[Bristol-Birds] Raceway Restaurant in Shady Valley still in business but building for sale

  • From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:27:22 -0400

Signs on the building and property at the location of the Raceway Restaurant
(at the silo on the corner) in Shady Valley, TN

have given some birders the idea that the restaurant has closed and out of
business.  I passed the restaurant yesterday

(Wednesday) about 2 p.m. and everything did look a little bleak.  It
appeared to be closed if only for Wednesday

afternoon.

 

A phone call to Karen Eller, who owns and operates the Raceway Restaurant,
learned that the restaurant is not out of

business.

 

It has been a favorite eating and meeting place for birders for many years,
dating back to about 2000, and even when she

called the business the Cranberry Café and it was located across the road in
the building on the opposite corner where

her restaurant featured a large stone fireplace with continuous hot wood
fires daily in winter.

 

Karen said two signs, visible from the road, advertise that the owner of her
current building has placed the property for sale

and the signs state the building is “available.”  It is owned by Nichols
Peter of Clearwater, FL who moved to the area in

January 2006 and bought the property as an investment.  He later moved back
to Florida.

 

She says she intends to continue operating the restaurant depending upon who
buys the property, what they

Intend to do with it, and what kind of lease she would need to sign for her
restaurant space of the building.

 

Of interest is the fact that the US 421 “Country Store” (white corner store)
that caters to hikers and motor bikers is likewise

for sale.

 

Wallace  Coffey

Bristol, TN

 

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