Tiny restaurant allows couple to offer personal touch
Blue Honey Bistro owners Courtney and Drew Bryan opened their Germantown restaurant in 2017. Drew Bryan was named a James Beard Foundation Awards semifinalist in the Best Chef: Southeast category. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
When Drew Bryan’s wife, Courtney, texted him a week ago and told him he had been named a James Beard Foundation Awards semifinalist, he thought it was a joke.
He texted back: “Ha!”
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But it was true; he’d been named a semifinalist in the Best Chef: Southeast category. It’s just not something he or his wife had thought to go after when they opened Blue Honey Bistro in 2017.
Their only goal was to operate a small, neighborhood restaurant that offers exemplary service and delicious food. And tucked away in a strip shopping center in the heart of Germantown, Blue Honey is tiny — a 1,200-square-foot restaurant with only 36 seats.
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Jennifer Chandler
A cookbook author and former restaurateur, Jennifer Chandler has been writing about food and dining for more than 25 years.
She is the author of four cookbooks: “The Southern Pantry Cookbook,” “Simply Salads,” “Simply Suppers,” and “Simply Grilling.” While she boasts a degree from Le Cordon Bleu, this Memphis native is about making real food accessible for real families.
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