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Sweetie Pie's signed a lease on March 28 for a location at 349 Beale, in the eastern border of the city's entertainment district, according to a Tweet from Paul Morris, the president of the Downtown Memphis Commission. Print Email. 2014-04-10T20:01:00Z 2014-12-13T08:04:05Z Sweetie Pie's restaurant to open location on Beale Street in Memphis By Valerie Schremp Hahn vhahn@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8246 stltoday.com. April 10, 2014 8:01 pm • By Valerie Schremp Hahn Valerie Schremp Hahn vhahn@post-dispatch.comFollow @@valeriehahn. Season 1 of Welcome to Sweetie Pie's premiered on Oprah Winfrey Network on October 15, 2011. The series went on hiatus after the winter finale on December 3, 2011, and resumed with new episodes from March 31, 2012, until June 2, 2012. The first season consists of a total of 18 episodes. On April 5, 2012, OWN announced that Welcome to Sweetie Pie's was renewed for a second season. Season 2 aired weekly on OWN September 15, 2012, until December 15, 2012. Season 3 of Welcome to Sweetie Pie's began airing on July 27, 2013, premiering with the highest-rated episode of the series' history. The first Sweetie Pie’s restaurant opened in St. Louis in 1997. The Memphis location will open this summer. “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” easily became OWN’s highest-rated show soon after its fall 2011 debut, showing nearly double OWN’s then-average primetime viewership. It continues to be a ratings grabber. Robbie Montgomery, star of OWN's Welcome to Sweetie Pie's. (Photo: OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network). Miss Robbie Montgomery and her son Tim Norman spent the sixth season arguing over where they should expand their restaurant chain. ST. LOUIS • Sweetie Pie's, the soul food restaurant with two locations in St. Louis, will be opening a restaurant on Beale Street in Memphis. Print Email. 2014-04-10T20:01:00Z 2014-12-13T08:04:05Z Sweetie Pie's restaurant to open location on Beale Street in Memphis By Valerie Schremp Hahn vhahn@post-dispatch.com 314-340-8246 stltoday.com. April 10, 2014 8:01 pm • By Valerie Schremp Hahn Valerie Schremp Hahn vhahn@post-dispatch.comFollow @@valeriehahn. Two years later Robbie opened her restaurant. It is called Sweetie's Pie Restaurant, and it has been open every since 1998. Robbie's restaurant has been named the number one soul food restaurant in Saint Louis, Missouri. Today Robbie is still living in Saint Louis, Missouri with a friend and keeping her restaurant running well.  Montgomery is a former backup singer for Ike and Tina Turner who learned to cook Southern soul food while on tour with the Ikettes. Their push to open the Grand Center location has been a focal point of the OWN reality show  Welcome to Sweetie Pie's , which is now in its second season and airs at 8 p.m. Saturdays. Local favorite goes national on 'Welcome to Sweetie Pie's'. New Oprah Winfrey Network series goes behind the scenes with the local queen of soul (food). Read more. The newest Sweetie Pie's restaurant -- The Upper Crust -- is running through a soft opening today at its Grand Center location, 3643 Delmar Boulevard. Welcome to Sweetie Pie's is an American reality television series starring the family of former Ikette Robbie Montgomery, and also focuses on the running of their collection of soul food restaurants, Sweetie Pie's. The series premiered October 15, 2011, on the Oprah Winfrey Network. On April 5, 2012, OWN announced that Welcome to Sweetie Pie's was renewed for a second season. Season 2 aired weekly on OWN September 15, 2012, until December 15, 2012. Season 3 of Welcome to Sweetie Pie's began airing on July 27, 2013, premiering with the highest-rated episode of the series' history. The cast of OWN television show Welcome to Sweetie Pie's includes founder Robbie… more. Courtesy of Welcome to Sweetie Pie's. You won't have much longer to wait for the new soul food restaurant Sweetie Pie's to open on Beale Street in Downtown Memphis. The restaurant plans to open by the end of this month in the former Have A Nice Day Cafe space at 349 Beale St., according to Donna Williams from Elkington Real Estate Group. Sweetie Pie's, which has its own popular television show, Welcome to Sweetie Pie's on the Oprah Winfrey Network, subleased the space earlier this year. Fletcher Elkington represented the restaurant's owners, which include former Ike Turner backup singer Robbie Montgomery and her son Tim Norman.
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