Sunday update

Reminder! Today’s the last crawfish boil of the season at Max’s Sports Bar. I think they said they’re opening the doors at 11:30 today (five hours early on a Sunday) and the first batch should roll out around 12. You can get boiled shrimp if you prefer those to crawfish. Both come with corn, sausage, and taters.

Best attempt to get free food I’ve heard in a while: “Can I get another salad? The one I was eating blew away,” from a customer sitting on a patio, on a day when the winds were 20 mph gusting to 30.

The DM reports that there is a new pop-up restaurant, Flame MaLaTang, open for lunch and dinner Thursday through Monday, in the Viet Hoa Food Market at 40 N. Cleveland. Why am I reporting this in a Downtown blog? Because Groove on Demand has extended our idea of how far Downtown extends. For $1.25 each way (and your first 10 rides are free) you can hit the businesses of Crosstown without ever setting foot in a car that you own.

Note that Flame MaLaTang serves ONLY spicy dishes, which is great news for me, but may not be for you. You can customize the spicy Chinese soups, adding veggies, noodles, pork, fish, and shrimp. The same people who own Flame Ramen on Union own this business.

I have to admit that corn-on-the-cob is an interesting ingredient in soup… what do you do, pick it up out of the soup with your hands and eat it?

Here’s a link to James Aycock’s COVID Week-in-Review. Note that adults 50 and up are eligible for a second booster, and kids 5-11 have been approved for a first booster. The trend of the numbers indicates June is gonna be bad COVID-wise in Shelby County.

Sign of the times: A popular bar in the Downtown core has moved back its closing time from 3 AM to 1 AM because the very-late-night crowd is so unruly. I do not expect this to be the last time I report a bar/restaurant is scaling back its hours for similar reasons. We can’t have nice things down here anymore.

There’s a Kayak Memphis Harbor Tour departing from the lower Mud Island boat ramp this morning at 11.

The Hyatt Centric is holding a pool party Saturday, May 28 from 11 AM to 4 PM. Your $75 ticket includes access to the only resort-style pool Downtown, a DJ, 2 drink tickets, and classic grilled food like burgers and hot dogs. This is a 21 and up affair. You can rent a cabana for up to 6 people for the party for $600.

Today is Bitcoin Pizza Day. 12 years ago today, someone paid 10,000 bitcoin for a pizza. If he’d gone hungry and held on to that bitcoin, today it would be worth about $300 million.

Elevation Memphis plays the Coach House Stage today at Loflin Yard at noon.

There will be a free bass fishing seminar at Bass Pro at the Pyramid Saturday at 10:30 AM. Expert Ryan will share his secrets including the best bait and the best rods.

That’s the news for today. Gonna go get me some boiled shrimp. Back tomorrow.