Yoga Central Adds to Booming District
(Article by Guest Writer Heather Ryerson) Calling all yogis near 5th Ave! Yoga Central, the newest yoga studio has opened its doors! Its location next to Xul Brewery and Knoxville High (now open to all ages)...
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Kopita Now Offering Full Dinner Menu at 507 South Gay Street
Kopita opened at 524 South Gay Street in July 2019, becoming downtown’s first vegan restaurant. A pandemic followed in short order and, for a while during the early months of the pandemic, Kopita expanded to offer...
Spice and Tea Exchange of Knoxville Coming to 522 South Gay Street
Downtown Knoxville will soon get its own location of The Spice and Tea Exchange, as Annette Morejon brings the concept to 522 South Gay Street, most recently home to Fai Thai Kitchen. She’s lived in Knoxville...
Hong’s Kitchen Opens at Pretentious Glass
It’s hard to know the best way to spin this story, which is really two great stories in one. The first narrative thread is that Vic Scott and Josh Coates, owners of Seoul Brothers in Marble...
Downtown to Get Small Neighborhood Grocery Store
There are themes that run through the dozen plus years I’ve written about downtown. The interest in parking and homelessness sometimes seems bottomless. Both topics pale, however, to the topic of a grocery store. Non-downtown residents...
Harvest Opens at 141 South Gay Street
I announced last April that Harvest planned a second location to be on Gay Street. Those plans came to fruition recently when Harvest opened at 141 South Gay Street. As I did last April, I spoke...
River Breeze Event Center Offers Its Fall Line Up – With Shuttles From Downtown
River Breeze Event Center opened with its first concert just a couple of weeks ago and has announced a fall line-up, which Communications Director Carri Lombardi said is more-or-less a soft opening to work out details...
Bistro By The Tracks Serving Up Good Food and a Warm Atmosphere in Happy Holler
The summer Bistro By The Tracks opened at a new location, far from its original tracks. The restaurant assumed the beautiful space at 1123 North Central Street, which had been set up as a restaurant for...
SoKno Throwback and Threads is Open on Sevier Avenue
(Ed. Note: Today’s article and photographs (except two) are courtesy of guest writer Heather Ryerson.) After years in the medical field, DeAnne Thomas McLemore was sidelined by an injury that would be the end of that...
Zero/Zero Wine Bar Coming to Happy Holler
Zach and Alexis Hill have taken possession of 1211 N. Central Street, in the heart of Happy Holler, where they plan to open Zero/Zero (don’t pronounce the slash!), a wine bar, in November. The location was...