Luella’s Southern Kitchen, the beloved restaurant best known for its buttermilk fried chicken or perhaps crab stuffed shrimp with house-smoked grits, has made a long-anticipated move after 10 years in Lincoln Square — along with a big menu change.

Chef and owner Darnell Reed celebrated the grand opening in Albany Park on Aug. 6 .

But he’s not serving dinner.

“We’re a brunch location,” said Reed. “And we are still truly serving Southern cuisine.”

So why the menu change?

“That was the best way for me to balance my work life,” said the chef. “I just want to be able to spend more time with my family.” He and his wife, Jocelyn Reed, have two kids aged 7 and 10.

Now, when the restaurant gets busy and the chef needs to stay late, that means he leaves work at 5 p.m. instead of late into th

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