Pam Yates
Leave a Comment | Posted by Bill Bannister on February 28, 2011
Try The Beauty Shop!
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| Greetings my fellow Memphians! First off I want to take a minute here to say thanks to everyone who came out to support Youth Villages at Soup Sunday at the FedEx Forum. The Bannister’s had a lovely weekend. Saturday we drove to our old Cooper Young homeplace and had a divine lunch at The Beauty Shop. It’s one of my favorite Memphis Restaurants. The Beauty Shop, 962 S. Cooper, is truly a one of a kind dining experience. Built and opened in 1941 as the Atkins Beauty Salon, it was one of oldest and fanciest beauty parlors in town. Elvis brought Priscilla here for the royal treatment when he came back to Memphis from Germany. It remained her favorite beauty salon.
Generations of ladies have passed through these doors to look good and feel good. Today the Beauty Shop credo is “Look Good, Eat Good”. Karen Blockman Carrier has created the wonderfully eclectic atmosphere of the Beauty Shop restaurant by leaving most of it intact, converting what for many years used to be a place to get pretty, into a place to enjoy some of the best and most creative food in the city. The vintage hair dryers are still in place, as are the glass-block booths, which now serve as dining booths. Even the sinks once used for shampooing hair are still there, only now they are used to ice down the coldest beer in town behind one of the most amazing bars in Memphis. Have a Martini with your friends, and then settle into a booth to enjoy the unique and fantastic Beauty Shop menu, which features such delights as Apple Wood smoked Cuban style Chicken, or crispy Whole Striped Bass stuffed with fresh ginger over a sweet and spicy black bean sauce. Even the classic Bacon-wrapped Filet Mignon is served in the signature Beauty Shop style, and it is absolutely divine! We had a BLTA. That’s a Bacon Lettuce Tomato Avocado sandwich served with a side of Frittes, which are your basic fries, but with the unique difference of a dusting of not salt, but sugar and cayenne. Oh my GOD they were awesome! It was so good, we talked about that sandwich all weekend. Friends, you have to give it a try!
 Bill |
