Jimmy Jamm Sweet Potato Pies

I had been riding past this place for years and finally went in. It was empty but the older guy who was the nice and offered me samples of each sweet potato item. He cooked the food right in front of me and assured me that I would be back! They took the sweet potato waffle and fried chicken off the menu so sadly I won’t be back. But the food was good and customer service was excellent.

This restaurant is just not a bakery for pies and cakes they also make loaded sweet potatoes with either chicken or steak and it also includes mushrooms peppers onions and seasoning and it is truly tasty. They make everything sweet potato from a cheesecake, cupcake, pound cake, cobbler pie, bread, and some great sweet potato ice cream. If you like sweet potatoes you will love this place.

Very tasty sweet potato pie and just as tasty loaded sweet potato. The air conditioning was out the day I was there (and it was hot), but the food was good enough to make up for it.
How is it that fries made from regular potatoes are common, but sweet potato fries and baked sweet potatoes are less common? These things are delicious.

The best sweet potato pies I’ve ever had. Every time I drive in from the suburbs I have to stop. The whole family lives their pies

This place has all types of sweet potato goodness in almost every form imaginable. I enjoyed a slice of the traditional sweet potato pie and the cream cheese and sweet potato pie. Unfortunately, they were out of the sweet potato cobbler, but I will be back to try it. Upon entering this establishment, we were greeted with big smiles and open arms.

I had the sweet potato pie and cake. The cake was good, but the pie took it all the way home for me. I will definitely be back to taste the ice cream and cheese cake. I can’t get enough of that pie with the honey cream cheese topping.

Don’t let the digs fool you, this food is on point!
At the persistent insistence of my better half, AKA The Ball, I hiked 90 minutes through Friday night rush hour to try this little south side gem. Walking in, at first, I was ready to turn around based on décor alone but figuring we had nothing to lose, we loaded up on some single serving desserts all made with some sort of sweet potato from this eclectic little specialty shop in Beverly.
I am not what one might call, a «dessert kinda guy». I usually eat a few bites and call it a day. I devoured all of these sweet potato slices of heaven like they were my last meal and was sad to see the end of each. It was the perfect balance of texture with a perfect sweet/​salty crust. You will note I am not picking out any specific items, it’s because they were all ridiculously good. (Although my favorite was the cheesecake if you really must know) I am simply amazed to like this place as much as I do because I am not a sweet potato fan, or a dessert fan… yet I drooled over each of these treats like a dog with a T-​bone.
I am oh so going back for one of those baked sweet potatoes soon.
So to sum it up for those of you not quite paying attention up to this point:
So, It’s not often I dig out that 5^th star, and I certainly don’t offer it to places with «falling down strip mall» décor, but wow was this food good.
This place rates 5 stars on food quality alone, despite its terrible décor, limited menu from items which I traditionally do not like, and is worth even Friday night traffic hell to visit… think on it as you plan your trip to Beverly.

Restaurant not really sit-​in style place, it’s clean but they definitely need to update look in front of house for it to be on 95^th street. They do have variety of food choices allude with sweet potatoe my favorite .
The method of making that involves microwave time, is only thing I don’t like… they should have potatoes baking in oven and then put it together

This is an absolute gem on the south side. Came here with a bunch of friends having no idea what to expect. The seven of us were the only ones in the restaurant, and one of the managers gave us unparalleled attention.
Great food– deff save room for dessert.

i cant believe i’ve never reviewed this place before. i only come maybe twice a year, because well, i hate driving down 95^th, but it was that time of the year and i wanted some sweet potato based foods. the man actually made fun of me because i bought so much
i love sweet potatoes. i dont like sweet potato pie. its weird, the texture is weird, its just not appealing to me. but somehow i came across this place. im not sure how. but it is close to my dentist, so thats hilariously good. i got a piece of sweet potato pie (i want to say my first piece was with honey cream cheese frosting/​icing) and it was delicious! so now its the only way i’ll eat the pie, with honey cream cheese frosting and some nuts on top. it is so delicious. could use a bit more crunch as it basically all has the same texture, but it is so delicious, it doesnt really matter
their red velvet sweet potato cupcakes. thank you baby Jesus! i looooove red velvet. these cupcakes are sooooooooo delicious. go and get that. go do it right now.
their cookies are delicious and their ice cream is soooo delicious. im sorry i cant stop saying the word delicious. i’m usually better with my adjectives.
i got one of their sweet potato dishes with steak. i was intrigued because of the toppings but ate it anyway. was huge, and the steak was like this strip sandwich meat or something but guess what, it was delicious.
every item i’ve had at this place is… delicious. the staff is friendly, and the food is delicious. what more could i possibly need from them? hopefully that sweet potato red velvet cupcake isnt seasonal.
just try em

Delectable pies and treats! A friend of mine loves sweet potato pies, and I wanted to buy her one for a special gift. So I Googled «sweet potato pies Chicago» and the top hit was Jimmy Jamm Sweet Potato Pies bakery. After tasting their pies, it’s no surprise they’re number one.
I purchased the famed honey cream cheese sweet potato pie for my friend, and the sweet potato bread pudding and banana rum cream cheese sweet potato pie for myself. The flavors are so rich and authentic! For instance, the banana rum actually tastes like banana rum (not some artificial flavoring pre-​packaged concoction). The banana flavor is a very interesting twist on a classic. Although both tasty, I’d recommend the honey sweet potato pie over the banana rum, but you can’t go wrong with either!
Jimmy Jamm, you should start selling your pies at other Chicago stores like Whole Foods or other grocery markets! 95^th Street is a bit far for non-​southsiders. But totally worth the journey though.

Oh. My. God.
Where else are you going to find a shop that’s ONLY about sweet potato/​yams??? That’s the first reason you should go.
Once you’re there, you can’t go wrong with anything you get there — every item has the right texture and is delicious without being overly sweet and heavy. The pie crust is perfect. The banana rum cream cheese topping… do I have to say more? It has the perfect consistency. And that ice cream — Harold, you are a genius.
Jimmy Jamm is worth the trip and the calories!!!

SOLD. My last visit during closing hours left a smidge left to be desired for that remaining 5^th star. After this visit, I dumped out all the stars I had.
Came in with my parents and purchased $ 50+ worth of food and ice cream. When we walked in we were warmly greeted and given some dairy-​free sweet potato ice cream to try. Yum! The man cooking our food was hilarious and kept the conversation going the entire time we waited. Everything is cooked to order and delicious!

Well, they only have one vegan item on the menu: sweet potato ice cream. But it’s amazing.
Imagine a sweet potato pie. Now turn it into a soft-​serve ice cream frozen yogurt thing, and you’ve got Jimmy Jamm’s sweet potato ice cream. Creamy, cold, cinnamon-​y clove goodness! And you get a giant cone for about $ 2.00.
I don’t go to 95^th very often, but on a 90 degree day, it might just be worth the trip.

I was so excited to try this place because I’d heard great things about it. I was given a sample of the ice cream and it was tasty but I settled on the plain sweet potato pie (I wanted to start simple). To my disappointment, it was just ok. Actually it was too sweet, like caramelized syrup sweet. I only made it through a couple of bites. I gave the rest to a relative who also thought it too sweet.
However, the service was great (the reason for two stars)! I felt like I was talking to family as the many options were explained to me. I read the Unilocal reviews after my visit and it seems like the food choices amd non pie sweets seem are favorites. Since my fellow Unilocalers have rarely steered me wrong and I’m a sucker for good service, I will definitely return.

Even after a satisfying dinner I had pie on the brain. My tummy always saves room for a little sumpin sumpin. I’ve had this place bookmarked for a while and we were finally in the neighborhood.
I was welcomed, by who I can only guess was Harold the owner, with a cheerful greeting and asking if I had been in before. To my «No» reply, I was given a sample of their sweet potato dairy free ice cream. No words can describe how utterly creamy, sweet and amazing it was. I ended up getting two desserts to-​go to share with the hubby. A giant slab of sweet potato cobble and fat piece of rum banana sweet potato pie.
The cobbler was good, would have been phenomenal if I could have had the foresight to heat it up before pigging out. So sweet and the spices were amazing. Then there was the rum banana sweet potato pie, talk about earth shattering. So sweet, so rich, so creamy… O.o.mg. If I didn’t believe in being able to taste «love» in food before, I believe it now. They were both MADE with lots of lovin’.

Was taken care of by Pastry Chef, Cedric… super friendly, funny, helpful. We talked about his former blue hair, my purple peek-​a-​boos, rescuing animals and before ya knew it, we had the phones out and were braggin’ on our pitbulls while I was waiting on my goodies.
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Was given a complimentary tasting of their dairy-​free sweet potato ice cream. Soooo good. I’d kill for a sugar-​free version. Argh! They DO have sugar-​free pie slices though. Oh, so divine! Oodles of cakes, pies and yummies to choose from. You can also dine in and enjoy sweet potato waffles and fried chicken or their heavenly sweet potato fries. Snagged a hearty loaf of bread for making some killer sammies.
Sweet potato lovers, Jimmy Jamm’s is a dream. I’ll be hitting them up again… and again.

I came to update my review. Why, you might ask, did I come back to update my already-​glowing aforementioned review? Because the best just got better, straight up.
So. I was sold on the dairy free sweet potato ice cream at the start, yes. This remains a constant truth even now. But not being a tremendous fan of sweet potatoes (I enjoy them, but I am – or was – hardly what one would call obsessed with the sweet tots), I figured it’d be a great summer stop, but nothing more. I was wrong, you guys. I was very, very wrong.
A month (or so) ago, my husband wanted to try the «loaded sweet potato with chicken», so I decided I’d grab a plain sweet potato with a little brown sugar on the side. Suffice to say, we’d probably eat there every day if humanly possible. No, really. It was THAT incredible.
I figured a plain sweet potato would curb my hunger but otherwise be… boring. This place makes sweet potatoes so good, so tender, so creamy that with the hint of brown sugar, I thought I might’ve died and went to food heaven. Oh, and the size of the sweet potatoes? Giant. No, really. They are enormous. And they are luscious beyond words.
My husband is head over heels with the loaded sweet potatoey goodness. For one, it’s absolutely a dish worth sharing (if you both consume meat and dairy, that is) or at the very least, it will serve you well for two separate meals. He’s been meaning to try both the sweet potato stew and the steak sandwich on sweet potato bread, but he hasn’t been able to let go of this loaded sweet potato desires. That says something right there, no?
Anyway, go, go, go, GO to Jimmy Jamm’s as soon as you possibly can. Maybe sooner, even. Preferably now. Yep, now would be the best. You can thank me later. :)

I wish that I had thought of this super clever name for a store and even more, I wish it had been around when I was little and we had pretty boring sweet potatoes on holidays.
Anything made with sweet potatoes is for sale here and I mean anything. Plus, the man who worked here was so helpful, friendly and kind that I just kept putting more things on the counter. He looked at my pile, looked at the clock and noted that it was 5:45. He predicted that I would taste them all and have time to be back before they closed at 7:00. He was such a fun guy, told us about them being on TV and just made it a pleasure to shop here.
My husband and I spread them all out and tried a tiny sliver of each one. We then decided if it was an eat now, eat later or pitch. Here are our results.
Sweet potato Cheesecake — pitch (we are not big Cheese cake people. I may have gotten over excited while buying.)
Sweet potato pie — good, save to eat for later
Sweet potato pie with cream cheese frosting — very good, save to eat for later
Sweet potato cake — delicious, split and eat now
Sweet potato cup cake — very delicious, divide and eat now
Sweet potato chocolate cupcake — reminiscent of red velvet, outstanding — we ate it that very second and watched to make sure the cupcake was cut evenly.
I plan on returning when I am in Beverly for book club and buying cakes and cupcakes
Then I will go home and hide the chocolate cupcake just for me!

Sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, everywhere. If you’re a fan of em, and we are, you need to make it here sometime. It was a little out of the way, but I was in the «ballpark» and swung by, and picked up a sweet potato pie for $ 12, and a sweet potato waffle plus fried chicken for $ 8.99. The latter has been offered for 2 months, and comes with 4 chicken wings. The pie was very fresh, sweet and cinnamon-​y. The waffle and fried chicken combo was a novelty and it was good, after sitting for an hour drive.
I met Harold, who is a co-​owner, and Jimmy’s husband. Very friendly guy, and he offered a free sampling of their SP ice cream, as well as their honey cream cheese and rum raisin toppings. All very nice. The toppings run $ 4 additional per pie. if it weren’t such a trip back to Naperville, I’d bring home some of the ice cream. They’ve been there for 3 years, and also have SP cupcakes, breads, pastries, and sandwiches with SP bread. Will be back again sometime when in the ballpark.