Foodie alert! It’s Restaurant Week 2026. Thirty of our favorite local purveyors of food and drink are plating up specially crafted menu items today through Sunday, Aug. 9, with 20% of the proceeds donated to Nourish Knoxville. Chefs will create a new menu item or feature an existing dish showcasing ingredients grown within a 150-mile radius of Knoxville.
You may know Nourish Knoxville as the nonprofit behind the Market Square and New Harvest farmers markets, but its work extends to food access, education and more. Restaurant Week dovetails poetically, and deliciously, with Nourish’s mission.
“Nourish Knoxville’s Restaurant Week is a celebration of the talented chefs and food businesses that make our local culinary scene so exceptional, while showcasing the incredible seasonal ingredients grown by East Tennessee farmers,” said Charlotte Tolley, CEO of Nourish Knoxville. “Every featured dish or drink enjoyed during Restaurant Week helps support Nourish Knoxville’s mission to connect families with fresh, local food. We’re delighted to bring this event back for its fourth year, and can’t wait for everyone to try the thoughtfully crafted food and drinks the participating locations have prepared.”
And we can’t wait to try them!
Bonus: Each participating restaurant, bar, brewery or café you visit equals a chance to win two invitations to Friends & Farmers, Nourish’s family-friendly appreciation event on Oct. 18. Submit your entry form by Sunday, Aug. 16. Three winners will be selected at random.
I’ll let these mouthwatering descriptions twist your arm. Get more info about Restaurant Week at the Nourish website here.
- Menu Item: Wells Station BBQ Calabrian-fontina smoked sausage pizza with local basil cream sauce, Ocoee Creamery Chevre, local corn, and local roasted Italian peppers
- Featured Farm: Ocoee Creamery, Sunrise Dairy, Special Growers, Mountain Roots Farm, and Chef’s Harvest Farm
- 1. Heirloom Tomato Panzanella 2. Locally Foraged Chanterelles
- Featured Farms: Persephone’s Garden, Mountain Roots Farm, Chef’s Harvest Farm, Alloy Acres Farm, Shady Brook Farms, Stoneground Milling, and Cruze Farm
- Menu Item: Braised Beef Tips with Crispy Potato Cake, Roasted Heirloom Carrots, Chow Chow, and Micro Greens
- Featured Farms: Mitchell Family Farm, Spring Oak Farm, and Southern Sprout
Camp Honey Coffee & Provisions
- Menu Items: 1. Sausage, Chèvre & Shrooms Pizza 2. Summer Spritz
- Featured Farms: Little Row Farms, Ivester Family Farm, Ocoee Creamery, Extraterrestrial Fungi, and Among the Oaks Herb Farm
- Menu Item: Watermelon Salad
- Featured Farms: Myers Brothers Farm and Zavels Family Farms
Coffee & Chocolate (all 3 locations)
- Menu Items: 1. Lavender Honey Latte 2. Honey Hibiscus Lemonade
- Featured Farm: Old Bailey Farms
Cruze Farm (downtown only)
- Menu Item: Honey Graham Cracker Ice Cream
- Featured Farm: Knoxville Honey Co.
- Menu Item: Sweet Corn Agnolotti
- Featured Farms: DSB Farms, Huff Farm, Zavels Family Farm, Sunrise Dairy, and Mountain Roots Farm
- Menu Item: Jumbo Lump Crab Cake with Roasted Poblano Polenta, Tomato Butter, Crispy Okra, and Summer Herbs
- Featured Farms: Stoneground Milling, Cruze Farm, Spring Oak Farm, Zavels Family Farms, Spencer Mountain Farms, Special Growers
- Menu Item: Hey Farmer – Kölsch style ale
- Featured Farm: Honey Ridge Gardens
- Menu Item: Caprese Martini – Tomato water, Italian Vodka, dry vermouth, basil eau de vie, balsamic
- Featured Farm: Zavels Family Farms and Spring Oak Farm
- Menu Item: Blackberry Basil Cucumber Kombucha
- Featured Farms: Spring Creek Veggies and Broken Shovels Farm
- Menu Item: Veggie Pot Pie tamale – oyster mushrooms, yukon potato, carrots, green peas, onions
- Featured Farm: Extraterrestrial Fungi
- Menu Item: T&T (tomato tonic) – tomato syrup (tomato, blackberry, plumcot, basil), bitters, tonic water, ice, matcha, topped with olive oil drizzle and lemon peel
- Featured Farm: Thompson Farms
- Menu Item: Stir Fried Noodles with local seasonal vegetables and house-smoked bacon
- Feature Farm: Zavels Family Farms
- Menu Items: 1. Honey Lavender Macaron 2. Peaches and Cream Macaron
- Featured Farms: Old Bailey Farms and Mountain Meadows Farm
- Menu Items: 1. Caprese Chicken Sandwich 2. Pesto Flatbread 3. Garden Party G&T 4. Blueberry Mint Mule
- Featured Farms: Spring Oak Farm, Zavels Family Farm, and Seven Springs Farm to Table
Mia Piccola (both locations)
- Menu Item: Honey Peach Fizz Tonic with salted honey cold foam and choice of matcha or espresso
- Featured Farm: Honey Ridge Gardens
- Menu Items: 1. Bacon-Wrapped Vegetable Skewer with house-smoked bacon and seasonal vegetables 2. Local Seasonal Veggie
- Featured Farms: Zavels Family Farms and Extraterrestrial Fungi
- Menu Item: Tomato Pie
- Featured Farms: Zavels Family Farms and Mountain Roots Farm
- Menu Item: Gazpacho
- Featured Farms: Zavels Family Farms and Mountain Roots Farm
- Menu Item: Pilsner
- Featured Farm: Teeter Farm & Seed
- Menu Item: 24 Carrot – Carrot juice, basil, ginger, Pisco, Strega, lemon
- Featured Farms: Know Good Farm and Spring Oak Farm
- Menu Item: Zucchini Cake – dulcey buttercream, pecans, and golden raisins
- Featured Farm: Zavels Family Farm
- Menu Items: 1. Heirloom Tomato Salad – fresh buttermilk cheese, basil, and pickled and fried green tomatoes 2. Zucchini Cake – dulcey buttercream, pecans, and golden raisins
- Featured Farms: Zavels Family Farm, Cruze Farm, and Mountain Roots Farm
- Menu Item: Street Corn Galette
- Featured Farm: Huff Farm
- Menu Item: Braised lamb shank with corn purée, roasted summer vegetables, harissa tahini, mint, and peach confit
- Featured Farms: Hoodley Creek, Zavels Family Farms, Huff Farm, and Mountain Meadows Farm
- Menu Item: Heatwave – watermelon, mint, rum, aloe liqueur, green chile liqueur, sparkling water
- Featured Farms: Harvest Direct Farms and Thompson Farms
- Menu Item: Herb Crusted Beef Carpaccio with Roasted Mushroom Escabeche, Herb Aioli, Cured Egg Yolks, and Microgreens
- Featured Farms: Mitchell Family Farm, Extraterrestrial Fungi, Harvest Direct Farms, Southern Sprout
- Menu Item: Watermelon Shandy – watermelon lemonade made with fresh watermelon juice, topped with Kodemari matcha
- Featured Farm: Thompson Farms
Zero / Zero Wine Bar & Desmadre with Idle Hour Farm
- Menu Item: Myers Brothers Melon Mosaic – Chamoy consumé, cucumber, corn nuts, and tajin
- Feature Farms: Myers Brothers Farm and Shady Brook Farms
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