Broward residents who love the catfish and conch from Trick Daddy’s Sunday’s Eatery in Miami Gardens will now be able to enjoy the soul food in their backyard. The rapper, whose real name is Maurice Young, has opened his second location for the restaurant in Fort Lauderdale’s historic Sistrunk neighborhood.
The restaurant replaces Donna’s Caribbean Restaurant, which broke ground in 2021 and opened its doors along the Sistrunk corridor in 2023. Sunday’s Eatery now joins a vibrant street filled with rich Black history in the city’s oldest African American community. The eatery also fills a void with the closing of Betty’s Soul Food earlier this year.
A line with at least 200 people wrapped around the building Saturday to savor the taste of soul food from the restaurant as Trick Daddy emerged from a red Tesla Cybertruck for the grand opening, talking to patrons and holding babies, because of course Trick loves the kids.
Rapper Trick Daddy interacts with the crowd during the grand opening of his soul food restaurant Sunday’s Eatery in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025.
Young, who first opened his restaurant in the Lake Lucerne area of Miami Gardens, said he prides himself on opening in Black neighborhoods and giving Black residents job opportunities and proving they have the spending capital to sustain Black businesses.
“That was the bottom of the barrel of Carol City back then,” he recalled about opening his first eatery. “We could have went to Wynwood. We could have went to South Beach. We could have went anywhere we wanted. … We wanted to go to Miami Gardens to show them that we are still for our people.”
A group of employees at Sunday’s Eatery in Fort Lauderdale during the grand opening on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025.
That pride he has for his community and other Black communities is what he wants in Fort Lauderdale, adding that the menu and the inexpensive prices will remain the same.
Business partner Latosia Colvin echoed Young’s sentiments: “We like to be where we’re welcomed at,” she said. “We like to ingratiate in areas where we can uplift and hire from the community and just bring something of value to the community.”
The opening of the eatery comes at a time when Sistrunk has seen substantive growth, even with the loss of two high-profile Black businesses in Donna’s and Betty’s. The area is home to the beloved Smitty’s Wings, several Black-owned barbershops and growing housing development. Sistrunk will also be home to The Victory Entertainment Complex, a three-story, Black-owned entertainment complex that will include a distillery, restaurant, wine bar and cigar lounge with substantial meeting space.
Crowds wait for the grand opening of soul food restaurant Sunday’s Eatery in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025.
Broward County District 8 commissioner and Fort Lauderdale native Robert McKinzie said the addition of Sunday’s Eatery speaks to the transition.
“This was our thriving economic engine back in the day when we were kids, and now you have another mainstream entertainer that wants to invest here,” he said. “We want all restaurants. We want all types of entertainment. We want everything that they want over here in our neighborhood as well so we can have choices.”
For managing partner Sharrod Robinson, having a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale is a dream come true. Robinson said the restaurant’s strong following in Miami Gardens opened the door for them to expand into Broward County. He estimated that about 30% of their customer base in Miami Gardens comes from Broward.
“I have always known that we will be good here,” he said, holding back tears. “Being born and raised in Miami, I love the way Broward County has a certain type of countryness, if you could say, from [us].”
And Young wants to expand into other metropolitan cities with large Black populations, such as Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit and Jacksonville.
“Y’all get ready,” he warned. “We coming.”
