Sunday Tops Bar-B-Q fire suspected as arson
Tops Bar-B-Q on Rhodes Avenue on Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The Tops location, which suffered another fire in February, had been within four weeks of reopening after a major reconstruction.
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Tops Bar-B-QEllen Chamberlain
Ellen Chamberlain is a global citizen who is happy to call Memphis her forever home. The Michigan native has worked in media for nearly 25 years as a radio broadcaster, journalist and ghostwriter. As The Daily Memphian’s food and restaurant writer, she gives readers inside perspectives of their favorite restaurants and the people behind them, suggestions for the best bites around town and the latest food news from in and around Shelby County.
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