![]() ![]() Not yet! I’m looking forward to it I think we might get to meet her soon. But when someone says they came from Indianapolis just to eat here, I’m touched and I hug ’em-I want to cry, but I don’t want to mess up my eyelashes. I don’t think I’ve ever traveled to a city just to eat. Louis just to eat at Sweetie Pie’s! I’m really honored. Oh yeah, people come from all over! Memphis, Baltimore-all over. Do you hear from them? Do they ever visit the restaurant? Louis, but now you’ve got fans nationwide. Beans and greens, people don’t know how to cook them. My mac and cheese recipe is out there on the Internet, but people say when they make it, it doesn’t taste like mine. Kids come in all the time and say, “I haven’t had this since my grandma’s.” And they don’t know how to cook it. Well, we really call it a cooking school. And we’ll add breakfast over at the new place. We’re going to add a lot of menu items because we’ll have more room on the steam line. We’ll have an event space, a culinary school, a bakery, a bar, a conference room-my dream is a restaurant that I designed the way I want it. … We’re hoping maybe March, no later than April. How’s the new location in Grand Center coming along?Ĭonstruction is under way. I’m so thankful the whole world prayed for him. ( Editor's Note: Timmy was born prematurely, and it's become a storyline on the show.) He weighs 9 pounds, 13 ounces and he’s as cute as he can be. He’s wonderful! He came home and he’s off his oxygen. ![]() I never would have imagined that, at 71, I’d be doing a TV show. Has it been tough for you to adjust to the cameras? It’s not easy, there are lots of stumbling blocks, but you just keep going, keep your eyes on the prize.Īnd now you’re a TV star. Most of these things I do, I do out of love-and, thank God, they’ve been successful. All of these things start out as just an idea, but if you don’t act on it, it’s just an idea. Singer, dialysis technician, restaurant owner-you’ve had multiple careers and have been successful in all of them. You’re so busy these days! How do you juggle it all? We got Montgomery to stand still just long enough to get an update on how things are going. 1 new show-and has been picked up for another season. The show’s a bona fide hit-the network’s No. She sure is now, thanks to Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s, an OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network reality show that documents the day-to-day challenges of running her restaurants, working with family and the process of opening her third location. Louis Magazine spoke with Robbie Montgomery, the dynamic owner of the local soul food restaurant Sweetie Pie’s, she wasn’t a national TV star. ![]()
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