"Why is it so hard to find a decent place that serves breakfast?” Ina Pinkney had been working with butter, flour, sugar and eggs at her bakery for 11 years and in 1991 decided she was up for the challenge. Her journey into breakfast food came from one book, ‘The Breakfast Book’. It was a recipe from this book and her relationship with the author, Marion Cunningham, that helped create Ina’s Heavenly Hots. After more than 30 years, The ‘Breakfast Queen’ closed the doors at ‘Ina’s’ on Dec 31st of 2013. Her struggle with the late effects of polio have really limited her physical activity over the past few years. A new documentary ‘Breakfast at Ina’s chronicles the closing of her iconic restaurant. She hopes to share the culture and mission of what the restaurant accomplished on film as she did in her book ‘Ina’s Kitchen: Memories and Recipes from the Breakfast Queen’. Here Ina sits in the newly opened Virgin Hotel in Chicago where the restaurant Miss Ricky’s serves her signature pancakes. Ina has had a heavenly career based on those heavenly hots.











