Sun update: Kudzu’s Groupon, High Cotton Brewing, Bardog news, and more

First of all, a very happy birthday to my friend Air Traffic Mike. ATM retired three years ago after 25 years as an air traffic controller here. He now spends most of his time in South Jersey, but his Memphis friends keep up to date with what’s going on in his life via his blog. Since today is his birthday, ATM took the day off and a guest food blogger is filling in. “Pepe’ El Desatascador” likes to review the foods in the gas station deli. Yeesh. I don’t know if this is the worst food blog I have ever read, but it’s definitely in the top two.

There’s a Groupon for a Downtown bar and restaurant today. Kudzu’s is on the eastern edge of Downtown, on Monroe Avenue east of Danny Thomas. It’s a locally owned neighborhood bar with sandwiches and live music. The Groupon will get you $16 worth of food at Kudzu’s for $8. You know, I have lived Downtown for almost 11 years now and have never made it to Kudzu’s. I need to do something about that soon. It’s only about a 2 minute cab ride away.

Kudzu’s will soon have a new neighbor. Action News 5 reports that construction continues at High Cotton Brewing Company at 598 Monroe.

Grizzlies have an away game at Phoenix tonight. Tip-off is at 7 and the game will be on SportSouth. If you want to keep track of game times, follow @MemphisOnTV on Twitter.

Bardog has announced that there will be new menu items in the coming week. They’re also close to finalizing plans to have the Underdog (downstairs) room open for brunch Saturday and Sunday. That’s a good thing. At times I’ve seen it so busy in there for brunch in the upstairs that they’ve had to turn people away.

In other Bardog news, they closed for the first few days in January to make some improvements to the place. Here’s Panda showing off one of the improvements:

The employees complained that they couldn’t hear the phone ring because of the jukebox, so Aldo installed this antique red pay phone above the bar. It rings when the regular phone rings. You can hear this thing in West Memphis, I’m pretty sure, so no more missed calls.

All right, time to read the Sunday comics. Or maybe I’ll just read Pepe’s blog post again. I’m going to take a week off from brunch at the Majestic, but I’ll be out about noon.