Old City Java

A Completely Cool Urban Dinner Benefiting a Completely Cool Urban Farm

Posted on September 5, 2017 Written by KnoxvilleUrbanGuy 2 Comments

I’d always intended to make it to Beardsley Farm*. I heard it was close to downtown and I knew enough to know they do good things. But I didn’t really know exactly where to find it until I stumbled into it on the backside of Knoxville College as I was preparing an article about the […]

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Pearl on Union Set to Open This Fall

Posted on June 21, 2017 Written by KnoxvilleUrbanGuy 27 Comments

It’s been rumored around downtown for nearly a year while one of downtown’s best locations sat empty. Shaun and Meg Parrish are now prepared to make a big announcement: The owners of Old City Java and Wild Love Bakehouse plan to open Pearl on Union at 513 Union Avenue in the Daylight Building. The Daylight […]

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Wild Love Bakehouse Hosts Open House Today, Opens Monday

Posted on December 11, 2015 Written by KnoxvilleUrbanGuy Leave a Comment

Sometimes it seems an incredible amount of time passes from my first article about a coming business and its actual opening. Other times I’m startled at how quickly it seems to happen. That’s how I feel about Wild Love Bakehouse. It was only about ten weeks ago that I wrote about Shaun and Meg Parrish’s […]

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Wild Love Bakehouse to Open at 1625 North Central Street

Posted on September 29, 2015 Written by KnoxvilleUrbanGuy 11 Comments

Understated and modest, an encounter with Shaun and Meg Parrish might not suggest that the couple is responsible for some of the best coffee and baked goods in the city. Their Old City Java continues to be a comfortable gathering place in Knoxville’s downtown, attracting a new generation of coffee lovers and, with this generation, […]

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Ice and Snow in the City, February 2015

Posted on February 23, 2015 Written by KnoxvilleUrbanGuy 18 Comments

It’s become a tradition for me to walk about in the snow each winter and take photographs of downtown Knoxville. The twist this year was that our initial snow wasn’t a snow at all, but was the most ice I believe I’ve ever seen at one time. I missed the last big ice storm locally. […]