The waiting is finally over. Today at 4 PM, Double J Smokehouse and Saloon opens its doors to the public. They’ll kick things off with an atmosphere of fun, excitement, great food, and cold beer. Demitrie and his staff will be in the kitchen, with Jeff and John on the smoker.
From 10 PM to 2 AM the Eddie Smith Band will play the Front Porch Stage with special guest Russell Scott. They were the band who played the meet & greet last Friday, and if you weren’t there, let me assure you, they were excellent. Also, you never know who might come up on stage to sit in with them.
Parking is not a problem. There’s street parking, the Double J lot, and at night there are plenty of spaces available in the nearby Civil Rights Museum lot.
Really excited to have this new venue. Not only will it be a place where the locals feel comfortable, but I suspect it will draw people from other parts of Memphis who otherwise wouldn’t come down here. I can even see it becoming a regional attraction.
As they said on their Facebook page, “Hollar and swallar!” Weather permitting, I’ll pop in there sometime tonight. If not tonight, sometime this weekend.