Sugar Mama’s is Open – Grand Opening Celebration Next Week
Sugar Mama’s – a bakery with beer and other foods – recently opened on the 100 block with the intention of trying a low key, soft kind of opening in order to get the kinks worked...
Downtown Restaurants
Matt Gallaher Plans New Restaurant at 16 Market Square
When news circulates that Matt Gallaher is making a move, people pay attention. When Knox Mason opened on the 100 block of Gay Street a buzz started that never really subsided for people who care about...
Archer’s Barbeque Opens Downtown Location Today
Archer Bagley’s path to opening his fifth Archer’s Barbeque location hasn’t been a perfectly direct journey. His first location in Farragut closed. His second, a drive-through idea taught him many useful lessons which would fuel his...
Market House Cafe Opens Today at 36 Market Square
It was a year, a week and a day ago that Orange Leaf Yogurt vacated the premises at 36 Market Square very suddenly. Just a couple of months later a handshake between Scott West and Ken...
Oliver Royale Opens at 5 Market Square
You may have seen other various reports dribbling out over the last month of the new restaurant on Market Square. The Oliver Royale officially opens today for lunch and dinner, with plans to be open late...
Good Golly Tamale Opens Storefront
Many of you have enjoyed the tactile pleasure of unwrapping a small taste of heaven purchased from the Good Golly Tamale food cart. Made from organic, non-GMO ingredients, the tamales are of the highest quality ingredients....
Updates on Babalu (JC Penney Bldg) and Wild Wing Cafe (Kress Bldg)
I’m going to try to keep this a bit more brief after writing approximately one million words yesterday. I had another million, but cut myself off. I appreciate the response so many of you had to Jeremiah...
Wine Bar Coming to the Old City
Soft spoken and self-effacing, Thomas Boyd exudes quiet determination. We met at his parents’ well-known Old City establishment to talk about his new venture. It marks a sharp departure from the trajectory he’s followed since high...
Babalu Tacos and Tapas Finalizing Plans for J.C. Penney Bldg. Location
In March I wrote about the J.C. Penney Building, focusing on the residences which will be available soon. A month or so later, I wrote about Maple Hall, the bowling alley planned for the basement of the...
Frussie’s Deli and Sandwich Shoppe Moving to Gay Street
After nineteen years as a south Knoxville institution at 133 Moody Avenue, Frussie’s Deli and Sandwich Shoppe is moving to 722. S. Gay Street, which some of you may recognize as the current location of the...