Slim & Husky’s eatery coming to Memphis
Black-owned business from Nashville combines love of hip hop, pizza and cinnamon rolls
Three Cheese Mafia? Project Pepperoni with Lil Wyte sauce?
The owners of Nashville-based Slim & Husky’s Pizza Beeria may not be open to suggestions for menu items, but they will likely be open for business soon in Memphis’ Edge District.
The black-owned business combines a love of hip hop, pizza, and cinnamon rolls already in two Tennessee locations, and $823,000 building permit for a Downtown address suggests Memphis might be its third.
The permit pulled shows planned renovations for 634 Union Ave., a longvacant two-story building directly across the street from The Commercial Appeal’s former headquarters.
The growing chain, according to their website, makes artisan pizzas from scratch using locally sourced ingredients and serves local craft brews.
Their pizzas are oblong-shaped flatbreads piled thick and weighty with topics.
The P.R.E.A.M. (Pizza Rules Everything Around Me) pie, for example, starts off with a spicy white sauce before layers of fresh spinach, mushrooms, red onions, italian sausage, pepperoni and their house cheese blend are added on.
But beyond accolades for their house-made sauces and dough, owners Clinton Gray, Derrick Moore and Emanuel Reed have been recognized for their mission to create jobs that North Nashville residents can walk to and from.
Their efforts to “empower communities while using pizza as their vehicle to engage,” as the website states, earned national recognition in 2017 when CBS Evening News entrepreneurs.
The trio’s recently opened Antioch location honored Metro Nashville Public School teachers by allowing them to be the first in the door before the official opening date, according to their website.
Slim & Husky’s also recently expanded to Atlanta.
The owners could not be immediately reached for comment on Monday. profiled the three