New restaurant opening on Highland Avenue

By Cindy Fisher | Selma Sun Staff 

A new restaurant with a spin on American staples is coming to the former Hardee’s in front of Selma Mall. 

Called Red Bar & Grille, the sit-down eatery will offer burgers, fish, fries and specialties owner Pamela Sloan is bringing from her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, including a Polish boy and soul roll that has greens, black-eyed peas, turkey and rice rolled together. 

Sloan may be from Cleveland, but she grew up playing at her grandmother’s house in Selma every summer with her siblings and cousins. Her parents moved back to Selma from Cleveland in 1999 to care for her grandmother and stayed. Sloan made a trip to Selma in late September for her father’s funeral and noticed the plethora of available properties and the lack of restaurants in the Queen City. 

As an owner of a club called Visions Blu in Cleveland, Sloan started asking around in Selma about properties for a restaurant and chose to lease the former Hardee’s from the new Selma Mall owner, Kenny Tran, who is offering free rent every other month for a year to let small businesses get on their feet. 

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