Les Jones

East Tennessee > Wynn's and Elkmont Grill Closed

Two businesses in Maryville were shuttered when I was there today: Wynn's department store and Elkmont Grill.

Wynn's has been a Maryville fixture since I was a little kid. I bought my first fishing rod and rifle scope with my own money at their old location on Gill Street. I got there a little before 5:00 this afternoon to find the doors closed, the metal shutted lowered, and arts and crafts booths set up in their doorway as part of today's craft's fair at Midland Shopping Center.

I reviewed Elkmont Grill here. Opening paragraph:

Melissa and I ate at Elkmont Grill tonight. This wasn't casual dining; this was a dining Code Blue. This building had already claimed the lives of three restaurants - Friendly's, the Rib Crib, and Mashed Taters, all of which had disappeared so quickly we had never gotten to try them. Four facades later, we wanted to go to this one before it, too, went belly up.

Closing paragraph:

We liked our first visit. We're going back to explore the menu further, but we won't be in such a big hurry. We think this is one restaurant the building won't kill.

So much for my predictive powers.