After 12 years of “love, laughter, blood, sweat, and many tears”, Simply Sarah concludes.
Located in the heart of Ortega, the restaurant has been known for its authentic Southern-style menu made from scratch using decades old family recipes.
In a Facebook post posted on Thursday afternoon, owners James and Sally Mangham announced the closure.
“The climate over the past two years has been, as we all know, brutal,” the post read.
The ad makes permanent the restaurant’s recent closure due to a family medical emergency.
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“As many of you know, I am currently recovering from major emergency surgery and will be unemployed for several months anyway,” Sally Mangham wrote.
The Manghams opened Simply Sara’s in 2011 in a small storefront in a nondescript retail strip on Murray Hill. There, James Mangham said, everything on the menu was made from scratch, including salad dressings, barbecue sauces, pepper cheese and tomato sauce — which took more than nine hours to prepare.
The restaurant was small, had no seating, only served takeout.
But within two years, Simply Sara’s found a new home in Ortega, in The Village Store, a nearly 100-year-old colonial building listed on the National Register of Historic Places—in a space large enough to hold 40 people indoors and another. 16 out.
With the move, the couple added dozens of employees to help with the business they started from scratch and worked together to build.
The restaurant’s menu included a selection of comfort classics: chicken and dumplings, baked pork with sweet potato and apple pie, chicken alfredo over linguine, pork chops scrambled with mashed potatoes, fried chicken and more served with southern knife-cut corn, sauteed zucchini and zucchini, beans Fresh greens, mixed greens and more.
Homemade desserts, including Sally Mangam’s signature crunchy cookies and the famous Milky Way cake, were customers’ favorite desserts, the perfect end to a family-style meal or as a special treat all on their own.
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During the pandemic, the restaurant has shifted back to fulfillment service, curbside, and delivery only, offering a limited, rotating menu of favourites.
“We have shared so many memories over the years. To those who have wholeheartedly supported us over the years, my family and I thank you. This job is the hardest job to ever navigate,” the post continued.
“I hope that when you think of your cake, pie, cookie, or your favorite food, a smile appears on your face. I know that any time I cook certain things, I remember a lot of you, and I remember who I am which makes it your favorite.”