Taking a Mulligan’s: Couple opens new East Memphis restaurant in long-vacant space
The Southern soul food restaurant in Willow Grove Shopping Center will begin to serve lunch come mid-September.
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The Southern soul food restaurant in Willow Grove Shopping Center will begin to serve lunch come mid-September.
“I’m not saying (my barbecue) is the best,” Willie Burton said. “But it will be Memphis-style barbecue at its best.”
While local hotel occupancy rates and demand for rooms buck the national trend, the real bright spot is across the Mississippi River.
Located at 276 S. Front St., the “fast casual” restaurant will include a bar with eight seats, a full patio with six tables and a Lego-built hive in the window.
Buster’s Liquors & Wines will open its second location in the Ridgeway Trace Shopping Center on Poplar Avenue.
Waldo’s Chicken and Beer will bring its scratch-made food to the Cordova area.
Local residential real estate brokers say homebuyers should not focus on interest rates but instead focus on the benefits of homeownership.
Hotel industry officials continue lobbying for a full-service convention hotel Downtown with 450-plus rooms.
The development will be called Mid-City Memphis, referring to the site’s location at the “geographic and population center” of the city, according to the letter of intent filed.
The new location, a 30,000-square-foot space at 107 S. Main St., will feature four concepts. Each concept will be a smaller type of restaurant.
August home sales in the Memphis area were down 18% compared to the same month a year ago, and year-to-date sales dropped 26%.
The event space is available for use, but finishing touches — including an air wall, artwork and drapery — will be added by Oct. 1.
The restaurant will be near FedEx and Indian grocery store Balaji Grocery, a strategic decision, said co-owner Vineeth Sheelam.
In a statement, owners encouraged customers to go to the Regalia location in East Memphis or the “soon-to-be” Silo Square location in Southaven.
The board approved increasing parking lot rates to fund the parking enhancement program, estimated to cost $8 to $10 million.
The 1,200-square-foot dessert studio, now open at 501 N. Hollywood St., is designed like an art studio, where customers can decorate cookies, cupcakes and cakes.
Shannon Weston said her son’s food allergy spurred the family to open a “clean food” restaurant in Colorado. When her son enrolled in Rhodes College, Vibe Foods came to Memphis, too.
Belltower Coffeehouse is serving its coffee, teas and more at Shelby Farms Park.
Feast & Graze owner Cristina McCarter said she plans to close her shop on South Main at the end of the year in favor of a new location.
“The extended-stay market is going to continue to grow, and it’s going to continue to grow at a faster rate than the average hotel market,” said a local hotel expert.
Lucille McWherter Senior Center welcomed 88 voters this morning to cast their votes for District 2.
Green said the main thing she and her team have been focusing on is increasing public safety, improving Memphis infrastructure and investing in the next generation.
The candidate said he is a lifelong Memphian, and that his experiences as a young boy help him relate to the youth today who commit crimes.
There was a slow but steady roll-in of voters at the church when the polls opened at 7 a.m. Over the next couple of hours, the pace would stay consistent.
September’s monthly sales volume was $366 million, down 28.2% compared to the $510.1 million recorded in September 2022, according to the Memphis Area Association of Realtors September market report.