It’s at all times nice to function native restaurant owner-operators who’re really increasing their enterprise throughout these troublesome financial instances, and we’ve acquired some excellent news.
Ben Claybaker is the proprietor and one of many founders of HoneyFire Barbeque. Since 2018, HoneyFire has been serving its personal particular model of candy and spicy smoked meats from its flagship location at One Bellevue Place, and their second location in Meeting Meals Corridor downtown appears to be hopping each time I stroll by.
Now Claybaker and his spouse Elizabeth are delighted to announce their third location will open on Thursday, Might 7, in Brentwood in The Outlets at Seven Springs at 710 Outdated Hickory Blvd.
“I can’t wait to open the doorways to our third, and our largest, restaurant,” says Ben. “Since we launched our first flagship again in 2018 at One Bellevue Place, we’ve developed an exquisite following of HoneyFire followers that love our award-winning barbecue, and I’m so grateful for our unimaginable workers that treats every buyer like household.”
Plans for the brand new restaurant embody an expanded whiskey assortment and lockers that diners can lease out on an annual foundation to retailer their very own bottles. HoneyFire will even introduce some new menu objects, together with a brisket smashburger, brisket tacos, a decadent loaded mac-and-cheese and an equally over-the-top loaded baked potato. Working hours can be seven days per week from 11 a.m. till 11 p.m.
In one other surprising information nugget: Claybaker’s former accomplice and HoneyFire co-founder Shane Nasby hadn’t supposed to spill the beans but on his fourth location of his common Cledis Burgers & Beers, however the phrase acquired out. He has plans to maneuver into the previous dwelling of of Murfreesboro’s stalwart Boro Bar & Grill — which closed final yr after 40 years in enterprise — at 1211 Greenland Drive.
Contemplating the work that must be completed to the constructing — and the truth that Nasby simply opened Cledis No. 3 in The Gulch and is working to open a brand new idea with chef Alex Belew that they’re calling Chinwag — the opening date for Cledis No. 4 is totally unknown, even to Nasby. There’s a purpose why we sit on information typically as an alternative of publishing each snippet of information we hear, however we’ll be sure you share the thin once we (and Nasby) realize it!
Chef Sheldon Simeon
Lastly, as a loyal High Chef viewer, I’ve been a longtime fan of Hawaiian chef Sheldon Simeon. Apparently I’m not the one one, as a result of the good-natured chef was named “Fan Favourite” in each Season 10 and Season 14 of the favored Bravo cooking competitors collection.
Simeon has a brand new cookbook popping out titled Ohana Model, and he’ll carry copies of it to promote and signal at a particular occasion on Tuesday, Might 12, at Stateside Kitchen within the Dream Nashville Lodge at 210 Fourth Ave. N. downtown. From 6:30 till 8:30 p.m., attendees will get pleasure from two chef-curated bites and a complimentary cocktail whereas chatting with the chef and studying about his model of cooking, which incorporates influences from his Filipino heritage and Hawaiian dwelling. Every visitor will go dwelling with a signed copy of Ohana Model and obtain two hours of free valet parking.
Tickets are $75 plus tax per particular person. Extra drinks can be accessible for buy. Attendees will even obtain a ten p.c low cost when eating at Stateside Kitchen or Parlour Bar the identical night. Tickets could be bought right here.
