Home Grown owners purchase the building, securing the Southern diner’s future on Memorial

 “Earlier this week, Chef Kevin Clark and Lisa Spooner added property owners to their resumes, purchasing the building in which their diner, Home Grown, has served its coveted comfy chicken biscuits, Southern fare, and “Blue Collar” lunch specials for 15 years.

The purchase of the Home Grown property for Clark and Spooner feels like the first real win they’ve had since 2020. Over the last five years, they’ve navigated Home Grown through the tumult of a global pandemic, wild fluctuations in the economy, threats of closure, and rising rents caused by booming development in the neighborhood. “