Name: Oooh Wee! IT IS! Smothered Potatoes Breakfast Bar
Address: 8548 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL, 60619
Price range: $$

Oooh Wee! IT IS! Smothered Potatoes Breakfast Bar

Chatham · Soul Food Community-sourced, unverified

📍 8548 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60619

Oooh Wee!

The pot roast cupcake (a sweet corn muffin topped with mashed potatoes, pot roast, gravy, cheese, and green onions) from the original concept, now reopened under a smothered-potatoes-focused rebrand in a new Chatham location.

IT IS! built a real following at its original 83rd Street location as a soul food joint and cereal bar with weekly live music, known specifically for a pot roast cupcake that took the idea of comfort food literally — a sweet corn muffin topped with mashed potatoes, pot roast, gravy, cheese, and green onions, alongside fried catfish and smothered pork chops with rice. The restaurant closed in 2024, but rather than disappear for good, it staged a soft reopening in March 2026 at a new Chatham address, taking over the former Reggio's Pizza space on Cottage Grove Avenue and rebranding around a sharper focus: 'Smothered Potatoes Breakfast Bar,' built on hearty potato dishes loaded with toppings, with breakfast now the primary draw and dinner items still available. It's a genuine second act rather than a straight continuation — same name recognition and presumably some menu DNA carried over, but a deliberately narrower, breakfast-forward concept replacing the old cereal-bar format.

Specific hours, phone, and social media for the new location weren't confirmed anywhere in research — this is a genuinely fresh reopening with limited coverage so far, so call ahead or check in person before planning a visit. The restaurant participates in the Chatham Bucks community currency program, which is its own small signal of neighborhood investment beyond just reopening a storefront. For regulars who missed the original, the return alone is the headline; for anyone new, the smothered potatoes are reportedly the thing to actually order.

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