CHARLOTTE, N.C. — There’s no taste like home.

In Charlotte, a city always looking for the latest trend, Londa’s Place serves up comfort classics the way you expect.

“We weren’t looking for the new, the fancy, the shiny, the glitzy [food trend],” Londa’s Place owner Yolanda Crowder said. “We just want it to feel like home.”

Yolanda and her husband opened the restaurant to serve up handmade, finger-licking soul food. All with a southern hospitality that some of the corporate-owned, Instagram-inspired hotspots can’t replicate.

“I like getting to know my customers and learning their children’s names,” Yolanda said. “I'm a part of this community. I live here.”

If home is where the heart is, home cooking is where the stomach lives.

Londa's Place is located at 3635 Mt Holly-Huntersville Rd. Charlotte, N.C. 28216.