If your sweetheart is a Redbirds fan, you can purchase a custom Valentine’s pack to be delivered by mascot Rockey on Thursday, February 11 or Friday, February 12. There’s a Sweetheart pack ($75) with 6 chocolate-covered strawberries and 2 dugout tickets to the Saturday, April 9 game which is the first post-game fireworks of the season. There’s also a Cupid package ($100) that contains the items in the Sweetheart package plus a half-dozen roses from Lynn Doyle Flowers. Rockey can only make 40 deliveries, so contact Marketing coordinator Savara Linsdey at 901-722-0285 as soon as possible if interested. Noon on Monday, February 8 is the deadline to order and recipients must live within 30 miles of AutoZone Park.
The Commercial Appeal reports that Arepa & Salsa out in the Edge is being replaced by a restaurant called Sabor Caribe on March 1.
Scoops Parlor, a gelato and crepe shop, will open in South Main this week at 106 G.E. Patterson. That’s in the old Harry’s Detour location across from Max’s Sports Bar and Cheesecake Corner.
Holly from the I Love Memphis Blog reports that there will be a Black Restaurant Week in Memphis March 7-13. It will work similarly to Downtown Dining Week, with restaurants offering special menus. Downtown participants include DeJaVu and The Office @ Uptown. Full list of participating restaurants will be released this week.
Next Tuesday, February 9, the South Main Association will have its monthly meeting in the Central Station Boardroom. Alex Turley of Turley Company and Archie Willis of Community Capital will discuss South End and South City, and what these new communities mean to the historic arts district. Social at 6, program at 6:30, with catering by Hard Rock Cafe and beverages by SMA. Free for members, $10 for non-members.
The Memphis Business Journal reports that millions of dollars are available as the city works to fill in the gaps Downtown.
If you live in Southaven or Horn Lake, eat at the Hardee’s at Goodman and Interstate Blvd. this week. It opens tomorrow and they are donating 10 percent of the first week’s sales to St. Jude. (credit I Love Memphis)
Home from work, having just missed the rain. Since I don’t have a regular happy hour bartender on Tuesday, I think I may try to go find something new and different to eat before I get out to the bars. Back tomorrow.