Downtown Dining Week is coming up – November 9-15. Many Downtown restaurants will offer dinners or specials at the price of $20.15. Menus have not been announced yet, but Chez Philippe in the Peabody has announced that they will have afternoon tea for $20.15 as their special.
PRO TIP: If there’s a restaurant know you want to try during Downtown Dining Week, and it’s one of the most popular restaurants down here, don’t wait until its DDW menu is revealed to call and make a reservation. Do it NOW. The peak times (6-8 PM) will be gone within one day of menu reveal for those spots, and all reservations will fill up a few days after that. If you make a reservation and then the menu is revealed for that restaurant and it sucks, you can always call back and cancel.
Downtown Dining Week is a chance for patrons to try restaurants they otherwise might not visit. Most participating restaurants see this as an opportunity, and their DDW offerings send the message, “We want to impress you so you will become our regular customer!” That said, there were a few restaurants last year that really phoned it in and sent the message “If you order off the DDW menu, you’re a second-class customer” with what they put out. I wish those restaurants just wouldn’t participate. It’s not like participation is required, after all.
As soon as the menus are revealed, I will put up a post linking to them.
Latino Memphis is having an event called Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) at the Cadre Building Friday, October 30. Holly has information about this event including a chance to win tickets.
There will be an intimate blues show in the Cavern, the downstairs room of the Brass Door, Friday night at 8. Shawn Marsh from London, England will perform his interpretation of southern delta blues with backing from Diamond Dave and Seamus.
Spindini is having a patio party Friday to kick off the Grizzlies 2015-16 season, beginning at 5 PM. ESPN Radio will do a live broadcast. Hang out with Buffalo Trace and the Miller Lite Ladies, and there will be live music, food, and beverages.
Speaking of the Grizzlies, the 2015 ESPN rankings have come out, rating the best North American sports franchises (not just basketball, but the other three major sports as well). The Grizzlies came in second in the rankings, trailing only the San Antonio Spurs.
Here’s a YouTube video of the October 31 Race for the Cure route.
@Kerry901 reports that the most expensive live/work units for artists in the new Artspace Lofts on St. Paul Street will be $770 for a 3-bedroom. That is far less than any comparable apartment in the area.
BBQ festivals are not just for the South; they happen in the Northeast too. Former Memphian Robo competed in a festival in Atlantic City recently. Read about it here. He even used a device that I am no longer allowed to mention on the blog, and he mentioned me and the fact that I am no longer allowed to mention it.
(I mentioned the BBQ device I am no longer allowed to mention 
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Keith Richards will induct Scotty Moore and Jimmy Fallon will induct Justin Timberlake at the Memphis Music Hall of Fame ceremony Saturday at the Cannon Center.
Here’s a photo of Elvis and Muhammad Ali from 1973 by @HistoricalPics. Elvis has on Ali’s robe and Ali has on an Elvis jumpsuit.
A second post is a possibility after work, so check back. I will be leading off at the Silly Goose and will be catching some of my friends up on an interesting technology discovery I made this weekend.