Majestic Curbside Dinners for Two and more Tuesday news

Starting tomorrow, Wednesday, March 18, the Majestic Grille will begin offering Curbside Dinners for Two. You call and order in advance, and they’ll bring it out to your car when it’s ready. Options include

  • Whole Roasted Chicken $55 – pan jus, mashed potatoes, green beans
  • Grilled Pork Tenderloin $61 – maple cream sauce, mashed potatoes, sugar glazed carrots, crispy onions
  • Roasted Tenderloin of Beef $83 – horseradish sour cream, mashed potatoes, broccoli
  • Rosemary Honey Glazed Salmon Steak $63 – broccoli, jasmine rice

Each entree is enough for two people to share. It comes with house made foccacia bread and Majestic butter, as well as salad for two as a starter. Your salad choices are

  • Mixed Greens
  • Caesar
  • Chop House

Your dinner also comes with dessert from the Majestic’s next door neighbor, Dinsthul’s Fine Candies. Dessert choices are

  • 4 ounces of Dinstuhl’s famous Cashew Crunch
  • Dinstuhl’s Famous Fudge – with pecans or no pecans

There is also an optional appetizer add-on:

  • Sausage & Cheese Plate $15
  • Smoked Salmon Appetizer $13

Call 901-522-8555 after the restaurant opens at 11 AM to order (and remember, this starts TOMORROW).

  • Orders placed by 2 PM will be ready for curbside pickup by 4 PM
  • Orders placed by 4 PM will be ready for curbside pickup by 6 PM

Dinner for Two orders must be placed by 4 PM, but their full menu will be available for take-out or curbside pickup during normal restaurant hours. To pick up, pull up on Peabody Place near the restaurant and give them a call at 901-522-8555. No need to get out of your car. They’ll bring it out to you.

Leave it to Patrick and Deni to innovate and find new ways to keep their customers happy during these uncertain times! Cheers to them!

Why not make it dinner and a movie? With theaters shutting down nationwide due to the coronavirus threat, movies are coming to video on demand early. Trolls World Tour is set to be in theaters April 10, and will be released to VOD the same day.

Here’s another option to get dinner from any Downtown restaurant delivered to your door: Call the Get Lifted golf cart shuttle service, run by my friend Shun WIndless, at 901-563-6650. He or one of his drivers can pick up your restaurant order and deliver it to your Downtown address. All the convenience of Uber Eats, but you’re supporting a local business.

As your number-one source of news and information about The Edge District, it’s my pleasure to inform you that Venezuelan restaurant Sabor Caribe is now offering free delivery to Downtown and Midtown. Call 901-425-5889 to order. Visit their website to check out their menu.

Also, don’t forget that today is Patacon Tuesday at Sabor Caribe:

The City of Memphis is relaxing enforcement of metered spaces Downtown to accommodate delivery drivers picking up people’s food orders. I read that on Joyce Peterson’s Twitter feed (@MemphoNewsLady) which is a great resource for keeping up with the latest news about how locals are coping with the coronavirus outbreak.

In the mood to gamble? You won’t be doing it anywhere near Memphis. Mississippi ordered its casinos closed by midnight last night, and Southland has closed too.

The National Civil Rights Museum has closed for the safety of its patrons and employees. The April 4 MLK celebration has been canceled too.

Shelby County Schools have announced they have moved their date to resume classes back to April 6. My guess is the school year is probably over, though.

ESPN reported last night that the NBA is looking at June to resume play and telling teams to look into arena dates through August to book for the playoffs. Now this is interesting – the 16-team playoff normally takes two months. That is a sign that the NBA will possibly declare the regular season over, making the Grizzlies the 8 seed in the West, to play the 1 seed Lakers.

Martin Lawrence & Friends, scheduled for March 27 at FedExForum, has been canceled.

The World Championship Hot Wing Festival (formerly Southern Hot Wing Fest) is moving its date to June 6 in accordance with the CDC guidance of no mass gatherings of 50 or more people for the next 8 weeks.

Also in accordance with that guidance, Major League Baseball (and presumably, Minor League Baseball including the Redbirds) has moved Opening Day to mid-May.

Stats site FiveThirtyEight has an analysis of the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on sports revenue. This could lead to the salary cap and luxury tax for the NBA 2020-2021 season being lowered by millions of dollars, affecting moves teams can make in summer free agency… or fall free agency, as may be the case this year.

Blues City has announced there will be no bands playing in its Band Box until further notice. The cafe will still be open, serving great ribs, steaks, and other Southern delights.

The South Main Association has canceled its March happy hour and its presence at March Trolley Night.

The Downtown Neighborhood Association has canceled its March monthly meeting.

The Friends of Cossitt Library scheduled for Thursday has been canceled. The library will not be doing Tech Tuesdays, Family Fun Night, or any kind of outreach event until further notice.

Backbeat Tours is still operating but limiting tours to a capacity of 20.

Mayor Strickland speculated that Memphis in May could be moved to summer or fall if it is not possible to have the festival in May.

Bars have NOT been closed in Memphis yet, but if you go out tonight for St. Patrick’s Day, use some common sense. If you walk into a big crowded bar full of 150 people packed in shoulder to shoulder and you choose to stay there, you risk endangering your family, your co-workers, and anyone else who you regularly come in close contact with. By the way, cheers to Cooper-Young bar Celtic Crossing, which sent out a release saying they will enforce social distancing at tonight’s celebration.

Back tomorrow with more news.