If you like mojitos, today would be a good day to go by Cafe Keough. It’s Mojito Monday there and Jai will be serving hand-crafted mojitos for only $4. Check out the food menu while you’re there – food is really good.
There will be a beer dinner by Memphis Made Brewing Co. tomorrow night at the Downtown Local Gastropub. It will be a four-course meal, with each course paired with a Memphis Made favorite or new arrival. Andy and Drew, the brewery’s founders, will be on hand to talk about beer, food, the brewery, U.S. soccer, or whatever you want to talk about. You can find the menu here.
Important date to put on your calendar: Next Monday, July 14. On that date, there will be a meeting about the trolleys at the Memphis Transit Board Room, 545 S. Main, from 6 to 8 in the evening. The meeting was called by state representative Barbara Cooper to discuss the status of the trolleys, which are supposed to be offline for 3-6 months. Will the existing trolleys be restored? Will other vintage trolleys be purchased? Will the trolleys be replaced with a more modern system? Or (as some suspect) is the 3-6 month window nothing but bullshit and MATA intends to get rid of the trolleys for good?
Bon Ton Cafe is now selling grab & go lunches for those who don’t have time to sit down at a table. Grab & go has been a popular concept lately, with eighty3 and City Market doing it as well. Bon Ton has both sandwich and salad boxes and there are boxes for vegetarians as well.
Yesterday was an awesome day to end an awesome weekend. The BBQ team prez arranged a get-together at Texas de Brazil for brunch. Since TdB doesn’t open until noon, I had an hour to pre-game at Bardog, where someone convinced me to have Fireball shots. By the time I got to TdB I was a little tipsy. You know what, though? I was an eating machine! Usually I eat like a bird and fail to get my money’s worth, but yesterday I was all over it. I had three bowls of lobster bisque, two helpings of those super yummy au gratin potatoes, lots of bacon, and of course lots of meat that the servers were carrying around. I outlasted my two table-mates, which almost never happens. Of course, I dipped damn near everything in the lobster bisque: The bacon, the grilled meats, the jalapeno I grabbed from the salad bar, the mozzarella balls. SO good! Afterward I spent the afternoon with friends at the Silly Goose and stopped by the Saucer as well. It was so wonderful to spend my Sunday in the best neighborhood in the city, Downtown!
I’ve received an insider tip about a new place to go that sounds like it has the potential to be very cool. It’s a place for the locals to chill out and listen to live music. I don’t want to blog about it until I have seen it for myself, but ask me about it if you see me in person, or text me. Perhaps we can get a group together to check it out this weekend.
Plans for tonight are the usual, first Melissa Monday at Bardog then Pint Nite at the Saucer. Can’t go wrong with the classics!