Cook's Spice Rack

🔥 TODAY'S SPECIAL IS BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! 🔥

🥙 GYRO SANDWICHES ARE BACK! 🍳 GYRO OMELETS ARE BACK!

That's right, folks! Your favorites are back, and they're ready to make your taste buds HAPPY! 😋 Don't miss out on today's delicious specials!

🎃 BUT WAIT… THERE'S MORE! 🎃

It's HALLOWEEN, and we've got a little extra treat for the kiddos! 🍬👻

Every little ghost and goblin can enjoy a special treat bag filled with candy and fun little 3D-printed toys! 🕷️🍭

A HUGE THANK YOU to Dan and Amy O'Connell for generously providing the goodies and helping make Halloween extra special for our little trick-or-treaters! ❤️

So come hungry, bring the kiddos, grab a gyro, and let us add a little BOO to your day! 👻

🌯 GYROS. OMELETS. CANDY. FUN. 🎃 It's all happening TODAY!

DON'T MISS OUT — COME SEE US! ❤️

🎃👻 HEY, LITTLE GOBLINS & GHOULS! 👻🎃

🍬🎃 Halloween fun is HERE! 🎃🍬

🧡 BRING THE KIDS IN FOR A SPOOKTACULAR SURPRISE! 🧡

🍭 Treat bags for ALL kids, jam-packed with SWEET TREATS and fun surprises! 🍫🍬

🕷️🧸 And that’s not all… EVERY BAG INCLUDES 3D-PRINTED TOYS! 🤩🎉

🎃 Sweet treats, cool toys, and Halloween smiles — OH MY! 👻

📅 Stop by Sunday through next Saturday and make us part of your Halloween fun!

🧡 BIG SMILES, SWEET TREATS & SPOOKY GOODIES — WE’VE GOT IT ALL! 🎃🍬

👻 Don’t miss out… bring your little monsters in! 🧡🎃

🍝 Carb-Load Like a Champion!
Forget boring plans. Today, we’re serving up the Ultimate Mostaccioli Trifecta:
The Heavyweight Champ: A mountain of saucy, cheese-smothered Mostaccioli.
The Alibi: A crisp Dinner Salad so you can pretend to be healthy for five seconds.
The Weapon: A buttery Garlic Breadstick engineered for maximum sauce-scraping.
Leave your dignity at the door and grab yours today!
Oh and there might be some
Meat Loafing around Hangin with the Mashed Potatoes and Green beans are here for the party as well…

🔥 SPECIAL ALERT! SPECIAL ALERT! 🔥🚨

🍑🧇 THE WAFFLE GOT BACK! 🧇🍑

🎶 I like big waffles and I cannot lie! 😂🎶

Y’all better grab a plate and loosen up them pants, because THIS waffle ain’t come to play! 🤣

🌽 A golden, buttery CORNBREAD WAFFLE
🧀 Smothered in creamy, cheesy MAC & CHEESE
🐷 Piled high with smoky, tender PULLED PORK
🔥 Drizzled with that finger-lickin’ BBQ SAUCE
🍅 Topped with fresh, juicy TOMATOES
🧅 Finished with a little RAW ONION ATTITUDE!

This ain’t your grandma’s breakfast waffle, baby! 😂 This is Southern comfort food wearing its Sunday-best outfit with its Saturday-night attitude! 💃🏾🔥

It’s cheesy! It’s smoky! It’s sweet, savory, and just a little bit sassy! Every bite got you saying, “GOOD GOOGLY MOOGLY… WHO MADE THIS?!?” 🤣🤤

⚠️ WARNING: May cause happy dancing, food moaning, plate licking, and sudden unwillingness to share! 😂

📣 THE WAFFLE GOT BACK!
It’s thick, it’s stacked, and it knows how to act! 🍑🧇🔥

Come get you some before it’s GONE! 🏃🏾‍♀️💨

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🚨🍔 BURGER LOVERS… THIS ONE’S FOR YOU! 🍔🚨
If ya know, ya KNOW! 😋 And if you haven’t tried what we’re serving up over here on North Grand Ave West, now’s your chance!

We took our burger game and turned it UP A NOTCH! 🔥

Introducing our All-Beef Black Angus Burger, grilled to juicy, flavorful perfection and stacked with:

🌶️ NEW Sweet Chili Aioli
🧀 Melty Pepper Jack Cheese
🍅 Fresh Tomatoes
🥬 Crisp Spring Mix
🧅 Purple Onion
🥓 AND YES… THAT BACON!

All served with a side of those golden, crispy fries 🍟🤤

It’s sweet. It’s savory. It’s cheesy. It’s crispy. It’s EVERYTHING you want in a burger! 🍔🔥

Come hungry… leave happy! ❤️

📍 Stop by North Grand Ave West and come get YOURS!

Who’s coming for a bite?! 👀🍔👇

🚨 IMPORTANT PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
Before you head downtown to Mother Road, do yourself a favor and swing by North Grand first. Your stomach called… it wants a Back Street Biscuit Bomb. 💣😂

And while you’re here, don’t sleep on the Brisket Biscuit. It’s smoky, cheesy, buttery, and dangerously good. 🥩🔥

Basically, come get a biscuit before you go downtown. Your future self will thank you.

🚨🥪 WARNING: THE MEATLOAF IS LOAFIN’! 🥪🚨
Our meatloaf DON’T LOAF AROUND… but today it decided to take a little vacation and LOAF BETWEEN TWO PIECES OF BREAD! 😂
Just like Grandma used to make — delicious meatloaf piled between two slices of bread and served with your choice of FRIES 🍟 OR CHIPS!
And listen… this meatloaf may be loafin’ today, but it AIN’T GONNA LAST! 😋
⏰ COME GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!
Because when the meatloaf is gone…
IT’S BACK TO WORK! 😂
🥪 MEATLOAF SANDWICH — GRANDMA WOULD APPROVE! ❤️

Due to extreme temperatures outside. Cook’s will be closing at 7:00 pm tonight Thursday September 3. Thank you for all of the love and support. See ya there n Friday.

🔥🥵 IT’S SMOKING HOT OUTSIDE… SO WE FIRED UP THE SMOKER! 🔥🥵
And what came out of it? SMOKED MEATLOAF! 🤤
Don’t worry… this meatloaf won’t be loafing around! 😂 It’s smoked up hot, fresh, and packed with flavor!
🍖 Smoked Meatloaf
🥔 Hand-mashed potatoes with rich, delicious brown gravy
🫛 Green beans
❤️ And a whole lotta HOMEMADE goodness!
It may be hotter than a two-dollar pistol outside, but our meatloaf is hotter! 🔥😂
Come cool off and fill up! Hurry in before this meatloaf disappears faster than your air conditioning bill! 😜
🍽️ Come get some YUMMY in your TUMMY!

A Statement to Our Customers & Community
We feel it is important to address something that has recently appeared in the State Journal-Register.
An article was published under the headline “Springfield restaurants: bad health inspections, sewage, gnats, and mold are present in local restaurants,” and a photograph of myself with a health inspector at our restaurant was used with the article.
We want to make it absolutely clear: the restaurant pictured is NOT the restaurant described in that article. Those violations were not ours, have never been ours, and are not representative of our restaurant.
We allowed the State Journal-Register to visit our restaurant during an actual health inspection so they could observe firsthand how the Sangamon County Department of Public Health conducts inspections and what inspectors look for. We welcomed that opportunity because we believe in transparency and in working together with our health department to keep our employees, our customers, and our community safe.
Health codes, laws, and regulations change over time, and we believe the relationship between local restaurants and our health department should be a partnership—not an adversarial relationship. We work with our health department, ask questions, make improvements when needed, and do our best every day to maintain a clean, safe environment for the people who walk through our doors.
Our inspection records are public. Anyone who would like to see our actual inspection history can visit the Sangamon County Department of Public Health website and review our reports for themselves.
This photograph has appeared more than once alongside articles with headlines discussing serious health violations at Springfield-area restaurants. While we understand that newspapers use photographs to accompany stories, we are concerned that repeatedly using our picture with headlines like this can unintentionally leave readers with the impression that the violations being discussed occurred at our restaurant.
They did not.
We are proud of the restaurant we have built and the community we have served for many years. We take food safety, cleanliness, our employees, and our customers very seriously.
We simply want our customers and our community to have the correct information and not form an opinion of our restaurant based solely on a photograph placed next to a headline—especially when the full article may be behind a paywall.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us, trusted us, and continued to walk through our doors. We appreciate you more than you know.
Please don't judge a restaurant by a headline or a photograph. Look at the facts. ❤️
— Thank you for reading this.
Goldie and David Harris