Peppermint cake at the Memphis Chess Club
Looking for a warm, cozy place to work or chill? Try the mezzanine of the Memphis Chess Club. Heat rises. When it’s 70 in the main dining area, it’s about 76 up there.
The latest CBS Sports bowl projections have Memphis vs. Arkansas State in the Birmingham Bowl Monday, December 29. For the Liberty Bowl in Memphis on January 2, they project TCU vs. Tulane.
Today is National Cookie Day. Makeda’s at 301 Jefferson, Cookie Plug and Butteriffic on Second, and Insomnia Cookies on Beale Street would be my recommendations to celebrate.
Get 20% off food now through Sunday at the following restaurants when you show your St. Jude race registration, bib, or medal.
- Bardog, 73 Monroe
- Aldo’s Pizza Pies, 100 S. Main
- Slider Inn, Mulberry at Talbot
- Momma’s, E.H. Crump Blvd. at Kentucky
RIP Steve Cropper of Booker T & the MGs.
Back tomorrow with a Frupdate.
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