{"id":2784,"date":"2008-11-17T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T18:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2008-11-17T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T17:34:00","slug":"thur-update-cheap-beer-whos-open-thanksgiving-first-tn-pays-off-hotel-jillians-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/17\/thur-update-cheap-beer-whos-open-thanksgiving-first-tn-pays-off-hotel-jillians-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Thur update: Cheap beer, who&#8217;s open Thanksgiving?, First TN pays off, hotel, Jillian&#8217;s, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cheapest beer Downtown appears to be at Hooters, which has $1 domestic drafts all day.\u00a0 It&#8217;s by no means my favorite place, but hey, cheap beer.\u00a0 I was told that the Memphis Flyer received a personal visit from the Hooters girls to promote the beer special.\u00a0 Hey, I&#8217;m media too, sort of!\u00a0 Where&#8217;s my visit?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for the annual &#8220;who&#8217;s going to be open on Thanksgiving?&#8221; list.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not so much concerned with who&#8217;s having a Thanksgiving buffet or dinner &#8211; you can read the paper or Flyer for those &#8211; but rather, which bars are going to be open Downtown, for when people have had their fill of dinner with the family and need a beer or drink?\u00a0 E-mail me at paul@paulryburn.com if you know of a place that will be open.<\/p>\n<p>So far the list is as follows&#8230; I know that Westy&#8217;s and Wang&#8217;s usually stay open for Thanksgiving.\u00a0 The Flying Saucer has signs posted saying they&#8217;ll open at 5.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what they did last year, and I learned that the people who work there were getting extremely worried about me when I didn&#8217;t show up until 5:03.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, finally my long relationship with First Tennessee has paid off!\u00a0 They e-mailed me to offer me two Grizzlies tickets as a form of customer appreciation.\u00a0 And they&#8217;re club-level tickets!\u00a0 Nice!<\/p>\n<p>I found out some info on the construction taking place on the west side of Main and Jefferson.\u00a0 It will be an 8-story Courtyard by Marriott hotel, owned by the same group that owns Sleep Inn and Springhill Suites next door.\u00a0 The hotel will have 131 rooms, each equipped with a flat-panel TV and a &#8220;jack pack&#8221; that allows iPods, MP3 players, computers, DVD players, and other electronic media to be hooked up.\u00a0 The hotel will open in December 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The part of Jillian&#8217;s formerly known as Club Atlas is under construction right now, and will be re-opened as the Tiger Den.\u00a0 It will be an open-air lounge, a comfy place to watch Tiger games.\u00a0 Sounds like a much better use of the space than it was as Atlas.\u00a0 But, what will I make fun of on Thursdays in the spring and summer now?<\/p>\n<p>Tigers play UMass at 11 PM tonight.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not attending the game, but since it&#8217;s Pint Nite I&#8217;ll watch it at the Saucer.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ll do an extra long workday until about 9:30 or 10 &#8211; I have plenty to do &#8211; then head up there for some $2.75 Dos Equis Lager, and I also want to try the Schlafly APA that just came in.\u00a0 Right around halftime the clock will strike midnight, and it will be my birthday.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try to make it all the way to close for Pint Nite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cheapest beer Downtown appears to be at Hooters, which has $1 domestic drafts all day.\u00a0 It&#8217;s by no means my favorite place, but hey, cheap beer.\u00a0 I was told that the Memphis Flyer received a personal visit from the Hooters girls to promote the beer special.\u00a0 Hey, I&#8217;m media too, sort of!\u00a0 Where&#8217;s my &hellip; 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