[1][2] Anastasia Corya and Anton Pace opened the restaurant in 2007, and later sold the business to Marcus Oliver, who expanded the Cajun and Creole-menu to include barbecue.
The Southern restaurant Miss Delta, located in the north Portland part of the Boise neighborhood, serves brunch, lunch, and dinner.
[3] According to John Chandler of Portland Monthly, the restaurant "is the slightly-less-thrift-store-funky offspring of the original Delta Cafe on SE Woodstock, a joint that earned its rep by dropping huge platters of Southern cooking on its customers for embarrassingly small sums of money".
[5] The Cajun and Creole-influenced[6] menu has included barbecue,[7] biscuits and gravy,[8] catfish sandwiches,[9] cauliflower casserole, chicken and waffles,[10] cornbread muffins, fried okra, hushpuppies, gumbo, and po'boys.
Whether it's perfect black-eyed pea fritters or spicy jambalaya with hot sausage, smoked chicken and shrimp, dishes have a calories-be-damned approach.