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Looking forward to lots of visitors to Indianola in July - Be sure to come by The Crown for "nibbles" of lots of our products and enjoy lunch News Flash: Air Tran's current in-flight magazine is featuring food from Mississippi Delta restaurants....including The Crown! Great article and yummy pictures! Read it in detail: http://www.airtranmagazine.com/features/2010/05/travel-report-mississippi/6 News Flash: Country Living Magazine's May 2010 issue includes words and a picture of our Mississippi Mud Pie in an article about regional desserts! It looks heavenly...and you can try this yummy dessert during lunch at The Crown from Tuesday - Saturday! Saveur Magazine included The Crown in October 2009 issue - Southern Glories on pg. 20! We were one of six Mississippi restaurants featured and the words are: "The Crown - The Catfish Pate and Catfish Allison (a whole fillet grantineed in a scallion cream sauce) have kept this Indianola Restaurant going strong for 33 years!" Another article says "we even have Catfish Pate!" The Crown was chosen by 2009 Delta Magazine readers as "Best Place to Do Lunch and Shop"........Thanks so much ya'll! Retail items from The Crown including our own Classic Catfish Cookbook and lots more have been added to the on-line ordering section! NEWS FLASH: The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola Mississippi is OPEN and an experience you do NOT want to miss!! Visit the King and Eat at The Crown! Just three blocks from The Crown in downtown Indianola. NEWS FLASH: Great Travel Article in the Los Angeles Times about Indianola, the Mississippi Delta, the new B.B.King Museum and The Crown - Follow Kay Mills advice and come to visit Indianola! NOTE Sept. 2009: We had visitors from LA last week who were following Kay's steps and came for lunch! Loved visiting with them....ya'll come see us too! http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-mississippi31-2008aug31 NEWS FLASH: The June issue of Bon Appetit has included The Crown in their Mississippi Delta tour article with a great description of our Catfish Allison and a picture of our Delta Fudge Pie! And we are loving all the comments from people who have just seen us on the Travel Channel's Taste of America Mississippi Delta Show with Mark DeCarlo! The Crown is located in downtown Indianola, Mississippi in the very heart of the Mississippi Delta - the home of our exciting multi-million dollar
I want Jennifer to tell our "story!" Here is Our Story: In 1972, my parents, Tony and Evelyn Roughton, out in the middle of a cotton field in the hot Mississippi Delta, opened the doors of The Antique Mall, and began importing 18th and 19th century country antiques from England. In 1976, to draw more customers out in the country to us, we opened The Crown, a tearoom, serving lunch and afternoon tea, in an English pub setting using antique tables and chairs. We served only one entree with a salad bar, and we passed dessert from table to table on a wooden Victorian tea cart.
In 1980, we added a gourmet Catfish dish to the menu - the Other Catfish we call it - because we cook it every which way BUT fried! Southern Living and CNN came to do stories on the Catfish industry and featured The Crown and our great foods - Southern but with a French heritage! We created our Catfish Pate for a Catfish farmer's daughter's wedding reception and in 1990 that Pate won the Best Hors D'Oeuvre Award at the International Fancy Food Show in New York! Other products have also won awards and honors including being featured on Food Network's Food Finds and Bobby Flay's Food Nation, and on Turner South's Blue Ribbon show. Those programs are still showing from time to time! We have very definitely been blessed! Antiques are now secondary to the foods we produce, but you can still buy your dining room chair or the brass candlestick on your table or the Victorian Salt Cellar you're using during lunch! The walls of the Dining Room are covered with paintings by local artists, and the Gift Shop is filled with original pottery and hand made jewelry. Our children's toy and book corner feature the classic toys that are so hard to find - china tea sets, slinkys, musical instruments - a trip through your own childhood or your mother's. Back to Books, our cozy little book store, features our own cookbook, Classic Catfish, of course, as well as a great variety of books by Mississippi authors and artists. We moved The Crown to Town quite a few years ago, when Taste of Gourmet, the Direct Selling company that we founded, needed more and more room for expansion in the country! We had learned at The Crown, that putting a bite of Smoked Catfish Pate or Praline Pie or Delta Bisque, into someone’s mouth was a “sure fire” way of selling him on the product – and that realization, in 1996, was the beginning of Taste of Gourmet! What a dream! Selling directly to the customer - taking a taste of the delicious foods we've created and produce, into homes and offices all over the country, letting the customer savor our products at a Tasting! Just the perfect way to sell our delicious foods! We hope you'll come to Indianola to have lunch with us atThe Crown! My mom, Evelyn will be there, making sure you feel welcome and maybe even having a taste test on one of her new products for Taste of Gourmet! Nothing she likes more than having "Fun in the Kitchen" - that's what she and my dad call experimenting on a new recipe or a new product! Come see us! You'll feel welcome at The Crown and in our little town of the bayou and the blues! Oh, I forgot to tell you and I hope you already know that Indianola is the hometown of B.B.King, the King of the Blues! In September of 2008, Indianola opened the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center right in downtown - just 3 blocks from The Crown! The Museum is a marvel and a Must See for all ages! Open Monday through Saturday from 10 to 6:00. Ya'll come to Indianola! We look forward to inviting you into The Crown! If you can't make it to Indianola, just order some of scrumptious goodies on this website or attend a Tasting with one of our Consultants. We feel that every Tasting is an extension of our own home and kitchen and we welcome you to share our hospitality! Jennifer Roughton Schaumburg
Home of 662-887-4522 www.thecrownrestaurant.com We are open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 to 5 pm, serving lunch from 11 to 3:00. If you can't make it in time for Lunch, you can always stop by for a cup of coffee and a piece of pie! Wi-Fi is free at The Crown...so come by to do your "work" and enjoy our atmosphere! If you are part of a tour bus planning to visit The Delta...ask your organizer to call us...we take great care of tour groups for lunch! The Crown is filled with original art, classic children's toys, shelves of books about the Blues, the Delta, cookbooks, samples to nibble....so much to enjoy! WiFi is available too! Come see us soon! We'll be looking for you! Indianola,Mississippi 38751 |  |
For thirty-four amazing years we've served lunch at The Crown to wonderfully loyal customers and friends. The recipes we have created continue to become a part of Taste of Gourmet's "menu" of glorious foods. The Crown's guests are still our "taste testers," as we constantly experiment with flavors creating new, exciting products that you can buy through this website and through Taste of Gourmet Consultants, nationwide! The Crown has been host to the Food Network, Turner South, Southern Living, CNN, Travel Channel, Bon Appetit -
I keep saying WE because it was, and still is, very much a family business. I was the little girl pushing that Dessert Cart from table to table on Saturdays and during the summers - serving slices of Fudge Pie and Plantation Pie and Lemon Pie. We're still serving those same desserts, plus a few more from our Dessert Table at The Crown. The only difference is that now those pies are also in a Mix for you to take home and cook!
