Thought I'd do something a little different this time around. This week, I actually paid an official visit to a mall food-court vendor. This isn't part of my usual protocol, but I had heard some good buzz — online and ...

The Grub Spouse and I figured that a recent home game for the Volunteers would virtually guarantee we could go out to eat that night and, depending on the venue, not have to contend with throngs of fellow diners. We ...

Until its arrival in Knoxville, I had not heard of the North Carolina-based Cook Out chain of restaurants. After noticing that we now have two locations in town — on the Cumberland Strip and in Bearden — I figured it ...

One of the Grub Scout's first reviews, some eight years ago, was at a neighborhood pizza restaurant in the heart of the Sequoyah Hills neighborhood. The restaurant critic recently returned to that enclave for the first time since that early ...

Sometimes serendipity leads to good things. The Grub Spouse and I arrived at an intended restaurant destination last week, only to discover upon seeing it in person that it was drive-through only. That was a no-go. I had to think ...

When I first heard about an Ethiopian-food restaurant opening in Knoxville, I was excited. It had been quite a while since I could say I had tried a new ethnic cuisine for the first time. Gosh opened its doors earlier ...

Any restaurant that’s been in business since 1946 must be doing something right. That was my rationale for investigating the fare at the Sam & Andy’s location in Fountain City.

Middle Eastern ranks right up there near the top of my list of favorite ethnic cuisines. And it had been a long time since The Grub Spouse and I had enjoyed any, so once The Golden Shisha showed up on ...

A couple of months back, I remarked on the trend of Asian-food restaurants serving the cuisine of multiple nationalities. So when I saw online that Asia Café—at the intersection of Central Avenue Pike and Callahan Road—offers Malaysian, Thai, Chinese, Indonesian ...

How 'bout that Maryville, huh? The city is already home to an Aubrey's, a Sullivan's and the Ruby Tuesday concept byproduct, Ruby T. Now The Tomato Head has become the latest Knoxville eatery to find fertile dining ground in neighboring ...