VOL. 128 | NO. 242 | Thursday, December 12, 2013

If you blink, you might miss a new restaurant opening along the Poplar Avenue corridor in East Memphis.

Broadway Pizza on Mendenhall Road is nearing completion. Its just one of several new restaurants being added to the already busy Poplar Avenue corridor in East Memphis.

(Daily News/Andrew J. Breig)

Over the last few months, several new restaurants have opened or are on the way around the heavily traveled Poplar corridor between Perkins Road and Kirby Parkway.

People are spending more and more eating out, said Danny Buring, managing partner with the Shopping Center Group LLC. The higher-end and fast-casual segments are picking up. Along that area, youre talking about a little of everything.

The restaurants are being lured to the area by the high traffic counts, population density, above-average incomes and extraordinarily high daytime population fueled by the thriving office market sector in East Memphis, according to local experts.

Soul Fish Cafe has opened its latest restaurant in the old Wolf Camera space, 4720 Poplar. The 3,100-square-foot location is Soul Fishs third restaurant in Memphis, behind its original spot in Cooper-Young and its Germantown store, near Forest Hill-Irene Road.

The Whimsy Cookie Co., a Memphis-based boutique that specializes in designing custom, hand-decorated cookies, is opening a location next door to Soul Fish. Laurie Suriff founded Whimsy Cookie Co. and is co-owner with Collins Tuohy, whose family was featured in the best-selling book and hit movie The Blind Side.

We had been eyeing it since Gifts and Art closed a year ago, and we love that cottage-style, gingerbread house, which is perfect for our company, Tuohy said. We think its going to be a great little addition to Poplar Avenue.

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