The Kitchen Sink

showing support for my grade school classmate Qui Tran...

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From the Desk of Anthony Ellerson, Jr.:

Once again I humbly say thank you, thank you, thank you!

Yesterday evening we lowered the curtain on what was the LAST POP-UP featuring The Kitchen Sink. Thank you for helping me support a GREAT organization, East St. Louis Community Tennis Association.

The TKS Concept was created as homage to all the places that I have worked and the some of the places from my childhood that brought special meaning to me. It gives me great satisfaction that TKS grew to be the place that some of you loved. It’s due to the contributions of NUMEROUS PEOPLE (it would take days to give everyone their flowers)! The back of the house staff were some of the most talented and driven individuals to cook fresh and great food. The front of the house staff were the backbone of the TKS and we wouldn’t have been successful without them.

After the Pop-up in February 2021, I was able to reflect on how great it was to just cook the food again and get to have conversations with so many of you. That was my own little Utopia.

~A gentleman came in and asked me to move TKS somewhere closer to him and we discovered we live in the same neighborhood. He came back the next night with pictures of places in the neighborhood that were available to rent!

~A lady who called in an order for her and husband because it was their wedding anniversary. It was great to be a part of their celebration!

~The gentleman that only eats the jerk chicken sandwich with extra marmalade on the side. There are no words to describe the feeling of gratitude when I received the email he sent asking if he could help go door to door to get signatures for a liquor license for TKS.

Relationships and the TKS Customers like those and like YOU made The Kitchen Sink a blessed venture!

So many of you have asked me to come back and do a full service establishment. As much as I would like to, these pop-ups have given me insight into the issues and obstacles that exist at this time for restaurant owners and caterers. Please continue to support those strong men and women, they are dealing with an unstable supply chain, price variation, and labor shortages.

So until then…
Hopefully by the end of 2021 or beginning of 2022 you can be on the lookout for TJ’s (A Food Truck). Eventually, TJ’s will be a sports bar with a unique twist (a joint venture with Justin Tatum) and a new menu, but will feature TKS favorites at certain times of the year.

Well, Justin Tatum now it’s put out into the universe, let’s give our mothers something else to be proud of!

Sincerely,
Anthony Ellerson, Jr.