Gay Lyons

Jenny Boyd, owner of Boyd’s Jig & Reel, swears she wanted the pub to be known for the music, not the food, but she admits the traditional pub fare they’re dishing out has “surpassed expectations. We eat here all the ...

Adrienne Knight: "I have an aversion to servers—and I used to be a server. But a server can make or break your meal. I’d rather the focus be on the food. Food doesn’t necessarily have to be an outing. Three-hour ...

After a Herculean effort, Aegean Mediterranean Grille has opened—again. Let’s hope that unlike Sisyphus, they only have to push the rock up this particular hill once.

David Butler: "The Knoxville Museum of Art should first and foremost be about Knoxville."

Fans of La Costa will be glad to see the fish tacos, sweet potato burrito, spicy black bean soup, steak benedict, egg huevos, and smoked duck breast salad remain. Everything else on the menu changes every three-to-five weeks based on ...

Wireless Kitchen: Poised and articulate, with black curly hair, perfect white teeth, glowing skin, and lively dark eyes, 20-year-old Colleen Cruze exhibits a charming combination of sweet innocence along with a maturity beyond that of most of her peers. This ...

Wireless Kitchen: I heard about someone who gave up Pelancho’s for Lent. Just before Easter, he wasn’t thinking about baked ham or even chocolate bunnies; he wanted Pelancho’s. Lots of people foreswear a food group or a pleasurable activity—but a ...

Wireless Kitchen Knoxville’s Hillside Bakery is literally a hillside bakery—nestled among trees in a garage converted into a commercial bakery with its own mill and wood-fired oven—where Patra Rule, owner and baker, produces nutritious, hand-crafted breads. Rule had always enjoyed ...

If you’re a pub purist, this is not the kind of pub you may be used to. The new Crown and Goose in the Old City is actually a much more refined “gastropub,” with a menu that goes far beyond ...

My recent road trip to Union County with writer and organic farmer Jack Rentfro concluded with a visit to Double D Apiary, the beekeeping operation of Shirley DeBusk.