Downtown Dining Week 2025 has been announced, and it’s not far off – November 3-9. Participating restaurants in DDW create multi-course fixed-price menus to offer for the week. These menus are often a tremendous value and serve as an intro to the restaurant for first-timers. It’s a chance for restaurants to win customers over, turning them into regulars.
Many of the restaurants haven’t posted their DDW menus yet, so I recommend you bookmark the main page and check back. When we get down to the week before, I’ll do a Paul’s Picks list of the best deals.
If there’s a restaurant you KNOW you’re going to want to eat at during DDW, go ahead and make reservations NOW. Don’t wait for them to publish their menu. Especially if you want a prime reservation time of 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, or 8:00.
But, please don’t be a poo-head or a dingus who makes reservations they aren’t sure they’re gonna keep. This deprives the restaurant of revenue and fellow diners of a delicious experience.
Choose901 has a list of where to get free meals in Memphis – churches, soup kitchens, meal boxes and such. Might want to bookmark this page on your phone so you have this info handy to provide to those in need.
I’ve been working from the mezzanine of the Memphis Chess Club lately. Never been up there? Let me show you what it looks like.
Pretty cool, huh? It’s quieter than downstairs and there’s considerably less glare on my laptop screen.
Today is National Cheese Curd Day. Celebrate at the first & last bar in Tennessee, Momma’s.
It’s also National Red Wine Day. Automatic Slim’s has half-off bottles today for Wine Down Wednesday.
FedEx is hiring part-time seasonal package handlers to work in a warehouse-like Downtown environment. $18.80/hour starting pay.
Video: Fishing for white bass in the Mississippi River at Downtown Memphis
People have been using an app called Ghost Tube to attempt to detect and communicate with the spirits that are said to haunt Earnestine & Hazel’s. I installed it today and will play around with it this weekend. I’ll let you know if I discover anything noteworthy.
Back tomorrow with more news.
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