The Tupelo Honey Cafe at Knoxville’s downtown Market Square suffered a broken water pipe that flooded the basement with 100,000 gallons of clean water. The line that burst was a burst 60-year-old main pipe that had been capped off but was still pressurized by municipal drinking water. The damage was such that the restaurant will remain closed through the end of August for repairs at a cost of approximately $250,000.
The restaurant is one of Knoxville’s most popular places to eat, and it is an offshoot of the famous restaurant of the same name that has been a fixture of downtown Asheville, North Carolina for many years. It is also one of our favorite Knoxville restaurants, and we wish the owners and staff the best as they work to get it reopened as soon as possible.
If you want to know more, here are links to a local television news story about the flooding http://on.wbir.com/1deCvLT and the retaurant’s main website: https://tupelohoneycafe.com/.
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