The Blind Bear did indeed update its dinner menu yesterday. Rather than posting a pic of the menu that would require you to do a lot of pinch-zooming with your fingers to be able to read it, I decided to type it for you. Here ya go:
Apps
Blind Bear Balls – 12
Fried panko breaded pepper jack cheese, marinara
Hibernation Fries – 14
Seasoned fries, ground beef, cheese sauce, bacon, jalapenos, tomatoes, and ranch. Try it with Nate’s tots
Spinach Artichoke Dip – 14
House-made salsa, sour cream, tortilla chips
Hibernation Dip – 12
Ground beef, bacon, jalapeno, tomatoes, queso, tortilla chips
Tacos – 15
(choose 3)
Bang Bang Chicken – Asian cucumber
Ground Beef – Cheddar, lettuce, tomato, sour cream
Tequila Chicken – Don Julio sauce, pepper jack, lettuce, tomato
BBQ Chicken Egg Rolls – 12
Cabbage, pepper jack, Jack Daniel’s sauce, Chinese hot mustard
Wings – 8
Three jumbo whole wings
Seasoned, Jack Daniel’s glaze, or buffalo
Mains
All sandwiches served with seasoned fries or Nate’s tots
Smashed Bear Burger – 18
Double patties, cheese, sauteed onions, lettuce, tomato, smashed Bear sauce, brioche bun
Bang Bang Chicken Sandwich – 17
Crispy chicken, Bang Bang sauce, Asian pickled cucumber, brioche bun
Chicken Vodka Parmesan – 17
Breaded chicken, Tito’s tomato cream sauce, mozzarella, spinach
Steak Sandwich – 20
Ribeye, crispy shallots, rosemary mash, Meukow cognac peppercorn cream sauce, garlic parmesan bread
Gangster Philly – 17
Steak or chicken, peppers, onions, mushrooms, provolone cheese, hoagie bun
Quesadillas – 15
Peppers, onions, cheddar & pepper jack cheese
Chicken bacon ranch
or
Seasoned ground beef
Salmon Caesar – 18
Pan-seared salmon, romaine, croutons, parmesan cheese, Caesar dressing
Spinach & Artichoke Grilled Cheese – 12
Spinach-artichoke dip, mozzarella, tomato
Add bacon – 1
NOTE: Menu items and prices are accurate as of June 28, 2023. They tend to change up the menu about once a year, so if you’re viewing this in the distant future, I can’t promise you they will have these exact items or that the prices won’t have gone up.
Also, the Bear has a special this week until Friday or they run out: Fried catfish filet served on a bed of mashed potatoes and mixed greens with a Cajun cream sauce. I saw a couple of the specials come out yesterday and they are BIG pieces of catfish.
I think, while they have them through Friday, you can get Tony’s mixed greens subbed as a side. The greens I saw yesterday had big yummy chunks of pork in them. Sorry, vegetarians.
There’s also a new brunch menu at the Bear and I will try to get it typed up before it takes effect Saturday. By the way, if you go for brunch that day, I hear there’s gonna be a rare Cinnamon appearance behind the bar on a weekend.
If you’re a fan of Local on Main but haven’t been there in a couple of weeks, I think you’re going to like what you find. They’ve installed a bar rail across the patio that allows customers to sit on a high bar stool, rest their drink on the rail, and look out over the Main Street Mall.
Live music coming up at Slider Inn Downtown:
Tonight: 30 Minute Ego
Tomorrow, for South Main Trolley Night: Raneem + Better in Color
Robert Dozier, a member of the 2008 Memphis Tigers basketball team that nearly won the NCAA title in 2008, will return to Memphis July 15 to play in the Big3 tournament, the DM reports. Dozier, now 37, will play for the 3 Headed Monsters.
Ena Esco, the Innovator in Residence at the Cossitt Library, is starting a live podcast series. Her guest this month will be actor and social entrepreneur Bertram Williams Jr. Catch her live at the podcast studio on the second floor of the library today at 5.
Today is National Waffle Iron Day. My suggestion to celebrate would be a Boston Cream Pie Waffle, a Fluffernutter Waffle, or a Cinnamon Sugar Donut Waffle from Bedrock Eats & Sweets at Main and Vance.
Tonight is Whet Thursday at the Metal Museum. Food trucks, games on the lawn, metalsmithing demos.
Catherine & Mary’s is hiring a bartender and a back server.
There’s a rooftop workout on the top of Old Dominick this evening. $23. The class includes a workout by Basecamp Fitness, yoga by SANA Yoga Studio, and an Old Dominick cocktail to cool down. With a predicted high of 101, would the yoga class qualify as Hot Yoga?
Not Downtown but worth a Lyft or Uber: Simpsons Brunch at Black Lodge, 405 N. Cleveland, this Sunday from 11 to 3.
Catch the original play Save Our Music at the Halloran Centre this Saturday.
The Hospitality HUB is open as a cooling center today from 9 AM to 10 PM. It’s on Washington Ave. a couple of blocks east of Danny Thomas. MATA is providing free transportation there. 901-297-1680 for assistance with transportation.
Damn, someone in the Oakleigh subdivision of Germantown is throwing such legendary pool parties that they made both the Daily Memphian and the Commercial Appeal, and not in a good way. The neighbors are pissed off.
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I applied for a remote job Monday that I would really like – one that would draw upon both my teaching and technical abilities. It’s with a company I won’t name but whose mission is similar to that of LinkedIn Learning.
Upon submission of my application, they sent back an acknowledgment email along with a PowerPoint presentation about the company’s “culture code.” They described the presentation as partly a summary of shared values among staff and partly an employee manual.
Uh-oh, I thought. In my experience, when a company spends a lot of time promoting its “culture” to prospective employees, that tends to be a BAD BAD BAD sign.
Not so with this company.
I’ll give an example. They basically have one rule: Use good judgment.
Debating whether to take a sick day? Use good judgment.
Feel the need to jump on personal social media on company time? Use good judgment.
When I got to the end of the culture code PPT, I emailed the company and told them it was the best corporate orientation document I had ever read. And I wasn’t kissing ass. I was being honest.
I’ve applied to about 10 remote jobs and 2 local (almost 3, but one job closed by the time I revised my resume). Again, if you hear of anything I might be interested in, feel free to send it my way. My background is in computer science but I would MOST DEFINITELY be interested in hearing about jobs outside that realm. Especially ones that draw on my abilities to write, teach (adults), connect people, and inspire people.
My A/C won’t cool below 74 this morning, so I’m going to take the MacBook on the road while I get someone in here to look at it. Back tomorrow with more news.