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New Downtown Eatery from Some Heavyweights



The team behind The Paramount: Jordan Beatty, Brent McAfee, Lee Anna Beatty Derk Meitzler, Spencer McMillin, and Mac Edwards.

Some exciting food news just popped up on Facebook on chef Spencer McMillin’s post:

“Opening soon on the corner of MLK (Martin Luther King) and Front (265 South Front) The Paramount, a Tyson Bridge project in collaboration with head chef Derk Meitzler, Brent McAfee, Mac Edwards, Jordan Mitchell Beatty, Lee Anna Beatty! Be on the lookout for this New Orleans style eatery to open featuring locally sourced sausages, tasso ham, Brent’s bacon and …deli meats from Black Sheep Meats with the fun Big Easy vibe of restaurants like Cochon Butcher with Derk Meitzler’s food and Mac Edwards’s charm.

Opening late fall/winter 2020/2021”

McMillin is consulting on the menu and providing some local connections.

The restaurant will be in the old office building that was used as the law office in the TV series, Bluff City Law. It was the old Paramount Pictures building at one time.

Stay tuned!

By Michael Donahue

Michael Donahue began his career in 1975 at the now-defunct Memphis Press-Scimitar and moved to The Commercial Appeal in 1984, where he wrote about food and dining, music, and covered social events until early 2017, when he joined Contemporary Media.