Aubrey’s vs Holston’s Kitchen: A Culinary Battle Located a half mile apart, drive time depending on the traffic, a pair of American-style restaurants are battling it out for Sevierville’s mid-tier dining business. It’s Aubrey’s vs Holston’s. What do I mean by mid-tier? It’s not necessarily an indication of experience, as I think both are good to find. Certainly, they are
DŌ Scratch Made Pizza and Pasta, an honest review As someone who remembers when Downtown Sevierville was a utilitarian part of town – there are still paint shops and hardware items sold there – I have enjoyed its transition to the foodie capital of this side of the mountains. Excellent restaurants that approach the culinary arts from a variety of angles
Holston’s Kitchen: An honest review Is it bad that the first thing I think of when I think of Holston’s Kitchen – part of the KBS Family of Restaurants – is the design of the building? Holston’s looks like a good place to eat. Strong brick design on a building that doesn’t look like somebody put a façade on a
Hankering for a hunk of beef? How to choose between Graze Burgers and Blue Moose Burgers and Wings There’s a saying that all pizza being good pizza but some pizza is better than others. I don’t think that’s exactly true with burgers, but I think it’s close. Look, if you take a nice hunk of beef, season it, cook it
Ranking the restaurants in Downtown Sevierville You ever have an idea that seems really good in the moment but when it comes down to it you realize you have bit off more than you can choose? Today, I have given myself a culinary Sofie’s Choice – which is a bit dramatic but closer to the truth than anyone is likely
In search of the best pizza in the Smokies Pizza is a culinary oasis on vacation. It is the answer to every dining conundrum. Got a group who can’t decide on what they want? Pizza. Do you have a picky eater? Pizza Tired, hungry and need something that can be delivered quickly and still be good? Pizza. And many of today’s
For 25 years, Smokies Stadium was a centerpiece of the Sevier County tourism scene, it’s been essentially vacant for a year, what’s next? Baseball season is over in East Tennessee. The boys of summer have turned their attention to the endeavors of the fall. And for the first time since it opened 25 years ago, Smokies Stadium has mostly sat
Don’t make these mistakes when dining at Sevier County’s best restaurant If you grew up in East Tennessee in a certain era, there wasn’t much reason to stop in Sevierville or ever visit downtown. I suppose if you needed something from the Kmart, you’d swing by. Or maybe you had a home improvement project and preferred one of the downtown
A showdown for Smoky Mountain seafood supremacy When my grandparents retired to Florida’s Nature Coast back in the early ’90s, I developed a standard for fresh seafood that is hard to replicate. Their next-door neighbor was a professional crabber. He’d return from a day on the Gulf and hand a sack full of claws over to my grandparents for that
Once a forgotten part of Sevier County, Sevierville is now a key piece of the larger Smoky Mountain pie Back in the old days of the early 1990s, Sevierville was not really the destination that sprang to mind if you thought of fun in the Smokies. To put it in the Achy-Breaky vernacular of the day, if the Great Smoky