Stone Mountain Restaurant Guide

Lene's Southern Cooking sits in a Memorial Drive strip plaza in Stone Mountain, the same DeKalb County corridor that has quietly become one of metro Atlanta's most diverse stretches of immigrant and Black-owned kitchens. The Facebook page runs under the handle 'Cheflene,' which gives a sense of the operation: small, owner-driven, identified with the cook rather than a brand. The menu reads as a fairly standard Southern lineup — wings, meatloaf, turkey wings, fried fish, shrimp and grits, sides like green beans and sautéed spinach — anchored by daily specials. Yelp reviewers (31 reviews, mixed at the time of writing) call out the shrimp and grits and a beef sandwich on the positive side; on the negative side, complaints tend to cluster around inconsistency on the seafood, particularly portion size on shrimp and freshness of wings. That spread is typical of an independent kitchen running a wide menu out of a small space. Lunch hours run from 11:30 a.m. on weekdays, with a longer dinner service Friday and Saturday and a Sunday afternoon shift that closes at 5 p.m. There is no formal bar program. With Restaurant.com's $10 off $20 and $15 off $30 deals layered on top of soul-food entrée pricing, this is a sub-$15 weekday lunch with the deal applied — useful if you're already on this stretch of Memorial Drive and want a sit-down plate.