As Athens restaurants, bars and eateries adjust to social distancing requirements and changing policies during the coronavirus pandemic, their operations change frequently. Hereâs this weekâs roundup of restaurant news. Donât forget to stay up to date on hours of operations, service options and contact information with our comprehensive restaurant guide.
Butcher & Vine, Athens, has limited outdoor seating
The newest addition to Five Points, Butcher and Vine, has new outdoor seating right off Milledge Avenue. The restaurant is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thereâs also plenty of indoor seating.
Buvez has extended hours
March 19 Shoppery postponed until March 26
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CONWAY â Retired middleweight champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler, who died last Saturday at his Bartlett home at age 66, was remembered as one of the valleyâs own after the famous boxer first started coming here in the early 1980s, then bought a home in Bartlett in 1985.
âAs far as Iâm concerned, he was the valleyâs celebrity,â is how Terry OâBrien, co-owner of the Red Parka Steakhouse and Pub in Glen, summed up Hagler.
Bartlett Police Chief Christopher Keaton said police logs show that Hagler was transported by Bartlett-Jackson Ambulance Services from his home near Attitash to North Conwayâs Memorial Hospital on Friday evening.
2020 was not an easy year for a lot of local businesses, especially restaurants that depend on having customers within their walls.
Though this can be partially mitigated by using a well-run carryout business, a restaurant offering dine-in service was hobbled by social-distancing requirements requiring it to operate at reduced capacity, and therefore reduced profits.
However, there are restaurants that have survived these âInteresting Times,â and continue to thrive in spite of them. One such is north Johnson Cityâs Red Pig Bar-B-Q.
First glance
Currently fronting north Johnson Cityâs Ferguson Road, the Red Pig Bar-B-Q is a 50-plus yearsâ veteran in the restaurant business. In the â70s, I myself worked at the Red Pigâs old West Walnut Street location under founder and owner Tom Carr, first as a dishwasher, then as a line cook preparing the side orders for Red Pigâs barbecue-hungry customers. From memory, I can still make Red Pigâs signa
My cousin, Lynn, and I sat side by side every week in Sunday School, in the choir where less than a dozen people sang, and on the second bench on the left side for preaching.
We even led a song together every Sunday and, sometimes, if the church was really hard up, one or both of us would play the piano. Neither of us was very good at it, but Daddy, willing to lead the suffering congregation through our sour notes, thought it was worth the learning weâd get from it.
I remember, once, when I was about 14, I stopped midway through the first verse of Trust and Obey and said to Royce, the song leader, âYouâre singinâ too fast. Slow down.â
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