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City Silo Table + Pantry Brings Healthy Eats to Germantown

CREDIT: Samuel X. Cicci

Juice has never been so much fun.

Just ask anyone who’s been drawn in by the delicious and natural offerings of Scott and Rebekah Tashie’s City Silo Table + Pantry restaurant. In fact, the healthy Southern eats and variety of juices and smoothies at the original East Memphis location proved so popular that the couple knew it was time to pull the trigger on opening a second location.

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The Sunshine Burrito, stuffed with crumbled silo burger patty, two scrambled fresh farm eggs, seasoned sweet potato, red quinoa, brown rice, sharp cheddar, cashew ranch, sriracha aioli, and wrapped in a chili tomato tortilla, served with a side of pico de gallo. In the background, the Green Light Go smoothie has just enough sweet fruity flavors to finely balance out the sourness of the granny smith juice base.

“We’ve been really overwhelmed by all the support we’ve had from Memphis since we first opened,” says Rebekah. “We’ve just gotten busier and busier since we opened the first City Silo, so we wanted to have a bigger space that could accommodate more people.”

At 3,500 square feet, the Germantown spot has plenty of space for extra diners, and even includes a bar and an outdoor covered patio. And with COVID-19 in mind, the large space makes it easy to abide by social distancing guidelines.

The pair originally signed the lease for 7605 W. Farmington Blvd, Suite 2 at Saddle Creek Shopping center back in February, but the pandemic meant that their initial timetable of an August opening had to be adjusted.

“Our landlord was awesome,” Scott says. “After COVID hit, we discussed things with them and they gave us a few extra months to really focus on adapting. So we were able to give our full attention to the new location without having to rush. It was a process, but we worked with a lot of great people, and that made things really easy for us.”

Diners who walk into the new City Silo, which officially opened today, won’t miss a beat. The Tashies made sure that they captured the essence of the original City Silo brand, with both the aesthetic and menu staying true to the first location.

“Our goal was to take our original store and bring a lot of the feel and textures over from there,” says Scott. “Our big question was how do we make this space feel awesome, feel safe, feel credible, but still have it feel like City Silo. So this new location, it’s an update on our first idea, kind of like a step up, but it’s still City Silo.”

“We’re going for an airy, fresh, light, happy, warm vibe,” Rebekah explains. “We have a lot of plants, a lot of wooden decorations, and wanted to bring in a lot of cool colors to really liven it up.”

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The Germantown City Silo’s spacious interior provides plenty of room and natural light, and crucially for this writer, a welcome sense of relief, relaxation, and respite after almost a year of working from home. The bar at the far end of the restaurant will soon serve City Silo’s specially curated cocktail menu.

In terms of food, the menu at the new City Silo will mirror the original. But the Tashies are working to slowly integrate new items here and there. “We put a lot of thought into new dishes,” Scott says. “If you go to our original store, you can see we just added tacos. It’s a limited-time menu item, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.”

“We’ll look to include more small plates and try out different things,” elaborates Rebekah. “And when we roll them out, we’ll do it in both places simultaneously.”

But a major change brought about by the new location is the inclusion of a new cocktail menu. Once City Silo gets its liquor license, expect to see an intriguing variety of cocktails that use the Tashies’ same clean, wholesome approach to their food.

“We’re not going to go crazy with our liquor selection, but we’ve carefully selected a vodka, a tequila, a mescal, a rum, and a gin,” Scott says. “And we’re going to incorporate our juices into the cocktails as well. When this is all ready, we’ll roll it out at our East Memphis location as well, and it will be the official City Silo cocktail menu.”

While the full cocktail menu hasn’t been revealed yet, a few hints from the Tashies point toward a potential beet margarita, or a carrot juice and mezcal concoction.

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City Silo owners Scott and Rebekah Tashie

City Silo Table + Pantry’s Germantown restaurant is located at 7605 W. Farmington Blvd., Suite 2. Open for dine-in, takeout, curbside pick-up, and delivery. Monday-Thursday 7 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday-Saturday 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. thecitysilo.com; 901-236-7223

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City Silo Table + Pantry To Open Second Location

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City Silo Table + Pantry

Clean-eating cafe City Silo Table + Pantry has announced that they will open a Saddle Creek location in Germantown this fall in the former Grimaldi’s Pizzeria space.

City Silo is owned by Memphis natives Rebekah and Scott Tashie. The new 3,500-square-foot location will include an outdoor covered patio and roll-up garage doors.

“We are extremely excited to open our second location in Germ

antown. It’s a neighborhood we always knew we wanted to be a part of, and we have been working for a while now with Saddle Creek and Trademark Property Company to make this partnership happen. We feel that this development and location are a great fit for our growing brand,” Scott Tashie said via press release.

The new location will also have an expanded menu and be open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They will have a bar serving coffee, beer, wine, juice cocktails, and Proseco cocktails.

The original City Silo Table + Pantry is located at 5101 Sanderlin. The new location is slated to open this fall at 7605 West Farmington #2 in the Saddle Creek shopping center.

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Now open: City Silo and Pantry and The Bluff

When Cosmic Coconut opened on Sanderlin in 2011, the mindful-eating masses flocked to the oasis of cleansing juices and vegan offerings.

Scott Tashie took over the space, along with a few other business partners, in 2012 with the idea of expanding always hovering in the back of his mind.

Then, right about the time he opened I Love Juice Bar on Cooper in Midtown, the bay next door to Cosmic Coconut became available.

“I thought now’s the time, if I’m going to do it,” Tashie says.

In mid-January Tashie opened the new-and-improved Cosmic Coconut in the form of City Silo Table and Pantry.

Think Cosmic Coconut on steroids. Healthy steroids, that is.

Scott Tashie (left) and Will Byrd have a lot to bring to the table.

Inside the 2,600-square-foot modern-but-rustic space, Tashie provides everything Cosmic Coconut had to offer, plus wellness lattes, egg, dairy, and free-range chicken options, a coffee bar, a kombucha keg, and more.

“We have a full kitchen, so we are able to prepare a lot more food,” Tashie says.

He brought in Will Byrd as executive chef, and together they designed a menu that includes a pulled spaghetti squash barbecue sandwich (thanks to the Chubby Vegetarian and Flyer friend Justin Fox Burks), build-your-own veggie burgers with different types of plant-based patties to choose from, grain bowls and wraps, and elaborate salads.

They are scheduled to offer wine and beer this month.

Another new component to the 50-seat venue is the pantry option. On the west end of the space is a selection of small-batch and artisanal options sourced locally as well as some hard-to-find items from outside the Mid-South.

Honey simple syrup, Pinot noir salt, small-batch chocolates, gluten-free baking flours from Lydia’s Healthy Edibles, clean proteins, microgreens, and more.

“I was always into healthy eating, and I noticed we didn’t have a lot of options in Memphis,” Tashie says. “Eating healthy and helping others eat healthy and clean has always been a passion of mine.”

City Silo Table and Pantry, 5101 Sanderlin Center, 729-7687. Open Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. thecitysilo.com.

Nickle Smith had always wanted to have his own bar.

After he brought his Ole Miss college buddy and Oxford bar owner Hudson Chadwick to see the nearly 6,000-square-foot bare-boned space at 535 S. Highland, that wish would come true for Smith.

On January 9th, Smith, who works in retail and engineering, Chadwick, who owns Rafters in Oxford, and fellow college buddy Austin Wallace debuted The Bluff in the old Newby’s theater space.

The new space is part college bar, part Cajun-inspired restaurant, and part live music venue, aiming for the college crowd as well as locals in the area.

The three brought in A2H design and consulting firm, though Smith did all the contract work and his wife, Abby, the design.

The idea behind the dark woods, iron rails, and gray walls as well as the branding and signage was to conjure a sense of Prohibition-era speakeasies and gambling.

“I guess you would call it industrial chic,” Ben Fant, principal of Farmhouse branding firm, says. “It’s a throwback to Prohibition, and you can see it in the signage with decorative touch points throughout with the brand, and the large photos of that time printed on wood.”

When Smith and Chadwick first viewed the space there was “nothing but walls and ceiling.”

The menu is an exact replica of Rafters, with Cajun-inspired dishes including po’boys, shrimp etouffee, chicken and sausage gumbo, crawfish tails with Remoulade, as well as a variety of salads, burgers, and platters.

The space houses a small bar in the front of the house with plenty of chairs and tables for lunch or dinner as well as garage doors that will open in the spring, but wandering to the back of the house, it’s a large, open space with cocktail tables, a long bar flanking the south end of the room, an ample stage on the west end, and a mezzanine with additional seating as well as a VIP area.

So far live music is scheduled on Thursdays through Saturdays, and owners hope to offer other entertainment such as DJs on weeknights.

“We thought that we could bring an exciting new music venue, restaurant, and sports bar to the area that customers would support,” Smith says. “Business is going great so far. We are seeing new customers every day along with previous customers revisiting on a regular basis. We are very happy with the response.”

The Bluff, 535 S. Highland, 454-7771, thebluffmemphis.com. Open 11 to 3 a.m. daily.

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Lisa’s Lunchbox to Go in Tuscany Space, etc.

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Lisa Clay Getske

Lisa’s Lunchbox will move into the Tuscany Italian Eatery space on Front street. Owner Lisa Clay Getske says they were seriously pursuing the Front Street Deli spot, but things didn’t work out.

“Everything happens for a reason,” says Getske, noting that the Tuscany space seems like a better fit. The Front Street Deli is so small that Getske was concerned that much of the food would have to be made off-site. The Tuscany space will accommodate the full Lunchbox menu, including panini and cold sandwiches and smoothies. They plan to offer frozen dinners for take-away as well.

They are shooting for a March 1st opening to coincide with the 10th birthday of the original Lisa’s Lunchbox in East Memphis.

• Old Dominick Distillery began filling whiskey barrels last week.

From the press release:

Old Dominick Distillery is pleased to announce that it started filling whiskey barrels with its carefully crafted Memphis TN Whiskey.

Old Dominick Whiskey was a known label from 1866 until prohibition. The D. Canale family has now restored this 150 year-old family business into a full service grain-to-glass spirits distillery.

In the last few days, Alex Castle, head distiller and her team distilled whiskey made from their own mash, from grains milled, cooked, malted and fermented all in house. They put it through the mandatory TN whiskey maple charcoal filter and it was time to start filling the whiskey oak barrels.
It felt like a historical moment for the Canale family and the Old Dominick team.

“It is an exciting day for our company, and fitting that we are aging Old Dominick Whiskies for the first time since Tennessee Prohibition forced us to stop precisely 100 years ago in 1917.” Said Chris Canale, Old Dominick Distillery owner and great-great grandson of Domenico Canale, founder of the Old Dominick Brand.

Beyond bringing true craft production to Downtown, Old Dominick Distillery will welcome guests for tours, tastings, events, and retail spirits sales. Old Dominick opens this year, in the spring.

Old Dominick is shooting for a spring opening. According to a rep, vodkas and a bourbon base heritage drink will be released when they open their doors and will be available at liquor stores and bars. The whiskey will take three or four years to age.

• Burgerim, the Israeli franchise, is now open on Highland Strip. They offer mini burgers in duos, trios, or party boxes. Options include wagyu beef, lamb, turkey, veggie, and chicken.

• I tagged along to this tasting at City Silo Table & Pantry.

Highlights include the Foxy BBQ, a dish inspired by Flyer friends The Chubby Vegetarian. This is a BBQ sandwich made with spaghetti squash. The barbecue sauce, made for City Silo by the Rendezvous, is a perfect accent — not too sweet with just the right kick of spice. Great bun, too.

More thumbs ups: Buffalo Tempeh + Sesame Cauliflower Wrap, the cauliflower wings, and the Matcha, Matcha, Matcha Wellness Latte.

For those vegans and vegetarians who are bummed that City Silo has veered from its Cosmic Coconut roots and is serving eggs and chicken, take heart: The menu at City Silo is, by far, mostly vegan, more extensive than Cosmic Coconut’s, and is thoughtful and inventive.

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Cosmic Coconut “Evolving” into City Silo

A press release was issued today that the space that once housed Cosmic Coconut in East Memphis will now be a new restaurant called City Silo Table & Pantry.

The restaurant is set to open January 14th.

From the release:

City Silo Table & Pantry will offer re-imagined comfort food and drinks that replicate familiar textures and flavors with wholesome, clean ingredients. Blending characteristics from traditional dining concepts – the café and market, the juice stand, the coffee house and the bistro – City Silo’s modern, light and airy space will serve as a spot to gather, to grab quick takeaway or to sit and enjoy.

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“Cosmic Coconut evolved into City Silo,” said Scott Tashie, Owner of City Silo, I Love Juice Bar in Midtown and the future I Love Juice Bar in Crosstown. “Cosmic Coconut created the need and expectation for creative, clean eating in Memphis. City Silo expands on that expectation and will offer all the favorites of its predecessor with the addition of egg, dairy and chicken options to create a more inclusive experience.”

But, says a rep, don’t count out Cosmic Coconut just yet. The Cosmic Coconut truck is going on hiatus through the winter but may return, and “there will be pops / references to Cosmic Coconut included in City Silo.”

Cosmic Coconut originally opened in 2011 and was an all-vegan juice bar with a small food menu.

Scott Tashie, along with partners (including the ubiquitous Taylor Berger), took over in 2012. Tashie opened Memphis’ first I Love Juice Bar in 2015. A second I Love Juice Bar is set to open next year in the new Crosstown Concourse.

Full release below:

Introducing City Silo Table & Pantry,
Located in the Former Cosmic Coconut Space

Memphis, TN (January 14, 2017): City Silo Table & Pantry will offer re-imagined comfort food and drinks that replicate familiar textures and flavors with wholesome, clean ingredients. Blending characteristics from traditional dining concepts – the café and market, the juice stand, the coffee house and the bistro – City Silo’s modern, light and airy space will serve as a spot to gather, to grab quick takeaway or to sit and enjoy. City Silo will host its grand opening on Saturday, January 14th, 2017.

Located in the former Cosmic Coconut space plus the adjacent unit, City Silo will encompass a total 2600 square feet, feature a full kitchen and provide a seating capacity of close to 50. Striving to create an inclusive dining experience that appeals to different tastes and diet needs, City Silo will now offer egg, dairy and humanely-raised chicken options while continuing to offer an extensive plant-based menu.

“Cosmic Coconut evolved into City Silo,” said Scott Tashie, Owner of City Silo, I Love Juice Bar in Midtown and the future I Love Juice Bar in Crosstown. “Cosmic Coconut created the need and expectation for creative, clean eating in Memphis. City Silo expands on that expectation and will offer all the favorites of its predecessor with the addition of egg, dairy and chicken options to create a more inclusive experience.”

Anchored by a 10-foot farm table, City Silo lives in a sunshine-filled space with whitewashed and herringboned-inspired, wood paneled walls that create a welcoming, yet stylish environment. Custom, bar tops and tables made with Woodland tree products paired with sleek, metal seating combines industrial rustic and mid-century influences for a signature design. Coolers with grab-and-go, plus a retail area with small batch chocolates, jams, fermented vegetables, organic pastas, flours and grains will pay homage to European-style markets. City Silo will be overwhelmingly organic and local whenever possible.

Executive Chef, Will Byrd developed the menu in conjunction with Tashie. Breakfast, snacks, salads, sandwiches, grain bowls/wraps, and build-your-own burgers will comprise the menu. A kids’ menu will also be available. Additionally, City Silo will feature many exclusive drink options: kombucha via kegs for kombucha cocktails; superfood wellness lattes; familiar fresh, cold-pressed juices and smoothies; a creative coffee / espresso menu and beer / wine starting later in 2017. Juice cleanses will continue to be offered. Prices range from $6 – $15.

City Silo Table & Pantry is located at 5101 Sanderlin Center and phone is: 901.729.7687. It will be open Monday – Saturday, 7am to 8pm, starting January 14, 2017. Visit www.thecitysilo.com or follow City Silo on Facebook: @citysilo and Instagram: @citysilo for continued updates.