Miss Cordelia’s is having an open house tonight, starting at 6 PM. Lots of food will be available for sampling at the Mud Island grocery, so you can start thinking about what you want to eat this holiday season. There will be massages from Harbor Day Town Spa too. Free food? Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up. I bet she hates it that this is scheduled during Downtown Dining Week.
I don’t read the CA that often, but today I was surfing its site and noticed that Mollie Fontaine’s own Bjarni was profiled in the dining section’s Meet the Bartender feature. Good article, good bartender, good guy.
Lots happening at Central BBQ’s Downtown location this weekend. At 4 PM tomorrow, Friday, November 9, there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the grand opening. (It’s been open under a soft opening for several weeks now.) The Greater Memphis Chamber and the Convention & Visitors Bureau will be on hand to celebrate. Saturday they will host a parking lot party with live music, and food and beverage specials will continue into Sunday.
Wondering what’s on the Green Beetle’s breakfast menu? Here’s a pic.
Today is National Stout Day. Learn more about that style of beer, and why it is being celebrated with its own day, on Capt. Keith’s Beer Blog. I agree, it is a lot less silly than “Talk Like a Pirate Day.” If you use the Untappd app, check in at any Flying Saucer today to get your National Stout Day badge.
FiveThirtyEight.com’s Nate Silver has a very interesting statistical analysis of why the Republicans lost almost all the swing states in the presidential election. Couple of interesting facts in the article: 1) Ohio, widely forecast to be the tipping-point state in the election, was not: Colorado was. 2) Romney could have won the popular vote by 2 percentage points and still lost the election. He would have picked up Ohio and Florida in that scenario, but Colorado and Virginia would have remained blue and got Obama to 285 in the Electoral College. Silver’s conclusion: Perhaps Republicans should moderate their tone on social issues, so they can be more competitive in the swing states.
My Instagram profile page went live this afternoon. Pretty cool. If you choose to view it, I hope you like pictures of beer, pictures of places that serve beer, pictures of people drinking beer at those places, and pictures of people who serve beer at those places. And before you claim that sounds rather boring, at least it’s not a bunch of pictures of kids.
Time to go drink beer at the usual spots. Back tomorrow.