{"id":13787,"date":"2013-04-26T12:48:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=13787"},"modified":"2013-04-26T12:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T17:49:17","slug":"fri-update-chisca-party-scooter-rally-trolley-night-luvglo-green-beetles-breakfast-flight-late-night-menu-the-usual-crummy-weather-for-music-fest-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/fri-update-chisca-party-scooter-rally-trolley-night-luvglo-green-beetles-breakfast-flight-late-night-menu-the-usual-crummy-weather-for-music-fest-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Fri update: Chisca party, scooter rally, Trolley Night, LUVGLO, Green Beetle&#8217;s breakfast, Flight late-night menu, the usual crummy weather for Music Fest next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/wreg.com\/2013\/04\/26\/hotel-chisca-development-project-begins-with-launch-party\/\">launch party for the Chisca Hotel redevelopment<\/a> outside the hotel today at 4:30. Free to the public. DJ spinning &#8217;50s music and a special appearance by the star of <i>Memphis<\/i> the musical.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Kings scooter club holds its annual rally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphiskings.net\/2013-dead-elvis-vi-six-feet-under-details-here\/\">Dead Elvis: Six Feet Under<\/a>, today through Sunday. Two scooters will be given away, and there will be several rides, including a Mississippi River trail, a visit to some of Memphis&#8217; famous landmarks, and in keeping with the Dead Elvis theme a visit to Elvis&#8217; original resting place. Over 90 scooter enthusiasts have registered.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s South Main Trolley Tour night with many of the shops and galleries open in the South Main district open late. Many of them will have special performances, discounts, and\/or appetizers and beverages. Free food? Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up.<\/p>\n<p>The <a>LUVGLO<\/a> night race is tonight. Even if you aren&#8217;t running, you can come watch. There will be music and food trucks. Party kicks off at the old Tennessee Brewery on Tennessee Street at 8 PM, and the first group of runners take off at 9:30. $5 donation requested from those who are not running to enter the warehouse, glow party, and epic finish line. Money raised benefits Habitat for Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I was talking with a friend of mine, who complimented the Green Beetle&#8217;s new breakfast and I wanted to pass the compliments on. He&#8217;d been frustrated when a place a few blocks down the street took an hour and 20 minutes to serve him breakfast, and he didn&#8217;t even get all the items he ordered. So he tried the Beetle. The food was very good, he said, big portions, they get it out to you fast, and it&#8217;s reasonably priced. He said they had steak and eggs for $9.95 and it&#8217;s a very good steak. The Beetle opens at 9 AM for breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Flight restaurant will begin offering a late-night menu from 10-11 PM Monday-Wednesday and 10 PM-midnight Thursday-Saturday. The menu is the creation of executive chef Scott Perkins and includes the following:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">Blue Cheese-Stuffed Fig and Bruschetta<br \/>\nBaguette with black mission figs and RoquefortCrawfish Dip<br \/>\nCrisp Cajun tortilla chips<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tuna Wonton Tacos<br \/>\nBig eye tuna, cucumbers and red onions in crispy wonton and lemon vinaigrette<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jumbo Lump Crab Gratin<br \/>\nJumbo lump crab, butter-fried croutons and b\u00e9chamel<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Coconut-Fried Shrimp<br \/>\nChili-orange glaze<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Slider Flight<br \/>\nPulled duck confit, lamb gyro and Kobe burger<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Shells and Cheese<br \/>\nB\u00e9chamel, parmesan, gruyere with shell pasta and herb bread crumbs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pork and Vegetable Dumpling<br \/>\nSweet chili-lime sauce, fresh cilantro<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hand-Dipped Chocolate<br \/>\nGuanaja, cayenne, cocoa, caramel Valrhona, ganache, salted peanut chocolate brittle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The menu will also feature a selection of imported charcuterie paired with fresh cheeses such as baked brie, apricot Stilton and St. Andre triple cream in addition to Mediterranean-spiced Georgia pecans and an assortment of Rivera mixed olives. Flight is at the corner of Main and Monroe Downtown.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re close enough to May now that the Weather Channel has a forecast for the first few days. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/weather\/monthly\/USTN0325?month=1\">I took a peek.<\/a> For Friday, May 3, the first day of Music Fest, the forecast is high 65, low 47. That&#8217;s 12-13 degrees below normal. Why can&#8217;t we EVER have nice weather for Music Fest?<\/p>\n<p>Plans for tonight: After kicking it off with a few beers in the core, I think I&#8217;m going to wander south and check out this LUVGLO thing. I hope the rain holds off until tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a launch party for the Chisca Hotel redevelopment outside the hotel today at 4:30. Free to the public. DJ spinning &#8217;50s music and a special appearance by the star of Memphis the musical. The Memphis Kings scooter club holds its annual rally, Dead Elvis: Six Feet Under, today through Sunday. Two scooters will be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/fri-update-chisca-party-scooter-rally-trolley-night-luvglo-green-beetles-breakfast-flight-late-night-menu-the-usual-crummy-weather-for-music-fest-next-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fri update: Chisca party, scooter rally, Trolley Night, LUVGLO, Green Beetle&#8217;s breakfast, Flight late-night menu, the usual crummy weather for Music Fest next week&#8221;<\/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\/13787"}],"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=13787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13788,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13787\/revisions\/13788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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