Restaurant Iris is moving from its Midtown location to the old The Grove Grill restaurant location at 4550 Poplar in Laurelwood in East Memphis, chef/owner Kelly English announces.
“During the pandemic we really talked and thought a lot about the best ways we could take care of our team,” English says.
And, he says, “When it came the right time, we called Laurelwood and started talking about what it would be to move that way.”
It’s a much bigger space than their current location, English says. “The dining room in Laurelwood is bigger than the entire property Iris is on.”
He doesn’t know when the new Restaurant Iris will open. “We don’t have a specific date it in mind.”
But English’s restaurant, The Second Line, will stay where it is, next to the old Restaurant Iris. “We’ll put something new and great where Iris is. Not sure what that is.”
Restaurant Iris will stay open where it is “until we get a better idea of when that move will happen.”
Though the exact date hasn’t been decided, the move will take place in 2021, English says.
The new Restaurant Iris will continue to be a “a classic Creole restaurant with a sense of New American.”
But, English says, “We’ll be offering more stuff out of that location.”
Restaurant Iris is at 2146 Monroe Avenue.
