Country Kitchen
Town & Country Plaza
1099 Hilltop Drive
Redding, CA 96002

530-223-5438          7 am - 2 pm

 

Early retirement just didn’t work for Lin and Charlie Moss. After leaving the family lumber business, they soon found themselves walking the Sacramento River Trail “all day long,” Lin Moss recalls. So, in early 1992, they bought the Country Kitchen in Town & Country Plaza off Hilltop Drive. A few months later they bought the competing Omelet House next door and merged the two businesses.

“We knew nothing” about the restaurant business, Lin Moss recalls. “I always wanted to run a restaurant…we stumbled and made a lot of mistakes.” But they had several advantages. They bought businesses with good reputations, they had basic business sense and a good work ethic and “we didn’t have to make a living out of it right away.”

More than 17 years later, the Country Kitchen is one of Redding’s most popular breakfast and lunch spots. You might even need a reservation for a large party on Sundays, especially after church.