Damgoode Pies completely closes Hillcrest location

Damgoode Pies introduced on Fb Monday that it has completely closed its authentic Hillcrest location at 2701 Kavanaugh Blvd.

The put up doesn’t give a purpose for the closure, however it does report that Damgoode’s Cantrell location at 6706 Cantrell Highway has a brand new eating room and is open for supply and online ordering.

Basic supervisor Brandon Evans stated the Cantrell location reopened its eating room in June after quickly shutting down to transform. Evans stated that after 20 years of restaurant put on and tear “it was beginning to present its age.” Evans stated a drive-thru window was additionally not too long ago put in.

Extra particulars will likely be introduced tomorrow from proprietor Jeff Trine, he stated.

“Damgoode’s had a storied historical past. We was the perfect pizza in Arkansas for a few years operating, and we’re simply making an attempt refocus on getting our consistency, getting our recipes again to the place they was and dialing it all the way down to our house location at Cantrell,” Evans stated.

Trine opened Damgoode Pies in 2001, and the pizzeria shortly grew to become identified for its pink sauce (a mixture of Unique Purple and Spicy White), its double-crusted Stuffy pies with sauce on prime, low cost PBR and its wisecracking marquee signal.

May the closure of the Hillcrest retailer be associated to the confidential business listing that appeared on Rock Metropolis Industrial final month promoting an “established Hillcrest restaurant” that had seen “robust progress again to pre-covid numbers with little possession involvement”? The $170,000 itemizing requires any would-be purchaser to signal a non-disclosure settlement to obtain extra info and monetary data.

It’s not clear whether or not the itemizing refers to Damgoode or not; Evans stated he wasn’t conscious of the itemizing.

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