Hungry Mother effortlessly delivers on all the fundamentals of Deep South cooking — flaky biscuits topped with country ham; skillet-roasted chicken with creamy grits — but it’s the down-home hospitality that won us over. You’ll find us here on Thursday and Friday afternoons, when $9 buys a pulled-pork sammy on homemade pain de mie.

Hungry Mother | 233 Cardinal Medeiros Ave., Cambridge, MA | 617-499-0090 | http://www.hungrymothercambridge.com