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FOOD NEWS BITES: Tops at Summer and National Reopens

Tops Bar-B-Q & Burgers at Summer Avenue and National Street reopens May 7th after a fire last October.

Tops Bar-B-Q & Burgers at Summer Avenue and National Street (Photo: Courtesy Tops)

An old friend is back.

The Tops Bar-B-Q & Burgers location at Summer Avenue and National Street reopened today, May 7th.

According to the news release, the restaurant at 3353 Summer Avenue reopened “after a fire caused by mechanical issues in October caused the restaurant to close.”

Interior of reopened Tops Bar-B-Q & Burgers at Summer and National (Photo: Courtesy Tops)

According to the release, the Summer-National location was the sixth Tops to open in Memphis after the original Tops opened on Macon Road in 1952.

Tops now has 18 locations across the Mid-South. In addition to Memphis, they can be found in Southaven, Olive Branch, and Corinth, Mississippi, and Marion, Arkansas.

Summer-National Tops Bar-B-Q & Burgers team members: Tracie Washington, Kaiser Gilkey, Patrick Martin, Dinetra Merritt (Photo: Courtesy Tops)

By Michael Donahue

Michael Donahue began his career in 1975 at the now-defunct Memphis Press-Scimitar and moved to The Commercial Appeal in 1984, where he wrote about food and dining, music, and covered social events until early 2017, when he joined Contemporary Media.