The announcement of the closure comes days after Robbie Montgomery’s son, James “Tim” Norman, was found guilty in a high-profile murder-for-hire trial over the 2016 death of Andre Montgomery Jr., who was Norman’s nephew and Montgomery’s grandson, KSDK reported. “Thank you to our faithful customers who have supported us over the years at our Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust Location in St. The Sweetie Pie’s owner also offered thanks for the support the restaurant has received from the St. “We will not stand in the way of their progress, so we are moving in order to make room for the V.A. “The veterans’ hospital is needing space to expand in order to continue helping our brave veterans,” Miss Robbie said. Medical Center, a project estimated to cost over $1 billion. Miss Robbie explained the prompt for Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust’s closure was the forthcoming expansion of the neighboring John Cochran V.A. Louis in the Sauce Reader’s Choice Awards. However, the restaurant still held its own, and as recently as June 2022, it was voted favorite soul food restaurant in St. Miss Robbie’s empire was pared back in recent years, leaving only Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust on Delmar Boulevard. Louis, Miss Robbie and her family achieved national fame after featuring on the reality show Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s, which ran on the Oprah Winfrey Network from 2011 to 2018. As well as establishing Sweetie Pie’s as a soul food institution in St. The success of Sweetie Pie’s original North County location led to expansions to the Grove (in the current Grace Meat + Three location) and Grand Center, as well as several Montgomery family spin-offs in St. Miss Robbie, was one of Ike and Tina Turner’s backup singers in the Ikettes in the 1960s, before embarking on her dream of running her own restaurant 25 years ago. The statement held out the prospect that Sweetie Pie’s could return in the future, but no plans for a revival have been confirmed. Sweetie Pie’s other location in Jackson, Mississippi, will remain open for business.Īn announcement posted at the entrance to Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust and on Sweetie Pie’s social media accounts said that the restaurant will cease operations at 6 p.m. Do not believe the hype of this restaurant.Sweetie Pie’s Upper Crust will close its remaining St. & to be clear, this was the E South St, jackson, ms location. After leaving $92 worth of uneaten food on the table, there is no reason to return. The staff was nice & our waitress asked me to not let this one experience keep me from coming back. We were in agreement that the lemonade was good (hence the 1 star). My daughter had macaroni & she complained of how greasy it was. The peaches were waaaaay too mushy & how can you mess up the crust. Now here is the worst part - my main reason for going there - the peach cobbler was disgusting. The chicken was bland the greens were bitter & the green beans were cold (mind you I was the second person in line so everything should have been hot) the cornbread had no sugar and very little butter. Since this is a black soul food restaurant, I assumed the food was seasoned. I ordered chicken wings (which were huge), greens, green beans, cornbread & peach cobbler. Ok so I went to this restaurant for the first & last time.
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