Vol. 1 — No. 14Weekend Episode · Thu–Sun, Sep 17–20, 2026 · South Knoxville, TN★ soknoear.com
Vol. 1 — No. 14 · Sep 17–20★ soknoear.com
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Suttree LandingThuFriSatSun

The specials board: Earl's adds a game-day column for Saturday

Down at the water on Waterfront Drive, Earl's runs a different deal every day of the week — and this week a separate Vols board turns up beside Saturday's.

The week, in chalk

Earl's sits at 610 Waterfront Drive, down where Suttree Landing meets the river, and it runs a different special every day of the week. Thursday is ten-dollar Patrón mango margaritas. Friday is nine-dollar spicy pineapple ones. Saturday is eight-dollar house margaritas, and Sunday is seven-dollar mimosas and Bloody Marys. All of them run the full day, eleven to ten.

Thu
$10 Patrón mango ritas · 11 AM – 10 PM
Fri
$9 spicy pineapple ritas · 11 AM – 10 PM
Sat
$8 house margaritas · 11 AM – 10 PM
Sat game day
$2 off drafts and pizza · $6 Orange Bliss · 6-for-5 beer buckets
Sun
$7 mimosas and Bloody Marys · 11 AM – 10 PM
Where
Earl's · 610 Waterfront Dr · open 11 AM – 10 PM daily

The new column

What is new this week is a second Saturday board that runs alongside the margaritas: two dollars off drafts and two off pizza, six-dollar Orange Bliss, and beer buckets at six for the price of five, plus a run of four- and five-dollar shots. It is there because the Vols are home at 7:45, and because the tables at Earl's face open water about ten minutes' walk from where half the stadium crowd parks.

The food is the reason to get there before the drinks are, and eleven in the morning is a real opening time rather than a technicality. If Saturday night belongs to the stadium, Sunday at the water is the recovery.

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