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Monday 11am - 8pm Tuesday 11am - 8pm Wednesday 11am - 8pm Thursday 11am - 8pm Friday 11am - 8pm Saturday 11am - 8pm

Hankering Southern Kitchen

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Hankering Southern Kitchen

Hankering Southern Kitchen is a family owned and operated restaurant bringing heirloom southern dishes
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10/31/2026

🔪🎃 Even our cook is clocking out for a little Halloween mischief!

👻 REMINDER: HANKERING CLOSES AT 4 PM TODAY! 👻

We’re hanging up our aprons and grabbing our candy buckets to enjoy trick-or-treating with our family. ❤️🍬

Thanks for letting our family be part of yours, Aurora! Have a safe, fun, and candy-filled Halloween—and don’t worry, the only thing scary about our cook is the mask! 😂

10/30/2026

🎃👻 **HALLOWEEN HOURS UPDATE!** 👻🎃

🚨🚨 **WE'RE CLOSING AT 4:00 PM!** 🚨🚨

📅 **Tomorrow — Saturday, October 31st**

Hey, Hankering family! 🧡

We're closing a little early this Halloween so our team can spend some quality time with family and take our kiddos trick-or-treating! 🍬🍭

As much as we love serving up good Southern food, we don't want to miss out on making those special memories with our little ghosts and goblins! 👻

🍗 **Come get your Hankering fix before 4 PM!**

From our family to yours, have a safe and Happy Halloween! 🎃🧡

Thank y'all for supporting our family and our local business. We appreciate our Aurora community more than you know! ❤️

**— Your Hankering Southern Kitchen Family**

10/01/2026

🎡 FAIR WEEKEND JUST GOT A WHOLE LOT TASTIER! 🎡

Hankering Southern Kitchen is staying open until 10 PM today through Saturday! Come enjoy the fair, then swing by for some Southern goodness! 🤠🔥

Grab these fair-weekend favorites for just $5 EACH:

🌽 Our popular Street Corn
🧀 Pulled Pork Mac Bowl
🐷 Pulled Pork Nachos

Which one are YOU hankering for? Drop a 🌽, 🧀, or 🐷 in the comments and let’s see which favorite wins! 👇

Tag your fair buddy and make plans to stop by. We’ll keep the good eats coming till 10! 🎉

09/29/2026

We’re sorry, y’all! Hankering Southern Kitchen will be closed today due to road closures for the Aurora Farmers Fair. 🚧 We apologize for the inconvenience and will be back open tomorrow!

We hope to see you soon—and we hope you have a wonderful time at the fair this weekend! 🎡🎉

09/25/2026

Your Friday plans? We vote Southern comfort food and somebody else doing the dishes. 🙌

Start with our fried green tomatoes, settle in for smoked meatloaf or pulled pork with your favorite Southern sides, and save a little room for bourbon bread pudding.

Bring the family, meet up with friends, or make it a date night. We’d love to feed y’all! ❤️

📍 Hankering Southern Kitchen | Aurora, Indiana

09/17/2026

🎉 Our new Hankering Southern Kitchen website is live!

Take a look around, explore our menus, learn more about our story, and discover everything we offer—from Southern favorites in our dining room to catering for life’s biggest celebrations.

And we’re just getting started! Coming soon:

🍽️ Southern recipes from our kitchen
🔥 Smoking tips and cooking guides
📅 Upcoming events and Hankering news
🎁 Exclusive offers for subscribers
🥂 More catering inspiration and planning tools

Visit the new website today, and let us know what you think!

👉 www.hankeringsk.com

Good food, Southern hospitality, and plenty more are headed your way. Come hungry! ❤️

09/15/2026

🔥 Too hot to cook? Let us handle dinner!

Keep your kitchen off and enjoy scratch-made Southern favorites like our award-winning Fried Green Tomatoes, slow-smoked pulled pork, smoked meatloaf, and plenty more.

Dine in or grab it to go—we’re open today from 11 AM–8 PM!

📍 Hankering Southern Kitchen | Aurora, Indiana

09/12/2026

At Hankering Southern Kitchen , you can honor the memory of Dolly Parton by enjoying a delicious dinner that support the local Imagination Library!

09/11/2026

📚✨ Good food. Great music. An even greater cause.

Hankering Southern Kitchen is proud to be part of the Dolly Parton Tribute Trail! In celebration of Dolly’s Southern roots, unforgettable music, and generous heart, we’ll be offering special Dolly-inspired menu items—and donating 10% of every featured item purchased to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

Founded in 1995, the Imagination Library sends a free, age-appropriate book every month to registered children from birth to age five, regardless of their family’s income. Today, the program delivers more than three million books each month, helping children around the world discover the joy of reading.

This cause is especially meaningful to our family because our own children have experienced the excitement of receiving Imagination Library books in the mail. We know firsthand that these aren’t just books—they’re bedtime stories, special moments and the beginning of a lifelong love of learning.

Come celebrate Dolly with us, enjoy some scratch-made Southern cooking and help put more books into the hands of local children—one delicious meal at a time.

Because, as Dolly reminds us, when children are inspired to dream more, they can learn more, care more and be more. 💛

Address

448 2nd Street
Aurora, IN
47001

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 8pm
Tuesday	11am - 8pm
Wednesday	11am - 8pm
Thursday	11am - 8pm
Friday	11am - 8pm
Saturday	11am - 8pm

Website

http://hankeringsk.com/

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