{"id":421928,"date":"2025-12-03T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/421928\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T14:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T14:09:14","slug":"great-biscuit-spice-brings-breakfast-and-lunch-to-saginaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/421928\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Biscuit & Spice brings breakfast and lunch to Saginaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saginaw has a sweet mom-and-pop cafe and market serving breakfast, lunch, and meals to go: Called Great Biscuit & Spice Co.<\/a>, it’s located at 100 S. Hampshire St. #100, in a former florist shop near the library west of Saginaw Boulevard.<\/p>\n

Great Biscuit is from husband-and-wife Jon Julien and Malinda Julien, who dedicated a year to renovating the tiny 1,100-square-foot space, including installing a commercial kitchen.<\/p>\n

Malinda, a former private investigator, is the chef. She learned to cook at an early age from her grandparents and housekeeper. Menu mainstays at the cafe include biscuits & gravy, biscuit sandwiches, blueberry biscuits, and a $10 breakfast plate with eggs and sausage or bacon.<\/p>\n

Lunch options include chicken salad sandwich, a BLT, a burger, and a rice bowl with choice of chicken or beef tips.<\/p>\n

They also offer packaged meals to go with stick-to-your-ribs items like pot roast, meatloaf, pork ribs, chicken alfredo, and rosemary chicken with garlic mashed potatoes and broccoli, priced from $10-$20.<\/p>\n

“I guess you would just call it home cooking,” Malinda says. “It’s not Texan. I’ll throw some Mexican in there. We’ll throw in some South Carolina.”<\/p>\n

She’s also an accomplished baker who makes bread, cinnamon rolls, cookies, and occasional desserts like bread pudding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really felt like there was a need for just some solid food that didn’t have a lot of preservatives and stuff that was ready and affordable for people to take home,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The space boasts a warm, homey vibe, with pine wood cabinets, a wooden community table and chairs, a black-and-white checkered tile floor, and a metal baker’s rack painted a cheerful yellow.<\/p>\n

\u201cDiners come in and say, ‘This is like my grandmother’s house,'” Malinda says.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s about 500 square feet of dining space, initially set up as a waiting area but now ready to accommodate dine-in patrons. Next door to the cafe is a photography studio that the Juliens own, called Julien & Lambert. Malinda hopes to use that space to host tastings, cooking classes, and other events.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just really want you to feel emotionally and physically nourished when you eat here,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saginaw has a sweet mom-and-pop cafe and market serving breakfast, lunch, and meals to go: Called Great Biscuit…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":421929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6329,7371,7372,10084,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-421928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-breakfast","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-openings","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115656036554093823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}