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All-day breakfast restaurant Ruby Sunshine is coming to Downtown Gatlinburg with a brunch menu worth shouting from the mountaintop!
Ruby Sunshine will offer New Orleans-style twists on Southern brunch classics, including benedicts, pancakes and French Toast, as well as eye-opening cocktails. The restaurant is the latest concept from Ruby Slipper Restaurant Group, the collective behind the acclaimed Big Easy-based eatery Ruby Slipper Café.
“Downtown Gatlinburg has become such a treasured city in the South, and we couldn’t be more excited to join this one-of-a-kind community,” said owner Jennifer Weishaupt. “We hope Ruby Sunshine becomes a place for the locals to drop in regularly and for the many visitors to include as a delicious stop on their Smoky Mountain travels.”
Ruby Sunshine will be located at Located at 105 Reagan Drive, in the heart of the city and conveniently across from the Gatlinburg SkyLift Park, the 4,735-square-foot restaurant will seat 182patrons and will feature roll-up garage doors with an unobstructed view of Crockett Mountain. Ruby Sunshine anticipates that this location will open in early 2020.
Founded in post-Katrina New Orleans, Jennifer and Erich Weishaupt revitalized a blighted corner store into a cozy restaurant, with the hope that it would help draw people back to the community – and that’s exactly what it did. In the eleven years since opening that neighborhood storefront, the number of restaurants have grown but the same powerful sense of homecoming is still present in each location. Both Ruby Slipper Cafe and Ruby Sunshine restaurants remain owned and operated by the original founders.
The menu will echo the one at Ruby Slipper Café, which includes award-winning New Orleans twists on Southern breakfast staples like BBQ Shrimp & Grits, Eggs Cochon Benedict and Bananas Foster Pain Perdu, as well as morning time cocktails like the Brandy Milk Punch, Morning Margarita, Mimosas and, of course, their award winning Bloody Marys. Ruby Sunshine incorporates fresh and local ingredients in its inspired menu whenever possible and is looking forward to partnering with local purveyors in Tennessee.
