PITTSBURGH — Robert Jackson could always taste something missing whenever he came back to Pittsburgh.
A North Side native who moved south about 20 years ago where he started a successful trucking company in Atlanta, Jackson realized that Pittsburgh was lacking good soul food restaurants. So he’s decided to open one himself, connecting with childhood friends who are well-established chefs in town to help him to do it.
Just the location in which to do it became evident when he met a friend for breakfast at Pamela’s in the Strip District, he said, and discovered a vacant restaurant space next door once occupied by Smallman Galley, a busy food hall in which three different operators served out their own restaurant foods.
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