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Coming fall 2027 · Tampa Bay

Sit. Stay. Stir.

Grits the way GG made them. Then whatever you want on top.

Killer Grits is a new counter-service spot built around one thing our family has been making for generations. Pick your grits, pick your protein, pile on the fixins, and pull up a chair.

Save me a seat Meet the dogs
South Tampa Carrollwood Wesley Chapel

The idea

The family table with the door left open.

The best grits you ever ate weren't really about the grits. They were about who was sitting next to you. So we're building a whole restaurant around that feeling and serving it all day.

We didn't invent grits. We just never stopped making them.

People say grits are breakfast. People say grits are a side. People say a lot of things.

Here, grits are the main event. Put shrimp on them. Put greens on them. Put a fried egg and hot sauce on them at nine at night. Nobody's going to stop you.

So talk loud. Pass the plate. Stay longer than you meant to.

Sit. Stay. Stir.

The recipe

  • Salt.
  • Butter.
  • Cheese.

That's the whole thing. It came from Dad and GG, it gets stirred slow, and nobody here is allowed to mess with it.

Killer, a shaggy black and white mutt, sitting and looking up at the camera
The muttKillerSmall dog. Big name. Zero regrets.
Grits, a Weimaraner mix, looking up with his tongue out
The Weimaraner mixGritsGrayish-brown. Gangly. Never once came when called.

Why the name

Named after two good dogs.

Killer was a little mutt with a big name. Dad called him that as a joke, and he took it seriously. Grits was a big, easygoing Weimaraner mix that Uncle Lew named after breakfast.

They had no fence and a whole Florida street to run. They chased ducks, ran the neighborhood like they owned the deed, and came home every night to sleep side by side on the porch outside GG's kitchen, where the grits were always on.

They both lived long, happy lives. We named this place after them, and we stuck to the recipe.

Rob and the family

The cast

Freeze frame. Name card. Go.

Every family has a cast of characters. You'll see ours on the walls, the cups and the menu board. These are the folks who made the grits worth sitting down for.

Grandma

GG

Hummed while she stirred. Never measured.

The other half of the recipe

Dad

Named the dog. Kept the recipe.

Granddad

Bow Bow

Say it like the front of a boat.

The one who names things

Uncle Lew

Named a Weimaraner after breakfast.

31 years and counting

The critic

Toughest table in the house. If it gets past her, it goes on the menu.

Where

Three tables around Tampa Bay.

Our family has been in Florida for generations, and Tampa is home now. So that's where the table goes. Addresses and opening dates are on the way.

South Tampa

A table for the neighborhood, and a water bowl out front for the dog.

Fall 2027

Carrollwood

Lunch line friendly. Takeout ready for the drive home.

Fall 2027

Wesley Chapel

Room for the whole crew after practice.

Fall 2027

Get on the list

Pull up a chair.

Be the first to hear when the doors open, where they open and what's going in the bowl. You'll also hear about first tastes before anybody else does.

The porch light's on.