(lively country music) - We have a lot of regular customers that come in, and we know when their birthdays are, we know where their kids are, we know how they're feeling.

If they're in a bad mood, you can tell by the time you look at them, and it's like, "Hey, how about free dessert today?"

(lively country music) The cafe opened in October of 2012, and we are located in the Little Mountain Antique Mall on Main Street, in Little Mountain, South Carolina.

In 2007, we bought the building.

So we just continued to grow and continued to build.

And we have a lot of billboards on the interstate and got a lot of people coming in that were traveling, and they were like, "Where do we eat?"

Well, there was no place in Little Mountain to eat.

If we send them to Prosperity or we send them to Chapin, which is five, seven miles away in either direction, we didn't get them back.

I was adamantly opposed to doing food service, but my husband thought it was a great idea, so we did it.

And what was intended to be just a sandwich counter, maybe some hotdogs, grab-and-go kind of food has since turned into 48 seats, open seven days a week, only closed Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Our menu is very eclectic.

We don't have a fryer.

We don't fry anything.

We can always tell if someone's been here for the first time and they order, say, the Southern PB&J and fries, it's like, "Never been here before, have you?"

(laughs) We don't have french fries.

We do a lot of salads, we do quiche.

In the summer, when the tomatoes are really ripe and we can get local tomatoes, we do tomato pie.

It's just a really wide variety of food that you don't expect to find in the lower level of an Antique Mall in Little Mountain, South Carolina.

I love it when people are shocked.

(laughs) It's like the best rush ever.

(light music) If South Carolina was one dish, it would be our Southern PB&J sandwich.

The Southern PB&J is exactly like South Carolina: it is hot, it is spicy, it's a little bit sweet, and just a touch on the tenacious side.

It is our homemade pimento cheese with pecan smoked bacon, our custom-made raspberry jalapeño jam, and it is grilled on sourdough bread, and it is the most amazing thing you will ever eat.

We're so much more than a cafe.

It's hard to explain to somebody that's never been here before or that doesn't have any interest in the antiques.

We have customers who will get here at 10:30 right after the store opens.

I mean, they'll tell you when they walk in the front door, "We're here, we're gonna shop, we're gonna go eat, we're gonna shop some more and then we'll go back downstairs before three o'clock so we can get dessert."

And they will literally spend the entire day here.

And It's awesome.

They have a great time and we love seeing them have lunch and walk around, burn off a few calories, and then come back and get some coconut cake or some key lime pie, and then go back and shop.