I'm pretty sure anytime someone goes to Memphis, they have to either listen to or mention the song "Walking in Memphis".
A couple of weekends ago, Allison and I headed to Memphis for the weekend to celebrate her birthday and Valentine's Day. We dropped Emma off at Allison's parent's house and headed into the snow-filled city of Memphis. We wanted to eat some Interstate BBQ when we got there. They have a place inside the Memphis airport and ate some there on our honeymoon travels. Allison found that they have a real restaraunt, so we mapped it and headed there when we pulled into town around 7:30 PM (Friday Feb 10th). They were closed. Totally bummed and scared for our lives due to the shady-ness of the area, we got back on the road. Our second option was Huey's, apparently voted as the best burger in Memphis. We drove for about 45 minutes looking for a certain street, and missed it. We ended up downtown by the Pyramid, which is SO not close to where we meant to end up. However, I did stop to take a picture, since it was covered in snow and looked pretty nifty. We resigned to skip Huey's and head back to an On the Border we passed along the way. Time is now 8:30 PM. We head back up another road that ran parallel to the road we came down, and we quickly found Huey's. But it was closed, too. At this point, we were mad and hungry. We drove up to On the Border, got inside only to find out they closed the kitchen around 7:30 because they didn't have any customers due to the snow. Now we were REALLY mad. Back in the car, we end up next to our hotel at an IHOP at 9:00 PM. It takes about 10 minutes before anyone takes our drink order, another 5 minutes before the drinks get there, and another 15 minutes before they take our order. And they weren't busy at all. 30 minutes later, our food arrives...complete with curly black hair on our pancakes. It was a really horrible time. We got to the room and crashed, hoping that Saturday would be better.
We got up and went straight to the Pottery Barn Outlet and browsed for a while, not finding too much success. We headed back to Interstate BBQ to eat lunch. Quite tastey food! I did find some pork sludge on the inside of my drink glass, which put a bad ending to a great lunch. Then we spent an hour looking for another shopping center and went to the Apple store, which is really just a big fat tease. I really want the new Intel 17" iMac, but don't really have the $1,500 to drop on one. We did get to see the new iPod Nanos that are replacing the Shuffles...super cool. Allison ended up getting one later at Best Buy. A quick stop by Target to get a toaster oven / toaster thing for Allison, and we headed out to dinner. We ate at Paulette's, a cozy little fancy place. The food was great, the wine was great, and the company was fantastic. They are well known for their great deserts. We ambitiously got our own deserts and finished about half of each of them. We headed back to the hotel and crashed.
Sunday, we slept in and headed back to Little Rock. Allison and Emma stayed in the Rock while I drove back home. I spent last week in LA for business meetings, so they just stayed there a couple more days while I was gone. All in all, it was a great trip, minus Friday night's dining adventure.
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Published by John Nelson
on February 22, 2006 at 10:00 AM.
A couple of weekends ago, Allison and I headed to Memphis for the weekend to celebrate her birthday and Valentine's Day. We dropped Emma off at Allison's parent's house and headed into the snow-filled city of Memphis. We wanted to eat some Interstate BBQ when we got there. They have a place inside the Memphis airport and ate some there on our honeymoon travels. Allison found that they have a real restaraunt, so we mapped it and headed there when we pulled into town around 7:30 PM (Friday Feb 10th). They were closed. Totally bummed and scared for our lives due to the shady-ness of the area, we got back on the road. Our second option was Huey's, apparently voted as the best burger in Memphis. We drove for about 45 minutes looking for a certain street, and missed it. We ended up downtown by the Pyramid, which is SO not close to where we meant to end up. However, I did stop to take a picture, since it was covered in snow and looked pretty nifty. We resigned to skip Huey's and head back to an On the Border we passed along the way. Time is now 8:30 PM. We head back up another road that ran parallel to the road we came down, and we quickly found Huey's. But it was closed, too. At this point, we were mad and hungry. We drove up to On the Border, got inside only to find out they closed the kitchen around 7:30 because they didn't have any customers due to the snow. Now we were REALLY mad. Back in the car, we end up next to our hotel at an IHOP at 9:00 PM. It takes about 10 minutes before anyone takes our drink order, another 5 minutes before the drinks get there, and another 15 minutes before they take our order. And they weren't busy at all. 30 minutes later, our food arrives...complete with curly black hair on our pancakes. It was a really horrible time. We got to the room and crashed, hoping that Saturday would be better.
We got up and went straight to the Pottery Barn Outlet and browsed for a while, not finding too much success. We headed back to Interstate BBQ to eat lunch. Quite tastey food! I did find some pork sludge on the inside of my drink glass, which put a bad ending to a great lunch. Then we spent an hour looking for another shopping center and went to the Apple store, which is really just a big fat tease. I really want the new Intel 17" iMac, but don't really have the $1,500 to drop on one. We did get to see the new iPod Nanos that are replacing the Shuffles...super cool. Allison ended up getting one later at Best Buy. A quick stop by Target to get a toaster oven / toaster thing for Allison, and we headed out to dinner. We ate at Paulette's, a cozy little fancy place. The food was great, the wine was great, and the company was fantastic. They are well known for their great deserts. We ambitiously got our own deserts and finished about half of each of them. We headed back to the hotel and crashed.
Sunday, we slept in and headed back to Little Rock. Allison and Emma stayed in the Rock while I drove back home. I spent last week in LA for business meetings, so they just stayed there a couple more days while I was gone. All in all, it was a great trip, minus Friday night's dining adventure.
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