Monday night when I was out, I talked to a friend who had dined at Petals of a Peony recently. She and several friends ordered five dishes and split them family style. She raved about the food, noting that the recipes were all authentic Sichuan, not the Americanized Chinese food commonly found in Memphis.
This is good news for Downtowners because we’re getting a restaurant named Little Petals Chinese and it’s by the Petals of a Peony folks. It’ll be on Madison next to the First Horizon office tower.
The same friend raved about another restaurant on Madison, JEM Fine Dining in The Edge. She said the food was delicious and the restaurant lives up to the chef’s stated goal of making fine dining comfortable for people who don’t normally visit that type of restaurant.
The NBA trade deadline is 2 PM Central. I recommend keeping a tab open to Bleacher Report’s NBA News page and refreshing it every 10 minutes.
Memphis in May is putting Beale Street Music Fest on pause for a second year.
MATA wants more funding so it can get the trolleys back online this summer.
A new Downtown gym, Grind Fitness, is hiring.
Bar Limina will open next month in The Edge in the former Inkwell space. It will be a “technique-driven cocktail bar.” Visiting bartenders will come in and make drinks.
Expect a heavy amount of yeeting at FedExForum tomorrow night for WWE Smackdown. I bet Royal Rumble winner Jey Uso will confront unified champ Cody Rhodes as Uso decides whether to challenge for Cody’s title or world champion Gunther’s at WrestleMania. (He’ll eventually pick Gunther.)
That’s all for today.
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