{"id":28205,"date":"2024-10-04T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28205"},"modified":"2024-10-04T10:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T15:50:12","slug":"friday-update-296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/04\/friday-update-296\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to dine on some fabulous Memphis cuisine while being kind to our planet, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/challenge.projectgreenfork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PGF-2024-Green-Dining-Guide-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Project Green Fork Dining Guide<\/a>. All restaurants listed have demonstrated a commitment to reducing food waste and lessening their environmental footprint. Downtown restaurants include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A. Schwab&#8217;s old-fashioned soda fountain<\/li>\n<li>Biscuits &amp; Jams in Hotel Indigo<\/li>\n<li>Central BBQ<\/li>\n<li>The Rendezvous<\/li>\n<li>Comeback Coffee<\/li>\n<li>Cordelia&#8217;s Market<\/li>\n<li>Good Fortune Co.<\/li>\n<li>McEwen&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Memphis Made Brewing (the old Cooper-Young location was certified; I&#8217;m guessing the new Edge location will be too)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The MBJ has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/memphis\/news\/2024\/10\/03\/hi-tone-brian-skinny-mccabe-owning-bar-venue.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with Brian &#8220;Skinny&#8221; McCabe of the Hi-Tone.<\/p>\n<p>Momma&#8217;s, &#8220;the diner and dive off 55&#8221; at Crump and Kentucky, will hold open hiring for rock star bartenders and servers next week &#8211; specifically, 2-4 PM Monday-Thursday. Must be able to work nights and weekends. Bring your resume or email it to <span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">eat@mommasbar.com. Be sure to learn the proper technique for popping open a can of PBR &#8211; you&#8217;ll probably be serving me a few!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s rolls out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/03\/food\/mcdonalds-chicken-big-mac\/index.html?utm_campaign=mb&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicken Big Mac<\/a> next week. Bleh. I&#8217;ll stick with the original.<\/p>\n<p>Zinnie&#8217;s at Madison and Belvedere is now reopened and their new Philly cheese steak sandwich and Philly cheese steak fries look yummy. They&#8217;ve added a baby grand piano once owned by Lex Bonner and subtracted smoking.<\/p>\n<p>The SMA has its monthly South Main Social at Bar Ware (276 S. Front) Tuesday at 6 PM. Check out the fall comfort food menu and seasonal drinks. Free for members, $20 for non-members.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Maybe I&#8217;ll pop up at Zinnie&#8217;s tonight to see the place for myself.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It\u2019s free to read this blog, but I gratefully accept tips!\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to dine on some fabulous Memphis cuisine while being kind to our planet, check out the 2024 Project Green Fork Dining Guide. All restaurants listed have demonstrated a commitment to reducing food waste and lessening their environmental footprint. Downtown restaurants include A. Schwab&#8217;s old-fashioned soda fountain Biscuits &amp; Jams in Hotel Indigo &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/04\/friday-update-296\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday update&#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\/28205"}],"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=28205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28206,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28205\/revisions\/28206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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