New downtown Youngstown eatery opens

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

“A combination of healthy farm-to-table food and greasy comfort food.”

That’s how Ross Fowler, 23, of Poland describes his cooking, which is now being served at The Kitchen Post, his one-man food operation that shares space with Friends Specialty, a coffee shop at 101 W. Federal Street.

Patricia Tinkler, who owns Friends with her husband, Mitch Lynch, said the partnership worked out perfectly.

“I really like Ross’s aesthetic when it comes to food,” she said. “It matches us.”

That is aesthetic is fresh, local ingredients crafted into simple dishes, often with a southern influence, Fowler said.

“I do make a mean biscuit... And sausage gravy... And fried chicken,” he said.

The southern influence comes from Fowler’s experience at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., where he worked as a chef for the last three and a half years before coming back to the area to start his own business.

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