POST FALLS - Kari Turnbough likes to cook from scratch.

"I don't believe in cans and boxes," she said.

Turnbough recently opened Grandma Zula's Kitchen in the space formerly occupied by the Milltown Grill and Wooden Shoe restaurants at 306 N. Spokane St., Suite K, in Post Falls.

It's named after Turnbough's late grandma, Zula Turnbough, and offers country cooking for breakfast and lunch.

"I want people to walk in feeling like they're in grandma's kitchen," Turnbough said. "Some of my greatest memories were with her. When she made biscuits, my job was always giving them a pinch of salt. When I was little, I pretty much lived at her house. She was always in the kitchen, and I remember big loaves of bread waiting to rise."

This is Turnbough's first run with a full-service restaurant, but she has a lot of experience with food.

"When I was a kid, we had a butcher shop and we had mobile concessions," she said.

She also operates a business called Chef at Your Door, which makes and delivers meals to anyone who wants them.

With Grandma Zula's, Turnbough believed there was a need for home-style cooking in the area.

"I hate going to corporate restaurants where everything tastes the same," she said. "I want to have a place where people can have a home-cooked taste without having to cook at home."

The restaurant makes its own bread, baked goods, pork sausage and gravy. The ham and bacon have no nitrates, and the fries are hand-cut.

"We try to make things as healthy as possible," Turnbough said.

The breakfast menu includes biscuits and gravy ($4.95 half order; $6.75 full), steak and eggs ($9.49), chicken-fried steak and eggs with gravy ($6.99), eggs-potato-meat-bread combinations ($5.95 to $8.95) and four-egg omelets with toast and endless hash browns ($6.89 to $8.49).

Lunch includes hot, cold or grilled deli sandwiches for $7.39, fish and chips $9.39, chicken Ceasar salad $8.29 and a variety of burgers with fries from $6.49 to $7.99.

The restaurant employs nine.

Hours are 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. every day. Turnbough said the hours may be expanded to dinner later, depending on the market.

The phone number, starting Friday, will be 457-0228.