Southern Comfort Bar and Grill opens in West Bridgewater on Route 106

WEST BRIDGEWATER — A brand new barbecue restaurant is igniting its grills and serving up hickory-smoked rooster, slowly marinated ribs and crunchy homestyle Georgia peach cobbler egg rolls.

The Southern Consolation Bar and Grill, positioned at 320 W. Middle St. in West Bridgewater, is taking a style of down-South cooking and bringing it up north by means of generations of household recipes.

Antonio Wiggins Rhodes and Andre Wiggins are the co-owners of the brand new Southern Consolation restaurant. The brothers’ ancestry originates all the way in which to Alabama, however they stay in Brockton presently.

As a younger boy, Wiggins Rhodes sat propped up on a highchair, leaning on his grandmother’s red-checkered picnic desk.

There was an enormous window within the kitchen adjoining to the yard with an outdated peach tree bearing juicy fruit ready to be picked. Wiggins Rhodes spent most of his childhood watching his grandmother and father prepare dinner hearty Creole meals.

Considered one of Wiggins Rhodes’ favourite childhood reminiscences was ready for supper after which taking part in and climbing the tree after. As he spent extra time making ready meals together with his grandmother, he stated his love for meals grew extra on daily basis.

As an grownup, he realized his method across the kitchen from watching the road cooks at Bickford’s Household Restaurant and binge-watching the Meals Community channel. When he is not experimenting with totally different recipes, he works as a barber and plans to open a barbershop, Blends Brothers, in Brockton a number of months from now.

“The identify Southern Consolation comes from my household coming from the South and making an attempt to convey among the southern custom with a twist on it,” Wiggins Rhodes stated. “It is a bar/eating space. We wished to present it a pleasant comforting really feel so whenever you are available in, you are feeling at house and get to eat one thing that reminds you of a meal your mom ready.”

Once you stroll into the restaurant, you’re greeted with heat welcomes from the host stand and the scent of homestyle meals dances in your nostrils.

A number of the signature dishes served at Southern Consolation come from Alabama, and a few Creole dishes from Louisiana.

In southern states, fried fish is a crowd-pleaser, particularly when finished proper, Wiggins Rhodes stated.

If seafood is essential to your coronary heart, the restaurant has one thing deep fried and distinctive ready for you — from southern catfish and blackened salmon to shrimp po boys and seafood tacos.

Remember in regards to the effervescent mac and cheese severed with scallions as a garnish and the absolutely stocked bar to drink to your coronary heart’s content material.

Southern Consolation is presently on the lookout for line cooks, waiters, hosts and a dishwasher so as to add to the household dynamic of the restaurant.

“I am so pleased with my dad. He all the time appears to perform every thing he places his thoughts to,” Chaleya Barbosa, the daughter of Wiggins Rhodes, stated. “We have been speaking about opening a restaurant for years. This restaurant is 10 years within the making. I could not be any prouder.”