Forget that recipe you've been dying to try at home. It can wan wait another week.
Aug. 3-9 is Restaurant Week in East Tennessee, and more than 30 establishments across Clinton, Knoxville and Maryville are participating with specialty menu items made with locally sourced ingredients for a limited time only.
Nourish Knoxville, the nonprofit behind the Market Square Farmers Market, organizes the event and receives a portion of the proceeds to help with its mission of "cultivating healthy communities by supporting relationships between local farmers."
Participating restaurants had the option of creating one new menu item or featuring an existing dish that showcases ingredients grown with a 150-mile radius of Knoxville. The possibilities range from
a cup of coffee sweetened with local honey to sourdough pizza topped with local produce.
Here are all the restaurants participating, the farms they're using and the dishes they're highlighting through Sunday:
- A Dopo Sourdough Pizza: Wells Station BBQ Calabrian-fontina smoked sausage pizza (Featuring: Chef's Harvest Farm, Mountain Roots Farm, Ocoee Creamery, Special Growers, Sunrise Dairy)
- Bistro by the Tracks: Heirloom Tomato Panzanella; Locally Foraged Chanterelles (Featuring: Alloy Acres Farm, Chef's Harvest Farm, Cruze Farm, Mountain Roots Farm, Persephone's Garden, Shady Brook Farms, Stoneground Milling)
- Café 4: Braised Beef Tips with Crispy Potato Cake, Roasted Heirloom Carrots, Chow Chow and Micro Greens (Featuring: Mitchell Family Farm, Southern Sprout, Spring Oak Farm)
- Camp Honey Coffee and Provisions: Sausage, Chèvre & Shrooms Pizza; Summer Spritz (Featuring: Among the Oaks Herb Farm, Extraterrestrial Fungi, Ivester Family Farm, Little Row Farms, Ocoee Creamery)
- Chismoso: Watermelon Salad (Featuring: Myers Brothers Farm, Zavels Family Farms)
- Coffee & Chocolate: Lavender Honey Latte; Honey Hibiscus Lemonade (Featuring: Old Bailey Farms)
- Cruze Farm: Honey Graham Cracker Ice Cream (Featuring: Knoxville Honey Co.)
- DSB Provisions: Sweet Corn Agnolotti (Featuring: DSB Farms, Huff Farm, Mountain Roots Farm, Sunrise Dairy, Zavels Family Farm)
- Emilia: Jumbo Lump Crab Cake with Roasted Poblano Polenta, Tomato Butter, Crispy Okra and Summer Herbs (Featuring: Cruze Farm, Special Growers, Spencer Mountain Farms, Spring Oak Farm, Stoneground Milling, Zavels Family Farms)
- Flock Beer & Wine: Hey Farmer Kölsch-style ale (Featuring: Honey Ridge Gardens)
- Fly By Night: Caprese Martini (Featuring: Spring Oak Farm, Zavels Family Farms)
- Frog Juice Kombucha: Blackberry Basil Cucumber Kombucha (Featuring: Broken Shovels Farm, Spring Creek Veggies)
- Good Golly Tamale: Veggie Pot Pie Tamale (Featuring: Extraterrestrial Fungi)
- Husmus Studio: Tomato Tonic (Featuring: Thompson Farms)
- Kaizen: Stir Fried Noodles with Local Seasonal Vegetables and House-Smoked Bacon (Featuring: Zavels Family Farms)
- The Kennedy: Herb-Crusted Beef Carpaccio with Roasted Mushroom Escabeche, Herb Aioli, Cured Egg Yolks and Microgreens (Featuring: Extraterrestrial Fungi, Harvest Direct Farms, Mitchell Family Farm, Southern Sprout)
- Little Bird Macarons: Honey Lavender Macaron; Peaches and Cream Macaron (Featuring: Mountain Meadows Farm, Old Bailey Farms)
- Maple Hall: Caprese Chicken Sandwich; Pesto Flatbread; Garden Party G&T; Blueberry Mint Mule (Featuring: Seven Springs Farm to Table, Spring Oak Farm, Zavels Family Farm)
- Mia Piccola: Honey Peach Fizz Tonic with choice of matcha or espresso (Featuring: Honey Ridge Gardens)
- Otsu!: Bacon-Wrapped Vegetable Skewer with House-Smoked Bacon and Seasonal Vegetables; Local Seasonal Veggie (Featuring: Extraterrestrial Fungi, Zavels Family Farms)
- Potchke Bagel: Tomato Bagel Sandwich (Featuring: Mountain Roots Farm, Zavels Family Farms)
- Potchke Deli: Gazpacho (Featuring: Mountain Roots Farm, Zavels Family Farms)
- Printshop Beer Co.: Pilsner (Featuring: Teeter Farm & Seed)
- Ricky's: 24 Carrot cocktail (Featuring: Know Good Farm, Spring Oak Farm)
- RT Lodge: Morningside Room: Zucchini Cake (Featuring: Zavels Family Farm)
- RT Lodge: The Restaurant: Heirloom Tomato Salad; Zucchini Cake (Featuring: Cruze Farm, Mountain Roots Farm, Zavels Family Farm)
- Small Comforts Kitchen: Street Corn Galette (Featuring: Huff Farm)
- Tarik's North African: Braised Lamb Shank with Corn Purée, Roasted Summer Vegetables, Harissa Tahini, Mint and Peach Confit (Featuring: Hoodley Creek, Huff Farm, Mountain Meadows Farm, Zavels Family Farms)
- Tern Club: Heatwave cocktail (Featuring: Harvest Direct Farms, Thompson Farms)
- Treetop Coffee Shop: Watermelon Shandy (Featuring: Thompson Farms)
- Zero / Zero & Desmadre with Idle Hour Farm: Myers Brothers Melon Mosaic (Featuring: Myers Brothers Farm, Shady Brook Farms)
Knox News reporter Joanna Hayes covers restaurants and retail for the business growth and development team. Email: joanna.hayes@knoxnews.com; Instagram: @knoxeat65. Sign up for Joanna's Eat65 email newsletter to get the latest drink and dining news, as well as restaurant recommendations, at knoxnews.com/newsletters.
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