a month, Cole would choose one day to price everything on the menu at 99 cents to make it affordable for everyone to eat. Since the pandemic started, she has kept Chef Marilyn\u2019s open to feed the people in her community because many of her customers grew up eating her food. Now that many of them are seniors, they are depending on Chef Marilyn\u2019s to stay open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere\u2019s not any place around here that gives back to the community like she does,\u201d said Terri Davis, the store manager at Chef Marilyn\u2019s. \u201cShe was open the whole pandemic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cole is adamant about making sure everyone can eat. With Los Angeles having a homeless population of 56,257, according to city mayors, feeding the homeless all throughout the Crenshaw District has been of importance to Chef Marilyn\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI feed the homeless, I feed the seniors. I was a part of the senior program where I would feed the seniors across the street when the pandemic first hit,\u201d Cole said. \u201cSoul food is a big part of life.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Along with feeding local people in the community, Chef Marilyn\u2019s has served many notable celebrities and politicians such as Stevie Wonder, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Magic Johnson over the course of the past 30 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019ve did A Midsummer\u2019s Night\u2019s Magic for years. We did the last one, which was the 20<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and that year, we had Steve Harvey host the final night,\u201d Cole said, referring to Johnson\u2019s annual charity basketball game. \u201cThey used to bring me into Friday\u2019s during Midsummer Night Magic, and I would have to do the breakfast for Magic every year, and that was unbelievable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cole\u2019s mission is to make everyone feel at home, bringing people together through soul food. The menu features macaroni &amp; cheese, potato salad, baked catfish, oxtails, smothered chicken wings and cornbread. For Cole, her mac &amp; cheese is the most popular thing on her menu. The dish was featured in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/worthit\/we-ate-3-and-195-mac-cheese-to-see-which-one-was-most-worth\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BuzzFeed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and was voted as the best mac &amp; cheese out of three different ones back in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;It just really feels like home,\u201d said Christopher Udo, a longtime resident of the Crenshaw District. \u201cIt\u2019s a place where you can go get an authentic Southern meal for an affordable price and really has just become a staple in our community.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As an entrepreneur for more than 30 years, Cole understands the importance of mentorship. Under her guidance, six of her previous employees have opened their own restaurants and catering businesses. Paying it forward is what it\u2019s all about for Cole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m open to discuss and to help people because that\u2019s what we\u2019re supposed to do. We\u2019re supposed to give back,\u201d Cole said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ashton Edmunds is a sports media graduate student at Medill. You can follow him on Twitter at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ae11__?lang=en\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@ae11__<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashton Edmunds Medill Reports LOS ANGELES \u2014 For more than 30 years, Chef Marilyn\u2019s, Queen of Down Home Southern Goodies has been serving the Crenshaw District and the city of Los Angeles with some of the best soul food. 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