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It’s Fat Tuesday, and Kooky Canuck is throwing a celebration. They’ll have $3 34 oz. Bud Light all day long. There will also be a special Cajun menu, along with hurricanes and hand grenades to drink.
Bardog will have a Fat Tuesday party tonight. There will be drink specials starting at 7, and plenty of beads to be given away. Their pint night also starts at 7 – the cheapest pint night Downtown, with all pints on draft only $2.75. May I recommend the PBR? Both floors of Bardog will be open tonight.
Felicia Suzanne’s will have a Fat Tuesday party as well. $2 Abita beers, 50 cent oysters and other specials. Live music 7 to 9.
Tonight is also the drawing for the Fat Tire bike at the Flying Saucer. If you drank Fat Tire and filled out entry forms in the past month, you need to be there tonight to win the bike. They haven’t published a time for the drawing, but they usually do them between 8 and 10.
There’s a Fat Tuesday parade on Beale Street at 5:30. I don’t have a lot of details, but this is not as big a deal as their major parades like St. Pat’s and Liberty Bowl. I remember one year the Saucer decorated a shopping cart and pushed one of the girls down the street in it.
Hard Rock Cafe is celebrating their “Best Soup” win at Soup Sunday by offering their Tomato Basil soup, not on their regular menu and normally only available for private events, for $5 a bowl this week. 50% of that amount goes to Youth Villages. Many people don’t realize that everything in their kitchen is made from scratch, and the championship soup is typical of the quality of food there.
Rajun Cajun Crawfish Fest is expanding, writes the Memphis Flyer’s Hungry Memphis blog. Pending permit approval, Riverside Drive will be closed between Union and Beale. That will allow them to move the gumbo-cooking contest, so there won’t be a bottleneck along the stretch of Wagner where it had been previously located. At the time of the article’s writing, two spots still remained in the gumbo contest.
“The Great Wall of Memphis” still stands Downtown. A blighted building collapsed March 28 of last year, and a wall was erected a few months later to protect passersby from debris. Almost a year after the collapse, the building has not been torn down and the wall still stands. The building’s owner has a court date next week but has already asked for a continuance. This illustrates how hard it is to take action against property owners who don’t care about their neighborhoods.
I had a reader suggest that I give up the Saucer for Lent. Done! For the next 40 days I will not set foot in the Cordova Saucer even once. That’s the one you meant right?
Hi-top fades are back. Somewhere Downtown, Melvin the parking scammer is celebrating his hair being back in style as he waves a car into a metered spot and asks for ’bout ten dolla.
Plans for tonight: I’m going to take a week off from poker at the Blind Bear and do a little Fat Tuesday bar-hopping. Saucer for sure, Bardog and Kooky possibly.