You can hear the joy in Leo Morgan’s voice when he talks about his Jamaican food truck Island Frydays. More importantly, you can taste it in the care he and his chefs take when making each dish. It extends to his community, showing up in the way he makes sure no one goes hungry. So when he closed his Corryville restaurant last December, you may have noticed a little joy left with him. But lucky for us, Morgan has decided to give Cincinnati another chance.
Thanks to patrons who kept in touch and outreach led by Emmanuel Karikari, CEO of the College Hill Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation (CHCURC), plans are in the works to reopen Island Frydays in brick-and-mortar form in College Hill next year. It’s a homecoming of sorts for someone who spent nearly 16 years feeding the city before his departure last year.
Morgan arrived in the Queen City in 2005 on a football scholarship at the University of Cincinnati. Like a lot of college students, he found himself wondering what to do with the rest of his life after graduation…