Cafe on the Canal

The most important meal of the day is breakfast, so enjoy an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet for only $5 at Cafe on the Canal in the Salvation Army Kroc Center. 

The breakfast buffet, including turkey sausage, biscuits, bacon and sausage gravy, is open to the public from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday and from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday. 

If you can’t make it for the buffet, don’t get discouraged; the cafe also serves delicious options for lunch and dinner. With sandwiches, wraps and entrees of meatloaf and fried or grilled pork chops, the selection is phenomenal.

“Our top item is a tossup between our Reuben and our buffalo chicken wrap,” said Tony Direnzo, the chef at Cafe on the Canal. 

The Reuben sandwich is made with slow-roasted corned beef and is a favorite among customers who say that it’s the best in town. The Buffalo chicken wrap is just as good with fried chicken tossed in Buffalo wing sauce and served in a jalapeno wrap.

“If you want to have food for your family for the holidays and don’t want to cook everything, the cafe offers sides to go,” Direnzo said.

For the holiday get-together, pick up a side to go of green beans, okra and tomatoes, pound cake or peanut butter pie.  

“Everything is homemade,” Direnzo said.

The cafe also does in-house catering for events. For a special occasion, have the event in the theater and seat up to 260 guests in the cafe for the reception. There are managers on site to help book your event. 

Cafe on the Canal is open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. For e-mail updates on the daily chef special, contact Direnzo at (706) 922-1525 or send an e-mail to anthony_direnzo@uss.salvationarmy.org.