Vol. 1 — No. 11Weekend Episode · Thu–Sun, Aug 27–30, 2026 · South Knoxville, TN★ soknoear.com
Vol. 1 — No. 11 · Aug 27–30★ soknoear.com
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Kern'sThu

Bourbon, cigars and a seersucker dress code on the Kern's rooftop Thursday night

Alchemy Cigar Lounge takes the roof of the old bakery for two hours: an Angel's Envy tasting, a welcome cocktail, a cigar paired to it, and a theme you're expected to dress for.

Seven to nine, on the roof

Kern's has a roof, and Thursday night somebody is finally doing the obvious thing with it. Alchemy Cigar Lounge is running an evening called Sundresses and Seersuckers up there, seven to nine, forty dollars a ticket.

When
Thu Aug 27 · 7–9 PM
Where
The rooftop at Kern's, 2201 Kern's Rising Way
Ticket
$40
Included
Angel's Envy tasting, welcome cocktail, cigar pairing, light bites
Host
Alchemy Cigar Lounge
Dress
Sundresses and seersucker — it's in the name

What forty dollars buys

An Angel's Envy tasting, a welcome cocktail on arrival, a cigar paired to what you're drinking, light bites and a menu built for the night. It is unapologetically a dress-up occasion — the name is also the instruction — which is a rarer invitation in South Knoxville than you'd think.

The nice absurdity of it

Worth pausing on the setting. This is a bourbon-and-cigar evening held on top of a building that spent most of the last century making sandwich bread for East Tennessee. The ovens are gone, the brick isn't, and now there's a bar where the roofline used to just be a roofline. Tickets go through the host.

Original Dirty South Map Found

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