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Florence's Restaurant

Florence's Restaurant is a restaurant in Oklahoma City. In 2022 it was named one of America's Classics by the James Beard Foundation.

History
The restaurant was opened by Florence Jones Kemp, a sharecropper's daughter from Boley, Oklahoma, in 1952 when she was 22 years old. She recalled "I decided that I needed a job and I didn't like working for other people." The first location was on 4th Street near Deep Deuce in a single room with a single table and a second-hand stove. Within two years Kemp had saved enough from her profits to send her sister to college. == Menu ==
Menu
The restaurant serves southern specialities including fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, braised oxtail, chicken wings, ribs, candied yams, cornbread, peach cobbler, and pear pie. == Recognition ==
Recognition
In 2022 the restaurant was named one of America's Classics by the James Beard Foundation. It was the first James Beard award for an Oklahoma entity. == See also ==
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