What to Order: At The Overland, try the elk
The Overland restaurant located on the rooftop of the five-story TownePlace Suites by Marriott in Germantown. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
When it comes to Memphis dining, what do we want that we don’t already have?
It’s a common food topic, one I’ve batted around on multiple podcasts over the years, and “Montana” has never come up.
But maybe it should have?
It’s one of the handful of U.S. states I’ve never visited, but a little internet research on the foods of Montana and the Mountain West yields lots of beef, bison and elk, huckleberries, flatland cherries and meat-filled pasties.
You’ll find some of those things on the menu at The Overland, a Montana-influenced restaurant that opened last week on the top floor of the TownePlace Suites hotel in Germantown’s Thornwood development.
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