News

POSTED MARCH 25

We are consolidating operations for City Grocery, Snackbar and BBB Oxford into one location, Big Bad Breakfast for your convenience. We will run breakfast and lunch service from 8:00am to 1:00pm and dinner from 4:00pm to 9:00pm with a mix of favorites from all the restaurants.

POSTED MARCH 17

Until such time it is deemed safe for our guests to return to our dining rooms, we have decided to close the restaurants to on-premises dining. As a 40 year veteran of the service industry, this decision comes more difficultly than I can ever express. The institutionalized part of me knows what the significance of a meal can be in a time of crisis. The dining room at City Grocery after the ice storm of 1994 was as joyful as anywhere I have ever been in the days after we reopened. Restaurants in New Orleans after Katrina were bathed in floods of tears as friends reconnected, so the thought of closing in a time like this is positively counter-intuitive. Putting staff and guests at further risk of infection, however, is not worth the risk of of any emotional gain that comes from remaining open any longer.

We will continue to operate the kitchens for curbside service and delivery, for the time being. The Main Event (our catering service) is also preparing full four portion prepared meals we are happy to deliver as well. Each meal is either for oven-warming or boil-in-bag preparation (we also have the best freaking sour dough dinner rolls you have ever dreamed of).

Move On Up, MS (our non-profit foundation) will be putting together boxes of meals/snacks/staples for families in need as long as our $$ lasts. Boxes will consist of food for four people to last seven days and families can apply for assistance through our website. We are proud to be able to deliver help to families in need during this time of unimaginable crisis.

We love you all and will look forward to seeing your smiling faces back in our dining rooms as soon as this crisis passes and we can open our doors to you again. Until then, be strong and be well.

We are all in this together…John

To Place Your To Go Order:

City Grocery: Menu | Call (662) 232-8080

Big Bad Breakfast: Menu | Call (662) 236-2666

Snackbar: Menu | Call (662) 236-6363

Boure: Menu | Call (662) 234-1968

During this time of uncertainty, we at City Grocery Restaurant Group have three opportunities to help support our employees:

• 100% of proceeds from Gift Cards purchased from today through the end of March will go directly to our Employee Relief Fund. Please call any of our restaurants to order your gift card and we will have it ready for curbside pickup or we can mail it to you.
• All gratuity from Curbside orders will go directly to our Employee Relief Fund, so please call and order, breakfast, lunch or dinner, and LEAVE A TIP!
• Donate directly to our Employee Relief Fund through Venmo @CityGrocery-RestaurantGroup

Snackbar Chef Vish recently won the 2019 James Beard Award as Best Chef-South. Read more in this Forbes profile

We offer a variety of gift boxes with food and merchandise from our restaurants and can also bring a holiday dinner to your home or office. For options and menu items, visit Holiday Gift Boxes and Holiday Catering pages on the Main Event site.

Enjoy your favorite dishes from City Grocery Restaurants in The Grove this Fall! Click here for the menu and to place your order.

Thank you to everyone who made the 2019 Bourbon Festival and Auction a success! It was a weekend full of food, music, bourbon and dancing that raised over $140,000 for Move on Up Mississippi!

Click here for more info.

Mardis Gras time! We’re offering king cakes (large and small) as well as king cake donuts! Order yours before March 4.

Click here for the order form!

Order delicious sweets right from our Main Event Catering kitchen for Valentine’s Day! Macarons, truffles, cookies and more are offered in large or small boxes and a la carte.

Click here to download the menu and order form. Orders must be placed by February 12th!

Give the gift of City Grocery this holiday season! We’ve got boxes featuring some downright delicious food and merch. Click here for the order form!

We will be hosting ‘Sip Style, a Mississippi Food and Sonoma/Napa Wine Experience on January 14, 2019. Join our own John Currence and Ralph Taylor of City Grocery, Patrick Krutz of Krutz Family Cellars and Dan Kosta of Aldenalli for an unforgettable eventing.

Save the date and call us to book your table!