Sister’s Cafe was closing, and just when owner Amber Wilson thought she was out of options, she found support from a couple of new business partners to open Sunday Dinner in Conroe.

Wilson and her sister, Peggy Neighbors, ran Sister’s Cafe in downtown Conroe until Neighbors left the business in April to raise her recently adopted son. With only a few months left on the cafe’s lease, Jerry Vineyard and his wife, Joley, partnered with Wilson and her husband, Cam, to open Sunday Dinner at the same location July 9.

“Sister’s Cafe closed on a positive note, but I just didn’t know what I was going to do next,” Wilson said. “Jerry is our pastor, and I asked him to pray for us because I did not know what I was going to do next. He said, ‘Well, I have an idea.’ This was it: to do casseroles to go.”

By serving casseroles to go, homemade desserts and Blue Bell ice cream, Joley said the business aims to bring families together at the dinner table.

“We know what it is like to work full time, have kids, cook dinner and eat dinner together,” Joley said. “So, the meals that we prepare are ready to throw in the oven so you can still sit around the table with your family and get to where you need to go. We have taken a little bit of the work out of it.”

Sunday Dinner also offers lunch portions of the day’s casserole accompanied by two side dishes, homemade desserts, such as cupcakes, cake balls and cookies, as well as commercial products, such as RC Cola, MoonPies and ice cream.

A casserole-of-the-day is prepared from scratch early in the morning four days per week and is available for pickup after 3 p.m. or a previously agreed upon time. The business also offers all of the casseroles that have been prepared and frozen throughout the week for sale on Mondays and Saturdays. The casseroles can be accompanied by two side dishes and come with proper heating instructions.

The business also offers catering, small gift items, furniture refurbishing services and takes custom orders for do-it-yourself style projects.

Wilson, who prepares a majority of the food sold at Sunday Dinner, said her father taught her how to cook when she was young.

“I would go in to the pantry and pull things down and just create something,” she said. “It was a fun thing to do when I was young.”

330 N. Main St., Conroe
936-494-0119
www.sundaydinner.family
Hours: Mon.-Sat. 11 a.m.-7 p.m., closed Sundays