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Many of us are old enough to
remember the family restaurant where
I I mom and dad could take the whole
A \ I II family for a home-style meal. The menu
I I I I I offered familiar foods prepared in
I II II familiar ways. Importantly, the cost for
I I I I I family to eat was very reasonable.
V i \ M I Amid the more recent fast food and
' ' gourmet restaurants, some old-fash
ioned family restaurants still exist. Here on the Crystal Coast, Cox’s Family Restau
rant is one such down-home example. The restaurant has served breakfast, lunch and
dinner to coastal patrons since 1976, featuring good country cooking at what it calls
the “right price.”
At Cox’s, breakfast is served all day. The breakfast menu, with its long list of tra
ditional favorites, is intended to accommodate every down-home taste. Eggs are
the staple fare, served fried, poached or scrambled. They may be accompanied by
meat options, such as country ham, corned beef hash, smoked sausage, pork tender
loin and ribeye steak, not to mention long-time favorites bacon and sausage. Other
familiar additions include hash browns, home fries and, naturally, grits. Biscuits, a
Southern down-home staple, may be ordered alone; with eggs, cheese, country ham
or pork tenderloin; or smothered with sausage gravy. Omelets are available too, filled
with cheese, bacon, ham, steak or assorted vegetables (onions, mushrooms, peppers
and tomatoes). If your taste leads you away from egg dishes, hot cakes, French toast,
muffins, pastries and waffles are available as well. The cost of breakfast items ranges
from $1.25 to $9.25, with most selection's less than $5.
The lunch menu at Cox’s centers on sandwiches and burgers that have long been
family favorites and that often bring back memories of the good old days. They range
from BLT to turkey club, from grilled cheese to barbeque, from country ham to
ribeye steak and from a hot dog to a tuna fish sandwich. Burgers include the double
cheeseburger, the patty melts and seafood burgers made with crab, oysters, scallops or
shrimp. These items are priced below $5, closer to $3. For a small up-charge, French
fries and coleslaw may be added to make most lunch selections deluxe.
The dinner menu at Cox’s presents customers with a long list of food options.
Among them are Southern preparations such as country fried steak, ham steak, fried
chicken, liver and onions, country ham, barbeque and the fisherman’s platter of fried
clam strips, flounder, oysters, scallops and shrimp. Each fisherman’s platter compo
nent may instead be ordered singly as a full dinner. Beyond these traditional favorites,
the menu also offers veal parmesan, grilled pork chops and ribeye steak, among other
selections. Each dinner includes two vegetables, chosen from a list of more than 30.
Among them are potatoes (fried, mashed, scalloped, baked, hash browns and even
“tots”), sweet potatoes (baked and “sticks”) and yams (candied, of course). Additional
vegetable options—rarely found today on restaurant menus—include butter beans,
collards, creamed corn, turnip greens, fried cabbage, fried okra, fried squash, pickled
beets, rutabagas and string bean casserole.
Dinners are very modestly priced, with most non-seafood items costing about
$6, some only slightly more, and a ribeye (large size) steak dinner set at about $11.
Seafood choices typically range in price from about $7 to about $12. Both the range
of choices and the cost of full dinners seem to distinguish Cox’s as a family-friendly
restaurant reminiscent of days (almost) gone by.
No restaurant like Cox’s would develop a menu without a selection of traditional
desserts, especially pies. Cox’s gives patrons a (difficult) choice among apple, pecan,
lemon meringue, French silk and Reese’s peanut butter pies. (Well, maybe the Re
ese’s pie isn’t traditional, but a little innovation never hurts!) Additional offerings are
chocolate cake, pudding and, of course, }ell-0. The desserts are generally priced at
about $3 or less, with the come-lately Reese’s peanut butter pie costing $3.75.
Cox’s Family Restaurant is located at 4109 Arendell Street in Morehead City The
restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner each day, opening at 6 a.m. and
closing at 9 p.m. from Monday through Saturday Sunday hours are 6 a.m. until 8 p.m.
The telephone number is 726-6961.
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The Shoreline I March 2014