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Good restaurants beget good restaurants. One positive experience leads to another, drawing in talented cooks and servers who then go on to open their own restaurants, spreading outward like the roots of a tree, until a region becomes known for culinary excellence and distinctive cuisine that can stand on its own.
In the Triangle, Crookâs Corner is at the center of those roots. The iconic restaurant was opened in 1982 by Bill Neal and Gene Hamer. Earlier this summer, the new ownershipâwho bought the restaurant from Hamer in 2018âannounced that the restaurant would close. (In a recent interview with the
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After nearly 40 years in business, the Chapel Hill restaurant often credited with being the birthplace of shrimp and grits has permanently closed its doors.
Beloved for its innovative takes on Southern cuisine and a pie so good it will make you blaspheme, Crook's Corner was reportedly unable to rebound following the coronavirus pandemic.
Co-owners Gary Crunkleton and Shannon Healy broke the sad news on social media.
"With an incredibly heavy heart I must share the news that we are closing," the announcement reads. "The position we find ourselves in, exacerbated by the Covid-19 crisis is no longer tenable."
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Crook’s Corner’s revered shrimp and grits; the well-known sign with a pig on a pole; a handwritten recipe.
In the beginning there was Crook’s Corner. Every other joint in this town is an asterisk, the what-happened-after parade of four-star restaurants lining Franklin and Rosemary Streets. Crook’s was our first star. I don’t mean to lay it on too thick, but it’s no accident the restaurant sits squarely on the spot where Chapel Hill becomes Carrboro (or the other way around), the Tigris and Euphrates of Southern food. No, Crook’s didn’t invent it—Southern food has been here since there was a South—but they gave it a coat and tie and a haircut. And it cleaned up well.
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