Last night I ran into former Sleep Out Louie’s bartender Josh, and he told me he is now serving at The Superior Bar on Beale. He told me a little about the menu, and it sounds pretty good – so good that I think that will be my lunch spot for today. He said they had an eggplant club sandwich. I figured that meant it was vegetarian, with the eggplant replacing the meat – “yuk,” I thought. But I was wrong… they deep-fry the eggplant into thin slices and use it to replace the BREAD. Now we’re talkin’. I’ve had salads the past two days in a row, so it’s time for something unhealthy. He said they also have meat-and-two and meat-and-three lunches every weekday, and he mentioned some other tasty items too – I seem to remember lasagna and a Cajun turkey wrap. If I get down there today I’ll get a better look at the menu and make notes on my favorites.<\/p>\n
Josh also told me that the King Biscuit Diner which will be located on the ground floor of the Westin, on Lt. Lee Avenue facing the Gibson, is a month or two away from opening. There’s already a King Biscuit open in East Bumblefuck, so you can check out their website<\/a> to get an idea of their menu and what else goes on there. (And you can buy discount gift certificates to eat there at Memphis Discount Dining<\/a>.) He also told me that the Ground Zero blues nightclub, also to be located in the Westin, is 2-3 months away from opening and the Eric Hughes Band will be the house band. They’re fantastic and it’s great to see them getting a gig at a big-name club, run by management who will treat them well.<\/p>\n If you’re one of Josh’s former Sleep Out’s regulars, I’m sure he’d appreciate it if you stopped by Superior and said hello. I’ll give a more detailed report on Superior after I’ve eaten there. It’s summer so maybe I’ll see some cute tourists in tube tops on Beale.<\/p>\n My first project for the new company is currently in limbo, so I guess I’ll work on completing my new online store today. Trivia tonight at the Saucer at 7, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night I ran into former Sleep Out Louie’s bartender Josh, and he told me he is now serving at The Superior Bar on Beale. He told me a little about the menu, and it sounds pretty good – so good that I think that will be my lunch spot for today. He said they … Continue reading “Lunch plans”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}